the oc
In the pilot episode, we meet our main characters. Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie), an intelligent kid living in Chino, California, with his mom Dawn (Daphne Ashbrook), her boyfriend A.J. (Ron Del Barrio), and his older brother Trey (Bradley Stryker), seems to have trouble follow him. He never intentionally starts anything, but he suffers from “wrong place, wrong time” syndrome. One night, while hanging out with his idiot brother, they are arrested after Trey smashes in a car window with the intention of stealing it. Since Ryan is under 18, he is let go under the supervision of Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher), the public defender. When he tries to go home, Dawn kicks him out. After fruitless attempts to stay at the homes of friends, he calls Sandy, who had offered to help him out in any way he could. This doesn’t make Sandy’s rich architect wife Kirsten (Kelly Rowan) too happy. She doesn’t like the idea of having a criminal in their house in Newport Beach, especially if he is a bad influence to their teenage son Seth (Adam Brody.) She agrees to one weekend, but insists that he leave after that. On the first night with the Cohens, Ryan meets Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton), the daughter of the next-door neighbor. There is an instant attraction, but she already has a boyfriend, a jock named Luke Ward (Chris Carmack.) The Coopers have some problems of their own. Marissa’s father, Jimmy (Tate Donovan), is having money problems, but is hesitant to tell this to his spoiled wife Julie (Melinda Clarke), or either of his two daughters, Marissa and Kaitlin (Shailene Woodley.) Back at the Cohen house, Ryan meets Seth for the first time the next morning. They hang out, and Seth tells Ryan that he has the hots for Marissa’s best friend Summer Roberts (Rachel Bilson.) That night, they go to a charity fashion show that Marissa had invited Ryan to. Summer meets Ryan and likes him, so she invites him to an after-party at the house of Holly (Ashley Hartman), one of Marissa and Summer’s friends. Ryan invites Seth to go with him, saying it was Summer’s idea. Summer keeps hitting on Ryan, and Seth gets mad, so he tells everyone that Ryan is from Chino (which apparently is a place people in Newport Beach don’t like) and storms off. Luke and his friends decide to hassle Seth, and Ryan comes to his rescue. Seth forgives Ryan for the Summer thing, since Ryan is one of the only people to be nice to him. Ryan later notices Summer and Holly drop a passed out Marissa off at the end of her driveway. He moves her to a beach chair by the pool house behind the Cohen house. The next morning, Kirsten is furious at Ryan for corrupting Seth, which is something she had feared would happen. Sandy drives Ryan back to his trailer house in Chino, only to find Dawn had abandoned it, and just left a note for Ryan. The episode ends with Sandy taking Ryan back home with him.
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