Daniel Robert Scott is the brother of Keith Scott, the ex-husband of Deb Lee and Rachel Gattina, the father of Lucas and Nathan Scott and grandfather of Jamie, Sawyer and Lydia Scott. He was a former Tree Hill raven, and when he left to attend college, he left his girlfriend Karen alone and pregnant with their son Lucas, he met Deb Lee, and she became pregnant with their son Nathan, and they got married. He pinned all of dreams on Nathan and ignored Lucas for most of his life, until he joined the Ravens where Nathan played on. After Deb divorced him and Nathan emancipated himself, his brother Keith was settling down with Karen, Dan shot Keith, a day which he would regret for the rest of his life. After trying to mend bridges with Karen and Lucas, he was found out and sent to jail for 5 years. After being released, he became close to Nathan's son Jamie, who was born on the day Dan went to prison. After revealing to Jamie that he killed Keith, he became alone again. He learned that had only months left due to his bad heart. However in season 7, he returned healthy after marrying Rachel Gattina and getting a heart transplant in Mexico. He wrote a best-selling book and started his own motivational talk show, helping Nathan when a woman, Renee claimed to be pregnant with Nathan's child. However this did not mend his relationship with Nathan and so he gave his money to charity and divorced Rachel leaving her with nothing. He moved to a small diner and when Nathan visited him and gave him a baseball from Jamie's first game and a photo of Lydia, he burned the diner down in order to stay with Nathan and Haley. However, when Nathan is kidnapped, Haley and Jamie blame Dan, so Dan sets out to find Nathan, and eventually he finds him but gets shot while helping him. Surrounded by Nathan, Haley, Jamie, Lydia and Deb, Dan dies and when he does, he sees the spirit of his brother Keith, to whom he says I know where you're going but what about me? to which Keith replies, Don't worry little brother, you're my plus one Show less «