4x01 - the avengers.

you always know that ryan atwood's coming home to the cohens, no matter how dire the straits he's facing may be. 5 months after mischa barton chucked it out, everyone's still coping: julie's hooked onto antidepressants, dr. roberts is hooking up with summer's stepmonster, summer has become a hippy (but lord i love how she shakes when she shakes a shaker), seth is working at a comic book retailer (naturally), caitlin is annoying, the cohens are still the cohens and ryan's living in whatever resembles fight club in orange county (even seth agrees).

first episodes of new seasons are always weighted with high expectations, especially when you've got dangling plot threads. at the end of 4x01, it appears that ryan's going to go chino on volchek. wherever volchek is.

but yes, he's back with the cohens after living in the back of a bar for a few days. and he's got a new car (nobody's going to explain that one, eh?). oooooh. sandy's driving a new lexus suv and kirsten's driving a new....um...it looks like a jag. and wait til you see what luke's twin brother's say about her. how very apt.

anyway, this episode's music was on par. i checked and the two heavily featured tracks are placebo's "running up that hill" and keane's "a bad dream".