"Hi." "Hello." "Yes," "I'm here to pick up my daughter." "Your daughter's name?" "Rory Gilmore." "Lorelai Gilmore." "She goes by Rory." "I don't know what you have her under." "Rory Gilmore." "Oh, that's good, because she only answers to that." "Not that she won't to the other, but " "She'll be out in a minute." "Okay." "Thanks." "Sorry, when you say she'll be out, do you mean out of a cell?" "Yep." "So she was - in a cell." "That's where we usually put people when they're arrested." "Was she in the cell alone?" "It was a slow night." "She had the place to herself." "Oh, that's good." "I mean, not that she's a snob." "She can get along with anyone, it's just, it was her first time in a cell, so I didn't want her to be attacked, you know, like in Caged Heat?" "Or was it Switchblade Sisters?" "Anyway." "I mean, my daughter never gets into trouble." "Except, you know, now." "But on the whole, the kid is an angel." "She goes to Yale." "She'll be out in a minute." "Right." "I'm sorry." "Are you, like, solving something?" "What can I do for you?" "I was just wondering." "Is Rory in the system now?" "Because I just remember when Sipowicz's son accidentally got arrested because he looked like a drug dealer." "Sipowicz was freaked out that the son was going to wind up in the system." "And I just wonder, you know, should I be freaked out?" "And also, what exactly is the system?" "She's got to go to court." "They'll figure out what's going to happen." "And am I going to have to pay anything?" "I mean, bail?" "Does she need bail?" "They're releasing her on a P.T.A." "A promise to appear." "Oh, she will." "She will appear." "She might be there before you will." "I won't be there." "Right." "But she will, 'cause she promised." "I'll be over there." "Well." "This is much nicer than the last place we picked him up from." "Yes, we definitely need to keep this one in mind for future infractions." "Excuse me, Officer, we were wondering if one Logan Huntzberger has been released from your fine custody yet?" "Nope." "Have a seat." "We'll be over here." "And if you have a moment we'd like to order some appetizers." "So typical." "Logan would have to get busted during the one time I almost got Rosemary to agree to go home with me." "It's vintage Huntzberger, my friend." "Friday nights end in jail." "The boy knows how to party." "Stealing Richardson's boat." "Genius." "Let's not forget the lovely Rory." "Yes." "Maxwell Smart finally found his Ninety-Nine." "Rory Gilmore is coming out now." "Oh, thank you." "You're here for Rory?" "Yeah." "Oh, well, we would have taken her home." "Just so you know she was covered." "Wow." "The relief." "I'm Colin." "This is Finn." "And you are?" "Her mother." "My God, those are good genes." "You've got everything?" "Let's go." ""A House is not a Home"" "What's on your hands?" "Fingerprints." "Right." "Do you want to go in and eat, or take it home?" "Home." "Okay." "We're having a bike race." "Bike race through town, first one ever." "Taylor's really excited." "Maybe Sheryl Crow will come." "Maybe." "Probably not." "I'm running out of small talk, kid." "Got to get around to the main event here soon." "I know." "Rory, what happened?" "No, don't answer it." "It's Logan." "Rory, don't answer it." "I have to." "Well, I don't want you talking to him right now." "Why not?" "Why not?" "He just got you arrested." "He did not." "Don't protect him." "It was my idea!" "Oh, come on." "Logan was at his sister's engagement party having a perfectly lovely time when I showed up and dragged him off." "He spent the night in jail because of me." "I have to take this call" "Hey." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "I'm good." "I was just worried about you." "Lorelai." "Yoo-hoo!" "Behind you!" "Back here!" "Turn around!" "Turn around, turn around!" "Yes, Taylor." "You know we have a race coming through here tomorrow." "Uh, yeah, it says it on the banners." "The fifth annual Connecticut Bike Race." "It's a very prestigious race." "Oh, I'm sure." "Now, I don't know if you've noticed the no parking signs I've been putting out." "I didn't, Taylor." "I swear, if something doesn't have a Marc Jacobs label on it, you girls just don't notice it." "Well," "I have just put no parking signs all up and down the street here, in hopes of clearing a safe and unobstructed path through Stars Hollow." "Well, what a super goal, Taylor." "Thank you." "Now, if you notice, your Jeep is currently parked in what is about to become a no parking zone." "Really." "As of ten o'clock tonight." "At 10:01, we will be towing." "I'm coming for you!" "Okay, Taylor, it's nine fifty-five." "I still have six minutes." "Yes, but it would be easier if you would just move the car now." "If it's easy then anyone could do it, and I'm a maverick." "Look what Jane Fonda hath wrought." "Rory stole a yacht." "How's your night been?" "What?" "What do you mean, Rory stole a yacht?" "I, uh, just got back from picking Rory up from the Bridgeport police department where she was brought following her arrest for grand theft boating." "Tell me what happened." "I don't know what happened." "I haven't gotten the details yet." "I did get a piece of paper with a court date on it, though." "June third." "Sounds like a good day to go to court, don't you think?" "Was she with that Logan kid?" "Yes, he was arrested too." "Well, there you go." "He got her into this." "That's what I said." "I need hand soap." "What?" "Oh, she got ink all over her hands from the fingerprinting and I'm out of soap." "I have soap." "Maybe she needs special soap." "Is there special soap?" "Is it special ink?" "It must be special ink, right?" "I don't " "I mean, of course." "They're not going to use normal ink for fingerprinting, it's supposed to brand you and humiliate you." "Normal ink wouldn't humiliate you, unless you're Rory and your mother has no soap." "What are you doing?" "I should make a list." "I'm going to forget things." "I just need a pen." "Here." "Okay, so, okay." "Buy soap." "Let's see, what else?" "Buy soap, buy soap, uh, get lawyer " "I can help you with a lawyer." "Oh, crap, Rory's car!" "It must still be at the marina." "She's going to have to pick it up." "If it hasn't been impounded!" "How do I find out if it's been impounded?" "I'm sure you can call down there, and " "God, every ten seconds something else pops into my head." "I'm just not prepared for this." "I mean," "Rory never even shoplifted." "Not a candy bar, not a lipstick." "She forgot to return a library book once." "And she was so guilty about it that she grounded herself." "I mean, can you imagine?" "She's just sitting there in her bedroom yelling at me," "Now no one else got to read the Iliad this week because of me!" "What can I do?" "Rory hasn't eaten." "I can make you some burgers." "No, no, no." "Just donuts." "We need to get home and get to the bottom of this." "Okay." "This is not the end of the world, right?" "I mean, Rory's young." "Young people do stupid things." "I got pregnant." "This is better, it's not so permanent." "Unless it's on her permanent record, and then, oh, God, does that mean she can't vote?" "Oh, I don't think " "I thought I read that if you commit a felony you can't vote." "I think that's " "Rory loves to vote!" "She switched her 'I voted' sticker from outfit to outfit this year, and then she scotch taped it to her purse!" "She has to be able to vote!" "You want me to come with you when you talk to her?" "No." "Thanks, she's in the car." "I should go." "Thanks for the donuts." "Yeah." "Sure." "Kirk just came by and gave us a two minute warning." "Any idea what he's talking about?" "Who ever has any idea what Kirk's talking about?" "Here." "Thanks." "Rory, what happened tonight?" "I stole a yacht." "Yes, I know." "The nice men with the guns told me." "Why?" "I just " "I was really upset and I felt like I had to do something." "Okay, sure, I get that." "But when I'm upset and I need to do something I eat a lot of pound cake." "They don't have pound cake at Yale?" "No, they have pound cake at Yale." "Mitchum Huntzberger talked to me today." "About my performance." "And?" "And he said that I was very smart and competent and would someday make someone a great assistant." "Uh-huh." "But as a journalist, he just doesn't think I have it." "It?" "Who is he, Louis B. Mayer?" "No, he says he has like a sense for this kind of thing." "I just " "I don't know, it was a surprise." "I mean, I thought I was doing really well." "I thought I was impressing him." "I thought he was going to offer me a summer job at the paper, I thought " "Oh, God, I hate this guy." "It's not his fault." "I mean, if he doesn't think I could be a journalist, it's probably best that he tells me before " "Before what?" "Before I go out there and fall on my face." "But, Rory, he is wrong He doesn't know what he's talking about." "He does this for a living." "Not after I kill him, he doesn't." "Big, fancy, arrogant creep." "Handing down these all-knowing proclamations." "I mean, how the hell does he know if you have 'it' or not?" "Has he seen your writing?" "Has he talked to you, I mean really talked to you?" "Has he talked to any of your teachers?" "Has he talked to anyone who knows how much 'it' you have?" "No." "He's spent exactly two weeks with you, ordering you around, sending you on coffee runs, playing the big shot!" "He is the publisher!" "I know what it says on his business card." "I'm going to kick his ass." "Should we be at all concerned that Kirk's trying to tow us away right now?" "No." "He is not God!" "This is one man's opinion." "He did not invent journalism." "He's just a guy with a really good parking space." "I'm so, so sorry." "I know you are." "I was so stupid." "I'll never be that stupid again." "Aw." "Sure you will." "Oh my God." "I got arrested." "I have to go to court!" "I have to go get my car." "No - do you have soap at home?" "Because I have all this ink all over my hands, and " "Honey." "Relax." "We will figure it out." "I turned twenty-one in prison, doing life without parole." "No-one could steer me right, but Mama tried, Mama tried." "Mama tried to raise me better but her pleading I denied, that leaves only me to blame, 'cause Mama tried." "Leaves only me to blame, 'cause Mama tried." "Brian!" "I need to get in there!" "I was only in there fifteen minutes." "I clocked it." "Time, dude?" "Seven thirty." "Crap." "I overslept." "You're saying that like it's my fault." "Shut up." "It is your fault." "I told you to get a clock you don't have to wind." "I told you to shut up." "You never wind it, then you yell at me." "Dude, you keep nagging me, I'm going to have to buy you a ring." "I get off work at six." "I'll alert the media." "I mean, that's early enough to have band practice." "Are we having band practice tonight?" "Maybe." "I may have to work late." "Brian." "I have my temp review, Lane." "I think they might be ready to offer me the full-time receptionist job." "It's been a while since we've practiced." "We've been busy." "Tomorrow, then?" "Definitely a conversation to have." "Fine, we'll talk tonight." "Have you seen my jeans jacket?" "Oh, come on!" "I threw the troll!" "Morning!" "God, I feel like I could sleep through the entire day." "Coffee will be ready soon." "What are you doing?" "Well," "I'm updating the refrigerator." "Where did you get that?" "Oh, the nice lady at the police station e-mailed it to me." "I thought it would look really nice next to your kindergarten handprint collage." "I got you a copy if you're thinking Christmas cards." "Very thoughtful." "You hungry?" "I'm starving." "I've had nothing but donuts for two days." "Funny." "Hold on." "I'm really glad you're enjoying this." "Rory, the penal system is not something we enjoy," "It's something with a name that makes us giggle." "I assume there's pop-tarts?" "Now, what's on the agenda for today?" "I hear there's a shipment of plutonium coming in at the docks, and I thought we could dress up as nuns and I could distract them with a fake stigmata, you could shove the plutonium under your habit, and " "I have to got back to school." "I have one last final, plus " "Oh, wait." "Plus" "I have one last load of stuff that I need to pick up and transport back here." "And now I have to hang up." "Visiting hours are over." "Thanks for letting me borrow the Jeep." "Figured if I didn't give it to you voluntarily you'd just heist it anyway." "This bit's going to last for a while, huh?" "Mm." "Twenty to life." "Time off for a well-placed Tom Sizemore Whizzenator joke." "Don't let the movies fool you, kiddies." "Crime doesn't pay." "Listen, uh, later today I'm going to try and track us down a lawyer." "I thought I'd call that guy who got Robert Blake off, what was his name, Houdini?" "What?" "Where are you really going to get this lawyer?" "The emergency room." "Ambulance dispatch center?" "You're not going to tell " "No." "I'm not going to go through Mom and Dad." "There's no reason they need to know about this." "Did I say I'm sorry in the last five minutes?" "Hm." "I think not slugging me when I pulled out the telephones said it for you." "I love you, mom." "I love you, kid." "Hello." "Uh, hi." "Is Rory there?" "She just left, who's calling?" "It's Logan." "Oh." "She's not here." "I've been trying to get her, her phone must be off or dead or something" "Well, she's heading back to school." "You can just catch up with her there." "Yes, I'll do that." "Okay." "Bye." "Oh, listen, I'm sorry to call your house." "I just had this number and I wanted to talk to Rory." "It's okay, Logan." "And listen," "I know you must be really upset by this whole thing, but I want you to know my father's lawyers are all over the situation, and " "Hey, you know what?" "I think your father has done just about enough here, okay?" "Done enough?" "Yes." "So, thank your father for this." "And I do mean all of this." "But I think I can handle it from here." "But " "His help isn't needed, Logan." "I've got it." "Okay." "You got it." "Sorry, I was just " "Rory should be back at school soon." "Right." "Sorry to bother you." "No problem." "Bye." "Hey." "What'd he do?" "What?" "My father." "What'd he do?" "Who told you that he did anything?" "I called your house." "I talked to your mom." "Great." "I should have known something happened, the way you showed up at Honor's party like that." "I should have known." "My mother shouldn't have said anything." "She didn't say anything specific." "Then what'd she say?" "Rory, just tell me what happened." "It's stupid." "I feel stupid." "Rory." "I overreacted." "You'll think I'm three." "Tell me." "He just - doesn't think that I've got what it takes to be a journalist." "He says he knows when someone has it, and I apparently do not have it." "He said that to you?" "Yeah." "Just like that." "Pretty much." "I knew it." "I knew this was going to happen." "I didn't want you to take that internship." "I had to take the internship." "Your father's the top guy in the business." "My father is a jackass!" "He's a bully!" "He has zero interest in people's feelings." "It's always just say what you feel, right or wrong, who the hell cares who you hurt." "Whatever." "I'm going over there right now." "Logan, no." "You're my girlfriend, Rory, he should have treated you better than that." "I don't want you to say anything!" "I have to!" "Logan, no!" "Please!" "I just want to forget this." "I just want it to go away!" "And please don't make a big thing between you and your dad, I don't want that!" "Rory." "Don't put me in that position, please." "I'm sure he'll give me a crappy present for my birthday." "Maybe I can pick a fight with him over that." "Thank you." "You should have told me." "I didn't want to tell you." "Hey." "If this relationship thing is going to work, then it goes both ways." "You have to tell me why were committing a felony before we do it." "Not that that's going to stop us, but at least I'll have all the facts, okay?" "Okay." "I'm sorry." "Come here." "You need some help packing?" "No." "I've got my last final today." "I should go over my notes." "Okay." "Call me after." "I will." "You're good?" "I'm good." "Okay." "Oh, and try and talk to your mother." "My father's lawyers should really handle this thing." "They've had a lot of practice, believe me." "Okay." "I'll talk to her." "Big hole!" "Big hole!" "Big hole!" "Big hole!" "You, uh, signed on the wrong line." "Oh, sorry." "Cross it out, initial it, and sign again." "Big hole!" "What the hell is wrong with them?" "Why can't they just let the bozo in back of them figure out for himself there's a big hole there!" "You're awfully crabby for a man whose business is booming because of this race." "I don't want this kind of business." "It's too shiny." "I myself am finding the whole thing rather intoxicating." "Our little town, the site of an international sports event like this?" "You have no idea how much wrangling it took to get them here." "Big hole!" "Ah, geez." "I smudged!" "He made me smudge!" "Cross it out, initial the smudge, then start again." "I lobbied the race coordinators for weeks." "It was a lot of ouzo and karaoke, but I bagged our town the coveted first stop, last stop slot." "Wait, first stop, last stop meaning " "They start here today, circle the state, then end here later this week." "Every one of them will be coming back." "Big hole!" "Unbelievable." "Uh, don't press too hard, there, buddy, I don't want to start all over again." "That's the last one." "Excellent." "Well, I guess congratulations are in order, Luke." "You've just bought yourself the Twickham house." "Thank you, Taylor." "Now, remember, there's a three day cooling-off period, meaning you have three days from today to change your mind." "I'm not going to change my mind." "Well, it's been a pleasure doing business with you, Luke!" "I certainly hope it works out for you and your future plans." "Big hole!" "I'm taking my break!" "I have fifteen minutes." "No chili?" "Where's Gil?" "It totally needs some chili." "Gill called." "His delivery boy didn't show so he has to make some stops on the way." "He said he may not be able to make it." "Of course he can't make it." "Why should he make it?" "I mean, it's only a band meeting, right?" "Nothing important." "Oh, my God, I can taste the potato!" "So?" "So I hate the potato." "The chili hides the potato." "Zach!" "Nice screech." "This right here, this attitude!" "It's exactly what I'm talking about." "What do you mean, what you're talking about?" "You haven't said anything yet." "I think we have a problem." "We do?" "I just got totally boned by this sixteen year old Three Doors Down fan." "My week sucks." "I started the meeting already, Gil." "Gee, sorry Lane." "I dropped off the hoagies as quickly as I could." "Next time I won't wait for the money, and my kid can just paint himself silver and do the robot on the street corner for tuition fees." "What's going on here?" "Are we breaking up?" "What?" "Oh, you mean the band." "Okay, cool." "Wow." "Go on." "We're not breaking up." "Are we breaking up?" "Well, I don't know." "It just seems to me that lately the band doesn't seem to be as important to everyone as it used to be." "I don't agree." "We hardly practice anymore." "Everyone else has all these other things to do." "There were clothes on my drums this morning." "Sorry." "After I Woolite that sweater I have to lay it out flat or else it loses its shape." "Lane, relax." "Things have just been a little crazy lately." "Oh, that reminds me." "I got offered that full-time receptionist job today." "Really?" "Welcome to the grind, my friend." "They're giving me a raise and I get to keep the blazer." "Awesome blazer!" "I'm sorry, does anyone else see what's going on here?" "Brian's talking about talking a full-time job." "So?" "The band's supposed to be your full-time job!" "Lane." "No, no Lane!" "You have your Americana banjo band, and you have Century 21, and you have a really stupid hat on." "And what do I have, huh?" "According to my mother I am going to hell for this." "That's commitment, my friends!" "Eternal damnation is what I'm risking for my rock and roll!" "Lane, calm down." "We all care about the band." "So I'm just imagining all of this?" "I think we need to play more." "We've played every club around here a hundred times." "Well, then maybe we need to tour!" "Tours are rough, Lane." "They have to be planned." "Venues must be booked, you need publicity." "Transportation." "Money." "Well, we have to do something." "Big hole!" "That's it!" "Big bat!" "Big bat!" "Big bat!" "Six hundred lunges every night." "Impressive." "Thank you!" "We are booked, booked, booked." "I now love bike riders so much, that from now on when driving I will no longer consider how many points I'd get if I took them out." "What's this?" "This is for you, apparently." "A present?" "I love presents!" "I wonder who it could be from?" "Lorelai, a little something to make the trip over to the Durham Group a bit more fun." "Mike Armstrong." "Thank you, Mike Armstrong!" "That is the man who wants to buy the inn, no?" "Oh, my God!" "Look at all this stuff!" "Travel soap, travel candles, a travel blanket, cashmere travel pillow, cashmere socks, oh my God." "Every morning try this" "This is La Mer youth serum." "Apparently you put this on before you get on a plane, and by the time you get off you're Dakota Fanning." "Michel, take something!" "What do you want?" "The memory of those bikers poking each other in the buttocks" "'Eternal Sunshine'd out of my mind." "Come on, Michel, take something." "You love products." "You're going to do it, aren't you?" "Do what?" "You're going to sell the inn to Mike Armstrong." "Ooh, Euros." "Cool." "You're going to sell the inn to Mike Armstrong, and then you're going to go off and have a wonderful life and I'm going to be unemployed." "A very attractive asset on the dating scene." "You know, we have our own little section at Match. com." "Michel, stop it." "I'm probably not going to take the deal." "You're not?" "This is my inn." "I love it here." "It's just - fun being wooed, you know?" "Having someone want you enough to send you Prescriptives misting lotion." "Fine." "If you say so." "Oh, hey, did the handyman get here yet?" "That loose banister's making me nervous." "He has not come." "Should I call him again?" "No." "Forget it." "I'll call Luke." "He'll come fix it, and all it'll cost me is my honor." "Hm." "What a lovely arrangement you two have." "And the countdown continues." "Twenty-five more minutes, people." "Can you stand the excitement?" "I know I can't." "I've only got ten minutes." "What do you need?" "Oh!" "The banister's loose upstairs." "Okay." "The window in room three is stuck." "The barn door's off its tracks again, and ooh, hey, did you bring your jackhammer?" "Did you hear the part about I've only got ten minutes?" "Window in room three is stuck." "Let's go." "But, if you fix it really quickly, the banister is right on your way back down, so really you might as well take a look at that, too." "What's all this stuff?" "That is my big, fancy present." "From who?" "From Mike Armstrong." "Who the hell is Mike Armstrong?" "He's my other lover." "He owns a diner in Woodbury." "I didn't want you to find out this way, but " "The Durham Group." "Yeah, they're the hotel chain who wants to buy the inn." "What are they sending you gifts for?" "Well, either they're disproportionately worried about my cuticles, or they can't live without me and they are begging me to accept their offer." "To buy the inn." "Yeah." "They've been after me ever since that meeting." "What meeting?" "The meeting with Mike Armstrong." "I didn't know you had a meeting with Mike Armstrong." "Yes, you did." "No I didn't." "Yes you did." "You told me to have a meeting with Mike Armstrong." "I know, but you never said anything, so I figured it went away." "Oh." "Well," "I had a meeting with Mike Armstrong." "And?" "And what?" "And what happened?" "Nothing." "He talked, I listened." "I told him I'd think about it." "Think about it." "Yeah." "About selling the inn." "And then, after you sell the inn, then what?" "I'd be like a consultant for their company." "Is that what you want?" "I don't know." "Are you going to take this job?" "Probably not." "I'm still mulling." "Mulling!" "You're still mulling?" "She's still mulling!" "Why are you so upset?" "I'm not upset!" "I just can't believe you're still mulling!" "Luke!" "I mean, you're seriously considering selling the inn and taking this job." "I mean, where's their office, anyway?" "They've got a bunch of them." "I don't know where exactly I'd be." "Well, shouldn't you ask?" "Hello, mulling." "I mean, they could send you anywhere!" "Luke!" "And then there's all that travel." "There's travel, right?" "Yes." "No," "I don't know." "What are you freaking out about?" "Well, what about the kids?" "What kids?" "Uh, nothing." "Never mind, forget it." "I'm going to" " Fix the window." "Luke." "Room three." "Got it." "Mama!" "It's me, Lane!" "Over here, in the twenty percent off section." "Am I disturbing you?" "No." "But it is past their bedtime." "That was a joke." "You're in a good mood." "I had a good day." "Sell a lot of things?" "You would like to see my receipts?" "No." "My inventory reports?" "No, Mama, I was just making small talk." "You would like some tea?" "No, I just - want to tell you something." "All right." "Tell me something." "It looks like the band may be breaking up." "We've hit a rut." "We can't get enough gigs to get any momentum, and," "I don't know." "It's just not working." "I see." "I think I may need to - move back home." "I realize that if you allow me to do that, then I will have to abide by any rules you feel necessary." "I also anticipate the words" "'Seventh Day Adventist college' will come up, so" "I'll go shopping for some Peter Pan collared shirts tomorrow." "No more band?" "No more band." "You are not the daughter I raised!" "What?" "Kims don't give up!" "Sorry, sorry, sorry." "The inn was swamped." "These bikers are like rabbits who don't eat carrots, too much sugar." "Mm, sugar!" "The fitness craze is completely lost on us." "I'm starving." "Me too." "Hey, so how'd your final go?" "It went well." "Yeah?" "And you finished packing?" "All packed, all boxed." "I just have one more trip to school and home and then I'm done." "Ah." "It's going to be nice to have you home for a while." "I'm glad you feel that way." "Yeah." "The place hasn't had a decent dusting since you left." "Hey, do you think today is the day we're finally going to go through all twelve layers of the twelve-layer German chocolate cake?" "The bikers have demonstrated the importance of challenging oneself." "Mom." "Rory." "I have to tell you something." "Okay." "Wow, there's something about Weston's, it's always the place where we 'talk'." "We could go somewhere else." "No, no, no." "Tell me." "I have decided - that I'm not going back to Yale next year." "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly" "I'm not going back to Yale next year." "But why?" "Because" "I'm not sure that it's the right place for me." "And I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with my life, and" "Since when are you not sure what you're going to do with your life?" "Mom " "You've known what you wanted to do with your life since you were three." "Be a journalist." "Maybe not." "Oh." "This is about Mitchum Huntzberger." "No, it's not." "Rory, honey, I know that what he said hurt you, and that shook you up and you lost your confidence, but that was just one man's opinion." "It has nothing to do with what he said to me." "And Mitchum Huntzberger happens to be the top newspaper guy in the country." "So what?" "So if you're going to get one man's opinion, he's the one man you get." "You're not thinking." "This is the man who doesn't want you to marry Logan." "That wasn't him." "It was Logan's mother and his grandfather." "And you really think he's okay with it?" "I mean, his while family looks at you and sees Anna Nicole Smith, and they tell you that to your face, but he thinks you're swell and wants to pay for the honeymoon." "That's not why he said what he said." "He's messing with your mind." "He has so many motives that have nothing to do with your abilities!" "That's not true!" "He said I can't do it, so I can't do it!" "Why are you so willing to believe this guy?" "Logan agrees with him." "He said that?" "He told you he agrees with has father?" "Because if that's so, he's a fantastic boyfriend." "Really, quite a catch." "No, he didn't say it." "I could just tell." "How?" "I could tell." "He ranted about his father being a jerk, and speaking his mind, but he never said that he was wrong." "Rory, come on." "What kind of logic is that?" "It doesn't matter." "This isn't about that." "I told you." "I just need some time." "You're making a mistake." "No, I'm not!" "This is normal!" "College kids take breaks like this all the time." "You didn't go to college, so you don't understand." "No, I didn't go to college." "I wasn't lucky enough to go to college." "Trust me, this is very normal." "No." "You are not quitting Yale." "Yes I am!" "You're acting incredibly immature." "And I know it's because you're hurt, but you have got to get a grip!" "This is too important!" "You've been working towards Yale your whole life!" "No." "I was working toward Harvard my whole life." "Okay, fine." "Then go to Harvard." "That's cool." "I don't want to go to Harvard!" "Then go to Princeton or Stamford or Columbia!" "I want time off!" "If you leave Yale now, you'll never go back." "You'll lose momentum." "Momentum toward what?" "All I've been doing is working toward being a journalist!" "I'm not going to be a journalist, so what momentum am I losing exactly?" "You don't want to be a journalist, fine!" "I don't care about that!" "But you stay in school, you take some classes, you figure out what you do want to be!" "That's not what Yale is for!" "That's what college is for!" "Yale's expensive!" "Are you paying?" "I don't want to do that!" "I don't want to wander around a school where everyone else is focused and working toward something and I'm just floating!" "So what's the great master plan, then, huh?" "You're going to move back home, live in your room, work part-time at the bookstore?" "Forget it." "Not an option." "I'll figure it out." "I'm not hungry." "Look, I'm not going back." "I just wanted you to know." "Message sent." "Luke, you were looking for Taylor?" "Yeah." "He's right outside." "I'll be back in a minute." "Hey, Taylor?" "Uh, hello, Luke." "You said I had three days, right?" "Three?" "For the house." "Three days to back out." "Well, I didn't say that, the law did." "Fine, whoever said it, I want out." "What?" "Forget the house!" "Forget the whole damn thing!" "I don't need it anymore." "Why," "Luke!" "I have a lunch with Sunny Kingsman today." "And then I have to stop by the club at four." "Some of the girls are having an impromptu birthday cocktail with Melly Rutkers." "Though the last thing Melly needs is another excuse for a midday cocktail." "I can stop by the cleaners on my way home if you want to have something pressed for your trip this weekend." "Uh-huh." "And then after the cleaners I thought I'd run off with Marshall, the golf instructor at the club." "Do you think you could manage to get your own dinner tonight?" "That'll be fine, Emily." "I wonder who that could be, first thing in the morning?" "Perhaps it's Marshall, the golf instructor, unable to wait until after Melly's party to have you." "I know I couldn't." "You do surprise me, Richard Gilmore." "Hey, um," "I'm sorry to interrupt your breakfast." "Lorelai?" "Uh, I need to talk to you guys about something." "Is everything all right?" "Well " "Sit down, Lorelai." "Davita, bring a coffee cup for my daughter!" "I have to call the office if this is going to take long." "No, Dad, it won't, I just, um." "I need your help." "Call the office, Richard." "No, Dad." "I promise, it'll be quick." "Rory's quitting Yale." "What?" "What are you talking about?" "Thank you." "What do you mean, Rory's quitting Yale?" "Why would you joke about something like that?" "What makes you think I'm joking?" "Because Rory would never quit Yale!" "This must be one of your bits." "You scare us with something horrible, like Rory's quitting college, and then after we have a heart attack, you tell us you were just kidding." "You're having a sex change operation." "Mom." "Dad." "I'm not having a sex change operation." "I don't understand this." "Rory's doing beautifully at school." "Why would she want to leave?" "Okay, look." "I know you love Logan and the Huntzbergers, and you already have the wedding invitations printed and ready to go, but I have to tell you these are not good people." "Meaning what?" "Logan's mother and grandfather attacked Rory at that dinner they invited her to." "They told her she wasn't good enough to marry into the Huntzberger family, and she wasn't who they wanted for Logan." "Not good enough?" "Then Mitchum Huntzberger gave Rory that internship, theoretically to make up for that evening." "He let her work for a while, he built her up, and then he clobbered her." "He told her she doesn't have what it takes to be a journalist, and she needs to find something else to do with her life." "What?" "This happened on Friday night, Mom, that's why Rory wasn't at dinner." "She was devastated." "Then she went to find Logan at the yacht club, and the two of them stole a yacht!" "No, stop it!" "Stop it, right now!" "They were arrested and I had to pick Rory up from the Bridgeport police department." "Oh, no." "Ever since she got involved with these people, things have been bad." "She's up and she's down and she should be stronger than this, I know, but she's young and she's Rory and she's come so far, she's worked so hard." "I just don't want her to lose this." "What do you want us to do?" "Well, I've already told her that just coming home and bumming around Stars Hollow is not an option, and I was thinking Friday night at dinner we could - triple-team her." "I bet between the three of us we could knock some sense into her." "But I really need the two of you to back me up on this." "Well, of course we'll back you up!" "This is not happening!" "How much trouble is she in with this yacht incident?" "She's going to need a lawyer." "I'll call Charlie Newman." "Are we sure we want to wait until Friday?" "Should we confront her now?" "No, I think we should give her a chance to cool off a little, maybe some time will make her more receptive." "I agree with Lorelai." "Give the girl some time." "All right." "Friday night it is." "Thank you." "Just, thank you." "I should get going." "Dad has to get to work." "Would you like something to eat?" "No." "I just got everything I need." "Davita, could you come here please?" "Look at these shoes and tell me, these look like the same color to you?" "They're supposed to be the same color, they were bought at the same time, they've been residing in the same box." "However, on closer examination, one of them seems a little faded." "What do you think?" "What's the matter?" "I was just asking your opinion." "Davita, stop that shaking right now." "This is not a trick question." "I just wanted an opinion from - oh, for heaven's sake." "Go back to your work." "So I guess I'll get that." "Rory." "Can I come in?" "Oh." "Well, all right." "Come in." "I didn't expect to see you until dinner tonight." "I needed to talk to you." "Yes, well, your grandmother is running some errands and I was just doing some work in the house, so " "Well," "I assume you've heard about everything by now." "Yes." "Well, I believe I've heard some bits and pieces." "You know, I really was in the middle of something" "Can this possibly wait until tonight?" "I'll give you my full attention, I promise." "Everything's falling apart." "I messed everything up, I don't know what to do." "Your grandmother should be back any minute." "I can have a maid make us some tea." "I'm so sorry, Grandpa!" "I'm so sorry about everything!" "I just, I don't know what to do." "I don't." "It's all right." "Everything will be all right." "Where is she, dude?" "Don't know, man." "I'm not a warden." "This is the second emergency band meeting in a week." "And time is pressing." "I have a ten-pound salami sitting out in the van." "Do not giggle." "This is not nerdy." "This is a job." "Hey, can one of you quiz me on the open house procedures?" "Level twelve, dude." "I'll do it." "True or false." "Simmering some apple juice and a couple of cinnamon sticks makes a pleasant aroma indicating 'home' to prospective buyers." "True." "I'd add a little potpourri to the johns, too." "Geez!" "All boys here?" "Yes." "Good." "Guys." "Guess what." "Your mother just took ten years off my life?" "We are going on tour." "We are?" "What are you talking about?" "All of you." "Gather round, please." "Do not stand there looking stupid!" "Move!" "Okay." "You start at the First Lady of Our Sacred Heart on the fourth." "The Church of the Open Hand on the sixth." "Chapel Hill on the tenth." "The big auditorium, not the Sunday school room." "Are you sensing a pattern here?" "Well, they do have kind of a horseshoe shape." "It looks pretty well thought out." "No." "They're all churches." "Not churches." "Theatres in churches." "I have contacts with the entire east coast's Seventh Day Adventist entertainment circuit." "Dates back to my days in an all-girl Christian tambourine band." "What?" "I have you booked solid for two months." "Families in each town will take you in, feed you, put you up " "I don't know." "This seems a little weird." "KIM:" "Weird?" "What weird?" "You need to play, here's places to play." "Nice places." "Clean places." "Don't wear that outfit on stage." "It's my delivery outfit!" "Lane, tell her I don't dress like this." "I need to see your songs." "Why?" "To see if you need to make any adjustments." "Lyrics must be clean." "Okay, that's where we draw the line." "We will not change our lyrics." "Oh, please." "Prince made fifty-seven million take home last year." "He didn't swear, and he mentioned God." "Catch up." "Okay, last problem." "Transportation." "Hey, what about the van?" "What van?" "Gil's delivery van." "You have van?" "Yeah." "Right outside." "Full of salami." "Let's see this van!" "Lane!" "We can't go on some crazy Christian crusade tour!" "It's a tour, Zach!" "It's a chance to play, to keep our band together." "Isn't that important?" "Who cares where we're playing?" "Our music will be out there." "I think a tour would be kind of neat." "Brian, if you do a tour right, it could be way more than neat." "Gil, get over here!" "Yes, ma'am!" "This is your van?" "Yes." "But it's not really big enough for a tour van." "What are you talking about?" "All twenty-seven girls and their tambourines would fit very nicely in here." "Legs crossed, of course." "But " "Drums go there, bass goes there, guitars go there, Lane rides up front, and we get rid of the big salami." "Pop the hood, I need to check the engine!" "Okay, okay!" "I know." "It's not perfect." "It's not the Festival Express, but it could be really great." "What do you say?" "I think it's freaking crazy." "Which also happens to be completely rock and roll." "Let's do it!" "Seriously?" "Totally!" "Century 21's been around for over thirty years." "I'm sure they'll be here when I get back." "Zach?" "Well, geez, Dorothy, if Tinman and Lion are going to go, I guess" "I have to go too." " Yay!" " Yeah!" "Gil, get over here and pop the hood, now!" "Yes, ma'am." "I haven't got all day." "I'm sorry." "You'll need new hoses, spark plugs, oil change." "Wait, let me write this down." "Hi." "Can I take your coat?" "Thank you." "Lorelai, we're in here." "Oh, hey!" "I thought I'd come a little early so we could strategize." "Sit down, Lorelai." "Okay." "Uh, Rory should be here pretty soon, so " "Your mother and I have been talking about the situation." "We have discussed the matter thoroughly, and we have come to a decision." "Rory will be taking some time off from Yale." "She will be moving into the pool house here with us." "We will find her some sort of suitable job through one of our friends, and then after a suitable amount of time has passed, we will revisit the subject of her returning to school." "Where are you going?" "I was sitting right here." "I came in, I sat right here, and we had the conversation, right?" "I mean, I'm not imagining it, right?" "Lorelai " "I had coffee, you had grapefruit " "Lorelai " "Dad was reading the paper, he had to go, so I said I'd make it quick, and we sat here, and we talked about how we were going to stick together and convince Rory to go back to school!" "That did happen, right?" "I mean, I'm not completely whacko." "Yes, it did happen." "I mean, obviously I'm a little whacko, because I came here for help in the first place, but I'm not totally delusional!" "There were other things to consider." "You said you would back me on this!" "You said you weren't going to let this happen!" "Rory is young." "And I'm sure, once she's had some time and some space she will change her mind." "But for now, this is what she wants to do." "And we need to respect that." "Have you talked to Rory about this?" "Your great plan, does she even know about it?" "Yes!" "She's fine with the arrangement." "So you went to her." "Behind my back." "She came to me, Lorelai." "She told me what she wanted in her own words!" "Wow, so that does work occasionally with you, huh?" "This makes sense." "We don't want her to move in with Logan, do we?" "And since you don't want Rory to move back home to Stars Hollow it just makes sense that she move in here with us!" "I don't under " "To watch her." "Keep her from getting into trouble." "We can get her back on track!" "You'll understand that once you calm down and think about it rationally!" "This is unacceptable!" "Completely unacceptable!" "What time is it?" "Ten o'clock." "It's not!" "It is not ten o'clock!" "Is it ten o'clock?" "No." "They were supposed to finish the race at twelve." "That's twelve noon!" "When the sun is out and the press are here and the people are interested in buying t-shirts." "Nobody buys t-shirts at ten o'clock at night!" "Sweatshirts, maybe." "Well, we're not selling sweatshirts, are we?" "All that planning." "I finally had to send the marching band home." "It was past their bedtimes!" "I have never met such soft, whiney six-year-olds in my entire life." "If this was Dickens' day, they all would have been sold to a cobbler by now." "I think I see someone coming." "Oh, really?" "At ten-ten they come rolling in, huh?" "You're late!" "You're late!" "You're all late!" "You, and you, and you!" "Rory dropped out of Yale." "What?" "She dropped out of Yale and she moved in with my parents, who I went to for help, and they stabbed me in the back." "Everything we worked for." "All these years." "Her whole future." "She was supposed to have more than me." "She was supposed to have everything." "That was the plan." "We had a plan." "Okay, I'm sorry." "I have to jump in here." "Uh," "I know you think you have this thing handled, but I can help." "First off, we call Yale and we tell them something like, uh," "Rory had a chemical imbalance and she was mentally out of her mind when she told them she was dropping out." "And then we get her out of your parents house whatever way we can." "We lock her up in her room with you, because you can talk anybody into anything." "And if worse comes to worst, we will drive her to school every day and we will follow her to class and camp out there to make sure she goes." "I'll take morning classes, you take afternoon classes, or the other way around, if it works out better for your schedule." "And I know there's a few kinks to work out, the kidnapping thing might be a little problematic but either way, she is not quitting school." "This was her dream." "I am not going to let this happen." "What?" "Luke, will you marry me?" "What?"