Luke's My Daddy
Updated 2005-11-20 16:00:00
Rory and Emily aren't speaking. Rory sends Finn and Colin in to retrieve all her stuff, and moves in with Lane, which is where she is when she gets a call from the editor at the Stamford paper, site of Rory's now-mythical humiliation at the hands of "Herr Huntzberger." The editor is extremely nice to Rory, telling her he'd hire her if he had a job, but having none, he will be pleased to give her an excellent reference. Now, even though Rory has sent out (by her own estimation) 125,000 résumés for journalism jobs, she decides the best course of action is to start harassing the one guy who was nice to her and doesn't have work, stalking him at the office and making me cringe and writhe at how inappropriate and awful she's being. Lorelai keeps getting news of Rory -- that she's at Lane's, that she's getting calls about her references (Michel takes one at the Dragonfly) -- but hasn't seen her. In Lorelai's own storyline: the renovations are done at her house, where Luke surprises her with his grandmother's hideously ugly bedroom set, which she pretends to like. They have Sookie and Jackson over for a housewarming, in the middle of which Lorelai gets a message from Christopher. She guiltily turns off the machine mid-message when Luke walks in, touching off a fight about her dishonesty (not really) and his jealousy (totally misplaced). He sulks off to his apartment, but she goes over to finish the argument and they both agree always to be honest about everything. And then the next day a girl shows up at the diner to get a piece of Luke's hair for a science project she's doing to determine which of three dudes is her biological father; Luke doesn't mention this to Lorelai that we can see. He later goes to the science fair and learns that he is the father of this twelve-year-old girl, although she doesn't seem to care or want anything from him. Lorelai gets an urgent call from Richard about a missing Emily, whom Lorelai tracks down at the airport, where she's doing an unassisted walkthrough on a timeshare plane she's thinking of buying. She gives Lorelai the broad strokes on her blowout with Rory, and how Emily feels she lost her just the way she lost Lorelai; though Lorelai tells her nicely that none of what happened is Emily's fault (a lie, of sorts) and that Rory never should have been at Emily's in the first place, she doesn't...like, hug her mother or anything. I guess we're supposed to be satisfied that she kissed Luke a couple of times in the episode. To my absolute horror -- and in a terrible blow to reality -- Rory's stunningly unprofessional behaviour is rewarded with a job at the paper. She calls Lorelai from her car to give her all the good news -- that she's also going back to Yale, magically, now that the term is almost over, in a highly unlikely negotiation wisely kept offscreen -- and Lorelai demands that Rory move back in with her while she finds a place to live near school, and the titular Girls are finally, FINALLY reunited for real on the lawn at Lorelai's, and I did not choke up a little...shut up. So Lorelai, all a-flutter, takes off to Luke's to raid his pantry and also tell him that Rory's back, and that they can now set a date for their wedding, and though it looks like he was just about to figure out a way to tell Lorelai about the daughter he suddenly has, he doesn't actually do so. Al Lowe will tell all in the recap.