Gilmore Girls Season Four, Episode Nineteen: Afterboom
Asher holds a book signing for his new novel and Paris is annoyed about all the other girls who hover around him and try to flirt. Doyle shows up at the reading and mentions to Rory that Asher dates a new freshman every year. Rory wrote a paper for Asher’s class, but she doesn’t feel like it was very good. When she gets an A, she tells Asher she wants to earn her grades and not get good grades because of her friendship with Paris. Asher is offended and tells her that her paper was great and she shouldn’t question his grading tactics.
Lane sees some other Korean girl walk out of her old house with Mrs. Kim. She’s a little jealous that Mrs. Kim has a new daughter. Lane attacks the girl on the sidewalk one day and finds out she’s a foreign exchange student.
Jason goes to the country club to work on his golf game and none of the other businessmen will talk to him. He can’t get a hold of his father or Richard. He finally gets a call from Richard’s lawyer, who informs him that Richard has gone back to Floyd’s company and taken all the clients. Now Jason has no clients and no prospects and is totally ruined. Lorelai goes to Richard to yell at him for treating Jason so badly. Richard tells her there was nothing else he could do and he’s a little upset that Lorelai doesn’t care what happens to him or Emily, only what happens to Jason. Emily overhears, and she tells Richard she’s worried that if he goes after Jason like this, Lorelai will stop talking to them. Richard is unsympathetic.
Lorelai tells Rory she doesn’t plan to go to Friday night dinner because of all the mess going on, but Rory is selfish and says it’s really important to her because sometimes it’s the only time she gets to see her mom. When they get to the house early, Richard answers the door himself and is surprisingly friendly and a little scatterbrained. Emily comes in the front door and won’t tell the Girls where she was. Lorelai and Rory hide in the bushes after dinner and see Emily get in her car and drive away. Lorelai calls hotels in town until she finds the one where Emily is staying. She tells Jason all about it, and then Jason says he’s suing Richard because it’s the only thing he can do. Lorelai breaks up with him because she can’t be with someone who is suing her family.
Lane’s band has a gig and it goes great. Lane tells Zack she wants to celebrate, but he goes to the bar to flirt with some groupies (one of whom is named Shannon – ew). Lane feels sad and lonely, so she goes to her old house late that night and kisses Mrs. Kim on the forehead while she’s sleeping.
Lorelai, to the maid: I’m looking for my father. Big guy, bowtie.
Also in this episode: Luke signs his divorce papers and mails them off.
Categories: Season 4Posted on March 25, 2010
I LOVE the scene where Lane sneaks into the house at night… it would be so creepy anywhere else, but with the Kims it’s unbelievably touching.
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