Lorelai can’t sleep because she can’t stop thinking about Dragonfly stuff. The opening is coming up and she’s really stressed. She goes to the diner before it’s even open. Luke lets her in and gives her some coffee and tells her everything will be fine. He comes by the inn later for a tour and they go to the kitchen, where Sookie introduces Lorelai to their new poultry supplier. It’s clear she’s trying to set them up, so Lorelai makes Luke pretend to be her fella. After the guy leaves, Luke and Lorelai have a chat about how much relationships suck. Later that day, Luke goes to the bookstore and gets some self help audio books on the subject. After listening to the tapes for a while, he realizes he’s in love with Lorelai.

Dean is working late at the Dragonfly to help get it ready for the opening, and Sookie and Lorelai overhear Lindsay and Dean arguing. She’s bored and annoyed that he’s always working.

Liz and TJ come to Stars Hollow and tell Luke they’re getting married. It’s going to be a renaissance wedding in the town square. Luke asks if Jess is coming and Liz says he can’t make it. Luke finds out where Jess is living in New York, and he goes to his apartment to tell him to come to the wedding. Jess says no, but then he shows up at the diner and says he’s not paying for a hotel room so he’s staying at Luke’s.

Paris calls Rory because Asher is in the hospital. It’s angina. Paris finally realizes Asher is old and she thinks maybe it’s time to break up with him. When she goes into his hospital room to tell him, they end up talking and making plans for Paris to accompany Asher to Oxford for the summer.

Lorelai and Michel go to Sookie’s for a Dragonfly meeting. Jackson is sleeping in the garden to keep the zucchini warm so it’s good for the soup Sookie is going to make on opening night. Everyone goes outside to sit with him, and they all fall asleep in the zucchini patch and don’t wake up until morning.

TJ’s bachelor party is at some ridiculous place where the girls mud wrestle. Jess goes, but ends up reading the whole time. TJ says Liz wants Jess to walk her down the aisle at the wedding, but Jess says he’s not interested. TJ gets mad and knocks the book out of his hand. It turns into a brawl and everyone gets kicked out.

Jess and Luke go back to the diner and Luke calmly says he’s done trying to change Jess. He tells him he should just go home if he hates him and Liz so much. Jess says he doesn’t hate anyone and he didn’t want to come to Stars Hollow because of Rory. He tells Luke he saw Rory at the Firelight Festival and told her he loved her. Luke starts spouting some self help stuff from his tapes, and somewhere during his recitation he decides it’s time to move forward with his life. The next day, Luke asks Lorelai to be his date to the wedding. Then he goes home and gives his self help books to Jess.

Doctor at the hospital: The procedures are the procedures.

Paris: Oh, really? I thought the procedures were a hat.

• Original Air Date: May 4, 2004

Categories: Season 4
Tags: Dean, Dragonfly, Jess, Liz, Luke-Lorelai, Paris-Asher, TJ

Posted on March 26, 2010