Rory goes to Lane’s and they play video games for a minute to see what all the fuss is about. Rory tells Lane all about Jess and his proposal to take her away. The conversation turns to Dean, and Rory says she always knew she could count on him and she regrets screwing things up with him so badly.

Lorelai tells Rory she thinks she’s dating Luke and asks what Rory thinks about that. Rory says they should go inside the diner and see what happens. That’s what they do, and when Luke says hi to her, Lorelai falls into a table and knocks things over.

Lorelai, Sookie and Michel have invited all their friends to the Dragonfly for a trial run before the official opening. As part of a ploy to get her parents to either make up or admit they’re having problems, Lorelai invites them, too.

Rory sees Dean walking down the street. She smiles and waves at him, but he frowns and walks away. She runs into him later at the Dragonfly and asks him what his problem is. He says he was worried that Rory and Jess were back together. She asks him why that would bother him so much and he says it’s because Jess doesn’t treat her right. He leans in for a kiss, but right then Tom the contractor walks in and interrupts. DEAN, YOU ARE MARRIED. STEP AWAY FROM RORY.

Kirk comes to Luke and says he’s worried about spending the night with Lulu at the Dragonfly. He has night terrors and usually ends up running around naked and he doesn’t want Lulu to see him like that. He says he requested the room next to Luke’s so Luke can keep an eye on him.

Guests start arriving at the Dragonfly for the trial run. Kirk asks Michel to take all the bookends and light bulbs out of his room. Emily and Richard show up and Lorelai puts them in the private bungalow. Luke brings Lorelai flowers and she runs into a door. Then Jason shows up. She tells him she can’t talk to him now, but he says he’s not leaving until she agrees to hear him out. He sits in the lobby all night. Luke asks Babette who Jason is, and she says he was Lorelai’s boyfriend for the last six months.

Emily comes in and yells at Lorelai for putting her and Richard in the bungalow when she knows they’re fighting. Then Richard comes in to do some yelling as well. They see Jason in the lobby and decide it’s time to leave. Later, Luke introduces himself to Jason and asks him who he is. Jason says he and Lorelai are dating because I guess he’s in denial or something. Luke goes to Lorelai and says she had to have known what he was doing with the movie invites and stuff and now he finds out she has a boyfriend. She tells him Jason is not her boyfriend. He yells for a minute and then they kiss. FINALLY! Then Kirk comes running down the stairs screaming.

Rory goes home to get some CDs to bring back to the Dragonfly. Dean follows her and they start talking about how they almost kissed earlier. Dean tells Rory that things aren’t working with Lindsay and they’re not happy. He and Rory start making out and then Rory loses her virginity. Lorelai comes home to tell Rory what happened at the inn and she sees Rory and Dean come out of Rory’s room with their clothes all rumpled. Dean leaves and Rory acts like the whole thing is no big deal. Lorelai tries to get her to see that this isn’t good and she can’t be sleeping with a married man, but Rory doesn’t really get it until she goes outside to call Dean and Lindsay answers the phone.

Luke: I’m not a mysterious man, am I?

• Original Air Date: May 18, 2004
• Where Kirk Works: Kirk gathers firewood for the Dragonfly.

Categories: Season 4
Tags: Dean, Digger, Dragonfly, Finale, Jess, Luke-Lorelai, Richard-Emily problems

Posted on March 30, 2010