This episode starts out with Rory and Dean in Rory’s bed. They’re whispering sweet nothings to each other when they hear Lorelai come home. We get to see the awkward “just caught having sex” scene from Dean’s perspective as he stands on the porch and listens to Rory tell Lorelai how much Dean loves her. He gets a little freaked out and runs home. Lindsay is waiting up for him. She says she answered his phone earlier but nobody was there. Dean decides to pick a fight. Poor Lindsay has no idea what’s going on.

Emily and Richard get home from the Dragonfly and fight all the way through the house and downstairs into the basement. Emily decides she’s going to Europe and she’s looking for her European luggage. Richard goes upstairs and slams the door and Emily gets locked in the basement. She crawls out a window, but her skirt gets caught so she just rips it off and keeps crawling. Richard meets her outside just as some security guys show up because the neighbors complained about their fighting.

Lorelai goes back to the Dragonfly and finds that Luke has taken care of Kirk and laid him down on the couch. He landed in a rosebush and now he’s got thorn scratches on his butt. Sookie comes downstairs and Kirk says something about seeing Luke and Lorelai kissing. Sookie takes Luke into the other room and hugs him because this is so exciting. Luke asks her to keep it quiet for now because he doesn’t know if Lorelai wants people to know yet.

The next morning, Taylor tells Michel and Lorelai that one of his shoes is missing and the other has been chewed. He’s yelling about it when Luke comes downstairs and says he’s leaving, then he looks all upset when Lorelai quickly says goodbye and then goes back to Taylor.

Sookie wants to gossip with Lorelai about Luke. Lorelai’s a little standoffish at first, but she says she’s just processing and she hopes Luke knows she’s happy about the kiss. As soon as she finds a minute, she calls him at the diner. Luke is relieved when Lorelai says it was a great kiss and she’d like to do it again sometime.

Rory comes by for breakfast. Lorelai tries to be friendly and talk about things with her, but Rory is bratty and leaves in a huff. She calls Dean from a pay phone and asks him to meet her at Miss Patty’s to talk. She’s planning to end things with him, but they end up having sex again. Then she goes to Lane’s and tells her everything. Lane thinks maybe she should talk to Lorelai, but Rory says that’s not an option.

Emily comes to the Dragonfly for a lunch Lorelai promised her, not understanding that when she and Richard left the night before, Rory and Lorelai thought lunch was off. Lorelai calls Rory and asks her to come back to the inn. On her way, Rory passes Lindsay talking to a guy at the butcher shop. Lindsay is panicking because she wants to make a roast beef for Dean and wants it to be perfect because it’s his favorite.

Lunch with Emily is awkward and uncomfortable because Rory is a brat. Then Emily announces that she and Richard are separated. Lorelai thinks it’s ridiculous that Richard is living in the pool house. Emily says she’s going to Europe for the summer and wants Rory to go with her. Lorelai manipulates the conversation so that Rory has no choice but to say yes. So now Rory feels like she’s being shipped off to Europe because she acted up.

That night, Lindsay jumps up and down when the roast turns out okay. Lorelai goes to the airport to see Rory and Emily off. Rory is as cold as can be when she says goodbye. Lorelai goes home and gets a message from Luke. He says Liz and TJ got in an accident. They’ve both broken some bones and he’s on his way to help them out at the renaissance fair for a week.

Richard: Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch.

Lorelai, to Emily: You’re separated by the pool.

• Original Air Date: September 21, 2004

Categories: Season 5
Tags: Dean, Dragonfly, Emily, Luke-Lorelai, Premiere, Richard-Emily problems, Rory acts like a brat

Posted on April 1, 2010