Luke is still in New York helping out but he’s decided to go home because TJ is being obnoxious. He looks for a necklace to go with the earrings Liz gave him a while back, and Liz is really happy for him for getting together with Lorelai.

Lorelai is running around all the time like a crazy person. She’s always at the inn, making beds because the maids aren’t doing it right and rearranging things. Sookie tells her she’s working too hard and acting like Emily and she needs to take a break.

Emily and Rory arrive at their hotel room in Rome and Rory goes off by herself while Emily takes her afternoon nap. Emily calls Lorelai to say hello and makes Rory talk to her. Rory is bitchy and nonresponsive. Then one day she and Emily are at some café and it reminds Rory about when she was there with Lorelai. She calls and apologizes and also says she knows she screwed up with Dean. She says she wrote a letter and she wants to send it to Lorelai to give to him.

Zack brings a couple of trampy girls to the diner. Lane acts territorial and bitchy, so Zack takes his girls and leaves. One of the girls comes back in and says she’s sorry, she didn’t know Lane liked Zack. Lane didn’t really know it either until this moment.

Lorelai goes to the market to deliver the letter. Dean has cut his hair and I hate it. He kind of freaks out on Lorelai, asking where Rory is and what’s going on. Lorelai says she’s just a messenger. Later, Sookie and Lorelai are walking by Dean and Lindsay’s apartment. Lindsay is throwing all Dean’s stuff out the window and yelling at the top of her lungs. I guess Dean let her find the letter. Rory comes home later that day. She and Lorelai take a walk through town and they run into Lindsay and her mother. Lindsay’s mom tells Rory to go to hell and then walks away. Lorelai asks what was in the letter, and Rory says she was telling him she was taking herself out of the mix so he wouldn’t have to choose between her and Lindsay.

Rory and Lorelai go to the diner to recover, and Luke is finally home from the renaissance fair. Luke gets all weird and leaves to go run an errand. Lorelai follows him. He’s outside kind of waiting for her. He gives her the necklace and then starts to kiss her, but then a parade comes through and interrupts them. She says she loves the necklace and she’ll hook up with him later.

Rory goes to Dean’s parents’ house to see him. He’s not really happy to see her and he acts like kind of an ass. He says he was married and he threw it all away for someone who dumped him two years ago. Then he goes inside. Yeah, Rory didn’t force you to cheat on your wife, jackass.

Lorelai: Will you be mad if it’s Showgirls again? I got the deluxe edition with shot glasses and a drinking game.

• Original Air Date: September 28, 2004

Categories: Season 5
Tags: Dean, Emily, Lane, Lane-Zack, Liz, Luke-Lorelai, Rory acts like a brat, TJ

Posted on April 2, 2010