Lorelai goes to Rory’s at six in the morning and finds Paris and Doyle doing yoga. Rory is awake because Paris and Doyle were chanting, and Lorelai says she wants to go for a drive. In the car, she tells Rory she and Christopher split up. Rory says she’s sad for Lorelai, but not entirely surprised. Then they run out of gas and have to walk to the nearest gas station.

Emily seems tense at Friday night dinner. She yells at the nurse, who says Richard is upstairs watching golf. The nurse drags him down and he’s crabby about not having any alcohol and having fish for dinner again. He gets mad and leaves the dinner table to go back to the golf game. Lorelai comes over the next day and things are still awful. The maid is hiding and the chef quits because Richard won’t eat anything he makes.

It’s Logan’s birthday and Rory wants to go all out. Logan never really had birthday parties as a kid, so Rory is putting together a really fun night complete with piñatas and yellow cake. Mitchum makes dinner reservations, so Rory and Logan meet him at the restaurant. Logan leaves the table to take a call, and Mitchum takes the opportunity to thank Rory for encouraging Logan to be a grownup. He says the next step is to figure out what Logan’s next move should be and he’ll of course take care of Rory, too, get her a job at any newspaper in the country. Rory gets annoyed and says she seems to remember Mitchum saying she didn’t “have it,” but Mitchum dismisses this and says things have changed. Later, Logan gets a call from his partner, Philip, who says they’re probably going to get sued for copyright infringement. I think. It’s something really bad, whatever it is.

Lorelai brings her father some Sookie food and gets Richard eating, and then she offers to help Emily get together some tax stuff the accountant has asked for. Emily brings out the secret alcohol she’s been hiding from Richard, and Lorelai finally tells her she and Christopher have split up. Emily doesn’t say much, and she and Lorelai get drunk together while Lorelai shows her how to do stuff in Quicken. Emily says she’s envious of Lorelai’s ability to take care of herself. By the next morning, Emily has sobered up and she makes Lorelai feel guilty because she’ll have to cancel the party she’s been planning to celebrate Lorelai’s marriage.

TJ, about Lorelai: That woman is drama. Every time you mention her it’s got something to do with the hospital.

• Original Air Date: February 20, 2007

Categories: Season 7
Tags: Emily and Lorelai bond, Liz, Logan, Mitchum, TJ

Posted on July 23, 2010