Fran from Weston’s Bakery has died. Sookie and Lorelai go to the funeral and act in a totally inappropriate manner. Fran had no children, so they have no idea who owns the Dragonfly now. They talk to the lawyer in charge of the estate and he tells them that as long as their check clears, the place is theirs.

After the funeral, Dean takes Rory aside and says he asked Lindsay to marry him. Then he gets pissed when she doesn’t immediately jump up and down for joy. He says Jess treats her like dirt and it’s too bad she can’t be happy for him. Oh, shut up, Dean.

Dave shows up at Lane’s in a suit. He tells Mrs. Kim he wants to take Lane to the prom and lists the reasons why he would be an okay person for Lane to hang around with (my favorite is that he doesn’t like soda because the carbonation freaks him out). Mrs. Kim cryptically quotes something and won’t tell him what it means. Dave comes back the next morning, still in his (now rumpled) suit. He tells Mrs. Kim he stayed up all night reading the Bible trying to find the quote but he couldn’t find it and he really just wants to take Lane to prom. Mrs. Kim says it was Shakespeare, but she’s really impressed that he read the entire Bible in one sitting. She herself has only done it three times. She says Dave can take Lane to the prom.

Jess’ father comes to town. Jess has never met him, but Luke has. He goes to Jimmy’s hotel and tells him to leave. Jimmy goes back to the diner after close one night and tells Jess he’s his father. He says he thought Luke would have told him he was in town. Jess is angry because Luke didn’t tell him anything. They sit down for a minute, and then Jimmy runs out. Jess yells at Luke for not telling him about Jimmy. Then he says he’s not graduating. When he refuses to agree to repeat the year, Luke tells him he has to go.

Lorelai starts asking Rory about prom dresses, and Rory freaks out and tells Lorelai everything that’s been going on with Jess and she doesn’t even know if she’s going to the prom. The next morning, Jess is on Rory’s bus to school. They chat for a minute and Jess says he couldn’t get tickets to the prom. After Rory gets off the bus, we see Jess’ big duffle bag.

Also in this episode:

• Taylor’s finally opening his soda shoppe.
• Lorelai calls Emily and tries to be nice, but Emily is still angry.

Jess: More coffee coming up. Glad to make your dining dreams come true.

The Gilmore girls sit around trying to remember what they used to do on Friday nights. Rory decides to call her grandparents because she feels weird not talking to them at all. The Gilmores are having a party.

The Booster club wants Lorelai to help out with something, so she goes to the meeting and is surprised when Max is the faculty adviser. He acts polite and distant, which freaks Lorelai out. After the next meeting, Lorelai corners Max in his office and tries to claim she was totally in love with him and she doesn’t know why she called off the wedding. Max really doesn’t want anything to do with her and says he doesn’t want to see her again. Surprisingly, Lorelai backs off and says she’ll respect Max’s wishes.

Lorelai offers Luke and Nicole a room at the inn for some reason. Because of the fire, most of the staff has been let go so Lorelai ends up doing turndown service. She makes it as totally awkward as possible. Seriously, it’s like she’s trying to make it an uncomfortable experience.

Jess gets called to the principal’s office. He’s told he won’t be graduating and therefore isn’t allowed to go to prom. This sucks because Rory was really looking forward to going to the Stars Hollow High prom and hanging out with Lane and stuff.

Lane’s band has their first gig: a party at a guy named Kyle’s house. Dave is annoyed with Young Chui because he won’t stop hanging around Lane. But without Young Chui, Lane wouldn’t be allowed to go to the party at all. Dave has finally had enough and he breaks up with Lane. After Jess shows the guys how to work the keg, Lane gets some beer. She drunk-dials her mom and tells her she’s in a rock band and is in love with Dave.

Jess has been crabby all night, and Rory finds him sulking in Kyle’s bedroom upstairs. They make out for a minute, but when Jess starts going for her belt, she tells him to stop. He’s frustrated and yells at her, and Rory leaves the room in tears. The first person she sees is Dean. When he sees Jess come out of the room after her, he figures he must have made her cry so he punches Jess. A big fight ensues and they end up on the front lawn. The cops come and tell everyone to go home.

Taylor is having a family reunion at the inn. They’re all coming to town because the Stars Hollow High hockey team is in the regional finals for the first time in something like thirty years. Even Taylor’s family finds him obnoxious.

Rory thinks she has plans with Jess after Friday night dinner, but he never calls so she stays home all night doing nothing. She tells Lorelai she wishes Jess was more like Dean. Lorelai tells her it’s really not fair to compare one guy to the other because Dean was the perfect first boyfriend and he spoiled her.

Lane and Dave have worked out a plan with Young Chui, the guy Mrs. Kim has decided will take Lane to prom. Young Chui has a Japanese girlfriend his parents don’t approve of. The plan is for Young Chui and Lane to pretend to date for a little while, and then Young Chui will pretend to break up with her. Lane thinks this will make Mrs. Kim feel so sorry for her that she’ll let her go to prom with Dave. Lane and Young Chui leave to go to the hockey game while Dave, Zack and Brian play guitar for Mrs. Kim’s bible class (or something).

Rory is sitting around at home waiting for Jess to call. Lorelai tells her to get out of the house, so she goes to the hockey game. She’s hanging out with Lane while Young Chui talks to his girlfriend on the phone. The girlfriend isn’t really cool with Lane and Young Chui fake-dating. Neither is Dave, as it turns out. During a break from playing music, he runs all the way to the hockey game just to say hello. Lane thinks it’s cute that he’s jealous.

Rory and Lane run into a girl from Stars Hollow High named Lindsay. Rory can’t figure out why Lindsay is acting weird; they were always friendly before Rory went to Chilton. Later, she sees Dean and Lindsay kissing and figures it out. After the game, Rory decides she’s fed up with Jess. She calls and leaves a message for him telling him how she wants things to be from now on. Then she goes outside and finds Jess waiting for her with Distillers tickets. Lorelai asks her about her night when she gets home, and Rory is evasive. This, after the previous episode and because of the way the promos were edited, made me think she and Jess had sex when I first watched it.

Emily comes to the inn and tells Lorelai she’s not allowed to go home. Gran is staying there and she’s having some people over. She doesn’t want Emily to bother them. When Emily does go home, she sees Gran kissing a man who is wearing a purple jogging suit. Lorelai tells Emily not to mention the guy to anyone, but Gran insults her one time too many and Emily blurts it out in front of everyone. She apologizes later, but tells Gran she wishes she’d stop treating her so badly. They end up having tea together.

Emily, about Gran’s fella: He was dressed like a bookie.

Richard: I guess I’ve got a new daddy.

At Friday night dinner, Emily says she noticed Rory stopped mentioning Dean eleven dinners ago. Rory confesses that they broke up and she is now seeing Jess. Emily wants Rory to invite Jess to dinner. Rory agrees, but makes Emily promise to be nice. The next day, Dean and Rory each get pulled into Miss Patty’s to see a sneak peek at the one-woman show she’s putting together. Jess finds out they were hanging out together and gets upset, but Rory says it wasn’t anything they planned. Jess calms down and asks Rory to tell him about Patty’s show.

Dave, Zack and Brian are driving through Stars Hollow one day and Mrs. Kim sees them. She comes up to the car and Dave introduces Zack and Brian as part of a Christian combo he sometimes plays with. Zack and Brian are bewildered. Mrs. Kim tells Dave that Lane has a crush on him and he should watch out. Zack and Brian say they’re upset that Lane and Dave have been keeping a secret from them, but they think the secret is that Dave’s a Christian. They still have no idea there’s anything going on between Dave and Lane.

Lorelai is going to New York with Alex, Sookie and Jackson for the weekend and she’s worried about Jess and Rory having sex. Rory says she’s not ready for that yet, but promises to talk to Lorelai when she starts thinking about it.

Friday night comes around and Jess is late to dinner with Emily. When he finally does show up, he has a black eye. He won’t tell Rory where it came from, so she assumes he got into a fight with Dean. I get the feeling Jess wouldn’t mind trying to get through dinner, but Rory won’t let go of the black eye and keeps bringing it up. Jess finally gets angry and leaves. For once, Emily was perfectly nice through dinner.

Rory decides to spend the night at the grandparents’ house, and she talks to Lorelai the next morning and tells her everything. She puts Emily on the phone. Lorelai starts to thank her for being so nice about Jess, but as soon as Rory is out of the room, Emily starts yelling at Lorelai for letting Rory go out with “that thug.” Back in Stars Hollow, Rory goes to the market and asks Dean about Jess’ black eye. He says he doesn’t know anything about it.

Luke also assumes Jess got into a fight with Dean. Jess gets angry and tells him a swan attacked him. Luke thinks he’s lying, but Jess is totally serious. He says he’s going out onto the lake to get revenge on that vicious bird. Luke goes with him, and while they’re floating around in their boat waiting for the swan to show, Luke tells Jess he has to treat Rory right, and that means getting along with her family.

That night, Rory is walking by the diner. Jess comes out and apologizes for being such a jerk at dinner. He’s too embarrassed to tell her about the swan, so he makes up some other reason for his black eye. He and Rory make out a little bit, and when Rory gets home she tells Lorelai she’s maybe thinking about sex now. She promises to tell her before anything happens.

Jess: What the hell are raisins doing in a salad? Why can’t people leave well enough alone?

Mrs. Kim: David, who are all these unwashed boys?

Lorelai and Rory clean out their garage for Lane and the band. It’s a horrible mess, but they get the job done. The band comes over and Zack develops a crush on Lorelai. Dave acts like kind of a jerk to Lane and Rory gets upset, but Lane assures her it’s all an act. They don’t want Zack or Brian to suspect there’s anything going on between them.

Alex invites Lorelai to go fishing with him because she told a little white lie and acted like she enjoys the outdoors. She and Rory get a bunch of fishing books out of the library. Luke sees them and offers to teach Lorelai himself. He sets up a kiddie pool in her front yard and throws some fish in it. He asks Lorelai why she’s learning to fish and she admits it’s for a guy.

Paris tries to have Rory impeached from the student government and is mad when the faculty adviser says that’s not allowed. They have a big fight during a student council meeting. Later, Headmaster Charleston calls them to his office and admonishes them for acting so immaturely. Afterward, Rory tries to make up, but Paris isn’t having it and she stalks off to be angry some more.

Taylor is beginning construction on his soda shoppe and he has a lawyer bring the lease agreement to Luke. The lawyer is a pretty lady named Nicole, and Luke kind of likes her. Jess tells Luke she was flirting with him and tells him to ask her out. After he finds out Lorelai is learning to fish for some guy, Luke does ask Nicole out. She accepts.

Lane’s cousin is getting married and Rory helps her get the bride ready. Rory always helps at Kim family weddings and it’s kind of a bonding thing for Rory and Lane. But this is apparently the last of the Kim relatives to get married aside from Lane herself, so the girls are kind of melancholy that this is the last time they’ll be able to do this. Dave Rygalski plays guitar at the ceremony, and Lane thinks today is the day to tell Mrs. Kim she wants to go to prom. Mrs. Kim says she can go to prom, but she can’t go with Dave. He’s not Korean.

Rory: I fell off my chair.

Mrs. Kim: Oh. Well, don’t.