Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | 45 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Who Wrote the Book of Love?
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2004.05.04
Yale cafeteria. Glenn hits on a girl and gets rejected when he admits he's been stalking her. Rory gets a cell-phone call from Paris, who is at a hospital.
Jess and Luke get slightly reacquainted in Luke's apartment. Jess makes a beeline to the tape player, and wonders if Luke's listening to Jethro Tull. Luke snatches the tape player out of Jess's hand. He yells at Jess for poking around in Luke's stuff. Jess leaves, telling Luke not to wait up. Luke hits "play" and finds out that his road is impassable. Chapter 7 asks Luke to imagine the fantasy of his ultimate companion. Luke grumpily washes dishes as he listens to his next assignment. The man on the tape asks whose phone calls are never unwanted or too long: "Can you see her face?" Harp music plays in the background as Luke's asked who he'd most like to have in his life to ward off loneliness. "Do you see her face?" Who would he like to travel with? "Do you see her face?" How makes him feel better when he's down? "Do you see her face?" Who does he want to talk to first when he's got good news? "Do you see her face?" Luke stares out, realizing, as the man asks Luke, whose face he sees. Luke answers: "Whoa."
Rory gets on a hospital elevator and asks a doctor how she can find out what floor to go to. As Rory babbles, we can hear Paris yelling at someone. Rory exits. Paris is yelling at a doctor that Professor Asher Fleming is an important man, and that they sound like they're planning on selling his organs to UCLA. Paris tells Rory that Asher asked for a moistened towel twenty minutes ago, and nobody's bringing him one. She's freaking out like Shirley MacLaine asking for her daughter's medicine. Ah, man. I did it again. Every time I even think about that scene, I start crying. I'm not even watching the damn movie and now I'm weepy again. When that little kid's all crying at his mom's bed. Weepy. Paris shouts "stat" through the hospital hallways as Rory puts an arm around her and leads her away. Paris explains that she was out with Asher getting a gelato when he dropped his spoon and started leaning on her. It wasn't a heart attack, it was a bout of angina, and apparently the professor is going to be okay. Paris doesn't know why his two grown children didn't come. But what Paris realized is that she's dating an old dude -- one who gets old dude problems like angina. And gout. And possibly incontinence. He's wobbly and weak and sad and old: "He looked so close to death." Closer than she is. Rory tells Paris that an anvil could hit Paris on the head tomorrow and Asher would outlive her. "Anvil" is totally the new "cherry." Paris says she's nineteen and should be rollicking. Rory says that Asher probably didn't rollick at nineteen either: "He's British." Paris says that Rory's probably been laughing at her all this time, for being at a hospital instead of a discothèque. She complains that Asher even orders old gelato in vanilla.