Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Just Like Gwen And Gavin
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.16.2006
Rory arrives back at the Yale paper, and sees that Paris has issued numbers to the staff which they have to wear on caps on their heads. Rory is frustrated by this and tells Paris that the atmosphere is getting toxic at the paper. She tells Paris a very condensed version of the staff meeting story and says they all feel a lot of pressure because of her new methods. "They think it's that bad?" Paris asks. Rory: "You've taken away the magnets that indicate when people are in the bathroom, so now they're afraid to go." Paris says she understands the concerns, and goes in to talk to the staff, where she proceeds to call Rory out as an informant. "Am I tough?" she asks. "You think it's going to be any easier entering the workforce with every newspaper in the country cutting back on staff?" She asks if they'd attempt the same sort of "flaccid coup" if she were a man, and tells them to suck it up and get to work.
Ninety-seven commercials later, Rory is back at her apartment, again confronted with Logan. This time he has Krispy Kremes, and with that, even I am starting to bend his way a little. He asks if she got all his stuff, and she says yes: "What's next, a marching band? A parrot who says I'm sorry? You have to go." She turns to go in but he stops her, saying he has a letter from her mother. She lets him in, and he explains how he went to see Lorelai and says he waited while she wrote the letter for him to give to Rory. She opens it and starts reading, laughing (awkwardly) almost immediately. Logan asks, along with the rest of us, what the letter says, but she won't tell. She must be at least slightly swayed, because she says she'll consider going to dinner with him. She kicks him out, telling him to leave the donuts.I can't understand why Lorelai didn't just wait to give Rory the letter in person, because apparently Rory goes directly from her meeting with Logan to her mom's house, bearing laundry. "Your letter," she says, laughing all the way, "was brilliant. It has got to be anthologized." She continues, saying Logan was totally flummoxed by the whole thing, and is all smiles until she sees that Lorelai is really upset. "Luke has a daughter," Lorelai says. Rory: "And we'll talk about the letter, later." Rory is shocked as Lorelai explains about seeing April at the diner and what Luke said about it. "He waited two months to tell me," Lorelai says. "What does it mean that he kept a secret like this?" Lorelai says the girl is cute and seems smart, like Rory. Yeah, that sounds familiar. She's freaking out, she says, and Rory can't blame her and proceeds to speak the wise words that men are dumb sometimes. "You didn't ask about the mother?" she asks, and Lorelai says she just kind of ran away, not knowing what to do. Rory says Luke must be doubly freaked out, seeing that he's Mr. Responsibility and everything. "Maybe this is a cheesy perspective to offer you," Rory says, "but Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale went through this same situation." She explains how Gavin found out he had a daughter he didn't know about and that he and Gwen made it work. "As far as I know," she adds. "If they can, you can," she says. Rory says that the situation is the same, except that Luke and Lorelai don't sing, of course, "but, really, neither do Gwen and Gavin, but they're still together...I think." Lorelai says, yeah, she and Luke just need to talk more. "Maybe I'll tell Luke about Gwen and Gavin," she says. "I mean, if there's any people whose lives Luke would relate to, it's Gwen and Gavin."