Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Mamma Mia!
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2001.11.20
What day is it? Rory and CuteDean are walking through Stars Hollow. CuteDean says he needs to stop by the market and pick up his paycheck because if he's not there by 4 PM, Cardigan Man locks his check in a safe with a timer and gives him a lecture about banks and stuff. CuteDean leaves and says he'll be back in a minute. Rory stands outside alone for .03 seconds before Jess walks up to warn her that this is a dangerous corner. Rory awkwardly pretends she doesn't care. Hide your books, Rory! Jess asks what her problem is with him. Rory says that poor Luke is having the entire town hate him because of what Jess is doing. She looks down at the chalk outline that's still there. Does CuteDean have no upper-body strength, or what? Rory tells Jess that the entire town knows that he did it. Jess complains that town meetings are so To Kill a Mockingbird. Rory tells him what happened, and that Luke's a pariah in the town because of Jess. Rory bitches that he doesn't care, and tells him to leave because she's tired of talking to him. She gets her "second wind" and starts yelling at him for using Luke and abusing him. She says she knows that the kind of crap you have to do "when you're trying to be Holden Caulfield," but that it's stupid and annoying and she doesn't like Luke to be attacked. Jess says he didn't know the town was coming down so hard on Luke. "Funny, I never pegged you as clueless," Rory says. "My mistake." Jess says he understands. He waits a few seconds and asks whether Rory at least thought the chalk outline was funny. She did, of course, because we're supposed to believe she'd like this guy. I miss Philllipppe. CuteDean walks out at this point, and Rory introduces them. Jess asks whether CuteDean is Rory's boyfriend, and says that Rory never mentioned she had one. Nice. Rory tells Jess she'll see him around, and he says that it always seems to turn out that way. With much suspicion, CuteDean watches Jess walk off.