Episode Report Card Pamie: A+ | 26 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Bully For You
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2002.09.31
It's Christopher. He demands to talk to Lorelai, who accuses Emily of setting this up. Emily insists that she had nothing to do with this. Christopher says he knew Lorelai would be here, and that since Lorelai wasn't returning his calls, he had no choice but to show up. Emily repeats that she did not do this. Lorelai gets up and pushes Christopher into the other room, telling him that he has to leave. He says he won't go until she talks to him. Emily tells them to come back into the dining room. Rory listens, a fretful look on her face.
In the foyer, Christopher asks Lorelai why she won't call him back. Lorelai says that there couldn't be a worse time to have this conversation. She tells him to go home, promising that she'll call him the next day. She says that she's never lied to him, and that there's no reason for him to doubt her word. Christopher says that forty-five unreturned phone calls sounds like a reason to him. He says that shutting him out like this is wrong, and that the worst thing is that she's keeping Rory from him. Lorelai says she isn't keeping Rory from him at all. "I never, ever thought you'd do that," Christopher spits. He can't believe that Rory won't call him back either. No matter where he and Lorelai had been with each other over the years, his relationship with Rory was always good, "until now."
Rory storms in and says she didn't call Christopher back because she didn't want to: "Me. Mom had nothing to do with it." Lorelai gently tells Rory to calm down, but Rory's too upset, telling Christopher, "You promised me. You promised me at Sookie's wedding that this was going to work, that you were going be there. You promised me." Christopher asks Rory to understand. Rory replies, "No, I always understand. And I don't want to understand. I don't even really want to talk about this right now. I've got Mom. That's all I need. Go be somebody else's dad." Christopher tells her not to say that. Rory tells Lorelai she's going upstairs, and that she wants to be called when Christopher's gone.