Episode Report Card Pamie: A- | 19 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Rhapsody in Blue
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2002.05.14
Rory's waiting out on the steps as Lorelai pulls up in the Jeep. I wonder if Rory wrote another letter explaining why she sucks. She starts apologizing before Lorelai gets out of the car. Lorelai notes that nothing new is broken on Rory. Rory says that she's fine. Lorelai asks if anybody got hurt or ended up in the hospital or if there's any real reason that Rory skipped the ceremony. Rory says no. Lorelai says she'll get past worry then and move on to other things. Rory says she knows that Lorelai is hurt. Lorelai says she's really hurt, and that she didn't even want to attend this ceremony until Rory made her. She says it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and that her best friend should have been there. She doesn't know how anything else could have been more important to Rory. She asks if it was school. Rory says it wasn't. Lorelai asks if it was Paris. Rory says it wasn't. Rory says it was really stupid what happened. I don't know if I have the strength to recap all of this, but I think the best thing is to just transcribe it. Ready? Take a breath.
Rory: I cut school!
Lorelai: You what?
Rory: I cut school and I got on a bus and I don't even know why I did it. I, I have no excuse. I was just standing outside of Chilton and I, I don't know, I must've had a stroke or something. What does a stroke feel like?
Lorelai: I don't know. Not good, probably.
Rory: And I left school and I got on a bus and went to New York and that's it. I'm grounded for six months, or seven and no TV, no stereo, no reading and, in fact, take all of my books away from me and lock them up.
Lorelai: Hold on, here. You went to New York?
Rory: And no magazines either. And I'm going to do all the housework. Laundry, dishes, in fact, we're gonna start eating at home so we have dishes.
Lorelai: Rory?
Rory: What?
Lorelai: Stop. Why did you go to New York?
Rory: To see Jess.