Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Sniffles, Part Two
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.20.2000
Emily fluffs up the new pillows and says that they aren't down, but that they're at least a bit better. "Emily, we need to talk," Grampa says. As Emily starts mothering Grampa with pillows and fluffing, Grampa tells her where to find the key to the desk that holds the will. Emily doesn't want to hear anything about wills; she's still talking about sheets and other things she can bring him to make him more comfortable. He says that they need to be practical. She's still talking about other things. He asks her to listen. He starts with, "If I die," but she stops him: "No! Richard Gilmore, there may be many things happening in this hospital tonight, but your dying is not one of them. No. I did not sign on to your dying and it's not going to happen. Not tonight, not for a very long time. In fact, I demand to go first. Do I make myself clear?" Grampa smiles and says that she may go first. Emily picks up the phone to call for new sheets and Grampa grabs and caresses her hand. Emily cries into the phone. I cry into my iBook. Man, this two-parter is killing me, people! ["I've had this conversation with my spouse, and he's not even thirty and is in the bloom of health. So I kind of lost it, there, too." -- Wing Chun]
Rory finds Lorelai fighting with the coffee vending machine. Lorelai says she thinks she's wearing the machine down. Lorelai asks if the doctor is back yet. He's not. Lorelai tells Rory that CuteDean came by this evening. "Were you mean?" Rory asks. Lorelai: "Excuse me! I am never mean." Rory: "You were mean." Lorelai says that CuteDean told her that nothing happened. Rory says that nothing happened at all. Lorelai says she knows that: "Rory, there are only two things that I totally trust in this entire world. The fact that I will never be able to understand what Charo is saying no matter how long she lives in this country, and you." Rory swears that it will never happen again. Lorelai tells her not to promise that: "You are your mother's daughter." She says that things happen even when you don't mean for them to happen. Rory says that she hated going to the party without her. Lorelai hated Rory's going to the party without her, too. "How were the apple tarts?" she asks. Rory tells her that Emily didn't make them this year. Lorelai says that's strange. "Are you lying?" she asks. "Through my teeth," Rory responds. "Good girl," Lorelai approves.
Emily finds Luke in the hallway. She sits down next to him. Luke asks how Grampa is. Emily admits that she doesn't know. Luke compliments the tie Emily's holding. It's Grampa's. She says that she was yelling at him earlier for trying to take it off; she didn't know that he was sick and needed it removed. She says that the paramedics took it off on the way to the hospital, and that she's unable to put it down yet. She says she must sound crazy. Luke tells her that he's kept his father's store just the way he left it. Well, he turned it into a diner, but he kept it looking like the hardware store that his father owned. "I'm sure he would have appreciated having his life's work honored like that," Emily says. "He would have called me a damn fool," Luke says. Emily says that she doesn't know what Lorelai has told him about Grampa. "He's a very good man. He always did the right thing for his family," she says. Luke says that's exactly what Lorelai told him. Emily seems a bit surprised. She asks what's going on between Luke and Lorelai. He says that they are friends, and that's it. He promises. "You're idiots. The both of you," Emily says. Lorelai shows up. "Your mother called me an idiot," Luke tells her. "Wow. You must have sucked up good," she says. Emily takes Rory and leaves them alone. Luke asks what Lorelai is going to do. Lorelai stares at the hospital-room door and slowly walks over to it. "I'll be here," Luke reminds her. Lorelai opens the hospital room door and walks in.