Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Up A Creek
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.19.2007
Back at Luke's, T.J. and Liz are in Luke's bed while he bunks on April's little twin. When they are all awaked by Doula, Luke overhears his sister and brother-in-law renew their conversation about him and Lorelai. Liz has now, despite her earlier statements about the two of them being in different space/time continuums, decided that they belong together. "It's all about the wormholes," she says, and Luke listens in the dark with a thoughtful look on his face.
Meanwhile, Lorelai has given Emily a crash course in business. Emily is sort of excited by all this Quicken stuff. They are a little drunk as they go through the menu of instructions. "Mom," Lorelai says, "you got it all down!" She says that she has to give Richard a break while he recovers from the surgery and that he won't be watching TV in the bedroom forever. Emily, however, gets boozily wistful. "It's like a canoe," she says, apropos of nothing. When Lorelai wonders what she's talking about, Emily says that married life is like a canoe. You're just paddling along together for years. Now, though, she says, Richard's dropped his paddle, and the canoe is going in circles: "And it's hard work." Lorelai restrains herself from laughing. "And I'm getting tired," Emily adds. Suddenly, Emily looks hard at her daughter. "You," she says, almost proudly, "are in a kayak. You know how to do all this!" Lorelai assures Emily that she knows how to do stuff, too: "You are totally capable," she says. Emily says that, sure, she went to Smith and graduated, but that she never intended to be anything but a wife. She says that everything was going well until Richard wasn't there anymore, and now he's watching golf nonstop, and she feels alone and doesn't know anything about their finances. "But, Mom," Lorelai insists, pointing to the computer, "now you know! And you know how to right-click!" Emily takes another swig and goes on talking about Lorelai and how independent she is. "I am kayak," says Lorelai. "Here me roar." Emily says that Lorelai's always done well without a husband: "It's really not such a horrible thing that you're going to get a divorce. You're going to be fine." With that, Emily puts a consoling hand Lorelai's shoulder that shocks me so much, I tear up. It surprises Lorelai to the point where she gives a tenuous, sweet "Thanks, Mom." Emily continues: "You may even marry someone else someday," says Emily. "Who knows?" Lorelai waves that off: "Pfft," she snarks. "Who knows."
When Logan and Rory arrive back at his apartment, he is amazed at the work she's done, but hits a bad moment when she leaves the room to change and he gets a call on his cell phone. Bad news, again: Logan's business deal has totally, totally crashed. Richie Rich is in trouble, y'all.