Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Sniffles, Part Two
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2000.12.21
There's really nothing snarky to say about this episode. Again, maybe if I knew something about medicine. ["That seldom helps. Take it from me." -- Wing Chun]
Rory is reading the financial paper to Grampa. Emily walks in with new pillows and excuses Rory from the room. Rory leans in to Grampa and smiles. "If I hug you, is it going to hurt?" Grampa tells her that "pain is a part of life." She hugs him and kisses his cheek. Emily puts her arm around Rory and says to Grampa, "This little girl likes you." Grampa says that Rory has good taste.
Luke is sitting in the hallway with his head between his knees. Rory asks him where Lorelai is. He tells her that she's looking for coffee. She asks what he's doing. "Staring at my shoes," he tells her. Rory: "Okay. Carry on." She walks carefully past Luke. Luke starts to look up at Rory, sees a patient in a wheelchair and lowers his head back into his hands.
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]