Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mommies Dearest
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.02.2006
...so Luke has to run out to the store to get something they can actually eat. Naturally, he runs into Lorelai, who's she's buying ice cream. "I guess both of us avoiding Doose's didn't work out too well, huh?" snarks Lorelai. Luke says that he's not there to avoid Doose's, but that this is just the closest market to Liz's. Lorelai: "Right, because you're not affected by this. You're not mad. I forgot." Luke sighs a hugely heavy sigh, saying that he is affected by it and that he was mad before, but that he knows he was a jerk and is sorry. "No," Lorelai says, relieved. "I was the jerk. I was SUCH a jerk." Luke says that he's still mad, but that he won't be, eventually. "Really?" Lorelai says, with a little bit of hope in her eyes, but oh, so sadly, it is quickly extinguished. "It's not your fault, it's not my fault," Luke says, resigned. "It's just we're not right together. You're you; I'm me. I just want to stop pretending we're someone else. You don't belong with me. You belong with someone like Christopher." He says that they should stop fighting it: "You can go back to being Lorelai Gilmore and I'll go back to being the guy in the diner who pours your coffee." Oh, the tears. Mine, I mean. Is that not the most heartbreaking thing you've ever heard? Lauren Graham's face goes through all the stages of grief. She can find no words; she finally just says that her hand's getting cold from the ice cream, and leaves.
At home, the tears finally come. Lorelai cries on the Crazy Asia couch, where Rory finds her when she arrives back at the house. Silently, Rory curls up next to her, comforting her imperfect mom.