Episode Report Card Al Lowe: C+ | 3 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Day My Maw Got Out Of Prison
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.16.2006
Back at Luke's apartment, Luke is tucking April in for the night, when she mentions how much she likes her beautiful biology teacher, who she knows is single. She was thinking, she says, that one day she could conveniently forget her biology book and call Luke to bring it to her, thus setting up the romance for the ages. Luke sighs. He guesses, he says, that she knows he and Lorelai broke up. "Yeah," she says, "my mom sort of told me." First of all, how did her mom know? Secondly, ugh. He gives his illegitimate child, who knows this better than anybody, the lesson that sometimes things just do not work out between adults and it's nobody's fault. She shrugs and says, "It's all about pheromones." Does no one care that this breakup has happened? Not Rory? Not April, who Lorelai treated to the world's greatest birthday party? Not anybody but Sookie? The point is, Luke goes on, that April shouldn't feel like she has to take care of him, because he's there to take care of her. "Okay," she says, and asks if he minds if she reads a little more of her biology book before going to sleep. "Real page-turner, huh?" he asks. "Oh, yeah," she says. "Mitosis is insane." See, I could try not to like her, but that's irresistible.
Lorelai, having what is probably the best night of her life, is at the police station with Chris to pick up Emily. She takes picture after picture of the cops. "Am I smiling too much?" she asks him, promising to bring it down a notch as the officers bring a raving Emily out from the back. "Well, you can all be very proud of yourselves," she rants. "You finally got menace to society, Emily Gilmore, off the streets. You'll be hearing from my lawyer." Lorelai so, so happily takes a few more pictures of the policemen before Chris has to drag her out.
In the car, Emily sits austerely in the backseat. "You mind if I turn on the music, Mom?" Lorelai asks. "What are you in the mood for? 'Jailhouse Rock?' 'Folsom Prison Blues'?" Emily snipes that she's very funny. "No, I know, I know," Lorelai says. "'Workin' on the Chain Gang.'" Emily gives her a big hardy har har, but Lorelai continues to dig. She wants to know, she says -- though she is very thankful -- why Emily called her to come get her instead of calling Richard. Emily says that she was not about to call Richard away from his dinner with the dean so that he could come pick her up from jail. She rants on further about the incompetent police force, as Lorelai and Chris giggle in the front seat. Finally, she recognizes that she is riding in a sexy convertible and asks if Lorelai and Chris are on a date. "No way," Lorelai says. "You're not changing the subject. We're not talking about anything else except you in the clink. Now, come on, spill. What was it like on the inside, huh? Did you try to tunnel your way out with a spoon? And, Mom, now that you're on the outside, and they're still on the inside, are they going to try to use you as some kind of prison mule? I just...so much I need to know!" It makes me so mad that she doesn't take this moment to point out that she alone among the living Gilmore women has never been to jail. She sighs with complete happiness as we cut away...