Episode Report Card Pamie: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jess Is Dumb
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.29.2002
Lorelai's organizing the menu drawer as the phone rings. She answers. It's Rory. Lorelai brags that she's organizing the drawer. She's putting happy-face stickers on the menus, next to the dishes they liked. Rory asks her to be calm about what she's about to tell her. Lorelai asks where she is. "I'm all right," Rory answers. Lorelai starts getting anxious, and asks why Rory wouldn't be all right. Rory tells her that she got in an accident. She says that she and Jess were driving when an animal ran out into the road and Jess swerved. Lorelai is pretty upset that Jess was driving Rory's car and caused an accident. Rory says that everybody's okay, except for the car. Lorelai asks again where Rory is. "I'm in the hospital," Rory says quietly. It's the prettiest hospital I've ever seen. And is it in Hartford?
Lorelai storms through the hospital doors ["which read 'Stars Hollow Hospital,' like a town without a stoplight would have its own hospital" -- Wing Chun] because on the previews we're supposed to think that Rory died in a car crash. Lorelai asks the head nurse where she can find Rory. The nurse tells Lorelai to take a seat. Lorelai threatens to go Shirley MacLaine on her ass if the nurse doesn't tell Lorelai where Rory is. The nurse checks the list and tells Lorelai which room Rory's in.
A doctor is setting Rory's wrist in a cast, which I don't think they could have done without Lorelai's written permission. Rory says she's fine, and that it's just a fracture. The doctor -- who isn't Kirk, unfortunately -- tells Lorelai that Rory's fine. He says that Rory will have to wear a cast for a couple of weeks. Lorelai tells the doctor to do any test he can to find out whether there's anything else that could be wrong with Rory. He says he'll run a few more x-rays on Rory, so it's going to be a little while before Rory can leave. The doctor leaves. Rory tells Lorelai that the car's not so good. "Oh, nobody cares about the car," Lorelai says. There's the understatement of the year. Rory says that Jess made sure she was okay before they called the police. Lorelai says she'd rather hear the details later. She just wants Rory to relax. Rory asks if Lorelai's mad. Lorelai says she's not. She asks if they brought Rory over in the ambulance. They did. She asks if they used the siren. They did. Lorelai hopes that Cardigan Man was in bed already. Rory says it was after nine, so there's a good chance. Is it a school night? When's Friday? The doctor comes back and tells Rory it's time to go to Radiology. He tells Lorelai it'll be about an hour. Lorelai kisses Rory and tells her to smile pretty for the camera. Lorelai leaves the hospital room heavily, wearing a very concerned pout.