Episode Report Card Pamie: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT His Girl Friday
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.06.2002
Lorelai watches Richard shakes someone's hand and mentions having Karen draw up the contracts in the morning. Lorelai walks over and says hello. She says it's a swell party. Richard says it was mostly Emily's doing. Lorelai looks for something to say for a second, and then asks what just happened with the handshake; she asks whether he scored a deal. Richard says that one doesn't "score deals" in the insurance business; one builds relationships based on trust and fulfilling the clients' needs. Lorelai apologizes. Richard starts explaining who he was talking to, but Lorelai knows who he is. "You bagged the Swede?" Lorelai asks incredulously. Richard says that he didn't score a deal or bag a Swede. They talked and came to an agreement. There are contracts. Lorelai smiles and says, "Dad, that's big!" She says she knows this is going to open up a whole new market for Richard. It could move into Russia. She congratulates him. They share a good moment. She says she saw he hired Karen. "Well, she's no...." Richard looks at Lorelai for a second and then says, "Margie." Again, they share a moment. Richard says that he needs to be excused to go score more deals now that he's finished bagging the Swede. Lorelai watches her father walk off and smiles proudly.
Emily and Lorelai agree that Richard's so happy and in his element right now. Emily sees Rory and freaks out when she sees the cast on Rory's arm. Rory tells Emily that she fractured her wrist. Another day and that cast would've been off, anyway. Lorelai tries the "really big bees" story. Emily's upset that nobody called to tell her that Rory was hurt. Rory tells Emily that she was in a car accident. Emily is piecing everything together now and is talking a mile a minute as she realizes that this is why Rory wasn't at dinner last week and that she didn't have the flu. She realizes that the accident happened in the car CuteDean made that Richard didn't trust. Rory tells Emily that Jess was driving the car. Emily tells Lorelai, "I thought you were going to keep that boy away from her." Lorelai asks if they have to talk about this right now. Emily says that they do. She's upset about the cast and can't believe how irresponsible Lorelai was in letting Rory get into an accident. Rory has had enough and starts shouting to Emily that she gave Jess the keys and told him to keep driving even though he wanted to go back to Luke's. She says that this is just as much her fault as it is his, and maybe even more. "Rory," Emily says, shocked that her granddaughter just yelled at her in mixed company. I love the words "mixed company." Like "mixed nuts." Just a bunch of different kinds of people all staring, all salted. Lorelai tells Rory she wants to talk to her out in the hall.