Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Con Men And Trotskyites!
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.06.2006
At the newspaper office, the staff is trying to elect a new editor. Is this how this stuff gets done? Do they not have an advisor from the J-school who serves as publisher and helps determine who the editor will be? I guess Yale's too advanced for that. Though Rory is not even up for editor, she serves as the tie-breaker and is voted in. She immediately gets down to business, delegating and saying she wants some space in editorial to write a note to the readers. Lame.
At her apartment building, later, Rory comes home to find her stuff in the hall and the locks changed. She knocks on the door calling for Paris and the elusive Doyle, and Paris whips open the door. "You dare show your face?" she hisses. Rory isn't getting it, and asks what her stuff is doing in the hall. Paris spits that Rory's evicted, and that the chain on the door is for Rory's protection. "Krav maga, baby," she says. "When my enemies approach, I'm trained to pounce. It's a reflex." Rory says that she's not Paris's enemy, but Paris firmly disagrees: "Enemies move in silence and strike when their prey is weakest. Pretty much sums you up, doesn't it, Editor Gilmore?" Rory says that Paris's firing was done by the board, but Paris accuses Rory of lobbying for the job: "That secret meeting, weeks ago at the pub, where you set the putsch in motion? What happened, there wasn't a beer hall available?" Rory insists that she set no putsch in motion: "I can't even spell 'putsch'!" Paris scoffs: "Nice spin. Take it to K Street." She slams the door, saying that she made Rory her #2 and that it went to Rory's head. Rory yells that Paris can't just kick her out like this, but Paris rightly points out that there's a hallway full of Rory's stuff that proves otherwise. "But we're friends," Rory says, and I have to laugh right along with Paris, considering Rory's many denials of their friendship this season. "We're not friends," Paris counters, and repeats Rory's speech about all the good times they had at Chilton: "Well, the good times are over." And with one final jerk of the door to throw one of Rory's ten thousand scarves in her face, she slams it closed.
Back at the Inn, Michel confronts Luke, who is making repairs to a chair leg. Michel is pissed that Luke's "feelthy green truck" is parked in guest parking, and says that feelthy green truck parking is in the back, behind the shed. Luke grumbles that he'll move it, later, but Michel is not done: "Now, about your hat." Michel reminds us all that gentlemen don't wear hats indoors, and I quite agree, but Luke counters that he's not much of a gentleman, anyway. "Not if you persist in dressing like a Peanuts character," Michel agrees. Ha! Michel is so, so overly bitchy in this episode, but considering the absolute ridiculousness of Luke right now, I'm fine with it. Luke says that he's not taking off his hat, but Michel has moved on: he says he saw Luke giving directions to a guest this morning and insists that Luke is not qualified to do so, being merely a diner owner. "That is my job," Michel clenches out, "and you lack my people skeelz!" He continues bitching and yelling and says that he saw Luke eating a sandwich, that they do not allow "the help" to eat in front of the guests, and that Luke is to eat in the barn from now on. Luke, understandably, says he ain't eating in the barn. "Parker ate in the barn," Michel retorts, full of florid emotion. Luke: "Who's Parker?" Michel: " Parker is wonderful, wonderful man!" And, nearly in tears, Michel stomps out.