Episode Report Card 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT All's Well That Ends Well
By Ragdoll | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.25.2000
There are antler marks on the car door. Lorelai wonders why her daughter just can't run into a wall like normal kids. Rory just wants to go home. Ragdoll has to brush away a tear, please don't hate her.
Sookie has tracked down the restaurant critic and is standing on his front porch holding a plate of risotto and a glass of wine. She knocks on the door with her elbow but doesn't turn around. Mills comes to the door but she still doesn't turn around; she talks to him with her back turned the entire time. Sookie introduces herself and he wants to know what the heck she's doing there. "Are you cooking?" she asks. He's making chicken. Sookie insists that he's using too much salt. Mills takes offense and tries to close the door, but Sookie continues on her quest to redeem the magic risotto. He tells her that she's acting very inappropriately and that she should just go home; after all, he did give her a good review. "I don't care about the review!" she claims. "I want you to try this dish with this wine." She hands the plate and glass over to him awkwardly through the door. And then, she waits. The door closes and Sookie scrunches up her face with excitement. It's very cute.
Rory and Lorelai are driving home. Lorelai attempts to engage her daughter in a conversation but Rory doesn't want to talk. Then she screams, "Stop the car!" They go and search for the deer. Lorelai's wearing heels, which are less than conducive for a nature walk. Then they have a completely engaging, completely heartwarming talk about Chilton -- about how Rory was trying too hard; about how she's sixteen and should come up for air once in a while. "They kicked me out!" Gilmore Jr. guesses. No. "Are you saying I should quit?" Rory asks. Lorelai says that if Rory wanted to go back to her other school with Lane, that would be fine with Lorelai. "You don't think I can do it!" Rory infers. That's not true, at all, but Lorelai is worried because her daughter "lost it" in class and it's not part of her personality to lose it like that. As they continue to walk, Lorelai says she can't remember a time when they weren't talking about Rory going to Harvard. And she can't remember if the school is her dream or if it's actually Rory's. Lorelai never got to do the "big fancy college thing," so maybe all this time she was transferring her dreams to her daughter. Rory says "mom" a couple of times -- you know how Lorelai gets when she's on a tangent -- and then sets her straight. If Harvard and Chilton aren't going to make Rory "dancing-through-the-streets happy," then she should forget about them. Rory looks encouraged, explains that she was just behind, and needed to catch up on all the reading. Rory is feeling better; Harvard is her dream. There is more bonding. Rory's not ready to give up on Chilton yet and thanks her mother for yelling at the Headmaster.