Episode Report Card Pamie: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Love Bites
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.07.2001
Pan down to a junkyard. Rory and CuteDean stand in front of the gate. She asks him what all of this is. "Did you ever see Christine?" he asks her. Rory gives a shaky, "Yes." "Well, it's nothing like that," he promises. They break into the junkyard. "You brought me to Beirut?" she asks. "It's a salvage yard," CuteDean says, correcting me. Rory says it still looks like Beirut. He brings her over to the hollow shell of a car. He tells her that this is her surprise. Rory is confused. He explains it's a car. "When it grows up?" Rory asks. CuteDean says it's not really a car yet, but it will be. He's building it for her. Rory can't believe this, and keeps asking him over and over again if he really means that he's building an actual car for her. He says that she doesn't have a car and she's wasting precious minutes on that bus every day when they could be sitting together arguing over long books by confusing Russian authors. Y'all. He's building her a car. My heart can't take this. Rory's face is so perfect, all full of love and awe, calling him insane. He asks if she likes it. She answers with a kiss. He says he'll take it as a yes. "Take it, Mister," she says all cute. He opens the door for her, and it falls off. He says he'll fix it. "Don't!" Rory orders. "I like it like that." She gets into the front seat, all proud and happy. CuteDean jumps over the passenger side door. "This is amazing," she says. She says that she had no idea three-months was the car anniversary. He says next month she gets a plane. He puts his arm around her and she settles back into him. As we watch them from overhead, Rory says, "I'm having one of those moments right now. One of those moments when everything is so perfect and so wonderful that you almost feel sad because nothing could ever be this good again." CuteDean says he's depressing her. Rory says he is and giggles. "You're very weird," he says. "And you're wonderful," she says back. They kiss. Man. I can't take all the perfect.
CuteDean sits back and says, "Rory? I love you." Rory's face falls as the music dies. "Rory?" CuteDean asks. "Did you hear me?" Rory says she did. CuteDean asks her to say something. Rory stammers that she loves the car. CuteDean asks if that's it. Rory says no, but she's surprised. "You don't love me," CuteDean says. Rory says she just has to think about it for a second. CuteDean asks what she has to think about. Rory says that saying "I love you" is a really difficult thing. CuteDean: "Well, I just did it." Rory: "And you did it really well." CuteDean: "What the hell does that mean?" Rory apologizes and says that this all came as a big surprise to her, what with the dinner and the car and the confession. She says she needs a minute to think about it. CuteDean says this isn't something you think about. You either feel it or you don't. CuteDean should show her at this point some sort of gash or scar he got while working on the car. That'll get her. Rory begs him to not be mad about this. CuteDean says a few things that are mean about her having to go home and talk about it with her mother and make a "pro-con list." "Not fair," Rory says quietly. CuteDean apologizes and says he's an idiot. Rory says that it's just not easy for her. She asks him to think about it from her point of view. Her mom said "I love you" to her dad. "You don't get pregnant saying 'I love you,'" CuteDean spits. Rory says she knows that. She's just confused and needs to think. She says it's a really big deal.