Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Poolhouse Is Rory's New Home
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.16.2005
Luke arrives at the Inn with his handy-dandy toolbox and Lorelai gives him a verbal list of today's needed repairs. He notices Lorelai's box of gifts and asks whom it's from. Lorelai says she has another lover who owns a diner in Woodbury. Luke ignores this and reads the gift basket card. He forgot all about the Mike Armstrong guy and never knew that Lorelai ever met with him. She says she did, at Luke's recommendation. She's thinking about his offer. Luke starts getting worked up over the fact that Lorelai might take this job; Lorelai smirks and says she probably won't, but that she's still "mulling" it over, because she loves to watch Luke squirm and be unhappy, apparently. Luke says thatif Lorelai takes the job, she could end up traveling all over the place, never mind where her new office would be. "What about the kids?!" he shrieks. "What...kids?" asks Lorelai. "Uh...nothing. Never mind, forget it," says Luke, and runs away to fix something before Lorelai can ask any more questions.
Lane comes home to Mama, who's working in the 20% off section. It has a really nice-looking dollhouse in it. Lane tries to make some small talk, which doesn't go over well with her mother, whose talk is never small. So Lane gets to the real reason why she's visiting: the band is on the verge of breaking up, so she'll be moving back to the Kim house soon and let her mother enroll her in a Seventh-Day Adventist College. Lane waits for her mother to be all excited and happy that her daughter is finally walking down the path she made for her, Mama K's reaction is much different. "You are not the daughter I raised!" she says, rising in fury. She says she raised Lane never to give up, no matter what.
Lorelai meets Rory at the Weston Bakery. Rory says her final went "well" and that she'll be home for summer soon. Lorelai thinks that today is the day they'll actually make it through all twelve layers of the German chocolate layer cake, saying that the bikers have provided her with the inspiration to challenge herself. Rory says she needs to be serious for a second. Lorelai points out that Weston's seems to be the place where they always have their bad conversations. As bikers whiz by in the background (don't they have, like, an entire state to race through? They've been hanging around Stars Hollow for days now!), Rory says that she's made the decision to leave Yale because she isn't sure if it's the right place for her now that she doesn't know what she's going to do with the rest of her life. I'll bet the majority of Yale's undergrads have no idea what they're going to with the rest of their lives either, but they manage to remain enrolled. Rory lies that this has nothing to do with what Mitch said to her. Lorelai points out that Mitch might have had an ulterior motive for that performance evaluation, like the fact that he doesn't want Rory to date his son. Rory says that while certain members of the Rich family were very vocal about their disapproval of the union, Mitch wasn't one of them. And even though her sudden decision to drop her career plans has nothing to do with him, Rory says that if Mitch says she doesn't have what it takes to be a reporter, than she must not have what it takes to be a reporter. Rory adds that Richie seemed to agree with Mitch, since he never said that Rory was a good journalist when she told him what his father said. Because if you aren't showering Rory with praise all the damn time, then you must be against her.