(She goes to get her book.) (She walks away.) (They enter.) (They get up, holding hands, he walks her to her door.) (To Lane.) An observer. BRIAN: What? Blindfolded. By, honey. Dad tried to take over his whole life. EMILY: Bob. EMILY: Oh. EMILY: Richard! LOGAN: And we're not going to die. LOGAN: Yeah? LORELAI: No! LORELAI: Okay, bring him a beer. LORELAI: Please cancel this golf game with Luke. LUKE: And this is a good way to start a relationship with your father. LUKE: Oh, and I sort of implied that I'm fond of the Greeks, so I have to read the Iliad and the Odyssey so we can chat about it, and can we not hang out with your parents for a very long time? Mother, dinner, us? RORY: The Life and Death Brigade. The only reason I reacted to Kirk the way that I did is that he's not in this world, he's in my other world. There's going to be seven of them, and that's just on the eastern seaboard. Took a little arm-twisting to get them to agree to let you come in the first place. Warning sign. ZACH: See you at home. [Lane's bedroom.] [Woods.]
Plan: A: Kirk; Q: Who spills the beans about Rory and Luke? A: Emily; Q: Who demands that Lorelai bring Luke to dinner? A: a passive-aggressive Emily; Q: What kind of Emily is Emily? A: Zach; Q: Who announces that he is ready to start dating Lane? A: a cozy first date; Q: What kind of date do Lane and Zach have? A: home; Q: Where do Lane and Zach spend their first date? A: Brian; Q: Who does Zach banish to Lane's bedroom? A: his lesson; Q: What does Luke not learn with Emily? A: Richard; Q: Who invites Luke to go golfing? A: a deaf ear; Q: What do Richard and Luke turn to Lorelai's pleas to cancel? A: the "Life and Death Brigade; Q: What is the name of the secret society that Rory gets a story on? A: Logan; Q: Who encourages Rory to take a risk? A: the event's breathtaking finale; Q: What does Rory participate in? Summary: After Kirk spills the beans that her daughter is dating Luke, Emily demands that Lorelai bring him to dinner so that they can get reacquainted; although Lorelai tries to warn him away, Luke goes anyway and is subjected to an evening of oblique insults from a passive-aggressive Emily; after Zach announces that he's ready to start going out with Lane, they spend a cozy first date at home after banishing Brian to Lane's bedroom; having not learned his lesson with Emily, Luke agrees to accept Richard's invitation to go golfing, and both men turn a deaf ear to Lorelai's pleas to cancel; Rory gets her story on the "Life and Death Brigade" by being blindfolded and whisked away by Logan and his friends to observe the elaborately staged weekend in the woods, and finally, after Logan encourages her to take a risk, to participate in the event's breathtaking finale.