But he's married, and... he has to figure out his life. DEAN: With who? Got an errand. I'm exhausted. It's been seven weeks. LANE: Free fries are for friends and family only. LIZ: [resigned] T.J., It's time for him to go. LORELAI: Just take the letter. LORELAI: Sookie - [shakes her head to silence Sookie]
SOOKIE: We walked past Dean's place, and Lindsay was throwing his stuff out on the street. LUKE: I'm coming home today for sure. Oh, you know all that. RORY: Bad time? RORY: I wrote a letter... to Dean. SOOKIE: Go home and relax. What is that? Who is she with? ZACH: Since when? [Lorelai walks down main aisle and hears Dean's voice]
DEAN: We get lots of stuff from Marco Farms, but a lot of the time, it's hard to predict when it's gonna come in and how much of it we're gonna get. [Rory is stunned]
LORELAI: Sookie, you're exploding all over the poor girl. [She and Rory walk in the opposite direction down the sidewalk.] [Smiling, Luke clicks off the call with a beep and casually looks at the necklaces displayed]
LIZ: [limps closer] Looking for something specific? [They bump into Lindsay and her mother]
MRS. LISTER: You! [leans to hug her mother]
EMILY: Don't! [to Rory] Lane's here. [to the children] Have you met Michel?
Plan: A: his injuries; Q: What is T.J. milking for all he's worth? A: Luke; Q: Who decides it's time to go home after seven weeks on the Ren Faire circuit? A: Rory; Q: Who is saddened when Dean expresses regret for the shift in their relationship? A: Rory calls; Q: Who apologizes to Dean? A: her mother; Q: Who does Rory ask to deliver a letter to Dean? A: Dean; Q: Who does Rory apologize to for the shift in their relationship? A: Sookie; Q: Who diagnoses Lorelai with a bad case of management burnout? A: Lorelai; Q: Who does Lindsay's mother have an angry confrontation with in the town square? A: two; Q: How many friends decide to decompress with a girls-day-out? A: the attentions; Q: What do Emily and Rory have to fight off from European men? A: randy European men; Q: Who do Emily and Rory have to fight off? A: Michel; Q: Who is unenthusiastic when he's pressed into babysitting for guests whose children take an interest in him? A: an inexplicable shine; Q: What do the children take to Michel? A: Lindsay; Q: Who throws Dean out of the house? A: all his possessions; Q: What does Lindsay throw out of Dean's house? A: Lane; Q: Who realizes that she's falling for Zack? Summary: T.J. is milking his injuries for all he's worth, but Luke decides that it's time to go home after seven weeks on the Ren Faire circuit; Rory calls to apologize and to ask her mother to deliver a letter to Dean; Sookie accurately diagnoses Lorelai with a bad case of management burnout, and the two friends decide to decompress with a girls-day-out; Emily and Rory come home exhausted from fending off the attentions of randy European men; Michel is wildly unenthusiastic when he's pressed into babysitting for guests whose children take an inexplicable shine to him; after Lindsay finds Rory's letter, she throws Dean and all his possessions out of the house, and her mother has an angry confrontation with Lorelai in the town square; Lane realizes that she's falling for Zack; Rory is saddened when Dean expresses regret for the shift in their relationship and the harm it caused to his wife and their families.