TEXT: OPEN AT ELDER GILMORE RESIDENCE [The four Gilmores are seated at the table. The maid serves dinner.] LORELAI: Don't tell me this is what it looks like. EMILY: It's escargot. LORELAI: Ugh. That's what it looks like. RORY: Snails? EMILY: Escargot. LORELAI: Slimy thing by any other name... RICHARD: They taste like garlic and butter. LORELAI: Don't say "they." Food should not have pronouns. RICHARD: Give it a try. LORELAI: But if I do and we're having road kill for the main course, then I will already have used up my allotment of gross-out food for the day, so I'll abstain. RICHARD: I guess we should strike escargot off the list of Friday night dinner foods. EMILY: Sweetie loved escargot. That's funny how we remember those things. RICHARD: Hm. LORELAI: Sweetie? RORY: Sweetie who? EMILY: Sweetie Nelson, one of my oldest friends. She passed away yesterday. RORY: Oh, I'm sorry, Grandma. LORELAI: Yeah, I've heard you mention her. RORY: Was she sick? EMILY: She'd been ill for some time, but still... RICHARD: The family is pretty overwhelmed. EMILY: By the way, Davis called late today. The funeral is going to be Sunday. LORELAI: Was that her real name -- Sweetie? EMILY: No, her name was Melinda. Sweetie was a nickname. LORELAI: Why? EMILY: What do you mean, why? LORELAI: I mean, how did they get Sweetie from Melinda? EMILY: They didn't get Sweetie from Melinda. Sweetie is a nickname. LORELAI: Yes, I know Sweetie was a nickname, but usually, a nickname comes from a
SUMMARY:
The rift between Emily and Richard widens when he goes on a golf date with clients instead of accompanying his wife to the funeral of her best friend. Doyle goes on a theft and plagiarism rant; Trix dies suddenly and stricken with grief and guilt, Richard is inconsolable; Emily calls it quits on arranging Trix's funeral and drops everything in her daughter's lap after finding a letter in which her mother-in-law pleads with her son on the eve of his wedding to Emily to marry Pennilyn instead; Luke and Nicole have all of Stars Hollow listening in and reading lips as they quarrel; worried about her parents and frantic over fulfilling Trix's exacting requirements for her funeral, Lorelai has a meltdown while shopping for Trix's funereal undies; after the service, cousin Marilyn regales family and friends with tales of Lorelai the First; Emily and Richard finally reach out to each other as he defies one of his mother's last wishes for the sake of his wife.