TEXT: OPEN TO STARS HOLLOW SIDEWALK [Lorelai walks very quickly down the sidewalk passing some of the vendor stands] LORELAI: Morning, Al. Morning, Fred. Morning, Sam. [She drops envelope in a corner nailbox and continues past a man handing out pamphlets.] MAN: Cider Mill's opening Saturday. Big parade and free cider for one and all. LORELAI: Thank you. [Never slowing her pace, she takes the offered paper and quickly hands it out to the next person she passes.] Cider mill's opening Saturday. Big parade and free cider for one and all. WOMAN: Thank you. [Lorelai approaches Miss Patty's dance studio where Patty is instructing several small dancing apples.] PATTY: Keep it going, kids. You're red, you're delicious. You're about to have the juice sucked out of you. [She smiles as Lorelai passes] There she is -- our spunky entrepreneur. LORELAI: I am the uber-Trump-Murdoch-Maximus. [She glances back] Oop. Apple down. PATTY: Apple down. [pauses before reacting] Apple down! Hold it, everybody! Apple down! Okay, roll her over. [calls after the rapidly disappearing Lorelai] Have a nice day. MAN: [OS, continues to call out] Big parade, free cider for one and all. [OPEN TO LUKE'S DINER] [Lane is standing behind counter taking a food order from a woman] LANE:...and two eggs over easy, got it. Just be a couple minutes. [tears order from her pad and places it on the kitchen ledge] Caesar, order. [Lane smoothly walks around the counter, passing Zach and Brian sitting at a corner table.] BRIAN: Since they were both actually royalty, their child would have a real claim to the Judean throne, see? So Mary Magdalene goes to Gaul to have the kid. She's also supposed to run the church after his death, but that's not what Peter wants
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.