TEXT: OPEN TO STARS HOLLOW SIDEWALK [Lorelai walks down the sidewalk past people putting up decorations on streetlight for upcoming Firelight Festival. She enters Luke's Diner to find busy lunch hour customers everywhere.] LORELAI: Unbelievable. [she pulls her cell phone from her pocket and hits speed dial] CUT TO RORY'S DORM BEDROOM RORY: Hello? [Scenes change from dorm to diner] LORELAI: There are no empty tables at Luke's. RORY'S VOICE: And I can do what about that? LORELAI: Well, I was hoping you'd develop mind control powers since I last saw you and you could will people to leave. RORY: No. If I could do that, I'd be using it to play the ponies or something. Your table would be low on the list. LORELAI: Selfish! [she looks around and sees Kirk alone at a table] Ooh, hold on a sec. [approaches Kirk] Kirk, may I? KIRK: May you what? LORELAI: Sit with you? KIRK: Here? LORELAI: Yes. KIRK: I have a girlfriend. LORELAI: I'm not flirting with you Kirk. KIRK: Oh. Then, have a seat. LORELAI: Thanks. [she gazes warmly at him and says breathlessly.] I love that shirt. KIRK: It's an Arnold Palmer. LORELAI: That was flirting. KIRK: Oh, man. [looks uncomfortably around] LORELAI: [returns to her cell phone call with Rory now ignoring Kirk] I'm back. So, what's going on with Lane? RORY: She's here. She's fine. She's uh, still a little bit in denial. She hasn't talked to her mom since the kick-out. LORELAI: Poor Mrs. Kim. RORY: Poor Mrs. Kim? She kicked Lane out, I'm mad at her. LORELAI:
SUMMARY:
Luke has his hands full as family members return to Stars Hollow: Liz for her high school reunion and Jess for his car. Lane busies herself at Yale by being the suite's Helpful Hannah. Lorelai agrees to accompany Jason on an office furniture shopping trip on his morning off, but the press of international business calls keeps getting in the way. Jamie's in town, and Paris keeps avoiding him. Lorelai and Jason agree that Emily and Richard need to be told about their relationship, but Lorelai just can't bring herself to do it after Emily mocks both Jason and the idea that he would ever hit it off with her daughter. Rory's finally speaking her mind on Paris's romantic entanglements backfires when Paris decides she has a future with Asher and breaks up with Jamie. Rory becomes concerned that her mother is having financial problems. When Lorelai and Rory discover Jess sleeping in his car in the freezing cold after an argument with his uncle, Lorelai intercedes on his behalf with Luke, who relents and allows Jess to come inside while Luke spends the night in Litchfield.