TEXT: 1.17 - The Breakup, Part 2 [Lorelai and Rory hugging] LORELAI: Tell me what happened. RORY: We broke up, we just broke up. LORELAI: But I don't understand. RORY: We - we went to dinner and then we walked by the bonfire but it wasn't lit so we went to this junkyard and we sat in this car and then - oh God! LORELAI: What? RORY: I forgot your meatball in the car. LORELAI: Oh honey, forget it. RORY: Oh I can't believe I left your meatball in the car. LORELAI: Ok, ok, come on [as they sit on the couch] RORY: After I told the waiter to wrap it up and everything. And everyone was like <unk>what do you want with one meatball?' And I was like <unk>It's a mother/daughter thing.' And I'm sure he thought I was nuts but he was so nice and he did it anyway and he uh, he brought one of those tin foil swans or duck or some kind of bird and - and then I left it in the car. LORELAI: Ok, forget about the meatball ok? Just tell me what happened. RORY: He just broke up with me ok? LORELAI: That doesn't make sense. This is Dean we're talking about. He's crazy about you. He calls like 25 times a day. Have you seen the cover of his notebook? It's one step away from stalker material. RORY: I have to go to bed. [gets up and heads for her room] LORELAI: Well, wait. Take me through the night step by step. RORY: Why? LORELAI: So I can help decipher what happened here. RORY: What happened here is we broke up. He didn't want to be my boyfriend anymore, end of story. LORELAI: That is so not end of story. RORY: Yes it is. LORELAI: Honey, he did not plan an entire romantic evening complete
SUMMARY:
Rory decides to engage in a flurry of activity to avoid thinking about Dean, despite Lorelai's advice to wallow; Lorelai runs interference as the residents of Stars Hollow reach out to console Rory and Luke attempts to bar Dean from the diner; Rachel pitches in to help Luke out at the diner; Jackson prepares dinner for Sookie, and has a tough time keeping her out of the kitchen; Rory decides to attend Madeline's party and takes Lane along for company; Lorelai decides to visit Max when she realizes how much she misses him; Lane is torn when she meets the perfect guy at the party; Rory attempts to befriend Tristan after he has very public breakup with his girlfriend at the party, and when he apologizes for his past bad behavior towards her and kisses her, she bursts into tears; at home, Rory sobs to Lorelai that she's ready to wallow now.