TEXT: 3.11 - I Solemnly Swear OPEN AT ELDER GILMORE RESIDENCE [The maid opens the door for Lorelai and Rory] LORELAI: Hi. MAID: Good evening. May I take your coats? LORELAI: Oh, sure, thanks. EMILY: [from living room] That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard. MAID: Your mother's in the living room. LORELAI: So last chance to run, huh? MAID: Excuse me? RORY: Just ignore her. [They walk to the living room. Emily is talking on the phone and doesn't see them come in] EMILY: Of course I said it. Well, I can't imagine who would take jackbooted as a compliment. I will not apologize. Every time she went to the pantry, I thought she was marching on Poland. Oh, I see, because I want things a certain way, I'm unreasonable? [Lorelai pours herself a glass of wine] RORY: Shh! EMILY: Why, that is the most absurd...I want to see this document. Fax it to me immediately. LORELAI: Fax it to me immediately? RORY: She's part of the electronic age. EMILY: Tomorrow morning is completely unacceptable. It's unacceptable because I'm paying you three hundred dollars an hour. So turn that little near-luxury car around, go back to your office, and fax me that libelous scrap of paper. LORELAI: Ask him if he can pick up some ice cream, too. EMILY: Well, tell your wife to tape your daughter's recital. [hangs up] Unbelievable. [Emily turns around and sees Lorelai and Rory on the couch] LORELAI: Hi Mom. RORY: Hi Grandma. EMILY: When did you two get here? LORELAI: Sometime between the second absurd and the third unbelievable. EMILY: I apologize. That call caught me off guard. RORY: Is everything all right, Grandma? EMILY:
SUMMARY:
Offers of dates ensue when Lorelai and Sookie attend a seminar on operating an inn and run into two handsome men -- an old friend of Sookie's and his business partner; Lorelai unsuccessfully resists being deposed when her mother is sued by a former maid for wrongful termination; after Rory and Francie butt heads at the student council meeting, Francie proposes a truce and then immediately lies to Paris that Rory is trying to undermine her; Paris is crushed that her best friend has betrayed her and lashes out at her during their fencing class, leaving Rory ostracized by the rest of the student body.