TEXT: 1.01 - Pilot OPEN IN STARS HOLLOW [Lorelai walks down the sidewalk. She passes a sign that says "Stars Hollow Founded 1779" and crosses the street. She goes into Luke's Diner. Inside, she takes off her coat and picks up an empty mug from a table, then walks up to the counter] LORELAI: Please, Luke. Please, please, please. LUKE: How many cups have you had this morning? LORELAI: None. LUKE: Plus... LORELAI: Five, but yours is better. LUKE: You have a problem. LORELAI: Yes, I do. [Luke fills her cup] LUKE: Junkie. LORELAI: Angel. You've got wings, baby. [The phone rings as Lorelai goes back to her table. Luke answers it.] LUKE: Luke's. [pause] Yeah. [A young guy seated at the counter turns and watches Lorelai sip her coffee, then gets up and approaches her.] JOEY: You make that look really good. LORELAI: Oh, it is really good. It's the best coffee in town. JOEY: Oh yeah? I'll have to get a cup. LORELAI: Good plan. JOEY: Yeah, I've never been here before. Just, uh, passing through on my way to Hartford. LORELAI: You're a regular Jack Kerouac. JOEY: Yeah. LORELAI: Yeah. JOEY: Hey, you mind if I sit down? LORELAI: Oh, you know what? Actually, I'm meeting someone so I... [Joey sits down at her table] JOEY: I'm Joey. LORELAI: Okay. JOEY: What, you don't have a name? LORELAI: No, I do have a name. I just, I'm really meeting someone, so... JOEY: So I guess I should get going. LORELAI: So soon? JOEY:
SUMMARY:
After Rory is accepted at Chilton, an extremely prestigious and expensive prep school, Lorelai's difficulty in raising the tuition money forces her to ask her wealthy parents, from whom she is estranged, for a loan. The elder Gilmores happily loan their daughter the money in exchange for an end to the estrangement and a family dinner every Friday night. In her last week at Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets a very cute new transfer student named Dean, which gives her second thoughts about attending Chilton. When Lorelai discovers that her ambivalence about Chilton centers on a boy, they argue about her future, but after the first Friday night family dinner at her grandparents' house, Rory makes up with her mother and decides to go to Chilton after all when she realizes the sacrifice her mother has made in agreeing to end the estrangement with her grandparents.