TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] (OPEN on Lorelai front porch, night right after the last scene in the previous episode. Richard is standing outside with Lorelai's dollhouse and Lorelai walks out on the porch) LORELAI: What about Rory? RICHARD: I don't like what I see in that girl. LORELAI: My eyes? RICHARD: She's lost focus. She's drifting, aimless. You know she's joined the DAR? LORELAI: I saw the picture in the paper. RICHARD: She's running around, planning tea parties like she's the mad hatter. All she talks about are seating charts and canapes and fund-raisers and that boy. LORELAI: You mean Logan? RICHARD: She's heading in the wrong direction, and I don't like it. Now, I've thought long and hard about this, and I've come to a decision. We need a plan. LORELAI: But...(takes a deep breath) We...I had a plan. You changed the plan. Plan's gone, baby. RICHARD: I don't appreciate your tone. LORELAI: Apparently the proper tone went out with the plan. RICHARD: Do you understand what I'm saying? Rory's not headed back to school. LORELAI: Not yet, anyhow. RICHARD: Not yet? Not now, not ever. Listen to me for just a moment. We can fix this. First of all, I can change the terms of Rory's trust fund. Currently, she's set to receive it when she turns twenty-five, but I say we tell her it's contingent on her returning to Yale. LORELAI: Dad... RICHARD: Or we can use the opposite approach, if you think it's better. Maybe we offer her a car or the down payment on a town house. Or I'll buy her the town house. Don't you see? If there's something in it for her, maybe we can get her to change her mind. LORELAI: Thank you for the dollhouse, dad.
SUMMARY:
Since Rory was little, the Gilmore girls have planned her 21st birthday: in Atlantic City, sipping martinis, playing 21. But with the estrangement, Emily plans the birthday party - and it's not Atlantic City. Richard and Emily have their pastor over for dinner and Rory drops the news that she and Logan are having sex. Emily moves Rory back into the main house. At the birthday party, Lorelai and Rory finally talk.