6.08 – Ragazze Scatenate (Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out ) Rory rimane piacevolmente sorpresa quando la sua vecchia fiamma Jess appare davanti alla residenza dei suoi nonni a le rivela straordinarie novità nella sua vita. Rory accetta di andare a cena con Jess, e quando Logan si aggiunge ai due inaspettatamente, ha inizio un aspro confronto, lasciando che , sia Rory che Logan ammettano le scelte che hanno fatto. Emily è sconcertata dall’ improvvisa evasività di Rory e cerca di esercitare un po’ di disciplina che usano solitamente i genitori coi figli. Nel frattempo Luke accetta si sponsorizzare una squadra femminile di calco locale e Lorelai direziona tutte le sue preoccupazioni riguardo Rory nelle attenzioni per il suo cane, Paul Anka.
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RORY: Oh, color me curious. [She takes it.] A book. [She reads the cover.] The Subsect. Written by Jess Mariano. [She looks up at him, questioning.]
JESS: That's no misprint.
RORY: You wrote a book?
JESS: A short novel.
RORY: You wrote a book?
JESS: And through a fluke I got it to these guys that have a small press, and they read it, I don't know if they were high or something, but they decided to publish it!
RORY: You wrote a book.
JESS: There's no money in it. They only printed, like, five hundred of them. Believe me, I'm not quitting my day job.
RORY: But - you wrote it. You wrote a book. [She stands and flips through it.]
JESS: Yeah, I know, it's hard to believe.
RORY: You sat down and wrote a novel.
JESS: Author distributed, too. That's what I'm doing here. I'm going around, begging independent bookstores to put it in stock. Got it in a few.
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RORY: Jess, wait.
JESS [turns to her]: We shouldn't have done this.
RORY: He's just in a bad way lately.
JESS: He's a jerk!
RORY: He was. In there, definitely. I'm so sorry.
JESS: I read that guy the second I saw him. I should have begged off.
RORY: Well, I didn't want you to!
JESS: He'd better not come out here.
RORY: Please, Jess. He had a lot to drink. He's tired from traveling. This isn't him. I swear.
JESS: What the hell is going on?
RORY: I told you, he's tired! And his family's bugging him right now -
JESS: I mean, with you! What's going on with you?
RORY [stunned]: What do you mean?
JESS: You know what I mean! I know you. I know you better than anyone! This isn't you.
RORY: I don't know.
JESS [passionately]: What are you doing? Living at your grandparents' place? Being in the DAR? No Yale - why did you drop out of Yale?
RORY: It's complicated!
JESS: It's not! It's not complicated!
RORY [defensive]: You don't know!
JESS: This isn't you! This! You going out with this jerk, with the Porsche! We made fun of guys like this!
RORY: You caught him on a bad night.
JESS: This isn't about him! Okay? Screw him! What's going on with you? This isn't you, Rory. You know it isn't. What's going on?
[Rory is starting to get it. He looks at her, questioning.]
RORY [sincerely]: I don't know. [She looks around, thinking. She wraps her coat tightly around her.] I don't know.
[They look at each other for a moment.]
JESS [emotionally]: Okay, uh. Maybe, maybe we'll catch up at a better time. [He reaches out and rubs her elbow. He turns to leave. He stops at the gate and turns back.] Happy birthday, by the way. Wasn't that a couple weeks ago? Your birthday?
[Rory, still shocked, nods slightly. Jess smiles sadly and leaves. Rory watches him, then sighs. She narrows her eyes and marches inside.]
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[Early morning. Luke is asleep. He stretches his leg across the bed and when he doesn't find Lorelai he wakes up.]
LUKE: Lorelai?
[He gets up and walks through the house. He finds her in Rory's room, curled up in the chair. Paul Anka is asleep on the bed. Lorelai wakes up when Luke crouches down next to her. She looks as if she hasn't slept at all. Her eyes are red.]
LORELAI: Is he okay?
LUKE: Yeah, he looks the same.
LORELAI: Is he breathing?
LUKE: He's breathing.
LORELAI: Nice and steady?
LUKE: He's fast asleep.
LORELAI: Good.
LUKE: Yeah. You been here all night?
LORELAI: I kept thinking I heard him.
LUKE: Yeah, he does snore occasionally.
LORELAI: And then he was cold so I put his jersey on him.
LUKE: Yeah, I think he likes it.
LORELAI: Yeah. Every time I go back up to bed, you know, after checking on him, I just was convinced that he needed me and so I came back and finally I just ended up here.
LUKE: Well, it's as good a place as any.
LORELAI: Yeah. He doesn't want to eat anything. I had all these milk bones ready for him but he doesn't want anything. [She sniffs.]
LUKE: What's the baster for?
LORELAI: In case he's thirsty but he can't lift his head, so I can just shoot water in his mouth.
LUKE: Got it.
LORELAI [takes a deep breath}: He doesn't seem to want anything.
LUKE: He's going to be okay, He's strong.
LORELAI [shakes her head, crying]: He's so helpless. It must be so awful to be sick when you're a dog. 'Cause you can't run or play or watch TV or do anything to pass the time. Watching a lot of TV is the only good part of being sick.
LUKE: I know.
LORELAI: And the thing with the shoes, he was trying to tell me something.
LUKE: What?
LORELAI: He was trying to tell me to put my shoes on and take him to the vet because he felt something coming on and he was trying to ward it off and I didn't take him.
LUKE: I don't think that's why he was playing with your shoes.
LORELAI: I tried so hard. I have a list of things that he's afraid of on the fridge. And I try to do the right thing. I should not have socialized him at Kirk's doggy day care the other day. I should have taken him to the best doggy day care in the country, even if it was in Seattle. That's where I should have taken him.
LUKE: He's fine hanging with Kirk.
LORELAI: I did this wrong. I did this all wrong! How could I have let this happen? How did I not see it coming? How didn't I step in and do something? And why can't I fix these things?
LUKE [rubbing her neck]: Hey.
LORELAI: I'm a bad mother!
LUKE: You're not a bad mother. Did you sleep at all?
LORELAI [sniffs]: A little.
LUKE: You stay home this morning. [She nods.] I'll call Sookie and tell her you'll be late. [She nods again and sniffles, still in tears.] He's going to be okay.
LORELAI [shrugs]: I hope so.
LUKE [kissing her forehead]: Everything's going to be okay.
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