his parents I guess.
LORELAI: Ok, done with that topic [waiter approaches] Oh the waiter, thanks the Lord.
WAITER: What can I get you this evening?
SOOKIE: I’d like to ask about the mussels, are they fresh?
WAITER: Yes they are.
JACKSON: And where exactly are your carrots from?
WAITER: Well -
RUNE: Is there anything on this menu that isn’t French?
LORELAI: I’ll just have a martini and keep’em coming. [Waiter leaves] Thanks.
[Table goes back to sitting in silence]
CUT TO OUTSIDE BOOKSTORE
[Rory and Dean are in line. She’s looking at Lane and Todd in line behind them.]
DEAN: What are you doing?
RORY: Nothing.
DEAN: They’re fine.
RORY: I am not looking at them. I’m looking at the world around me.
DEAN: The world is fine too.
RORY: I just want to make sure they’re having fun.
DEAN: They’re having fun.
RORY: How do you know?
DEAN: They’re not in prison or in some sort of medieval torture chamber.
RORY: Well when you measure it that way -
[Pan to Lane and Todd]
LANE: And the amazing thing is, all these girls are screaming and none of them are getting the joke. He’s playing the character of a rock star. I mean Beck is a genius and all these stupid girls are screaming at him just because they’re buying into the rock star image. I love Beck. I understand Beck. [looks at Todd nervously who doesn’t say anything] And the Foo Fighters - Gods. I mean, have you heard the acoustic version of ‘Everlong’? I can’t even talk about it you know? Hey, you know who I’ve really gotten into lately? The velvet underground. Oh and Nico - she’s amazing - Depressing scary German chick. I have the cd if you wanna borrow it sometime. Wh-what kind of music do you like?
TODD: I don’t know - whatever.
LANE: Fugazi?
TODD: What?
LANE: The band on your shirt.
TODD: Oh. Huh, pretty cool picture.
LANE: You don’t know what’s on your shirt?
TODD: It’s my sister’s.
LANE: Oh.
[Rory looks over her shoulder intently. Lane gives her a forced smile. Dean turns Rory’s face forward.]
LANE: Well what about books? Do you like books?
TODD: Mmm. [shrugging]
LANE: Magazines? [Todd’s silent] What about school? What are you majoring in?
TODD: I was thinking about gym.
LANE: Gym?
TODD: If I major in gym, I only have to take 4 classes my senior year.
LANE: Oh, cool
[Pan to Rory and Dean]
RORY: Gym?
DEAN: We work on our bikes together. He’s got the good tools.
CUT TO CHEZ FLEUR
[Rune yawning]
SOOKIE: [giggling] It was so funny. Oh God! Do you remember?
LORELAI: I remember.
SOOKIE: What was Rory, eight?
LORELAI: I believe she was.
SOOKIE: Oh god, that mud pie fiasco haunted me for a year! I mean, hers looked just like mine. Of course I used you know, homemade chocolate cookies, bittersweet ganache and she used well, mud. You know, but they did look damn similar. Oh.
[Rune is cutting the heads off of swans with his knife]
LORELAI: So, uh, Sookie’s been experimenting with, um, different forms of baking ever since I’ve known her.
JACKSON: Oh, well, that’s very interesting.
SOOKIE: Yeah. Hey Lorelai, remember when I decided to teach you how to make strawberry tarts [Jackson looks bored] and the entire kitchen was stained red and I had to repaint that one wall red just to make it look normal? Do you remember? Wasn’t it?
LORELAI: Mmm, it was. Sookie, let’s go powder our noses.
RUNE: You’ll need a lot of powder.
LORELAI: We’ll be right back. Come on hon.
SOOKIE: Oh, ok.
[They get up and leave. Jackson give Rune a ‘what are you doing?’ look]
LORELAI: Honey, no matter how many beers you buy me tonight, I’m not the one going home with you, so I would concentrate on the one who might.
SOOKIE: What?
LORELAI: You haven’t said a word to Jackson all night.
SOOKIE: I haven’t have I?
LORELAI: No.
SOOKIE: I know. I’m just - Oh, I’m so nervous.
LORELAI: You’re nervous? You don’t have some guy staring at you like he’s Cher and you’re the kid from ‘Mask’.
SOOKIE: I can - I can’t think of anything to say.
LORELAI: To Jackson?
SOOKIE: Yes, to Jackson.
LORELAI: Yes, cause to me tonight there’s been no ‘off’ button.
SOOKIE: I-I just - ugh! This place is too fancy, my hair is too tight and this dress is all wrong. And he looks really good doesn’t he?
LORELAI: Yes he does.
SOOKIE: I’m being crazy, I know I’m being crazy.
LORELAI: No. You’re just putting too much pressure on this whole evening. Look, in five seconds I can take your hair down, we can go some place more casual and personally I think you’re wrong about the dress.
SOOKIE: Really?
LORELAI: Yes. Come on. Let’s got to Luke’s. You know, have burgers, talk, relax - no pressure, no stress, unless I wind up stepping on Rune which might be fun.
SOOKIE: That would be great.
LORELAI: Ok, come on.
SOOKIE: Alright.
CUT TO BOOKSTORE
[Lane and Todd are in a theater-like seating watching the movie]
LANE: Ok, what about movies, you must have a favorite movie.
TODD: Yes I do!
LANE: Great! What is it?
TODD: Beethoven.
LANE: Beethoven? The one with the dog?
TODD: There’s this scene where this little dog is running around with a huge cabbage in it’s mouth. Oh man, it’s classic! I shot my Dr. Pepper right outta my nose! I swear!
[Lane forces another smile]
CUT TO LUKE’S
[The four enter]
RUNE: [sniffs] Ew.
LORELAI: Welcome to Luke’s.
JACKSON: Well this is much better.
SOOKIE: It is, isn’t it?
LORELAI: Grab a seat, I’ll get some menus
LUKE: Hey.
LORELAI: Hey, four menus, a coffee and an anvil please.
LUKE: What’s the anvil for?
LORELAI: For Rune?
LUKE: What’s a Rune.
LORELAI: Please not that question again.
LUKE: Ok. [gets coffee. Lorelai sighs and looks at them sitting in silence] Here you go.
LORELAI: Mind if I hang out here a sec?
LUKE: Why? What’s going on over there?
LORELAI: Sookie and Jackson are on their first date.
LUKE: Seems to be going well.
LORELAI: I think I’d wear blue to the wedding.
LUKE: Who’s the other guy?
LORELAI: That’s Jackson’s cousin. He’s my date!
LUKE: Lucky girl!
LORELAI: Yes, I think so. He is, believe it or not, even less thrilled with the match up than I am.
LUKE: You’re kidding, why?
LORELAI: I’m too tall.
LUKE: [laughs] Get out.
LORELAI: I’m serious.
LUKE: Doesn’t he understand how great that is? You can get all the stuff from the top shelf.
LORELAI: Exactly. That is exactly what I bring to a relationship. Explain that to him will you. [takes a sip of coffee] Mmm. Luke, that is an exceptionally good batch of coffee.
LUKE: Yeah?
LORELAI: Hello!
LUKE: I added a little nutmeg.
LORELAI: Really?
LUKE: Yes.
LORELAI: That’s very Richard Simmons of you.
LUKE: Well what can I say. Chicks dig a man with a feminine side.
LORELAI: Oh.
RUNE: Ok [standing up] I’m really bored.
JACKSON: Sit down, we’re about ready to order.
RUNE: I don’t wanna order, I don’t wanna eat here. I wanna go.
JACKSON: Rune.
RUNE: Jackson...Look I came out with you tonight under the impression that I’d have fun. First I get stuck with her, then I get dragged to a French restaurant, then I get dragged out of a French restaurant. God knows where I am now.
LORELAI: Oh, you’re at Luke’s.
RUNE: I’ve been very patient Jackson. Sunday night’s almost over, I wanna go bowling.
JACKSON: Well I -
RUNE: And I’d like you to go bowling with me.
JACKSON: Oh...well [looking at Sookie who’s looking at her hands] I guess we should...[starts to stand]
SOOKIE: Don’t go!
JACKSON: Really?!
SOOKIE: Yes. Stay here. We haven’t really even started our date yet.
JACKSON: No we haven’t. Sorry Rune, you’re on your own tonight.
RUNE: Fine, I’ll just see you at home then - maybe [leaves]
LORELAI: Bye Loon! [looks over at the two] Finally.
LUKE: I guess you’ll only need three menus now.
LORELAI: Hey, why don’t you make up three fabulous cheeseburgers and send two over there. I’ll have mine here.
LUKE: First I gotta watch a man walk out on you, then I have to watch you eat alone. Nope. Too pathetic.
LORELAI: I’m not eating alone. You’re here.
LUKE: I’m working.
LORELAI: Yeah but after three cheeseburgers you’re done, unless you’re expecting Elijah to stop by.
LUKE: Ok. Fine. [pulls out a deck of cards] 5-card draw.
LORELAI: Oh! You’re on.
[Luke deals as Lorelai watches intently]
LORELAI: Mm-hm. Mm-hm [looks at her cards] Uh...huh. Give me four. [looks at them again] Aah, no four more.
LUKE: You can’t have four more, those are the four I dealt you.
LORELAI: Well these don’t help me and I have vowed to discard anything negative in my life - first Rune and now these four cards.
LUKE: Whatever you say [giving her another 4]
LORELAI: Ooh, much better, thank you.
LUKE: Rune knew when to run away.
LORELAI: Ha.
[Sookie and Jackson are giggling]
LORELAI: God that’s nice.
LUKE: Yep.
LORELAI: The whole ‘first date, beginning of the relationship’ glow - everything is new and exciting.
LUKE: Every joke is hilarious.
LORELAI: Every little touch is incredible [touching Luke’s arm]
LUKE: Mm-hm.
LORELAI: God that’s a good feeling.
LUKE: It is at that.
LORELAI: I miss that.
LUKE: You’ll have it again.
LORELAI: Mmm...I guess.
[Mrs Kim sees Lorelai through the window]
LUKE: You know, maybe sometime we could...
[Door slams]
MRS. KIM: Where are the girls?
LORELAI: What?
MRS. KIM: Lane said she’s with you and Rory.
LORELAI: W - slow down.
MRS. KIM: I call - no answer, I think they are at the video store, I call again - no answer. I call a 3rd time - no answer!
LORELAI: You had a lot of time on your hands tonight.
MRS. KIM: I have to know where girls are.
LORELAI: They said they were going to a movie.
MRS. KIM: With who?
LORELAI: They were going to meet Dean.
MRS. KIM: A boy? [with disgust] You let them go with a boy?
LORELAI: Mrs. Kim, Dean is Rory’s boyfriend.
MRS. KIM: Just because you let your daughter run around with boys doesn’t mean I let mine.
LORELAI: I thought you knew.
MRS. KIM: I didn’t know! They could be anywhere, they could be doing anything. Smoking, or drinking or buying drugs!
LORELAI: They’re at the movies. There’s no drugs there. They don’t even have the real red vines.
MRS. KIM: I need to find them [leaves]
LORELAI: I’m coming with [leaves too]
CUT TO OUTSIDE BOOKSTORE
TODD: Good flick, good flick.
DEAN: Yeah not bad.
RORY: Lane, what’d you think?
LANE: Uh, I think it’s really late and I should be getting home.
TODD: Really?
LANE: Yeah but it’s been fun.
TODD: Oh come on. Let’s go get some ice cream or something - eat it really fast, get that freezy brain thing going. It’s cool.
LANE: So tempting and yet -
MRS. KIM: LANE KIM!!! [shouting in Korean]
LANE: My mom!
RORY: My mom!
TODD: Two moms, that’s gotta be bad.
LANE: Mama, I was just about -
MRS. KIM: [shouting in Korean]
RORY: Mom, I can -
LORELAI: So not the time Rory.
MRS. KIM: You lied to me.
LANE: I’m sorry.
MRS. KIM: Get home right now! [leave]
TODD: Whoa, rough family.
DEAN: What’s going on?
LORELAI: Oh bits of information were left out of the mom packets tonight.
RORY: I’m sorry.
LORELAI: Ok. Mother/daughter #2 are leaving now. Say bye Rory.
RORY: [to Dean] Bye.
DEAN: I’ll, uh call you later.
LORELAI: Aah.
DEAN: I’ll call you tomorrow.
LORELAI: Yeah, bye Dean.
TODD: That’s Rory’s mom? She’s a babe man!
LORELAI: [walking away] And what were you thinking?
RORY: I know.
LORELAI: You lied to me - me! What is that nonsense all about?
RORY: I shouldn’t have done it. I know I shouldn’t have done it.
LORELAI: Damn right you shouldn’t have done it.
RORY: But Lane really wanted to go out with Todd, and of course she could tell her mother so I didn’t tell you so you wouldn’t have to lie for us.
LORELAI: You lied to me so I wouldn’t have to lie to Mrs. Kim?
RORY: Yeah.
LORELAI: Oh my God you really are my daughter.
RORY: I’m sorry.
LORELAI: I have to know where you are at all times, especially when you have my shoes on.
RORY: I know.
LORELAI: This whole trust thing only works if it goes both ways kid.
RORY: I hated doing it.
LORELAI: Good.
RORY: Would you have?
LORELAI: What?
RORY: Lied for us?
LORELAI: To Mrs. Kim?
RORY: Yeah.
LORELAI: No.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: Because that lady’s scary.
RORY: Mom.
LORELAI: I can’t lie to another mother. That’s breaking the code.
RORY: So then what were we supposed to do tonight?
LORELAI: Look, I know that Mrs. Kim and Robert Duvall in ‘The Great Santini’ share a striking resemblance, but she is Lane’s mom. She has the right to tell Lane she can’t do something, you have to respect that and I really have to respect that.
RORY: So we were in a no-win situation tonight.
LORELAI: Yep.
RORY: Great.
LORELAI: Sorry. [pause] Hey, you know the one good thing we all learned from this?
RORY: What?
LORELAI: [smiling] That I’m a babe.
CUT TO OUTSIDE LANE’S HOUSE.
[Rory climbed a tree to get to Lane’s bedroom window. Knocks.]
LANE: Hey.
RORY: What’s up Rapunzel?
LANE: Don’t take this the wrong way, but in all my various fantasies about who might appear at this window, you never actually made the list.
RORY: So how are you? I haven’t heard from you in days.
LANE: I’m ok, I guess.
RORY: I was afraid to call.
LANE: I think that’s best for now.
RORY: Your mom’s really mad huh?
LANE: The words ‘convent’ and ‘Siberia’ were both used several times and at least once as a combo.
RORY: I’m really sorry Lane.
LANE: It’s not your fault.
RORY: I shouldn’t have arranged it. I should’ve -
LANE: You arranged it because I asked you to and I’m really glad you did.
RORY: You are?
LANE: If you hadn’t set me up with Todd, then I would still be in love with him.
RORY: Not the guy for you huh?
LANE: Not the guy for anybody who can read, write, talk or function on a basic human level.
RORY: I’m sorry.
LANE: I was so bored that night I couldn’t see straight. I’ve been on Korean meditation weekends that have had more laughs.
RORY: He liked you though, Dean told me.
LANE: I know, he called here.
RORY: You’re kidding.
LANE: I pretended to be my mother and wouldn’t allow me to speak to him. Is that mean?
RORY: [giggles] I think he’ll survive. He and Dean went muffler shopping today.
LANE: That’s nice.
RORY: So how long before you can get out?
LANE: I don’t know. Right now I have to be in the house at all times except for school and church.
RORY: She didn’t give you any time frame at all?
LANE: Nope.
RORY: I miss you.
LANE: I miss you too.
RORY: Is there anything I can do?
LANE: Yeah, don’t tell anyone I went out with Todd ok?
RORY: [smiling] Promise
[They hear a noise]
LANE: I gotta go.
RORY: Bye.
CUT TO INSIDE KIM HOUSEHOLD
MRS. KIM: [angrily]You break you buy!
MAN: But it was sticking out in the aisle.
MRS. KIM: You break you buy! [Lorelai comes in.]
MAN But I didn’t put it in the aisle.
MRS. KIM: You have eyes yes?
MAN: Yes I have eyes?
MRS. KIM: These eyes work?
MAN Yes these eyes work.
MRS. KIM: They can make out shape, sizes and colors?
MAN: Yes they can do all that, but -
MRS. KIM: Eyes work! They see lamp in aisle, send message to brain. ‘Lamp in aisle - move ‘ You move. You don’t break lamp.
MAN: I -
MRS. KIM: You have no eyes, not my problem, that is between you and them. You break you buy
[Man give in and give her some money]
MRS. KIM: [all smiles and sweetly] We appreciate your business. [to Lorelai] Oh, hello
LORELAI: Hi. So I was wondering if I could maybe talk to you for a minute.
MRS. KIM: I’m working.
LORELAI: Right, well this is gonna be so quick you’ll be amazed.
MRS. KIM: Fine, come. [goes into another room]
LORELAI: Look, I’m really sorry about what happened the other night, uh Rory’s never lied to me like that before.
MRS. KIM: That you know of.
LORELAI: Uh, no, I’m pretty sure that was the first time and it definitely was the last.
MRS. KIM: Fine.
LORELAI: Uh, so I just didn’t want you to feel that you couldn’t send Lane over to our house anymore, um, because you can. Believe me, those girls go nowhere without me knowing about it. In fact I was thinking of having some house arrest ankle bracelets made you know - maybe cute ones with leopard print or zebra stripes, maybe a little glitter design...
MRS. KIM: Lane won’t be coming over, she will stay in our house.
LORELAI: Well, right. I was talking about later. I mean, she’s not going to be grounded forever is she?
MRS. KIM: Lane lied to me and she must be punished.
LORELAI: I totally agree. But Lane is a really good kid. I don’t think I’ve ever met a kit who respects her parents more than Lane respects you.
MRS. KIM: Lying is not showing respect.
LORELAI: Uh, she’s 16. She had a crush on a boy.
MRS. KIM: Lane is not allowed to date boys unless we have approved them. She knows that, she knows our rules and she broke them. That is unacceptable.
LORELAI: Ok, yes, you’re right. But teenagers sometimes slip up.
MRS. KIM: I don’t care what teenagers do, I care what Lane does.
LORELAI: You know, it doesn’t always work to just lock a kid up and throw away the key.
MRS. KIM: I didn’t throw away the key, it’s in the kitchen.
LORELAI: [taken aback] Ok, well, I was talking symbolically...but alright, I’m with you now. Look when I was a teenager, my parents tried to keep me locked up. They tried to force me to become what they had in mind, and now I’m not talking exactly about Lane here, but in my case, it really didn’t work.
MRS. KIM: You blame your parents for getting pregnant.
LORELAI: No, I just think sometimes if I’d had a little more space or someone to listen to me, things might have turned out different. Now I got lucky, because having Rory - totally the best thing that could have happened. But let’s be honest, I certainly don’t want Rory to turn out like me.
MRS. KIM: I don’t want Lane to turn out like you either.
LORELAI: Now I believe that’s the first thing that you and I have ever agreed on.
MRS. KIM: I just want Lane to be safe.
LORELAI: I just want Rory to be safe. So, I’m gonna go now. Hey, I think you are doing a great job with Lane. She’s a really great kid. I just wanted to put my two cents in because that’s what I do, so. Bye.
[walks out of room and breaks a vase on the way out]
LORELAI: I know, you break you buy. I heard earlier. That’s $35 right?
CUT TO LUKE’S
[Lorelai and Rory enter]
RORY: An ‘A-’ - I’m very impressed.
LORELAI: And annoying boy behind me?
RORY: Yes.
LORELAI: ‘B+’
RORY: Loser.
LORELAI: I know, it’s all very exciting. Ooh, hey did I tell you that Sookie and Jackson have another date tonight.
RORY: What is that the third one this week?
LORELAI: Yeah.
RORY: That’s so great.
LORELAI: I know it is. Of course if she tells me the story of how Jackson cultivates his own mealworms to help fertilize his plants one more time, I’m going to Romeo and Juliet them both.
RORY: It’s sweet.
LORELAI: Mealworms.
RORY: Gross, but sweet.
[Rory’s pager goes off]
LORELAI: Hey, you know the rules. No pages before french fries.
RORY: Oh my God, it’s Lane!
LORELAI: Oh you’re kidding.
RORY: Give me your cell phone quick.
LORELAI: Where are you going? I wanna hear.
RORY: Outside.
LORELAI: Why?
RORY: Because Luke hates cell phones.
LORELAI: So.
RORY: I do not want to incur the wrath of Luke.
LORELAI: Why not it’s fun.
RORY: I’ll be back.
LORELAI: Goody-goody. [Rory leaves]
[Outside Rory dials]
LANE: Rory?
RORY: Lane?
LANE: I’m standing in the yard! I’m standing in the yard!
RORY: Oh my God, she let you out!
LANE: I can go as far as the sign.
RORY: That’s so great!
[Pan to inside]
LUKE: Hey.
LORELAI: Hey.
LUKE: I haven’t seen you since the other night. Everything turn out ok?
LORELAI: Oh yeah, fine. The dating world of 16 year olds - very exciting stuff.
LUKE: I bet. [pause] Oh, uh coffee?
LORELAI: Do you have to ask?
[Luke pours]
LORELAI: You know, I had a good time the other night - with the cards.
LUKE: Oh yeah, yeah - me too.
LORELAI: Good.
LUKE: Yeah, if fact you rushed out of here before I had a chance to -
LORELAI: A chance to?
LUKE: Kick your ass in poker.
LORELAI: [laughs] You wish.
LUKE: Burger?
LORELAI: Two and fries.
LUKE: Maybe we could do it again sometime.
LORELAI: Oh yeah, well, I-I would like that.
[Rory rushes in]
RORY: Here.
LORELAI: Oh where ya going?
RORY: Lane’s allowed outside for 15 minutes. I’m gonna go over and stand across the street and yell at her. [ rushes to the door]
LORELAI: Do you still want you burger?
RORY: I’ll be back [ closing door]
LORELAI: Yell ‘hi’ for me.
[Looks at Luke, then drinks her coffee.]
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