‘The Long Morrow’
Season 7, Episode 1 - Aired September 26, 2006
Lorelai wakes up in Christopher's bed after her argument with Luke. Meanwhile, Rory wakes up as Logan leaves for London.
Quote from Lorelai
Rory: What is this?
Lorelai: I'm just getting some of Luke's stuff together.
Rory: This is Luke's?
Lorelai: No, this is mine. But I wore it with Luke when we went to see Jarhead. I was trying to look kind of army, and something about the combination of the movie and the hot dogs at the Waterbury cineplex made me sick in the parking lot, and Luke held my hair, and it was nice, and now I got to get rid of it.
Quote from Lorelai
Rory: So, all these books remind you of Luke?
Lorelai: Yeah, those are books I gave him to read, but he never did.
Rory: Oh, Cormac McCarthy, good call. In Cold Blood, he would have loved that.
Lorelai: Well, he'll never know now.
Rory: You wanted him to read Hammerhead Sharks - Demons of the Deep?
Lorelai: He recommended that one for me.
Quote from Lorelai
Rory: But it's hard on the phone, you know. I can't see him. I can't read his expression. How am I ever supposed to know what he's thinking or feeling? I mean, his eyes always give him away. Logan has very expressive eyes.
Lorelai: I've noticed. It's one of the things he and Bette Davis have in common.
Quote from Rory
Rory: I got it, I got it. He loved her so much he was willing to wait 40 years alone in space for her. I got it. The rocket, I get it.
Lorelai: [wakes up] You do?
Rory: Yes. I have been googling rockets, you know. Rocket ships, rocket love, rocket London, Logan rocket, and let me tell you, it has not always been a pleasant journey. People are freaks. But then I found this blog, Rocket Boy.
Lorelai: Rocket boy.
Rory: Rocket boy. Knows a ton about rockets. And as it turns out, he's got over 200 classic L.E.V.s.
Lorelai: L.E.V.s?
Rory: Lunar Excursion Vehicles. So then he tells me that he hosts this chat-room, and this is where I get really lucky, because rocketchamp465 was just logging off, and I caught him, and I described the rocket to him, and he recognized it from one of these episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Lorelai: The Twilight Zone.
Rory: So I clicked on The Twilight Zone website, and I found the episode, and I got it!
Quote from Rory
Rory: [on the phone] How's the office? Is it fabulous? Do you have a window?
Logan: I wouldn't say it's fabulous, but I do have a window.
Rory: Can you see the queen?
Logan: Actually, my window looks out on Piccadilly Circus.
Rory: So, you can just see elephants and clowns walking past your building all day long? That must be nice.
Logan: It's brilliant.
Rory: Brilliant? Oh, my God. You're turning British. Do you have a secretary named Moneypenny?
Logan: My secretary's name is Steven.
Rory: Steven Moneypenny?
Logan: [laughs] Yes.
Quote from Luke
Luke: Uh, a car crashed into my diner yesterday. There's a giant hole where my wall used to be. It's gonna take a couple of weeks to fix. It's a disaster, but I don't care. I mean, I care, but... You know what, no. I really... I don't care. It's like it's not even real to me. It's like my life isn't even real to me unless you're there, and you're in it, and I'm sharing it with you. And, uh, I don't know what I was waiting for, and I don't know what I was scared of, but I'm not. I'm not scared, and I'm not waiting. I'm here.
Lorelai: Luke.
Luke: No, don't say anything. I've got a tank full of gas, and Maryland is only 200 miles away, and I've made us some reservations at a couple of bed-and-breakfasts. I mean, if you don't want to do the Maryland thing, we don't have to. I heard you say "Maryland" the other day. I don't know whether you were serious. I'm just trying to cover my bases here.
Lorelai: Luke.
Luke: I also packed some camping equipment so we can head to Vermont or Maine and, you know, check into a cabin for a week, you know, like a little honeymoon thing. But maybe that's a little too rustic for your taste. Or we could drive to Atlantic City or even Las Vegas if you want to make a real road trip out of it.
Quote from Lorelai
Lorelai: Luke, stop.
Luke: I also did some research, and we can also apparently use a sea captain, if you want. I'm not sure how big the boat has to be for it to be legal, but we can head to the coast, and we can knock on some doors, you know, boat doors. Yeah, that's probably not the most sensible way.
Lorelai: Just stop.
Luke: But, no, you were right. Okay. I need to be faster. I need to move faster, I need to think faster. And, well, here I am.
Lorelai: It's over.
Luke: No, you can't say that. You can't just say that it's over. It's not over. You can't just decide that it's over. I'm in this, too, you know. And I'm not gonna let it be over. You said, "Be ready now or never." I'm ready now.
Lorelai: Luke.
Luke: Let's go. Let's do this. Let's get married right now. Let's go.
Lorelai: I slept with Christopher.
Quote from Babette
Babette: But this morning I came over here wide awake 'cause I heard Paul Anka doing that weird yodeling noise that you said he does when he's hungry, so I fed him.
Lorelai: Oh, good, thank you.
Babette: Yeah, I gave him a half a cup of that kibble that you said he likes, but then he looked at me like I stole something from him, so I gave him a whole cup.
Lorelai: Well, I know that look. It can be intimidating.
Babette: And since our washing machine is broken - Morey put his boots in it and broke it again - I thought I'd do a load of my intimates.
Lorelai: Good for you.
Quote from Babette
Babette: I heard about the fight between you and Luke.
Lorelai: You did?
Babette: Yeah. You know Adrian Bittenberg's daughter, Becky? She got a huge mouth.
Lorelai: Becky is not a gossip.
Babette: But she has a huge mouth. And she and Eileen Whitewin were behind Doose's market seeing how many devil dogs Becky could stuff in there, and when she got up to four, completely cut off her oxygen. So Eileen went running over to Luke's to see if she could get some help, and then she saw the two of you in the streets screaming at each other.
Lorelai: Well, I'm glad she had the presence of mind to listen in on our argument while her friend was choking to death.
Quote from Paris
Paris: I was gonna spend the summer tutoring for the Princeton review, but then I found they charge these little morons $60 an hour and only pay their tutors $20. So I figured, "who needs the Princeton review?" I can open up my own shop. I've already subcontracted out to three other student tutors, and I've got more prospects lined up. I'm gonna make a fortune. Hey, are you interested? The pay's $15 an hour.
Rory: No, thanks.
Paris: Wait. Are you looking to use the offices over the summer? Just because you're the editor, that doesn't entitle you to use the offices during the summer. There's no paper to put out. These were up for grabs, and I grabbed them.