ABOUT: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 5)
Luke takes in his wild 17-year-old nephew, ignoring Lorelai's well-intentioned advice; Rory finds herself drawn to the new guy in town, adding complexity to her life..
AIR DATE & NETWORK FOR: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 5)
October 30, 2001 | The WB
CAST & CREW OF: GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 5)
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
BRAN’S GILMORE GIRLS (SEASON 2 EPISODE 5) SYNOPSIS
The episode kicks off at Luke's. He gets a phone call and starts freaking out. Apparently, it's his sister, and she wants her son—Luke's nephew, Jess—to come live with him for a bit. He's unruly and needs some help. Lorelai is like, “Well... you should get him a real bed... and sheets.... Are you sure you want to do this?” Luke insists it's no big deal.
It's time for a new school year. Paris is still mad at Rory, but they're going to have to work together because of the school paper.
Jess comes into town and he's a punk. He just drops his bags off, snags his book, and goes to find a nice bench somewhere as the town gets ready for fall.
Rory shows up for the first meeting of the paper late because Paris gave her the wrong time on purpose. Paris assigns her first story: the paving of the new parking lot. Afterwards, she bumps into Max and awkwardly walks the other way.
Lorelai invites Luke and Jess over for dinner as a little welcoming party for Jess.
Jess is a bad boy. Luke comes upstairs to find snacks all over the bed and Jess smoking a cigarette inside. When Luke tells him they're going to dinner, Jess just walks out.
Rory turns in her first assignment and the teacher in charge absolutely loves it. Rory sarcastically says, “I owe it all to Paris.”
Paris gives her next assignment—a story everyone wants, a front-page story—an interview with Teacher of the Year... MAX MEDINA!
It's dinner time! Jess meets Rory and is immediately like, “Do you wanna bail?”
She's like, “No, it's gonna be fun!” He decides to just snag a beer out of the fridge and go drink it on the back porch. Lorelai finds him and gives him a talking-to: just give Luke and Stars Hollow a chance. He sasses her, so she goes inside to tell Luke what happened, but he takes Jess's side and storms out.
The next morning, Lorelai makes Rory go into Luke's to snag the coffee so she can avoid Luke.
But Luke then gets a call—it's Taylor, and Jess is up to no good!
It's time for Rory to interview Max Medina, and they have a moment.
Luke goes to talk to Jess and they get in a massive argument, ending with Luke pushing him into the water.
Naturally, Luke runs to Lorelai to tell her she was right—he's way over his head. He goes to parent HARD, but Jess is like, “Thanks but no thanks. Gotta go.”
He bumps into Rory, does some magic, gives her back the book he stole, proves that he reads a ton, and goes on his way. Rory is in love.