Gilmore Girls Recap 7.14 “Farewell My Pet”

Episode Name "Farewell My Pet"
Episode Number: 7.14
Air Date: February 13, 2007

Lorelai and Rory are discussing, at the hospital, the fight between Chris and Lorelai. Rory offers to help. ‘It’s just a character reference’, after all. Then Lorelai asks Rory to return to school, since I guess she took time off to be with Richard. It’s time to return to normal.

Lorelai returns to the Dragonfly Inn. It’s her first day back. Sookie has major cravings for cookies with cayenne, onion chocolate cookies. Ew. But she plays an adorable pregnant woman. Well, not so much playing this time, since she is pregnant.

Michel brought PawPaw into work. Does not want to leave him alone since ChinChin died. Aw. Well, Michel looks sad in that he’s not chipper, and meaner than usual. Sookie and Lorelai try to console him, but he’s so sad. Lorelai suggests a memorial for ChinChin to cheer him up and give him and PawPaw a chance to say goodbye.

"So, can you do it tomorrow?" – Michel

Apparently, Michel took that as a suggestion to hold the memorial. Michel goes off to create the guest list.

Paris is marking off her boards when Rory returns. She’s a little defensive about feeling bad for going to events on her own. But she does the friend thing and makes sure Rory et. al are ok. Then she suggests some medical things Richard should do. Paris also made notes, minus her interpretations (blacked out on the note pages!). Paris and Rory are to trade resumes that day. Rory is not ready with her resume, and apologizes. Paris has 21 versions of her resume! For schools, fellowships, different job types, etc.

There is a package for Rory waiting. A big box. Inside, a present from Logan. A "second semester senior survival kit" including coffee, notebook and other goodies. Including an ‘inspirational keepsake’. Rory calls Logan and he offers to come see her early as well. What a sweetie!! He even drops the "I love you" very casually.

Paris mentions how gaga Rory looks. Rory is so in love. Logan being there for her like that was a big thing for her. Paris says that she ‘broke’ Logan. She can make him do anything now.

Lorelai is dealing with some annoying customers, but Michel is there waiting to ‘talk’. Sookie is already on the couch. Michel asks to hear their ideas for the funeral.

Lorelai and Sookie stall a bit. Cute. Michel wants ChinChin’s ashes to be scattered by his favorite tree. Lorelai suggests the memorial at the Inn, and with some annoyances from Michel, they decide on around 5pm. They run out of ideas, since of course they had not thought of anything. Michel suggests the types of flowers he wants, to match ChinChin’s fur, and gets annoyed that there are no stationary types for him to choose from yet for the programs. Annoyed at Lorelai and Sookie thinking of him as "just a dog." Then Sookie is left to determine the menu with Sookie.

Chris stops by the Inn to talk with Lorelai. She takes him to a guest room for privacy.

"Obviously we have some issues" – Chris

Lorelai is being super sarcastic that Chris was not there – not when she was in panic about the heart attack. Not the two days after when he disappeared after seeing Luke at the hospital. Took off like a baby.

Lorelai says that being married does not give you the right to take off, but requires rather that you be there. They argue about Luke being there, that Lorelai did not tell him to go. Well, of course not, he was there for her. Plus, why does Chris need to be so annoyed about it? Chris says he "needed time" when Lorelai "needed Chris."

You don’t get to ‘turn off’ a marriage,’ which is the short version of the argument.

Lorelai says she was not surprised that Chris was not there for her. Gets so mad she storms out and says they will talk sometime later. Doing to Chris what he did to her.

Rory calls Lorelai to say how much she’s dreading her economics class without Richard there. It’s not her favorite course. She took it because Richard was teaching it. Lorelai admits that Chris came by the Inn to say he was needing space. Rory is completely mad at Chris for him not being there when Richard was ill, and then after when he ditched them for two days more. Rory says she’s on Lorelai’s side, and will always be. That she’s entitled to an opinion and doesn’t like what he did. It was a very loving conversation.

Rory goes into class and Tucker Culbertson, the TA, comes to introduce himself to Rory. Wow, she gets instantly flustered. Blushes and smiles and gets all cute. Now Rory is looking forward to her econ class…

So much for that gaga Logan look. Now Rory has to deal with this obvious crush for Tucker… what unfortunate timing…

Chris is back at home waiting for Lorelai. She comes home and they are cordial to each other. But the conversation begins.

Chris admits he shouldn’t have taken off. But brings up the letter. Lorelai instantly says it’s a character reference, that she had to do it for Luke. Chris thinks it’s all a load of crap. Chris then tells Lorelai about his non-verbal instant fist fight with Luke. That he became irrational.

Chris is mad that he did not give Lorelai enough time, when she asked for it. That he pushed her to start the relationship right away. He says that Lorelai was not ready. She needed time to ‘disengage.’

Lorelai says maybe they did rush into it, but they’re into it, she’s there, she’s committed. Chris wants to give up. Give up, what’s that? How can there be ‘nothing left to do’? That’s rather pathetic. All marriages would fail if everyone decided to give up and be baby rather than face their problems and work through them together.

He feels like he still is asking Lorelai to marry him, that even though they are married, he feels like he’s still chasing her. Lorelai says she is ‘in this’, in the marriage. Chris does not seem convinced and leaves to spend the night with his mom.

Michel is angry that the cat pillows are still at the Inn and that the final menu is not created for the funeral. He’s annoyed that Sookie just wants to whip up food based on what is left and that Lorelai just wants to put together flowers at the last minute.

Lorelai snaps at Michel, that she has a few other things on her plate. Michel is very peeved. Says sarcastically that he’s sorry that the death was not convenient for her and will later try to reschedule his grieving.

Paris and Rory are at the bookstore when Rory runs into her new TA. He’s now without his glasses and looks waaaay more hot. He says thanks to Rory for saying nice things to Richard about his first day. He’s flattered. Rory compliments his book choice and gets all flustered again in their conversation. Paris notices that Rory is all red and blotchy. But Paris is too involved in her book search to push.

Kirk delivers the flowers for ChinChin’s memorial. A beautiful flowered picture of ChinChin. Lorelai tells the employees attendance to the memorial is a requirement. Sookie made an amazing assortment of delicacies. She’s a little mad at Michel for insulting her kids in his sorrow, but does feel bad for him nonetheless.

Sookie pushes everyone out of the kitchen to talk to Lorelai about Chris. Lorelai insists that she wants to be in the marriage, but the Luke jealousy is blinding him completely. Lorelai says the only solution may be cutting Luke out of her life completely. Sookie is skeptical that Lorelai could do it. That Lorelai cannot simply erase all of her feelings for Luke overnight. That Lorelai moved on to a man who wanted to marry her. She admits that she still has feelings for Luke, and because of that, and what Chris is sensing, she must cut him out.

Sookie asks if Chris would be the one if there were no Luke in the past or the future.

I think Sookie is implying that Lorelai only ran to Chris because he was there and willing to be with her – to hide her pain of not being able to be with Luke, the one she truly wants to be with.

Lorelai brings Sookie to a music store to select music for the funeral – Lorelai has asked Zack to play for the funeral. She apologizes for what she said. Michel asks for Celine Dion – that "My Heart Will Go On" was ChinChin’s favorite song. They find the sheet music and Zack is now stuck with music he hates. Comical.

Michel plans to go to Luke’s to get a hamburger. That the one time he had felt low, he had bought a hamburger and brought it home. He never ate it, his whole diet prevailed, but ChinChin fished it out of the trash and ate it, and loved it. So, now Michel wants to eat a hamburger in his memory.

Luke waves to Lorelai from inside the cafe. He seems just like a good friend saying "hi, I hope you’re ok". But, to Lorelai, it just shows her what she will miss if she cuts him from her life. That, or makes her think twice about her decision on whom to cut from her life…

Logan waits for Rory outside her apartment as a surprise. He missed her. After some cuddles, Rory says they have to talk.

Rory tells Logan that she wants to be super honest, after the whole Marty thing. She is not sure why it’s happening, that perhaps it’s human nature to destroy happiness, but she is self-sabotaging. Rory admits that she has a crush on Tucker. That she was disgusted with the way she acted, all flustered and interested. Rory says perhaps she got so comfortable with Logan that perhaps she let her guard down.

Logan says it’s just a crush. It’s not a big deal. That he finds other girls attractive sometimes, but he would never act on it, because he loves Rory. Rory is also worried about the comment Paris made about Logan being "broken" by her. Rory asks if she broke him? Logan says, so what? Logan belongs to Rory. Does Rory feel like she belongs to Logan? She does. If that is being ‘broken’, who cares!

Logan trusts her completely and is not in the least worried about them as a couple. Neither is Rory, actually. They both agree that it’s "great good" to feel that way. They have shared together that they are fully committed to this relationship, and feel extremely at peace and happy about their decision.

The memorial service for ChinChin is underway. PawPaw is in the front row, along with lots of other people and some of their pets. There are lots of flowers and Zack playing music. He plays it so sadly that Lorelai looks like she wants to cry – you know she’s thinking about Chris, though, not ChinChin.

Lorelai returns home and Chris is waiting. Lorelai is sad – crying. She sits down and tells Chris:

"It’s not just Luke. You were right, there are feelings there. Because, when that ended, I just jumped. "

"I pushed you" – Chris

"I jumped. But if that’s all there was, if that’s all it was, we could fix it, you know, with time." – Lorelai

"But it’s not…" – Chris

"You’ve always been this possibility for me. This wonderful possibility. But it’s just not right. And I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry." – Lorelai

Chris is crying now too. "Yeah, I guess I shoulda known, huh. It took me 20 years to get you to say yes"

"I need you to know that you’re the man I want to want." – Lorelai

"I know" – Chris

"You’ve no idea how badly I wish…", Lorelai sobs

"I do, I do know. I do." – Chris

Lorelai is just broken hearted. That she can’t have what she wants. That she has hurt herself and Chris in the process. And that, inside, she is broken. I think even Chris feels sorry for her. He has accepted that she cannot love him and is sad for her.

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