Gilmore Girls 2.15 "Lost and Found"

Gilmore Girls 2.15 "Lost and Found"
Original Air Date: February 26, 2002 (Recap date: January 1, 2008)
Photos, Recap & Discussion

Discussion Questions:

• Why does Rory want Lorelai to like Jess so badly?
• Why doesn’t Luke want to get a bigger place at first?
• Why does Rory have a hard time calling Jess her friend?
• Jess is quiet around Lorelai – does he dislike her, or is he nervous? Does he realize he needs to jive with Lorelai to be with Rory?
• Is Rory talking to Jess like to a boyfriend or to a friend?
• Does Rory realize she and Dean are not really compatible?
• What does Jess feel when he realizes that the bracelet he found was made by Dean? And that Rory just realized it was gone?
• Why did buying the building make Luke so happy?
• Why doesn’t Jess tell Lorelai how he got the bracelet?

Gilmore Girls Episode Recap & Photos:

Lorelai cut her hand trying to clean their gutters. Cesar is cooking at Luke’s – the girls don’t like his pancakes. Lorelai goes up to Luke’s apartment to see where he is. Jess’ boxes have arrived and exploded around the apartment. Lorelai finds the ledger Luke was looking for and holds it hostage for her pancakes.

That night, they spot Luke sitting a lone in the diner watching a very mini tv. Lorelai investigates. Jess is upstairs with the music and the mess. Lorelai suggests Luke get a bigger place – the office was too small for one person as an apartment, let alone 2 people. Luke volunteers Jess to clean Lorelai’s gutters.

Lorelai admits to Rory that she’s not comfortable with Jess. Rory asks her to give Jess a chance – she did the same with Luke, whom she called Duke for 2 years before they were friends. Lorelai is supicious of Rory’s motives. Rory babbles that they are not really good friends but friendly. Friendish.

Luke goes upstairs and knocks over his tv, at which point the mess sends him overboard. He’s going crazy, not sleeping. He can’t stand the mess. He says tomorrow, they go find a new apartment. Jess is all pouty cause he needs the crazy music to sleep. Luke looks pleased with that. Next day, Luke and Jess can’t agree on an apartment they both like.

Lorelai has chosen a new barnyard alarm clock. Jess comes to do the gutters – and give Rory a CD. He asks if her hair is different – showing he notices small things. And giving him a chance to both look at Rory and unnerve her. He goes back to monosyllables in front of Lorelai.

Rory asks him why he does that and asks him to try to get along with Lorelai. He wants to know why. Just because she’s Rory’s mom and Luke’s friend means nothing to him. Rory says if he "cares about her at all" that he will make an attempt. He asks what makes her think he cares. Rory stammers she didn’t mean "care care" or "like like". He agrees to try. Smiles to himself when she leaves.

Dean is getting bored while Rory is at the book fair. He seems annoyed and Rory tells him they can go. It’s been 2 hours, and though she’s not done, she’ll go. He wants to see Lord of the Rings again. Her turn to be unimpressed. Dean notices Rory’s bracelet is not on – she fakes having a rash.

Lorelai comes out and offers Jess lunch – her peace offering. He refuses at first, but then thanks her and comes in. His peace offering. They do ok at the small talk. Rory runs in freaking out about losing her bracelet. And doesn’t remember when last she recalls wearing it. They search the house – Jess looks on a little confused. He realizes that the bracelet he picked up is the one in question.

Luke calls Lorelai to vent about the stupidity of the rental system. There is one place he thought was ok. You know, it has walls and a floor and a light. He wants her to give him a second opinion. The realtor mistakes her for Luke’s wife, so she plays along and calls him ‘snuffy’. She says she likes the place. That, even when Jess goes off somewhere, he may have a lady friend and a small apartment with a single bed won’t cut it. She wears him down. He signs the lease.

Lorelai comes home to see Jess coming out of Rory’s room. He pretends he was looking at her books.

Taylor comes to ask Luke about his rental application. Apparently he owns that building, among 9 others. He’s basically buying up the town to ensure it’s historically correct in paint and maintenance. He’d dictate the entire town’s look if he could – liked that aspect of Fascism. Luke says to tear up his application – Taylor runs out and tells him he’s considering buying the flower shop next to Luke’s for a collectible plates store and that they need to talk about Luke’s sign. Too ‘confusing’. Luke advises Taylor to get an arm-swinging length away.

Rory comes home sad about her bracelet. Jess asks if it’s really that big a deal. Rory admits things are weird between her and Dean and he won’t take losing the bracelet lightly. Thinks he will read something into it. Jess asks if Dean should? Rory says no. Jess encourages her to look in her room again. It was there, right under the bed.

Lorelai accuses Jess of taking Rory’s bracelet. She calls him a jerk. Jess keeps saying he didn’t take it. When Lorelai accuses Jess of being jealous of Dean, whom Rory is madly in love with, and that he hurt Rory by taking her most ‘precious’ possession, he retorts asking why it took Rory 2 weeks to figure out it was gone. He doesn’t correct Lorelai on how he got it – she tells him to leave.

Luke comes storming in saying he spent $100,000 (so cheap!) and it’s Lorelai’s fault. Tells him about Taylor. Made him go crazy with rage. He heard Lorelai’s voice in his head telling him to ‘take a chance’ so he bought the building. With cash. Lorelai suggests he sleep on it – he could do things with the building.

Lorelai asks if Luke has noticed anything between Jess and Rory. He hasn’t, but thinks it would be great. Thinks Rory would be good for Jess.

Luke comes home with a gleeful smile and swagger. Grabs a sledge hammer. Breaks down the wall between the buildings! Tells Jess that’s his room and that he can finish up. And they can ‘hold hands and skip’ after (what Jess kept saying earlier when they were looking at cleaning up apartments). One of my favorite scenes.

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