Of course Rory Gilmore isn't newspaper material. Hasn't she ever seen His Girl Friday? Well, I have, and she is no Rosalind Russell. Which is not meant as an affront to Rory, by any means. Rory is adorable, flouncing up and down the newsroom corriders in her puffed-sleeve blouse and cheery disposition. Rory's good with spontaneous moxie - hence, the whole yacht-stealing episode - but she's just not ... hard-as-nails enough. Or at all. Logan's dad is right - she doesn't have the drive. She *would* make a good assistant.

Oh, you wanted a plot summary? Fine...

Lorelai and Luke go to a party in the city. They proceed to get drunk and go home and have unprotected sex. The next day, Suki goes into labor, and Lorelai mysteriously craves apples - a sure sign, she thinks, that she's pregnant. Rory, meanwhile, studies for finals (boring) and flounces around the newsroom (less boring, especially when Logan shows up, paving the way for banter). Then Lorelai finds out that she's not actually pregnant, and Rory says something like, "That's a relief. Luke's not really a family kind of guy." But little do they know, Luke is trying to buy a house for him and Lorelai. In order to do so, he has to go see the town elders, who apparently make important decisions from the steam room.

Then, Rory sits through a staff meeting at the newspaper, after which, Logan's dad tells her he's going to be moving on to a new project. She tells him she'd like to stay and work over the summer, and he sits her down and tells her his "gut feeling" is that she's not cut out for the newspaper business. Devastated, Rory drags Logan out of a yacht party, drops a Hemingway Melville reference and convinces him to steal a boat. The episode ends with Lorelai receiving a call from Rory: "Mom, I need you to come get me ..."