Gilmore Girls (TV Series)

Rory's Dance (2000)

Alexis Bledel: Rory Gilmore

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• Rory Gilmore : Hey Sookie, look.

  Sookie St. James : [gasps]  Oh, my goodness. You're a movie star! I'm serious. At some point tonight, walk down a flight of stairs. Movie stars always walk down staircases.

• Emily : [Lorelai and Emily continuously fight over Rory and Dean being out all night, which leads to them figuring out who's been the worse mom]  You're gonna lose her. You're gonna lose her just like I lost you.

  Lorelai : I'm not gonna lose her, do you hear me? Even if I had gotten pregnant, you still would've lost me. I had nothing in the house. I had no life. I had no air. You strangled me. I do not strangle Rory.

  Emily : Oh, you're so perfect and I was so horrible. I'd put you in good schools. I gave you the best of everything. I made sure you had the finest opportunities. And I am so tired of hearing about how you were suffocated and I was so controlling. Well, if I was so controlling, why can I control you running around getting you pregnant and throwing your life away.

  Lorelai : Get out.

  Emily : What?

  Lorelai : [Rory arrives home coming in the door and overhears the argument]  You will not come in to my house and tell me I threw my life away! Look around, Mom. This is a life! It'll look unfamiliar to you but it's a life. And if I hadn't gotten pregnant, I wouldn't have Rory.

  Emily : You know that's not what I meant.

  Lorelai : Maybe I was some horrible and controllable child, like you say, but Rory is a good kid. She's smart and careful and I trust her and she's gonna be fine. And if you can't accept or believe that, then I don't want you in this house!

  Rory Gilmore : [Lorelai prepares the coffee pot as Emily barges out of the house]  Mom, thank you for saying all this...

  Lorelai : What were you thinking? Staying out all night, are you insane?

  Rory Gilmore : I'm sorry. It was an accident.

  Lorelai : You're talking to the queen of staying out all night. I invented the concept. This is no accident. You can't do this, period.

  Rory Gilmore : Nothing happened.

  Lorelai : Do you have any idea what it's like to wake up with my mother here and find out that you never came home?

  Rory Gilmore : So all this is about Grandma being here?

  Lorelai : No, it's about the feeling of a complete terror when your kid isn't in her bed in the morning?

  Rory Gilmore : [desperately]  I'm sorry.

  Lorelai : And it's about a whole different kind of terror when you find out that she spent the night with some guy!

  Rory Gilmore : I didn't spend the night with him. We fell asleep.

  Lorelai : You're going on the pill.

  Rory Gilmore : What?

  Lorelai : You are not getting pregnant!

  Rory Gilmore : I'm not sleeping with Dean!

  Lorelai : Damn it!

  Rory Gilmore : What ever happened to all the stuff you said Grandma? What ever happened to trusting me? Where did all that go?

  Lorelai : I think it's back on Patty's yoga mats.

  Rory Gilmore : This is crap! You know I didn't do anything! You know this was an accident! You're just mad because I screwed up and did it in front of Grandma and she nailed you for it. Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I screwed up and I'm sorry that you got yelled at, but I didn't do anything, and you know it!

  [slams her bedroom door. Lorelai sits down crying]