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\ Rory/Jess: Citations de la saison 2 /

Épisode Nick&Nora, Sid&Nancy (L'arrivée de Jess en V.F.)

RORY: Coming. [sees Jess] Hey.

JESS: Hey. [walks into Rory's room]
RORY: I'm Rory.
JESS: Yeah, I figured.
RORY: Nice to meet you.
JESS: [looking at bookshelf] Wow, aren't we hooked on phonics.
RORY: Oh, I read a lot. Do you read?
JESS: Not much. [takes a book off the shelf]
RORY: I could loan you that if you want. It's great.
JESS: No thanks. [puts it down]
RORY: Well, if you change your mind…
LORELAI: [from the doorway] Okay, we really need to get Jackson away from the lemons now, so we're moving the feast in the living room. [walks away]
RORY: Be right there.
JESS: So do these open? [looking at windows]
RORY: Oh yeah, you just have to unlatch them and then push.
JESS: Great. Shall we?
RORY: Shall we what?
JESS: Bail.
RORY: No.
JESS: Why?
RORY: Because it's Tuesday night in Stars Hollow. There's nowhere to bail to. The 24-hour mini-mart just closed twenty minutes ago.
JESS: So we'll walk around or sit on a bench and stare at our shoes.
RORY: Look, Sookie just made a ton of really great food, and I'm starving and though it may not seem like it right at this moment, it's gonna be fun. Trust me.
JESS: I don't even know you.
RORY: Well, don't I look trustworthy?
JESS: Maybe.
RORY: Okay, good. Let's eat. [walks into kitchen] You want a soda?
JESS: Oh, I'll get it.
RORY: Okay.
[Rory gets a soda and walks into the living room. Jess walks to the fridge, takes out a beer, and goes out the back door.]

***
[Jess is walking down the street and sees Rory come out of a store. He walks over to her.]
JESS: Hey.
RORY: Hey yourself.
JESS: What are you doing out here?
RORY: I needed something for school. What about you?
JESS: Oh yeah, same thing.
RORY: Uh huh. So, that was quite a disappearing act you pulled the other night.
JESS: Potlucks and Tupperware parties aren't really my thing.
RORY: Too cool for school, huh?
JESS: Yes, that is me.
RORY: What are you doing?
JESS: Oh this? Nothing. [does an illusion with a coin] Just another little disappearing act.
RORY: Little tip?
JESS: Yeah?
RORY: If you ever want to speak to me again, don't pull that out of my ear.
JESS: So I assume the nose is off limits too?
RORY: Any place you wouldn't naturally find a coin, let's leave it that way.
JESS: So what are you doing now?
RORY: I have some homework to finish.
JESS: Okay, then I'll leave you this last little trick. [hands her a book]
RORY: You bought a copy? I told you I'd lend you mine.
JESS: It is yours.
RORY: You stole my book.
JESS: Nope, borrowed it.
RORY: Okay, that's not called a trick, that's called a felony.
JESS: I just wanted to put some notes in the margins for you.
RORY: What? [looks through the book] You've read this before.
JESS: About forty times.
RORY: I thought you said you didn't read much.
JESS: Well, what is much? Goodnight Rory.
RORY: Goodnight Dodger.
JESS: Dodger?
RORY: Figure it out.
JESS: Oliver Twist.
[Rory smiles and nods. They both walk away.]

Épisode The ins and outs of inns (Des projets sur la comète en V.F)

JESS: Should you be standing here all alone? I hear this is a pretty dangerous corner.
RORY: I'm fine.
JESS: Feeling succinct today?
RORY: Pretty much.
JESS: Hmm. Did I do something to offend?
RORY: Me?
JESS: Yeah.
RORY: No.
JESS: Good.
RORY: You might want to ask that same question to Luke though.
JESS: Meaning?
RORY: You've got this whole town down on him.
JESS: Really? How did I do that?
RORY: You know how you did that.
JESS: I'm not really familiar with the blue book laws in this town, so you can be talking about a lot of things. Dropping a gum wrapper, strolling arm in arm with a member of the opposite sex on a Sunday. [Rory gestures to the chalk outline] Ah. What about it?
RORY: You did it. The whole town knows you did it. They had a meeting about it.
JESS: You actually went to that bizarro town meeting? Those things are so 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
RORY: Yes, I went. And Luke went. And when he got there, everyone ganged up on him. They all want you gone.
JESS: Wow, bummer.
RORY: And he's standing there yelling at everyone and defending you and paying Taylor back for his lettuce losses…
JESS: Wait, his what?
RORY: And now Luke's a pariah and it's all because of you! What a shock, you don't care about any of this.
JESS: I didn't say that.
RORY: Go. I'm tired of talking to you.
JESS: Fine. [starts to walk away]
RORY: You care nothing about Luke and his feelings!
JESS: Got a second wind, huh? [walks back over to Rory]
RORY: All he does is stick up for you and all you do is make his life harder. I guess that's what you have to do when you're trying to be Holden Caulfield but I think it stinks. Luke has done a lot for my mom and a lot for me, and I don't like to see him attacked. Okay, second wind over.
JESS: I didn't know they were coming down so hard on him.
RORY: Funny, I never pegged you as clueless, my mistake.
JESS: Okay. I get it. No, no, I do, I get it. So did you at least think it was funny?
RORY: That is so not the point.
JESS: Ah, you thought it was funny.
[Dean walks out of the market]
DEAN: I got it. Oh, uh, hey.
RORY: Um Dean, I don't think you two have met. This is Jess. This is Dean.
JESS: Boyfriend?
RORY: Of course.
JESS: Sorry, you didn't say. How ya doing?
DEAN: Good, good.
RORY: Okay, see you around.
JESS: Seems to turn out that way, doesn't it?

The Bracebrige dinner (Le souper du seigneur Barcebridge en V.F.)

[cut to Rory getting in a sleigh]
DRIVER: That it miss?
RORY: I guess I'm alone.
[The sleigh starts going. Jess jumps into the seat next to Rory]
RORY: What are you doing?
JESS: Well, I heard it was two to a sleigh - no more, no less. You were breaking the rules.
RORY: You could've hurt yourself.
JESS: I live on the edge. I can jump out if you want.
RORY: Doesn't matter to me.
JESS: Are you mad at me or something?
RORY: What do you think?
JESS: I can't read your mind.
RORY: You got into a fight with Dean.
JESS: Dean?
RORY: My boyfriend.
JESS: Ah. He's still your boyfriend?
RORY: Okay, you can jump out now.
JESS: I wasn't fighting him. I was fighting someone else. He jumped in on his own.
RORY: He was trying to help you.
JESS: Oh, he should go into government service if he's so interested in helping people. But me, he can stop worrying about.
RORY: Why were you fighting in the first place?
JESS: 'Cause Chuck Presby's a jerk.
RORY: You were fighting Chuck Presby?
JESS: Yeah.
RORY: Oh, he is a jerk.
JESS: This whole town is weird and full of jerks.
RORY: Then why are you still here?
JESS: What do you mean?
RORY: I mean, school's out and you don't like it here, so why don't you just go home?
JESS: My mom didn't want me to.
RORY: I don't believe that.
JESS: That's your right, I guess.
RORY: Did Luke say she didn't want you to?
JESS: Luke told me it was his idea that I should stay. It wasn't his idea. That's good.
RORY: What?
JESS: Your snowman. Snowwoman, actually.
RORY: You know which one is ours?
JESS: It definitely has the most personality. Kind of looks like Bjork.
RORY: That's what we were going for.
JESS: Yeah?
RORY: But everyone thinks the one on the end is gonna be the winner.
JESS: Really? It's so overdone.
RORY: I agree.
JESS: You should win.
RORY: No argument.
JESS: Hey, what do you and Dean talk about?
RORY: What?
JESS: I mean, does he know Bjork?
RORY: I've played him some stuff.
JESS: Hm. So you got a teacher-student thing going?
RORY: Stop.
JESS: No, really, I'm curious. What do you guys talk about?
RORY: Everything.
JESS: Like?
RORY: Just everything, tons of stuff, whatever.
JESS: It's just in the brief non-pugilistic time I've spent with him in class, he just doesn't seem like your kind of guy.
RORY: Well, he is my kind of guy. He's exactly my kind of guy.
JESS: Okay. I guess I don't know him that well.
RORY: You don't. You don't.

Richard in Stars Hollow (Richard à Stars Hollow en V.F)

CUT TO SIDEWALK
[Rory walks past the video store, which her picture is in the window. As she stares at it, Jess walks over to her.]
JESS: Nice picture.
RORY: Gee, thanks.
JESS: You're very popular right now. I bet if you burn a few books, they'll probably make you mayor.
RORY: This is ridiculous.
JESS: I don't know, bet you have a lot of supporters on this. Pat Buchanon, Jerry Falwell, Kathie Lee Gifford.
RORY: Bye.
JESS: Aw, come on, it's a little funny.
RORY: No, being the poster girl for censorship is not a little funny. The only videos not behind that curtain are Bambi and Dumbo. I mean, they actually had a meeting earlier about whether or not Babe should be behind the curtain so as not to offend people who keep kosher.
JESS: It's a crazy world we live in.
RORY: And where did they even find that stupid picture?
JESS: Oh no, the picture's good. It's the people who are stupid.
RORY: I'm never gonna be able to leave my house again.
JESS: Well, at least you won't starve.
RORY: I can't look at it anymore.
JESS: Relax. I don't think it'll be around very long.
RORY: Why?
JESS: Just a guess.
RORY: Jess!
JESS: Enjoy the food.
RORY: Come back here.
JESS: Why?
RORY: I'll give you an eggroll.
JESS: Yes?
RORY: What did you do?
JESS: Nothing much. Just wanted to make sure whoever rented Dumbo or Bambi gets a little surprise.
RORY: What kind of surprise? What did you do?
JESS: You owe me an eggroll. [walks away]
RORY: Blech.

A-Tiscket, A-tasket (Pique-nique et paniers garnis en V.F)

[cut to Rory standing alone as Jess walks up to her]
JESS: You know, there's nothing there.
RORY: Yes, I know.
JESS: You going after him?
RORY: Not right now.
JESS: So then, shall we?
RORY: Fine, come on.
***

[cut to Rory and Jess walks towards the bridge]
JESS: Where do you wanna eat?
RORY: Don't care.
JESS: Okay.
RORY: Where are you going?
JESS: Thought you didn't care.
RORY: I'm not jumping in the lake.
JESS: No underwater dining, got it.
RORY: Now what?
JESS: Now we sit.
RORY: Here?
JESS: Yup.
RORY: On the bridge, that's where we're gonna eat?
JESS: Yup.
RORY: Okay.
JESS: Yeah, I like this place.
RORY: Wow. A place in Stars Hollow you actually like. I'm stunned.
JESS: It's got some good memories. You see right over there?
RORY: Yup.
JESS: That's where Luke pushed me in.
RORY: Huh.
JESS: Yeah.
RORY: It's nice.
JESS: It is.
RORY: So why'd you do it?
JESS: Do what?
RORY: Outbid Dean like that.
JESS: I don't know. I guess it started as a joke just to bug him, but then he just got so mad, you know? And he is so tall, and I just was looking at him and he's standing there all tall and mad and I just. . .I don't know. It was. . .it was really funny.
RORY: It wasn't funny.
JESS: Well, if it makes you feel any better, I didn't intend to do it. Does that make you feel any better?
RORY: I just don't wanna be in a fight with Dean.
JESS: I'm sorry about that. You wanna push me in the lake? It's cathartic, I hear.
RORY: Hm, maybe in a little.
JESS: Whatever. So why don't we open this thing?
RORY: Go ahead.
[Jess opens the picnic basket]
JESS: Wow. Not one thing in here that I would remotely consider eating.
RORY: Well, I didn't make it for you. I made it for Dean.
JESS: And Dean would've eaten this? [holds up a container]
RORY: Yes, he would have.
[Jess tastes a forkful of the food and makes a face]
JESS: Dean is an idiot.
RORY: Dean never would've fallen for that.
JESS: Ah, ha ha.
***

[cut to Rory and Jess on the bridge]
RORY: Ten.
JESS: Ten?
RORY: Yeah but I didn't understand a word of it, so I had to reread it when I was fifteen.
JESS: I've yet to make it through it.
RORY: Really? Try it. The Fountainhead is classic.
JESS: Yeah, but Ayn Rand is a political nut.
RORY: Yeah, but nobody could write a forty page monologue the way that she could.
JESS: Okay, tomorrow I will try again, and you will. . .
RORY: Give the painful Ernest Hemingway another chance. Yes, I promise.
JESS: You know, Ernest only has lovely things to say about you.
RORY: Why are you only nice to me?
JESS: Excuse me?
RORY: An hour ago you were totally screwing with Dean and now you're totally nice to me.
JESS: You see, it's the screwing with Dean - that's an important step to getting here so that I can be nice to you.
RORY: So it was a plan.
JESS: What?
RORY: The whole bidding on my basket, it was a plan.
JESS: Okay, I'm officially starving.
RORY: And officially evasive.
JESS: Come on, I'll get you a pizza.
RORY: Answer my question.
JESS: Do you like pepperoni?
RORY: Not going to, are you?
JESS: We can just get it on half if you want.
RORY: Okay, I give, let's go.
JESS: If you insist.
[Rory walks away, not realizing her bracelet had fallen off. Jess picks it up and puts it in his pocket.]

***
[Rory takes the phone into her room and dials a number]
JESS: Hello?
RORY: Hi.
JESS: Hi.
RORY: What are you doing?
JESS: Nothing, you?
RORY: Nothing.
JESS: Why'd you call?
RORY: I . . um, I wanted to. . .
JESS: I'm glad you called.
RORY: Yeah?
JESS: Yeah.
RORY: Why?
JESS: Because maybe you can explain what the hell this crazy woman is talking about.
RORY: Ah, The Fountainhead.
JESS: Yes. Your fault, and you will pay.
RORY: I promise. Commit to it one more time and if it still is awful for you, I will make it up to you.
JESS: Oh yeah?
RORY: Yeah.
JESS: Okay. I'm gonna hold you to that.

Lost and found (Perdu et retrouvé en V.F)

[There's a knock at the front door]
RORY: I'll get it. [answers the door] Hey.
JESS: Here. [tosses her a CD]
RORY: The Shaggs?
JESS: Trust me
RORY: Okay. So you're very punctual.
JESS: Yeah, well, it was this or continue apartment hunting with Luke.
RORY: You're moving?
JESS: I don't know. Luke flipped out last night and next thing I know, he's dragging me all over town banging on pipes and measuring square footage. It's crazy.
RORY: A new place might be nice. More space, maybe you'll get your own room.
JESS: You change your hair?
RORY: What?
JESS: Your hair looks different.
RORY: So, segue's not your thing, huh?
JESS: Is it?
RORY: Well, um, no, I wear it like this a lot. Why?
JESS: Just looks different.
RORY: Oh, bad different?
LORELAI: [from living room] Hey, ducks!
RORY: We just got a new alarm clock.
JESS: Huh. Bet I know what the lead story in the Stars Hollow Gazette's gonna be tomorrow.
[Lorelai walks to the front door]
LORELAI: Hey, did you hear the ducks ‘cause they're great. Oh Jess, you're here, terrific.
RORY: So, um, would you like to come in?
LORELAI: Oh, yeah, come on in. Sorry, it's just. . .so excited about the ducks that, uh. . .do you want something to drink? You have good timing ‘cause we shopped yesterday, and in addition to a case of Maybelline Fresh Lash Mascara, I also bought some of that new, uh, freaky Coke with the lemon in it. It's very addictive.
RORY: You can sit, you know.
JESS: No thanks.
LORELAI: So, Jess, what's new?
JESS: Not much.
RORY: Jess and Luke are looking for an apartment.
LORELAI: Oh, you guys see anything good yet?
JESS: Nope.
LORELAI: Well, you know, there's some really cool places over on Peach. Or on Plum. Hm, Orange. Basically, any of your fruit named streets are pretty nice. Okay, well, I guess you should get started. Um, there's a ladder right out front and some buckets and gloves and stuff on the porch. You need anything else, just walk against the wind.
RORY: Come on, I'll show you.
[Jess walks out the door]

***

[Rory walks out of the house and over to Jess]
RORY: Question.
JESS: Yes?
RORY: You come over. You seem to have a very firm grasp of the English language. You put together several full sentences, even using a couple of words that contain two or more syllables, and then my mother appears and suddenly we need a thought bubble over your head to understand what you're thinking. Can you tell me why that is?
JESS: The verbal thing comes and goes.
RORY: I would really appreciate it if you would try to get along with my mom.
JESS: I took the Coke.
RORY: I know.
JESS: Personally, I think it's a little crazy to put lemon in Coke but I took it anyhow.
RORY: Stop it.
JESS: Ooh, stern face.
RORY: Look, I went out on a limb for you trying to get my mom to give you the benefit of the doubt, okay? So I don't think it would hurt you to try to be nice.
JESS: Why?
RORY: Why?
JESS: Yeah, why?
RORY: Because she's my mom and she's a friend of Luke's.
JESS: So?
RORY: What do you mean, so?
JESS: So just because she's your mom or Luke's friend doesn't mean that I automatically have to get along with her.
RORY: Jess, my mother is a great person. She's also my best friend in the world, so if you care about me at all, you will take that into consideration and you will be mildly polite to her.
JESS: What makes you think I care about you?
RORY: I don't mean care care, like care. I mean if you like me at all. . . not like like. I just meant that if. . . if you think of me remotely as the sort of person that you could occasionally stand to talk to then you will try to get along with my mom, that's all.
JESS: Okay.
RORY: Okay?
JESS: I can't guarantee that it'll work, but I'll try.
RORY: Thank you.
JESS: You're welcome. I should probably get to work.
RORY: Right. Sorry, go ahead.

***

[Jess climbs down the ladder as Rory comes home and sits on the porch]
JESS: You look good.
RORY: I'm fine.
JESS: Talk.
RORY: I lost my bracelet.
JESS: Uh huh.
RORY: Dean gave it to me.
JESS: How thoughtful.
RORY: I've been all over town looking for it. I've been to Lane's, I've been to Luke's, I've been to the bus stop, I've been to Miss Patty's, and I've circled Stars Hollow twice and nothing. I have no idea what I'm going to do.
JESS: It's really that big a deal?
RORY: What do you mean?
JESS: I mean, I know it's got an ‘I've been pinned' Bye, Bye, Birdie kind of implication to it, but it was just a bracelet.
RORY: I don't think Dean will see it that way.
JESS: You didn't lose it on purpose.
RORY: I know, but things have been a little weird between us lately and. . .you couldn't care less.
JESS: Oh, yes, I could.
RORY: I just think Dean will read something into this.
JESS: Should he?
RORY: No.
JESS: I think you should keep looking.
RORY: Where?
JESS: Anywhere. Things you lose are usually right in front of your face. Check the house again.
RORY: I've checked the house.
JESS: It's probably just laying in your room somewhere.
RORY: No, I tore that room apart, it's not there.
JESS: Fine, give up then. No biggie. Dean'll just have to get over it.
RORY: I'll go look again.
JESS: You do that.

There's the rub (Pas si simple en V.F)

[Rory opens the door. Jess is holding a box of food]
JESS: Delivery.
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: Well, Luke figured since you're along tonight that maybe you wouldn't have any food in the house, so he sent over a care package.
RORY: I don't need a care package. I ordered food from Sandeep's.
JESS: Really? Planning on burning down the house afterwards?
RORY: Jess.
JESS: The only way to kill the smell. Where should I put this? [walks into house]
RORY: Well. . .
JESS: Kitchen?
RORY: Um. . .sure.
[cut to kitchen]
RORY: God, how much food is in there? This could feed twelve.
JESS: Excuse me, I've seen you eat.
RORY: Fine, six.
JESS: Yeah, well, he wanted you taken care of. He wasn't sure how long your mom was gonna be gone for.
RORY: Just tonight.
JESS: Oh, he didn't know that.
RORY: Well, now you can tell him.
JESS: I will.
RORY: So how come Caesar didn't bring this over?
JESS: I volunteered.
RORY: Why?
JESS: Just wanted to get out of the construction zone. There's nothing but banging and yelling. That place gives me a headache.
RORY: Oh.
JESS: Why – did you think I wanted to come over here and see you?
RORY: No.
JESS: Just needed some quiet.
RORY: Fine.
JESS: That is all.
RORY: Got it.
JESS: Clear my head.
RORY: I understand.
JESS: So, aren't you gonna eat?
RORY: Eventually.
JESS: It gets cold fast.
RORY: I can heat it up.
JESS: Reheated French fries really suck.
RORY: Hm, they do suck.
JESS: Yeah, so, eat.
RORY: Okay, I will. You're still standing there.
JESS: I know. You didn't give me a tip.
RORY: You want money?
JESS: No, I'll take a fry though.
RORY: Okay, yeah, have as much as you want.
JESS: Okay, great. [takes off jacket]
RORY: What are you doing?
JESS: Getting ready to eat.
RORY: You're staying?
JESS: Didn't you just invite me?
RORY: No, I -.
JESS: No, you told me to have all I wanted. That sounded invitation-like.
RORY: You wanna stay here and eat?
JESS: Beats being at Luke's.
RORY: But – .
PARIS: [walks in from living room] I can't find my flashcards.
JESS: I didn't know you had company.
RORY: This is Paris. We were just studying.
JESS: Huh.
PARIS: Don't worry, I was just leaving. If you find my flashcards, call me, okay?
RORY: No.
PARIS: What?
RORY: Stay for dinner.
PARIS: But I thought. . .
RORY: We have a ton of food, and we can go over the notes more later.
PARIS: You're sure?
RORY: Positive.
PARIS: Is that mac and cheese?
RORY: It sure is.
PARIS: I love mac and cheese.
RORY: Great.
PARIS: I'm not allowed to have mac and cheese.
RORY: Splurge. Come on Paris, stay.
PARIS: Do you have a twenty-four hour pharmacy just in case I have an allergic reaction to something?
RORY: Believe it or not, we do.
PARIS: Okay, can I borrow your phone?
RORY: It's by the door.
[Paris walks away]
JESS: Interesting.
RORY: What is?
JESS: You think we need a chaperone?
RORY: No, I don't.
JESS: You just invited one.
RORY: I'm just being polite. Paris is alone tonight and you yourself just said we have enough food for six.
JESS: With me around, it's down to four.
RORY: With Paris around, it's down to two.
JESS: Works out well.
RORY: I think so.
PARIS: [on phone] Hola, es Paris. Voy a comer la cena de cas de Rory. Hay mucho mac and cheese!

***

[Rory, Paris, and Jess are eating at the kitchen table]
PARIS: A tragic waste of paper.
JESS: I can't believe you just said that.
PARIS: Well, it's true, the Beat's writing was completely self-indulgent. I have one word for Jack Kerouac – edit.
JESS: It was not self-indulgent. The Beats believed in shocking people, stirring things up.
PARIS: They believed in drugs, booze, and petty crime.
RORY: Well, then you can say that they exposed you to a world you wouldn't have otherwise known. Isn't that what great writing's all about?
PARIS: That was not great writing. That was the National Enquirer of the fifties.
JESS: You're cracked.
PARIS: Typical guy response. Worship Kerouac and Bukowski, God forbid you'd pick up anything by Jane Austen.
JESS: Hey, I've read Jane Austen.
PARIS: You have?
JESS: Yeah, and I think she would've liked Bukowski.
PARIS: What are you doing?
JESS: Salt and pepper dip. Only way to eat a fry.
PARIS: Really?
RORY: It's fast food gospel.
PARIS: Mm. That's good. That's really, really good.
[phone rings]
JESS: You like hot sauce?
PARIS: I don't know. Should I?
JESS: I think it's wise.
RORY: [answers phone] Hello?
DEAN: Hey.
RORY: Oh, hey. Where are you?
DEAN: On my way to see you – if that's okay?
RORY: Oh, well -
DEAN: I know you wanna be alone, so I'll only stay a minute. I just wanna say hi.
RORY: We just said hi.
DEAN: Well, I wanna say hi a little closer.
RORY: But, I'm a mess, really. It's not pretty. You won't recognize me.
DEAN: Well, then put a name tag on ‘cause I miss you.
RORY: I miss you too, but –
DEAN: But what?
RORY: But. . .Paris is here.
DEAN: Why?
RORY: She freaked out about a grade and she wanted to go over some notes, and you know Paris – she will not be denied.
DEAN: Okay, then I'm not really ruining your alone night, someone else did that.
RORY: Yes, but –
DEAN: I'll see you in a sec. [hangs up]
JESS: I can't get into poetry. It's kind of like, geez, just say it already, we're dying here.
RORY: Wow, you know, I just noticed the time, and it's getting really late.
JESS: It's seven o'clock.
RORY: I know, but Paris and I still have a lot more studying to do. Jess, please thank Luke for me. It was really nice of him.
JESS: Who was on the phone?
RORY: No one.
JESS: No one wouldn't happen to be heading over here now, would he?
RORY: Jess.
PARIS: What's going on?
RORY: Nothing.
JESS: Dean's on his way over and Rory doesn't want him to find me here.
RORY: Why?
JESS: Yeah, why?
RORY: You know why.
JESS: We're just eating dinner.
RORY: Jess, I'm asking you as a friend, just please leave now.
JESS: You really want me to go?
RORY: I really wanna avoid a fight with Dean.
JESS: Okay, I'm going.
RORY: Thank you.
JESS: Ow!
RORY: What?
JESS: Ooh! I just twisted my ankle. I better go lie down.
RORY: Jess!
JESS: God, you're no fun when you're tense. Are you sure you want me to go? ‘Cause maybe this whole thing can be solved between me and Dean if we just sat down and had a little heart to heart. He can tell me his issues, I'll tell him mine.
RORY: Jess!
JESS: I promise I'll speak slowly.
RORY: Bye! [pushes him out the front door]
JESS: Okay, well, give him my best, would ya? [sees Dean in the front yard] Actually, I guess I could do that myself.
RORY: Dean, Jess just came by to bring me some food.
JESS: From Luke's.
RORY: He wanted to make sure I ate.
JESS: Luke did.
RORY: Right, Luke did.
JESS: Personally, I could care less if she eats.
RORY: Yeah, true, he could care less.
JESS: I see you brought a little something, too. Is that ice cream? That's so nice. A tiny little ice cream package just big enough for two. Hey, are you guys gonna feed each other ‘cause that's just so darn cute. Oops. You're doing that towering over me thing. Huh. I tell you, you've really got that down. It helps that you're twelve feet tall, but this Frankenstein scowl really adds to the whole – .
RORY: Jess.
JESS: Okay, I'm going. Look, man, I really was just dropping off some food, so don't get all West Side Story on me, okay? [leaves]

Dear Uncles and Vegetables (Les obsèques de l'oncle Louis en V.F)

[Rory knocks on Luke's apartment door]
RORY: Jess, open up! I know you're in there.
JESS: My, aren't we bright eyed and bushy tailed.
RORY: Luke needs you downstairs.
JESS: Why?
RORY: Because he's on the phone with someone and Caesar's off today and the place is packed and he needs help.
JESS: I'll be down in a minute.
RORY: No, now.
JESS: I'm in the middle of something.
RORY: Just assume that Jeannie's gonna get Major Healey out of whatever scrape he's in.
JESS: Gee, thanks for spoiling it for me.

***

Jess is walking around the tables refilling coffee]
CUSTOMER: Young man, where's the young lady we've heard so much about who's using those delightful old diner phrases to place people's orders? It sounds so fun. Could you point her out for us?
JESS: No. [walks to counter] That's everyone. I'll be upstairs.
RORY: Thanks for doing the very least you could possibly do.
JESS: You're welcome.

***

[Rory walks over to Jess]
RORY: Nice spread.
JESS: People have too much free time in this town.
RORY: You did a good thing.
JESS: What do you mean?
RORY: I thought my mom set this up. Turns out she didn't.
JESS: So? Wasn't me.
RORY: It wasn't?
JESS: Nah, no way. It wasn't me.
RORY: If you say so.
JESS: Look, the crazy ballet teacher called and asked when Luke was getting back from the funeral, if I could unlock the door. I came down, I unlocked the door, then went back upstairs and back to sleep.
RORY: So you did do a little something.
JESS: I unlocked the door.
RORY: So that people could come in here and put this together. Nice.
JESS: Nice for them, not for me.
RORY: You facilitated it, you made it happen, so I guess that means that you're officially apart of our town now.
JESS: Hey, wait a minute.
RORY: Welcome.
JESS: I am not part of this town.
RORY: See you for some tree planting over at the Arbor Day Festival, buddy.
JESS: Yeah, well maybe I can knock over a liquor store while everyone else is planting those stupid trees.
RORY: As long as it's a liquor store in town, neighbor.
[Rory walks over to a table where people are telling stories about Louie]

Teach me tonight (Cours particuliers en V.F)

[Jess walks over to them]
JESS: Hey Teach.
RORY: Hey.
JESS: You guys done yet?
LORELAI: Just not yet.
JESS: Okay, well, I'll be right over there when you are. I just can't wait for that learning to begin. Hey, are we gonna do some of those Schoolhouse Rocks songs?
RORY: I'll be right there, Jess.
JESS: ‘Cause they say if you just make learning fun. . .
LORELAI: Give us a minute, okay?
JESS: Well, hurry – a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
RORY: I'll be home early.
LORELAI: Fine. Bye.
RORY: Bye.
LORELAI: Bye Jess.
JESS: Ma'am.
[Lorelai leaves]
RORY: So, are you ready to start?
JESS: Yes, I am.
RORY: Where are your books?
JESS: Huh, I don't know.
RORY: How are we gonna study without your books?
JESS: I guess we can't. Too bad. So, what now – movie?
RORY: Get your books.
JESS: The cat ate ‘em.
RORY: Get your books or I'm going home.
JESS: Wait there. [does magic trick]

CUT TO THE DINER LATER THAT NIGHT
[Rory and Jess are sitting at a table. Rory is going through a book as Jess plays with a deck of cards.]
RORY: Explain to me the political ramifications of the Marshall Plan.
JESS: Pick a card. [Rory throws the whole deck on the floor] Huh, well, that just made the trick a little bit harder.
RORY: Jess, focus.
JESS: Where's Dean tonight?
RORY: We just went over this. There's no way you already forgot it.
JESS: Work?
RORY: I will make you write it out fifty times on the specials board if that's what it takes.
JESS: ‘Cause if he's not at work, he must be free, so he doesn't care that you're here?
RORY: No, he doesn't. He's visiting his grandmother.
JESS: Where?
RORY: Chicago.
JESS: So he doesn't know.
RORY: It wouldn't matter.
JESS: So you'll tell him when he gets back?
RORY: We're studying.
JESS: You're studying, I'm prying into your personal life.
RORY: Jess, why won't you at least try to remember the Marshall Plan?
JESS: Have you ever read "Please Kill Me"?
RORY: No.
JESS: Oral history of the punk movement. You'd like it – you can borrow it if you want.
RORY: I'm here to help you study. Now, if you want me to go, I'll go, but if I'm going to stay, then you will stop distracting me and start paying attention, understand?
JESS: I understand.
RORY: Good. And yes, I would like to borrow it, thank you very much. Now open your book.
CUT TO DINER LATER THAT NIGHT
[Jess finishes writing something on a notepad, then hands it to Rory]
JESS: Done.
RORY: This isn't Shakespeare.
JESS: It's not?
RORY: It's the words to a Clash song.
JESS: Ah, now, but which Clash song?
RORY: Hey, I'm not the one being tested right now.
JESS: Ten seconds.
RORY: Jess.
JESS: Nine, eight, seven.
RORY: Stop it.
JESS: Six, five, four.
RORY: You know you're really starting to. . .
JESS: Three.
RORY: Ooh, ooh, Guns of Brixton!
JESS: A plus.
RORY: Why would you even agree to this studying thing in the first place?
JESS: Because Luke said I had to.
RORY: You've never done anything because someone said you had to.
JESS: I moved here because someone said I had to.
RORY: Very different.
JESS: Yeah, well. . .hey, do you wanna get outta here?
RORY: What?
JESS: I'm sick of studying.
RORY: How can you be sick of studying? You haven't done any studying. You've done card tricks, you've made coffee, you've tried to explain to me how on earth Coldplay could be considered an alternative band, but as of yet, no studying.
JESS: That's your car?
RORY: Yes, it is.
JESS: Okay, tell you what. Let's go get some ice cream, and then when we get back, I'll study.
RORY: This is a diner, there's ice cream here.
JESS: Yes, but we don't have any cones.
RORY: Cones?
JESS: I need cones.
RORY: Well, so, if we go get ice cream. . .
JESS: In cones.
RORY: Then you will be a perfect student for the rest of the night?
JESS: That's right.
RORY: I could not believe you less. Here, you drive, I'll read you Othello. Won't that be fun?
JESS: You have no idea how much.
CUT TO INSIDE RORY'S CAR
[Jess and Rory are each eating an ice cream cone]
JESS: Admit it, it's always better in a cone.
RORY: It's always better in a cone.
JESS: Putting ice cream in a dish, eating it with a spoon?
RORY: What is wrong with people?
JESS: Hold the wheel.
RORY: What?
JESS: I'm dripping here, hold the wheel.
RORY: I can't hold the wheel, you're driving. The person who's driving has to hold the wheel. That's the first thing they teach you in driver's ed.
JESS: Huh, I gotta take that class one of those days. Take the wheel.
RORY: Jess.
JESS: I'm letting go.
RORY: Stop! Take it back. Okay, you are taking this wheel back and when you do, I'm going to kill you. I'm just letting you know that.
JESS: I appreciate the warning.
RORY: Jess!
JESS: Okay, I got it. Geez, you look pale. Are you okay?
RORY: Death, and it's going to be painful.
JESS: You're not gonna kill me. Think how dull your life would be without me.
RORY: Serious question?
JESS: Okay.
RORY: You know you're smarter than most everybody at your school. It takes you like five minutes to finish a book. You read everything, you remember everything, you could ace those classes easily. Why don't you? You don't need a tutor. It's crazy that they're talking about leaving you back.
JESS: Whatever.
RORY: You can do anything you wanted, you can be anything you wanted.
JESS: Rory.
RORY: I. . .is it like a cool thing?
JESS: I could care less about being cool.
RORY: Well, inform me, please.
JESS: I'm never going to college, why waste the time in high school?
RORY: And why aren't you going to college?
JESS: Please.
RORY: What? Please what – why is it so crazy?
JESS: Ask my mother, she could give you a couple reasons. Oh, and I'm sure Principal Mertin can chime in with a few good ones. In fact, ask your mother. She doesn't know me all that well but I'm sure she could improvise a few things.
RORY: Do not give me that whole ‘I'm so misunderstood, Kurt Cobainy' thing. You are way stronger than that and I don't even wanna hear it. You have to go to college.
JESS: No, you have to go to college.
RORY: But don't you have any plans?
JESS: Yes, I plan to get out of Stars Hollow.
RORY: And go where?
JESS: Wherever.
RORY: And do what?
JESS: Whatever.
RORY: Wherever, whatever.
JESS: I'll live where I live, I'll work when I need money, and I'll see where I end up.
RORY: You could do more.
JESS: Oh, here come the pompoms.
RORY: No, no pompoms, just me saying you could do more.
JESS: So, Courtney, what about you?
RORY: What about me?
JESS: What are your big ambitions?
RORY: Harvard.
JESS: And after Harvard?
RORY: I'm gonna be a journalist.
JESS: Paula Zahn?
RORY: Christiane Amapour
JESS: You're gonna be an overseas correspondent?
RORY: Yes, I am.
JESS: You're gonna crawl around in trenches and stand on top of buildings and have bombs going off in the background and some wars raging all around you?
RORY: What, you don't think I can do it?
JESS: No, I do. Just sounds a little too – .
RORY: A little what?
JESS: Just sounds a little too rough for you.
RORY: Well, it's not a little too rough for me. I hope it's not a little too rough for me, I've been talking about this forever. I mean, I don't even know what I would do if – .
JESS: Hey, I didn't mean to freak you out. I'm sorry. I'm sure you'll do it. You will, I promise. I'll help you practice, okay? Tomorrow, you'll stand in the middle of the street and I will drive straight at you screaming in a foreign language.
RORY: Well, you're gonna have to learn a foreign language first.
JESS: Well, it's lucky I've got me a tutor, isn't it? Okay, so I guess we should be getting back. I did promise to study if you went on this ice cream run with me.
RORY: Yes, you did.
JESS: Okay, so I just go straight and we'll be back at Luke's.
RORY: Good sense of direction.
JESS: Of course, I could turn right and then we'd just be driving around in circles for awhile.
RORY: Turn right.
JESS: As you wish.

Lorelai's graduation day (le diplôme de Lorelai en V.F)

[Phone rings]
RORY: I'll get it.
LORELAI: Hey, now, if that's Mick Jagger, hang up and blow that whistle I gave you.
RORY: [answers phone] Hello?
JESS: Hi. [pause] Hello?
RORY: Hi.
JESS: Is this a bad time?
RORY: Um, no, just hold on a sec? [to Lorelai] Um, the music. . . uh, I'll be right back. [Rory takes the phone to her room and closes the door.] Hi.
JESS: You said that already.
RORY: I did. You're right, sorry.
JESS: So, what's up?
RORY: Nothing. What about you?
JESS: Same.
RORY: So, what have you been doing?
JESS: Nothin' much. Just hanging out. . . in the park, mostly.
RORY: Central Park?
JESS: Washington Square Park.
RORY: Oh.
JESS: It's cooler.
RORY: Yes.
JESS: It's where David Lee Roth got busted.
RORY: Right, right. I hope he's got it together now.
JESS: Sounds like you got a party going on there.
RORY: No, it's just me and my mom.
JESS: Right. Okay, well, I'm gonna go. This is long distance.
RORY: Yeah, it is long distance.
JESS: So, see ya.
RORY: Yeah, see ya.
***

CUT TO WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK
[Jess is reading on a bench as Rory walks up behind him]
RORY: Hi.
JESS: How ya doing?
RORY: Good, how about you?
JESS: Good. You hungry?
RORY: Starved.
JESS: I know a place.
[They walk off together.]
CUT TO NEW YORK STREET
[Jess and Rory are walking down the street]
RORY: I feel very urban today.
JESS: Oh yeah, the plaid just screams urban.
RORY: I think I look like a native.
JESS: How well do you know Manhattan?
RORY: I've been here a few times. We saw The Bangles here.
JESS: When was that, twenty years ago?
RORY: It was a reunion and they were great.
JESS: Yeah, they're okay.
RORY: And a couple years ago Mom drove us in to shop, and she couldn't find a good parking place and all of the parking lots were a total rip-off, so she kept making U-turns and cutting off taxis and we were being screamed at in so many different languages that we just turned around and drove home and bought a Hummel at the curio store in Stars Hollow.
JESS: How very adventurous.
RORY: I'm just saying I'm no stranger to the Big Apple.
JESS: You are if you're calling it the Big Apple.
RORY: So I don't have the lingo down yet, but at least I have the attitude.
JESS: You do, huh?
RORY: Oh yeah. When I was getting a locker for my backpack at the bus stop, there was this guy and he was just standing there staring at me and instead of ignoring him I just fixed him with a really withering stare.
JESS: That I've got to see.
RORY: No.
JESS: Oh, come on, let me see your withering stare.
RORY: It's dangerous. I could hurt you.
JESS: I've been hurt before.
RORY: No.
JESS: I'm disappointed. So your arm's okay?
RORY: Yeah, it looks worse than it is.
JESS: [Looks at Rory's cast.] I like this Emily chick. Friend of yours?
RORY: She's a friend to all of us dispossessed.
JESS: So here's our lunch place.
RORY: A hot dog stand?
JESS: Hey, I eat here everyday. It's nothing fancy, but -
RORY: No, I love it. It's perfect.
JESS: Good. [to hot dog vendor] One with everything on it.
RORY: Make that two, please.
JESS: So, uh. . .how's -
RORY: Luke?
JESS: Yeah.
RORY: Okay. He went fishing.
JESS: Fishing?
RORY: Yeah. He didn't catch anything though.
JESS: Probably used the wrong bait.
RORY: Yeah, that's a common fishing blunder.
JESS: So he's good?
RORY: Yeah, he's good. I can tell him hello for you if you want.
JESS: Whatever.
RORY: [to hot dog vendor] Thank you. [takes a bite] Oh, my God, this is really good!
JESS: I'm glad you like it. So how much time you got?
RORY: I got a bit.
JESS: There's a record store you should check out. It's run by this insane freak who's like a walking encyclopedia for every punk and garage-band record ever made. Catalog numbers. . .it's crazy. The place is right out of High Fidelity.
RORY: Let's go.
JESS: Okay.
RORY: Where you going?
JESS: Subway.
RORY: I thought we were gonna walk.
JESS: It's fifteen blocks. Come on, I think you'll like it.
RORY: Do they allow hot dogs in the subway?
JESS: You are so an out-of-towner.

***

CUT TO NEW YORK RECORD STORE
[Rory and Jess are looking through the records]
JESS: I haven't even heard of half these bands.
RORY: I love that about this place. God, Lane would wanna live here.
JESS: Who's Slim?
RORY: I don't know.
OWNER: Grunge band out of Kentucky. Two albums, plus a double-A side single, disbanded in '94.
JESS: Thanks.
RORY: [looks through the records] Oh my God!
JESS: What?
RORY: Look! [shows him a record]
JESS: Go-go's. You must have that one.
RORY: No, for my mom. This was her favorite group when she was my age, and it's signed by Belinda. This would be the perfect graduation present. I've been looking for something all week long, and I couldn't find anything and now I have Belinda.
JESS: Graduation?
RORY: Oh, from college, from business classes.
JESS: I'm surprised she has time for anything except lighting darts on fire and throwing them at my picture.
RORY: Well, it's not a lot of time, but . . .
JESS: Uh-huh. Go on, get it. She'll like it.
RORY: Thank you so much for bringing me here. This was fate.
JESS: Yes, it was.
RORY: And in return, I just might show you my withering stare.
JESS: I'm a lucky man.
CUT TO BUS STATION
[Rory and Jess are walking toward her bus]
RORY: I think this one's mine.
JESS: Yup, the sign says Boonesville.
TOURIST: Excuse me, I'm so sorry to bother you. Which way is 44th?
RORY: Oh, um, that way.
TOURIST: Great, thanks.
RORY: I got asked directions.
JESS: I saw.
RORY: He took me for a native. That's so cool.
JESS: That's very impressive. 44th's the other way.
RORY: Oh no.
JESS: Sorry.
RORY: Oh, man, I should go find him.
JESS: He'll figure it out when he sees all the numbers getting smaller instead of bigger.
RORY: He still thought I was a native. That's cool.
JESS: I'm your witness.
RORY: Well, I should go.
JESS: Okay.
RORY: I gotta go to my mom's graduation.
JESS: And give her Belinda.
RORY: And give her Belinda.
JESS: Go on. I'll check on the guy, I'll make sure he's not wandering around looking for 44.
[Rory boards the bus and looks at Jess through the window.]
JESS: Why did you come here?
[Rory opens the window.]
RORY: What?
JESS: I said, why did you come here?
RORY: Well -
JESS: I mean, you ditched school and everything. That's so not you. Why'd you do it?
RORY: Because you didn't say goodbye.
JESS: Oh. Bye, Rory.
RORY: Bye, Jess.

I cant't get started (La cérémonie en V.F)

[Christopher walks away. Rory sees Jess and walks over to him]
RORY: What are you doing here?
JESS: Hello to you, too.
RORY: Is everything okay?
JESS: You look nice.
RORY: Thank you. What are you doing here?
JESS: I moved back.
RORY: What?
JESS: I moved back.
RORY: But – what – why?
JESS: Just wanted to.
[Rory kisses him]
RORY: Oh my God! Oh my God!
JESS: Rory.
RORY: Don't say a word!
JESS: Okay.
RORY: I have to go. [runs away] Oh, welcome home!