Lorelai's trying to give Rory a food-related pep talk as they walk into Luke's, offering to buy her daughter anything she wants to eat. Rory wants a root beer. Luke says it's on the house, so she should go crazy. "Luke!" Lorelai says, shocked to see him, surprised he's been in town without saying hello, a little confused that he's acting like she's just Lorelai and he's just Luke when they're now Luke-Luke and Lorelai-Lorelai. He asks Rory if she's okay, since she looks a little pale. "You know, pale's the new tan," Lorelai says. She punches Luke in the arm, happy he's back. She punches him again for being gone for seven weeks. Luke suddenly remembers that he needs some wink-winkers, so he leaves for the pharmacy. He yells to Lane that he's leaving. Lane runs over and hugs Rory, happy she's back. Lane sits and asks Rory for help on her quandary. Lorelai suddenly remembers, without a shred of subtlety, that she's also in some need of some wink-winkers, and possibly a few nudge-nudgies. She runs off. Lane asks Rory if she's in love with mfTL. Lane says that a "dirty trollop" suggested it, and that dirty trollops are generally reliable. Rory stops listening to her friend after those two words, because she realizes that she's now a dirty trollop, and that's how people will refer to her when she's not around. "Oh, Rory? The skeezy whore who goes to Yale? What's that skank want?" Lane doesn't know if the dirty trollop was looking at Lane in a way that hints Lane likes mfTL, or if she was hitting on her. Rory has no thoughts, other than that she might not get to have dirty trollop sex with CuteDean anymore.