After Kirk spills the beans that her daughter is dating Luke, Emily demands that Lorelai bring him to dinner so that they can get reacquainted; although Lorelai tries to warn him away, Luke goes anyway and is subjected to an evening of oblique insults from a passive-aggressive Emily; after Zach announces that hes ready to start going out with Lane, they spend a cozy first date at home after banishing Brian to Lanes bedroom; having not learned his lesson with Emily, Luke agrees to accept Richards invitation to go golfing, and both men turn a deaf ear to Lorelais pleas to cancel; Rory gets her story on the Life and Death Brigade by being blindfolded and whisked away by Logan and his friends to observe the elaborately staged weekend in the woods, and finally, after Logan encourages her to take a risk, to participate in the events breathtaking finale.