Adam Hendershott

When Lois finds her new dress burned and left in the toilet, she tries to get one of the boys to confess to the crime.

Malcolm is guilt-ridden after beating up a school bully who turns out to be just a seven-year-old brat.

Ducky gets a new assistant, who should come in useful when the team find themselves up to their necks in an investigation involving a marine found impaled on a tree stump.

Christopher and Lorelai take his daughter to visit her mother in Paris; Rory's tenure as editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News ends, leaving her unsure of her future.

Christopher talks Lorelai into visiting Rory during Parents' Weekend at Yale; Luke meets April's swimming coach, who convinces him to take her adult swimming class.

Luke is still unable to tell Lorelai about the existence of his 12-year-old daughter, April, and he goes into a panic when the girl wants to hang out with him at the diner.