Jeffrey Hutchinson

Paul begins to suspect that Susan is responsible for his rapidly declining health, and Lynette and Tom butt heads over where to go on their family holiday, as well as which one of them will set it up.

Though Lorelai is excited about going to a Bangles concert, she offers the four concert tickets to Rory and three of her new schoolmates.

Simon finds himself facing Tripp across the table in a high-stakes poker game, and tells Nick that he will help him find the man who murdered his father if Tripp offers something he badly wants in exchange. Meanwhile, Karen is forced to ask a favour from her attractive ex-husband, while Jeremy enters the job market by working as a parking valet.

As the day of Karen and Freddy's wedding dawns, Karen's love for Nick is giving her cold feet. Letitia soon picks up on Karen's doubts, whereas Tripp just hits the bottle on his daughter's big day. Elsewhere, Patrick's wife interrogates him about having an affair, and Brian Jr's mother arrives back in town and demands the return of her son, but Brian has other ideas.