[Luke walks up with ordering pad in hand]

LUKE: What can I get you?

RORY: A foster home.

LORELAI: You'll thank me one day. [sexy smile to Luke] Hi.

LUKE: I'm working.

LORELAI: Come on. This is the beginning of a relationship. You're supposed to act stupid.

LUKE: I'll do the chicken dance on my lunch break. [to Rory] Heading back to school?

RORY: Yeah, sophomore year.

LUKE: Anything you want - on the house.

LORELAI: [too bright smile] I can't believe you won't flirt with me in front of my daughter. She's gonna think there's something wrong with me.

RORY: Please. I got that confirmation letter a long time ago. Scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese and half bacon, half sausage.

LORELAI: I'll have the same, and put it on her tab.

LUKE: You get your own tab.

LORELAI: [dryly] Oh, thank God you don't have a Latin accent, or you'd be completely irresistible.

LUKE: Coffee will be ready in a minute. [backs away while subtlety signaling Lorelai with his head.]

LORELAI: Be back in a second. [She walks over to the counter. Luke stands behind the counter writing in his ledger book.]

LORELAI: [ Clears throat ] You gestured?

LUKE: [continues to look down while speaking quietly] Those jeans are really working for you.

LORELAI: Yeah?

LUKE: They're working for me, too.

LORELAI: You're flirting with me.

LUKE: Something like that.

LORELAI: Finally. Do it some more.

LUKE: Your shoes work well with that - shirt. [briefly glances up]

LORELAI: Gee, Carson, thanks.

LUKE: That's all I can do right now. People are watching.

LORELAI: Okay.

LUKE: [meaningfully raises his eyes] But tonight I will give you my extremely positive views on other aspects of your being.

LORELAI: Tonight?

LUKE: Are you free?

LORELAI: Yeah, I'm free.

LUKE: Good. 7:30.

LORELAI: What are we gonna do?

LUKE: I've got some thoughts.

LORELAI: Alright, but no taking me to an art museum after hours and then to an empty Hollywood bowl where you give me a pair of diamond earrings that you bought with your college money when all the time you're really in love with your best friend, the drummer, who's posing as our driver for the evening.

LUKE: [pause] Okay, I'll think of something else.

LORELAI: So, what do we say?

LUKE: Say?

LORELAI: To people, to the town. Do we tell them we're dating?

LUKE: I don't know. Do we?

LORELAI: I don't know. I guess we could keep it quiet for a while.

LUKE: We could -- if that's what you want.

LORELAI: No, that's not what I want.

LUKE: Why don't we just play it by ear?

LORELAI: Yeah, yeah. People will know when they know.

LUKE: Okay, sounds good.

LORELAI: Okay, so, 7:30?

LUKE: 7:30

LORELAI: Are you gonna watch me walk away?

LUKE: Yeah.

LORELAI: I'll add a little jaunt to it for you.

[she struts back to Rory and glances back before she sits]

RORY: What was that all about?

LORELAI: We were just talking about our date for tonight.

RORY: A real date? Finally!

LORELAI: Yeah, finally.

RORY: What are you gonna wear?

LORELAI: Mmm, glass slippers, a backwards baseball cap...

RORY: …and nothing else.

LORELAI: Exactly.

RORY: I'm very excited.

LORELAI: Me too. Hey, have you talked to --

RORY: No.

LORELAI: Do you think you're going to before you - [Rory shakes her head no to end the topic as Luke walks up.] Oh, food. Thank God.

LUKE: Hot plates.

LORELAI: See? He called me "Hot Plates." He so likes me.

LUKE: Jeez. [embarrassed, he looks around before exiting]

Gilmoer Girls episode 5.03