[cut to Rory in the back looking at baskets. Dean walks up to her]
DEAN: Not that one.
RORY: You get no say in the basket.
DEAN: I have to bid on it.
RORY: And you have to eat what’s inside it and you get no say in that either.
DEAN: Hey.
RORY: Yeah?
DEAN: Is Taylor behind me?
RORY: No. [they kiss; a noise interrupts them]
DEAN: What? Taylor? [he turns around to look] Jess.
JESS: Sorry to intrude.
DEAN: Then why did you?
JESS: Well, you’re having your vertical From Here to Eternity moment right in front of the super glue.
RORY: Oh.
JESS: Not that that’s not an appropriate place to be doing it in front of but - .
DEAN: Here’s your glue.
JESS: Thanks. As you were. [walks away]
DEAN: I really hate that guy.
RORY: He didn’t do anything.
DEAN: He’s here, he’s breathing, that’s enough.
RORY: I really wish you two could start over.
DEAN: Why?
RORY: Because he lives here and we run into him. He goes to school here. I just think it’d be easier.
DEAN: I’m fine with the whole hating him thing, thank you.
RORY: I just think it’s a waste of energy.
DEAN: You know, I’ll have a PowerBar.
RORY: Fine, forget it.
DEAN: So, uh, I should probably get back to work. We still on for tonight?
RORY: I don’t know. I might be baking.
DEAN: I’ll pick you up at seven. Get that one, it’s nice and small.
RORY: Bye.
[Cut to Rory and Dean talking behind the gazebo]
DEAN: I’m gonna kill him.
RORY: Dean, he was probably just fooling around or something.
DEAN: No, he was messing with me.
RORY: I don’t - .
DEAN: He was messing with me and it’s the last time, I swear to God.
RORY: Dean, calm down.
DEAN: Why would he do this?
RORY: Maybe he was hungry.
DEAN: He’s trying to make me crazy.
RORY: Just don’t let him.
[Jess walks up behind them]
JESS: I gotta tell you, of all the nutty barn raising shindigs this town can cook up, this one wasn’t half bad.
DEAN: Glad you enjoyed it.
JESS: Yes I did. So shall we?
DEAN: Shall we what?
JESS: Shall we go?
DEAN: Go where?
JESS: Go eat.
DEAN: Excuse me?
JESS: The person who buys the basket wins the company of the person who makes the basket for lunch. Basket, basket maker, guy who didn’t bring enough money.
DEAN: You think this is funny.
JESS: Well, it’s no Lenny Bruce routine but it has its moments.
DEAN: Bye Jess.
JESS: Where you going?
DEAN: You’re the one who’s going.
JESS: Oh, as soon as Rory is ready.
DEAN: She’s not going with you.
JESS: Really, is that true?
DEAN: Yes, it’s true.
JESS: Excuse me Edgar Bergen, I think I’d like Charlie McCarthy to answer now.
DEAN: Shut up.
RORY: Dean.
DEAN: What?
RORY: Well…
DEAN: Oh, come on!
RORY: It’s tradition.
DEAN: I don’t believe this.
RORY: It’s true. My mother and I have been doing this every year since we moved here.
DEAN: So buck tradition.
RORY: Are you kidding? Do you remember how mad Taylor was when I was sick and I couldn’t go to the turkey-calling contest?
DEAN: This isn’t school, you’re not getting graded.
RORY: Just don’t make this into a big thing.
DEAN: Don’t go.
JESS: Oh geez man, she’s not shipping off to ‘Nam.
DEAN: You SO need to shut up now.
RORY: Look, Dean, it’s a picnic, it’s lunch. We’ll sit, we’ll eat, it’s over.
DEAN: No.
RORY: What do you think was gonna happen?
JESS: Yeah, I think I’d like to hear this one also.
DEAN: I don’t want you to go.
RORY: Dean!
DEAN: Fine, forget it, go. [walks away]
RORY: [follows him] Please don’t walk away like that.
DEAN: Sorry, I’d do a silly walk but I’m not feeling very John Cleese right now.
RORY: Dean, this isn’t my fault. I didn’t ask him to do that, I didn’t tell him to do that. Dean, you’re my boyfriend. I would never do anything to hurt you.
DEAN: Yeah? You’re doing it right now. [walks away]