Lorelai is at Luke’s diner to get a coffee before she drives to Hartford to have dinner with her mother. Luke isn’t there when she gets in, and when he does appear, he’s clean-shaven and dressed up – even wearing clothes that Lorelai picked out for him.
Then Nicole arrives, and Lorelai realises Luke is going on a date. Even though she’s dating Alex, she doesn’t seem pleased by this discovery, and rather childishly “tells on” Nicole for using a cell phone in the diner, when Luke doesn’t allow it. Busy career women get a bit of a bashing in this episode.
The Annotated Gilmore Girls 