lane finds a band to be drummer with and lorelai and rory let them practice in the garage. lane starts dating bandmate dave rygalski in secret, using her mother's preferred prom date young chui as cover, until she gets drunk at a party, rings her mother and tells her everything. dave pleads their case and mrs kim lets them go to the prom together. paris starts dating jamie, a student from princeton that she and rory met in washington, but falls out with rory when she thinks she has told student council rival francie about them. however, it is rory that paris turns to when she sleeps with jamie and fails to get into harvard. luke rents the premises next to the diner to taylor to open a soda shop, and ends up dating taylor's solicitor nicole leahy.