Lorelai was sitting at the counter. Her eyes caught flashing lights on the wall in front of her. She turned around to see two officers exit their squad car and enter the diner. Someone steal penny candy from Taylor's shoppe? Why the "e" on the end?

"Officer, can I help you?" Luke asked.

"We were informed that a Lorelai Gilmore may be at this establishment?

Luke and Lorelai turned from the cops and stared at each other with wide eyes, panic setting in.

"I am Lorelai Gilmore. Why are you looking for me?"

"May we speak to you somewhere more private?"

Luke motioned to the stairway and he held Lorelai's hand as they walked upstairs with the officers to his apartment.

"Are you the mother of a Rory Gilmore?"

"Yes," Lorelai whelped as she started to cry, sensing something was terribly wrong. Luke stood behind her, holding both of her arms and pulling her tight.

"We believe someone has taken your daughter from her dorm room, against her will. Her roommate, Paris Gellar, and boyfriend Logan Huntzburger are being questioned at Yale campus security right now while a forensics team scours the dorm for clues."

"No. This is not happening. No. No. NO!"

Lorelai collapsed in Luke's arms, sobbing uncontrollably, when all of a sudden she pulled away, grabbed an officer by his hand and demanded to be escorted to Rory's place immediately.

"Lorelai, I'm coming too," Luke sternly grunted.

Downstairs people were chattering about the ruckus, aware that something major was going on upstairs.

Dean saw the car with lights twirling, and being both bored and hungry, he entered the diner and picked up on a strange vibe.

"Hey, Ms. Patty, what's with going on?"

"Oh Dean, something serious has happened. The police showed up here looking for Lorelai. They went to her house and she wasn't there and Babette happened to be out on a walk so she told them to look for her here. They went upstairs to Luke's apartment and we hear shouting and crying. Oh here they come now..."

Lorelai was white as a sheet, eyes red from crying, and Luke looked ready to murder someone.

Rory. "Lorelai, are you okay? Is Rory okay?" Dean asked.

"Dean, Rory is missing and we're going with the police to campus to try and find her. You don't know anything about Rory being stalked or harassed do you?"

"No. But can I come and help look for her? Maybe I can help?"

"Who is this?" One of the officers asked.

"An ex-boyfriend and good friend of the family. He should come."

"Fine, you have a car out front?"

"No."

"Take my truck. I'm riding with Lorelai and the officers. Be careful."

Luke tossed Dean his keys, told Cesar to lock up, and the all hurried outside for the drive to Yale.

Marty was walking home from class when he noticed a large police presence in the dorm. Walking up for a closer look, he overhead some girls saying they were freaked out because that girlfriend of Logan Huntzburger disappeared and it was freaking them out.

Rory! Marty pushed his way through the gathered crowd and asked an officer what was happening.

"Is it true that Rory Gilmore is missing? I'm a friend and I want to help in any way that I can."

"How long have you known Ms. Gilmore? Where are you coming from?"

"Rory? I have some clothes and some food. I'm coming in."

Rory was petrified. That voice behind the door. It was Jess. What did he do? What was going to happen?

The door creaked open, and Jess walked in, closing the door behind him, and he handed her a t-shirt and sweatpants. It was frightening, awkward, creepy the way Jess stared at her naked body as she shed the towel for the clothing. What was he doing? Why was he doing this? Was this a joke? This wasn't right, taking her from a shower, and now watching her dress. They had fooled around, but he never saw her naked. She didn't know what to do. Had he snapped? Was he going to hurt her? What did he want?

"Rory, you are so beautiful." He extended his hand to her chin and she wanted to avert his gaze, but feared it would set him off.

"Jess, what are we doing here? Why did you take me from Yale? Are you going to hurt me?" she squeaked.

"Hurt you? I love you. I told you that. We were meant to be together. But at Yale, you are too distracted to see what you really feel. I just wanted to get you alone, without distraction, so you could see that we can plan a life together, finally."

Rory wanted to sink through the floor.

Once they were all on campus at her dorm, things got heated. Dean had told an officer that they should question another ex-boyfriend named Jess Mariano. When they asked Lorelai about Jess, with Luke standing there, he turned on Dean, screaming at him for being such a baby because Rory dumped him years ago for Jess. Two officers had to pull them apart as they started to wrestle.

"I was with Rory here months ago, after dinner, after her final final, and Jess was lurking by her door when we got there. She asked me to leave, and didn't seem thrilled to see him. He looked crazy to me. It's worth checking out, to find Rory. Isn't that the most important thing?"

"Jess was waiting for Rory after he finals? She was eating dinner with you? Why am I hearing this new right now?"

An officer went with Dean into Paris' room to ask more questions.

"Were you and Ms. Gilmore still dating at the time when you ran into Jess?"

"No, I was married and we were only friends."

"Do you live here?"

"No, Stars Hollow."

"How often did you come here to visit your ex? What did your wife think about that?"

"Ex wife."

"Mr. Forrester, was something going on between the two of you? Were you having an affair?"

"Um, well..."

It was too much for Lorelai. Rory, her beautiful, intelligent daughter was missing, and she had just learned that Rory and Dean were having an affair last summer. Now his sudden divorce made sense. Lindsey and her family moving away. Now that she looked back, Rory had been evasive about several things...and Jess? She never liked him. Rory told her that Jess declared his love to her as he left Stars Hollow after the Firelight Festival. She left out the late night dorm visit. What happened then?

Who had her daughter? Jess was unaccounted for. Luke was a mess. He too loved Rory like a daughter, and he was obviously torn up about the insinuations about Jess. Did he think Jess was capable of something like this? She wanted to see Logan and Paris.

"Officer Tomkins, when can I see Paris and Logan? I really need to talk to them as they were the last people to talk to Rory."

"They should be here shortly. Do you know if your daughter had a suitcase here? There's a theory that she may have been taken from the shower and stuffed in a large suitcase so she could be wheeled out of here undetected. That's one scenario we are working on. Ms. Gellar said she believed a suitcase had been in Rory's closet, and now it is gone. Because of the condition of the bathroom, Ms. Gellar believes Rory was taken from the shower, because Ms. Gellar's bath towel is missing."