Rory's lost her breath and tears started to whelm in her eyes.

"Rory.." Dean lightly shook her. "Rory..."

"I want to go home." she mumbled.

"We are." Dean confirmed. He guided her over to his truck. They pulled into the drive way. Rory had being crying softly the whole way home. Dean searched for the right words to say, but came up with nothing. He opened the door for Rory and helped her out. She was shaky, and seemed a bit detached from reality. Dean was starting to become seriously worried about her. Rory handed Dean the key to unlock the door, they walked inside and Dean guided Rory over to the couch. "Sit here. I'll bring you some water." Dean hurried to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge. He rushed it back to Rory's side. "Here."

Rory took a large gulp of water. She calmed herself down. "Thank you." she said wiping away at the last of her tears.

"Are you okay?" Dean asked.

"I just can't believe..." Rory said staring off into the air. "Who... Who would do something like that?"

Dean was just as puzzled as Rory. "I don't know." he replied. "I wish I did. It has to be someone we know."

Rory's heart thumped when she heard this. "Dean..."

"Well, I mean it's a small town." he defended. "There's only so many people who could have done it."

"No one in Stars Hollow would commit a murder." Rory replied.

Dean looked away and then focused back on Rory. "Apparently, someone would."

Lorelai came walking into the house. "Hey..." Rory and Dean both jumped, followed by Rory letting out a small scream. "Okay..." Lorelai replied a little unsure. "Did I walk in on something?" she teased.

"Mom." Rory's eyes began to water again. She raised from the couch and walked over to her mother.

Lorelai was clueless as to what was going on. She immediately dropped the joking attitude and kicked into mother mode. "Rory, what's wrong?" Lorelai reached out to her daughter and pulled her close.

Rory sniffled. "Someone killed Taylor." she whined.

"What?" Lorelai held Rory back and looked at her.

Dean came over to the girls. "Taylor..." he sputtered. "He was murdered."

Lorelai's face became pale. "There was a murder?" Dean shook his head. "In Stars Hollow? When?" Lorelai's breathing became heavy.

"A couple of hours ago, maybe? I'm not sure on the time frame." Dean replied.

Lorelai felt dizzy. "I need to sit down."

Lorelai and Rory took a seat on the couch. Dean remained standing by the window. Silence fell over the house. It was quiet. The kind of quiet that you've always dreaded. The dead quiet. You could hear wind chimes tinkling on the porch, and a dog barking a couple of houses over. If you breathed in heavy enough, you could smell the death in the air. Rory finally broke the silence.

"Where were you?" She asked, directing her question at Lorelai.

"I've been at the inn." Lorelai replied, you know that.

"How did you not see all the people?" Rory asked.

"What people, sweetie?" Lorelai asked, not following Rory's train of thought.

"All the people in front of Taylor's house. You had to see them, you passed right by."

"Oh, no.." Lorelai replied. "I came in to town from the north side."

"You never do that." Rory answered.

" Today I had to go see Mrs. Gingers. She's wanting to have a dinner at the inn next weekend. She's doesn't move around to well in her old age, so she asked me to come to her house."

"Oh." Rory whispered.

Dean was tired of just standing around. He wanted to be there for Rory, but Lorelai was here now. He wanted answers. He wanted to find out exactly what had happened.

"I'm going to go into town." Dean grabbed his keys from the table.

"Dean..." Rory began.

"It's okay." he stopped her. "I'm going to find out what's going on."

"I'm coming too." Lorelai replied standing.

"Then I guess we'e all going." Rory added.

(Taylor's House)

"This is unbelievable." The cop replied. "Cut his head completely off his body."

"Grossest thing I've ever seen." Another cop stated. "The bastard that did this must have some serious psychological problems."

"Hey, Mike, why don't you tell those people to clear out alright?"

Mike shook his head. He walked outside. Immediately it feel silent.

"You all should go on back to your houses. There's nothing more to see here."

"Who did this?" A voice yelled.

Mike cleared his throat. "We don't know, yet. But we'll find out."

"How can we feel safe with some crazy murderer lose in our town?"

"Yeah!"

"People, please." Mike hushed. "Who ever did this will be captured and punished we promise. For now, return to your houses."

Mumbling went on throughout the crowd as they scattered this way and that. By the time Lorelai Dean, and Rory reached the crime scene, there was no one. The three got out of the truck and headed up towards Taylor's house. An officer stopped them.

"Hey.. You can't go in there." the officer replied.

"We want to know what's going on." Dean shot back.

"Kid, this is a murder scene you can't just walk in."

Lorelai stepped in. "Excuse me.. Hi, I'm Lorelai Gilmore. I live here in town. I'm a little unsure about what's happened here. Can you please fill me in?"

"Ma'am, I'm not allowed to give out information."

"I'm not asking for much." Lorelai replied.

"There's been a murder." the officer finally confessed. "Mr. Doose."

"We know that." Dean replied. "Who did it? How did it happen? When?" he pushed on.

"Sorry, even if I had that information, I couldn't expose it to you. You folks need to just get on back to your house. We're handling everything."

(Luke's diner)

"Jess?" Luke called upstairs. "Jess?"

"What?" Jess's voice shot down the stairs.

"Come down here."

The sound of boots came closer and closer. "What?"

"What is that?" Luke pointed to Taylor's house.

"Taylor's house." Jess replied.

"Why are there police at Taylor's house?" Luke asked in a heavy tone.

"I don't know." he folded his arms.

Luke's voice raised. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything. I've been here all day filling in for you!" Jess shot back.

Luke rubbed his face and sighed. "Jess..."

"I didn't do anything." Jess repeated slowly. He stared at Luke for moment. "Why bother?" he turned and took back up the stairs.

(The street)

"I'm going to head home." Dean spoke. "My family is probably worried."

"Good idea." Lorelai replied. "I'll take over from here." she placed her arm around Rory. They walked into Luke's, it was nearly empty.

"Lorelai." Luke said as soon as she walked in. "What's going on?"

Surprisingly, it wasn't as hard to say as Lorelai thought it would be. "Taylor's dead."

Luke was taken aback "What?"

"Someone killed him." She and Rory sat down at a table.

"Someone killed Taylor?" Luke clarified coming over closer to them. "Who? When?"

"No one knows." Lorelai replied. "The police aren't saying anything."

"Wow." Luke whispered.

"Yeah." Lorelai agreed.

"I mean, you think you live in a safe town."

"Yeah." Lorelai shook her head.

"Taylor and I had our fights you know? But death... he didn't deserve that." Luke sat down beside them.

"No one does." Rory added.

Luke focused on Rory for a moment. "This hit you kind of hard." he noted.

"It's just scarey." She replied. "Someone did that. And they're still here."

"Well, you don't know that for sure." Lorelai remarked. "Perhaps they left town. Perhaps they're hundreds of miles away already." She tried to keep the worst of thoughts out of Rory's mind.

"Or maybe they're right here in town..."

"Luke." Lorelai scolded accompanied with an irate look.

"No sense in sugar coating this, Lorelai." he replied. "We're all in danger."