Later that afternoon, Babette tells Luke that Richard has had a heart attack. Luke is shocked; he asks if Richard is okay. Babette says that she thinks he's okay but she isn't sure. Luke thanks Babette for telling him. He decides to go to the hospital to see if he can help Lorelai or Rory or Emily in anyway. Lorelai was there when April was sick, so Luke figures the least he could do is be there, to show he still cares.
Luke tells Caesar and Zach to look after the diner while he's gone and drives to the hospital. He tries to get information from the reception desk, but they can't give him any since he's not family. But, the women behind the desks points down the hall, and sure enough, there is Lorelai, Emily, Rory and Logan. He walks over to them and tells Lorelai that Babette told him that Richard had a heart attack.
"I just walked right out of the diner and drove straight here. Now that I'm here I realize I might be in the way, but if there's anything I can do, I want to do it." He tells Lorelai and he notices that she smiled at him.
Luke says he doesn't want to cause any weirdness with Chris; Lorelai informs him that Chris isn't there, but he should be soon.
"Okay, I'll just get out of here." Luke replies, not wanting to cause any trouble.
Emily tells Luke that he can pick up Richard's car from Yale. Lorelai protests, "Mom, he can't do that." But Luke says it's no problem. He just wants to help any way he can. Lorelai protests again, but Luke tells her: "Seriously. It's no problem." And when Emily offers to pay him, he rejects the money, "Thanks, really, really, it's my pleasure." Lorelai thanks him before he leaves and he just nods. He just wants to help her in her time of need, like she did for him.
Luke returns to the hospital with food from the diner a few hours later. He decides to leave the food at the reception desk, but Lorelai come up behind him.
"Hey, you're back."
"Oh. Hey. I just didn't want to bug you. I just wanted to drop some food off for you guys and get going."
"Luke, you didn't have to do that." Lorelai says.
"No it's all right. I… just wanted to make some stuff anyway so… alright, I'm gonna get out of here now." He lies about the food, he only made for them. He looks away, felling a bit awkward about the situation. But he looks back at her when she tells him that Richard is okay and the surgery went well.
"Oh, that's terrific. That is such good news." Luke says, meaning every word. After experiencing losing his own dad, he can't imagine how Lorelai or Rory would cope with it.
"He's doing really well; they think he'll be able to go home in a couple days." Lorelai tells him.
"Oh, that's so good… yeah. So, how's he looking?" Luke asks, concerned.
"Um…he looks good…big…tall." She says with a smile.
Luke is happy to see her smile at a time like this. He's missed her smile. "That's good. Yeah, he's tall. He's a big man." Luke says, remembering golfing with Richard a couple years ago.
"He's a big, tall man." Lorelai smiles again and Luke smiles back. He tells her all the food he brought, including fish for Richard since Emily and Lorelai mentioned something about fish earlier. Christopher shows up suddenly, Luke wonders why he wasn't here earlier. Your wife's father had a heart attack and you weren't here to support her? You weren't here to offer her a shoulder to cry on?
"All right, I'm gonna get going." Luke says, knowing that it wouldn't be right to stay.
"Yeah, you should." Christopher tells him. Luke glares at him. You're gonna say that to me after I was here and you weren't?
Luke turns his gaze to Lorelai, "I'm glad your dad's doing good." He tells her before leaving.