Lorelai makes Jason promise not to tell her parents about their budding romance, but she is still shocked to hear that Richard and Emily attended a charity event and saw Jason there with a date. When Rory and Paris take part in an all-night hazing ritual for new staffers of the Yale newspaper, Rory finds herself making excuses to the paper's neurotic editor, Doyle, after Paris sneaks out to meet Professor Flemming. Meanwhile, Lane gets a job working for Luke at the diner and Michel babysits for Sookie's son.