Phillip Van Dyke

When Christopher's pregnant girlfriend, Sherry (recurring guest star MÄDCHEN AMICK), begins labor and asks Rory to stay with her at the hospital, Lorelai reminisces about the day Rory was born. In flashbacks, 16-year-old Lorelai (CHELSEA BRUMMET) learns she is pregnant, decides not to marry young Christopher (PHILLIP GLENN VAN DYKE) and leaves home with her new baby.

Grace and Robert E's efforts to enroll Anthony in school run into racial obstacles.

The detectives investigate the shooting death of a man whose brother is a registered sex offender. When Captain Fraker's trial gets underway, Sipowicz worries that his own testimony may have harmed the prosecution's case.

Jack and his squad search for a teenage girl, Clare Metcalf (Amber Tamblyn), who disappears from a mental hospital after she suffers an extreme psychotic episode. As the team members investigate Clare's disappearance, they begin to uncover conflicting evidence about her sanity. A hospital worker and her boyfriend think there is nothing wrong with her, but others believe she is extremely ill. The investigators also discover that the apparent suicide of Clare's mother may play a role in Clare's psychological state--and they begin to suspect that her mother's death may not have been self-inflicted after all.

After an examination at a hospital, Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) tells Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) that he has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Quinn convinces him to continue sliding with the group, and they land in a San Francisco of the mid-1980's. They have not gone back in time; this Earth rotates faster, causing a slowing of time. Quinn sees a funeral in progress, and realizes it is his father's. He recognizes a boy as a younger version of himself. After the ceremony, Heather Hanley (Leslie Horan) stops to talk to Quinn. She is the boy's home room teacher, whom Quinn had a crush on.