Party of Five (TV Series)
Hitting Bottom (1997)
Lacey Chabert: Claudia Salinger
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Quotes
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Julia Salinger : Just what the hell do you think you're doing?
Bailey Salinger : Excuse me?
Julia Salinger : Come here, Owen. Are you okay?
Bailey Salinger : What's the matter with you? Of course he's okay.
Julia Salinger : [to Owen] Let's get you ready for dinner.
Charlie Salinger : Where the hell have you been? Where the hell have you been?
Bailey Salinger : Where the hell have I been? I took Owen for a ride. What the hell is so the hell about it?
Charlie Salinger : You took him from daycare without telling anybody and then you kept him all day without calling.
Bailey Salinger : I spent the afternoon with my little brother. What's the big deal? I do it all the time.
Charlie Salinger : No, you don't! The last couple months you've been totally AWOL.
Bailey Salinger : Well, then I'm making up for lost time. What's wrong with that?
Charlie Salinger : Because we had no way of knowing... How are we supposed to...
Bailey Salinger : If I was drunk? Is that what this is about? You thought I'd be wasted. Right? You thought I'd drive around wasted and get Owen killed.
Charlie Salinger : Well, are you?
Bailey Salinger : Oh, that's really sweet. Just when I thought my family couldn't love me any less.
Charlie Salinger : Have you had anything to drink?
Bailey Salinger : No, I haven't.
Charlie Salinger : Let me smell your breath.
Bailey Salinger : Get away from me.
Charlie Salinger : You have! You've been drinking!
Bailey Salinger : I had a beer, Charlie. One beer.
Charlie Salinger : You drank and you drove with your little brother in the car!
Bailey Salinger : I am completely sober! Okay? You wanna give me a test?
Charlie Salinger : I don't believe you! Somebody oughta..
Bailey Salinger : Well, come on! Go on!
Julia Salinger : No, Charlie! Charlie, Charlie, stop it!
Claudia Salinger : Charlie!
Julia Salinger : Stop!
Claudia Salinger : Charlie!
Julia Salinger : Stop!
Claudia Salinger : Stop, Charlie!
Julia Salinger : Stop!
Claudia Salinger : Stop it!
[to Bailey]
Claudia Salinger : Bailey.
Charlie Salinger : Just stay away from Owen, you hear me? You can wreck your own life, but you're not gonna hurt him!
Bailey Salinger : He's my brother!
Charlie Salinger : No, he's not!
Bailey Salinger : I can't believe that you people...
Sarah Reeves : Bailey! We gotta go after him. Right? I mean, obviously this isn't working, he isn't gonna learn anything like this. He's been drinking and now he's gonna drive and we've gotta do something! Right? Right?
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Avery Baltus : Claudia, please. I really don't...
Claudia Salinger : No! Because I know what you're doing. You're trying to protect me, but see, you're not.
Avery Baltus : How does it help you to think bad things about your father?
Claudia Salinger : I don't want to think bad things, Avery. I want to think good things, but I can't because whenever I try... whenever I remember him posing us for one of those stupid Christmas cards, as a human pyramid or something, it seems fake, like I'm remembering something the way he wanted me to, but not how it really was.
Avery Baltus : He drank too much, Claudia. What more do you need to know?
Claudia Salinger : I want to know what he was like. What he was really like.
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Charlie Salinger : I'm sorry, Claud. I shouldn't have yelled at you, but I don't get it. I don't get why you're so mad at him.
Claudia Salinger : Because of what he did to us.
Charlie Salinger : But what did he do to you, really? Because he didn't make Bailey drink. I know you think he did, but...
Claudia Salinger : Yes, he did. He gave him his problem.
Charlie Salinger : No, Claud. Even if he did get the alcoholism from him, Dad couldn't help that, any more than Mom could help giving you her music.
Claudia Salinger : Maybe not, but he could help what he did to her. He could help being a bad husband and a bad father.
Charlie Salinger : He wasn't, Claud. He quit drinking. He made himself better, and the guy he was after that, you loved him. You thought he was a great father.
Claudia Salinger : I don't care. I don't think that anymore.
Charlie Salinger : You know, I've made a lot of mistakes, too. Stuff that's hurt this family and I tell myself that you need to screw up before you can learn, you know? Maybe you've got to be a lousy person before you can be a good one. And Owen, I mean... what if someday, Owen looks at me the way you're looking at Dad? Because if he does, there's no reason he won't decide to hate me.
Claudia Salinger : You're different, Charlie. The stuff you did, it's just not the same thing.
Charlie Salinger : Yes, it is. It's exactly the same. He was a good father, Claud, and if he was still around, he'd be a good father now.
[long silence]
Charlie Salinger : Claudia?
Claudia Salinger : Is Bailey gonna be okay?
Charlie Salinger : I hope so, but I don't know.