- 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?
- [last lines]
- [Bailey aproaches a comatose and scared Sarah in her hospital bed]
- Bailey Salinger: Will... will you help me?
- 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.
- Charlie Salinger: [to Avery] Why did you tell Claudia all that stuff about our father?
- Avery Baltus: Well, she came in all upset, and I just...
- Charlie Salinger: Exactly. Exactly! She's upset. She's upset about drinking in our family, so you tell her that her father was some kind of abusive drunk? Why would you do that?
- Avery Baltus: Charlie, wait...
- Charlie Salinger: Because this whole alcoholism thing, the way it works, she's gonna think that whatever happened to Dad is gonna happen to Bailey!
- Avery Baltus: She asked me what I remember. All I did was...
- Charlie Salinger: The fact of the matter is that Dad was never that bad! I remember him from back then too, you know, and I don't remember any of the stuff that you told Claudia. I mean, he drank too much, sure, and there was some yelling, definitely, but he got his act together pretty quickly and Bailey will too. So as far as all this stuff you told Claudia, I don't know. Maybe you have your own reasons for believing it, but we don't need to hear it, okay?
- Avery Baltus: You think I'm carrying out some sort of old grudge against Nick?
- Charlie Salinger: Everyone knows you were in love with her, so of course you're going to blow up every flaw he had. You didn't want to believe that he belonged with her.
- Avery Baltus: That's not it.
- Charlie Salinger: You're just trying to get back at him.
- Avery Baltus: That's not even close, Charlie. Because there's so much worse that I could have told her.
- 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.
- Bailey Salinger: [to Owen] Who's your favorite brother?
- [Owen doesn't answer him]
- Bailey Salinger: Bailey, stupid!
- Owen Salinger: Bailey, stupid!
- Bailey Salinger: Okay, we're gonna have to work on that one.