Party of Five (TV Series)

Spring Breaks: Part 2 (1996)

Scott Wolf: Bailey Salinger

Quotes 

• Charlie Salinger : Did you get milk for Owen? We're completely out.

  Bailey Salinger : [angry]  Nope. Get it yourself.

  Charlie Salinger : It's your turn. I got it last...

  Bailey Salinger : Hey! You know what? Save it, Charlie! I don't need a lesson on how to take care of things, especially from a child like you!

  Charlie Salinger : What the hell is that supposed to mean?

  Bailey Salinger : That's supposed to mean nice going at the restaurant today!

  Charlie Salinger : Bailey...

  Bailey Salinger : No, you really stood up yourself... for all of us, you pushover!

  Charlie Salinger : Nothing good was going to come by making some kind of scene with Kathleen.

  Bailey Salinger : How about a little self-respect? Huh? Maybe showing Claudia that you didn't just give the place away?

  Charlie Salinger : What was I supposed to do? Confront Kathleen and tell her to leave? She would have called the police and had me arrested... and probably you and Joe too if you intervened. She then would have come after our money by suing us and my making all of us liable for her investment group losing funds since she invested so much in the restaurant. That woman is taking the restaurant just to get back at me for breaking up with her, and who knows what more crazy things she's capable of? What am I supposed to do? Tell me what you want me to do!

  Bailey Salinger : No, Charlie! This is your problem! You brought this on yourself! You're the reason why Kathleen is doing this to us! This is all your fault for dating that woman in the first place! It's your problem! You deal with it! I am sick and tired of taking care of everything and worrying about everyone all the time, okay? I've had it with buying milk and diapers for our late parents baby or fixing your screw ups! I've had it! Goodbye, Charlie!

  Charlie Salinger : [suddenly alarmed]  Wait a minute! This is something more besides the restaurant, right?

  Bailey Salinger : [deflecting the question]  No, this is about you! This is about your screw ups! And I don't get it, because if I were you, I would not be moping around here all day feeling sorry for myself, or going out at night and getting into bar fights and getting arrested for being drunk and disorderly. If I were you, I'd be spending every single second of every single day trying to figure out how to fix this!

• Bailey Salinger : I want you to see something.

  [Bailey shows Charlie a note, which Charlie picks it up and skims through it] 

  Charlie Salinger : You got into college? New Hampshire state?

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah, I got in. It's pretty big for someone like me. And a real school, not a little community college thing. It's even better then that. How are we going to afford sending me to college? So I actually got someone to pay for it too. Jake was going to pay for it. A $40,000 scholarship. He was putting away money so that I can go to school.

  Charlie Salinger : Man, that's great! Why didn't you say something sooner? We gotta celebrate, Bay.

  Bailey Salinger : Right. I was not planing to tell anyone and just leave without saying a word. Only here's the thing, Charlie. Jake came here to see me earlier today and he told me that you went to him to ask for his help with what's happening with the restaurant.

  Charlie Salinger : Jake came to see you? Why would he...

  Bailey Salinger : He said he could take care of things. That he could use his money to pay off... or give to the owners of the building, like... like a bribe not to sell to Kathleen's investment group. He could save the place... or he could send me to school. One or the other, but he can't do both. And he left it up to me. He... left it up to me!

  Charlie Salinger : Bailey, I-I had no idea. He said he was going look into possiblities, and he hadn't got back to me so...

  Bailey Salinger : [interrupting]  You know what? Just shut up, Charlie! Sometimes I hate you so much! This is all your fault! This was it. This was finally it! I was gonna take care of myself for once in my life. For once! I was gonna get the hell out of here, out of this house, out of this city, out of this state... and away everyone I know, away from this life and start my life all over again... legally change my name, and never come back here... ever. I was this close!

  Charlie Salinger : So... go. If you really want to move far away to go to college and change your name, sever all ties to the family and never come back here... never call or visit again... just go.

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah, I'll explain that to Julia and Claudia when they find out that this was the one last chance I had to save the restaurant... our parents legacy... and that I passed it up for...

  Charlie Salinger : No. No one is gonna know. This will stay between you and me and Jake, and it never happened. The restaurant is history and you're going away to school. And I'm sorry, 'cause you're right about one thing. You deserve to get away from all this... from this life... and you should go. I want you to go. I'm telling you to go, Bay.

• [last lines] 

  Kirsten Bennett : [in Salinger's, door opens and Kirsten appears with the wedding dress on] 

  [to Charlie] 

  Kirsten Bennett : You said count to 50.

  [the siblings and Joe turn around surprised and Claudia shocked, sighs] 

  Kirsten Bennett : You didn't tell them?

  Charlie Salinger : [to Kirsten]  Uh, not yet.

  Kirsten Bennett : Here's an idea: Why don't I just go back to the truck and wait?

  Charlie Salinger : No, Kirsten, wait.

  [he reaches her] 

  Kirsten Bennett : No, Charlie. This was a bad idea. This... this is a bad time. This is your last dinner. You guys should...

  Joe Mangus : We're celebrating, actually.

  [while holding a happy Claudia] 

  Joe Mangus : The owner's decided not to sell. We're staying put.

  [Kirsten, surprised, smiles] 

  Bailey Salinger : You... you two didn't just...

  Julia Salinger : Did you two just...

  Claudia Salinger : What did you two just do?

  Charlie Salinger : [holding hands]  We... we did not get married.

  [chuckles] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Well, I didn't get married. I mean, I didn't, and we didn't. But... but mainly, I didn't. Um, I was about to, but I... kind changed my mind. The thing with me is... always a bride, never a bride.

  Julia Salinger : [everyone chuckles and smiles]  So, what does this mean?

  Charlie Salinger : Beats me.

  Kirsten Bennett : Beats us. But probably... something good.

  Charlie Salinger : Probably something pretty great.

  [chuckles] 

  Kirsten Bennett : [Julia leaves Owen, who runs to Kirsten's arms]  Hi, you.

  [she happily holds him] 

  Charlie Salinger : [to Owen]  Hey.

  [all laughing] 

  Charlie Salinger : So, what are the chances of getting something to eat around here?

  Joe Mangus : Manicotti in five. The table needs setting. Make yourselves useful.

  [the family happily reaches a table to have dinner] 

• Sarah Reeves : You're not gonna give me a chance, are you? You don't treat people you love like that. You just don't!

  Bailey Salinger : Sarah...

  Sarah Reeves : Yeah, so we had problems. I push you away too much because you're too overprotective. I spend too much time with the band. You don't like me changing. So what? So you sit down and you talk about things. You don't just say "it's over" just like that!

  Bailey Salinger : I just... I hate you feeling sorry for me.

  Sarah Reeves : What?

  Bailey Salinger : I heard that's what you told Matt. That you're staying with me is because you feel sorry for me.

  Sarah Reeves : I never said that. I said that I felt bad about all the things you've been through. Your parents death. You think with you because I feel sorry for you? That you're an orphan? That your parents died? You don't want to be around me because I feel sorry that you?

  Bailey Salinger : Exactly.

  Sarah Reeves : Bailey, I'm completely... completely in love with you. And I thought that was enough. But I guess it's not. I guess you want me to go away, and you want me to disappear. You want everyone in your life to disappear so you can make a fresh start by going away to college... far away to start over, change your name, and never come back. Start over someplace else with someone else, where nobody knows you or pities you. What you're doing is exactly what your Grandfather Jake did to your mother and grandmother. You can spin it all you want, but in reality you're running away because you can't deal with the pain or of your life problems!

  Bailey Salinger : [sighs]  I'm not. I'm not going. I'm not going away to school. I'm going to stay here in San Francisco and enroll at a college here after I graduate. It's a done deal. I'm using my college money to save the restaurant. It's complicated. Jake worked out all the details.

  Sarah Reeves : I don't get it. I thought that getting out of here was the most important thing to you.

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah, so did I. But... the problem is that I've spent the last two years fighting, really fighting to keep us all together after our parents died. And so the idea... the idea that I'd be the first one to leave... I mean us being a family, no matter what was... was kind of the whole point. And you... you're the whole point. And I don't know what happened to me. Sarah, I don't, but... it was like for a second there, it just... it all just seemed like too much and I couldn't handle it. But the thing is... the thing is I have to handle it. I have to because... because being with you and... and taking care of all of them... that's kind of who I am.