Party of Five (TV Series)

The Intervention (1997)

Lacey Chabert: Claudia Salinger

Quotes 

• Bailey Salinger : I drink.

  [long pause] 

  Bailey Salinger : Has anyone seen my coat?

  Claudia Salinger : That's it?

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah, Claud, that's it.

  Claudia Salinger : [sobbing]  No. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can't take this, Bailey. I mean, you can't do this anymore.

  Bailey Salinger : Claudia...

  Claudia Salinger : No, Bailey, I mean it, that's it. That's it. I will not stand by and let you slowly kill yourself by drinking to death. If you don't get help, I don't wanna see you. You can't talk to me, and you can't talk to Owen, and you can't come over to the house, and I'm not gonna come see you and I'm not gonna call you and I'm not even gonna think about you.

  Charlie Salinger : Claudia...

  Claudia Salinger : No!

  Claudia Salinger : [to Bailey, crying]  I love you. More than anyone else.

  [long pause] 

  Claudia Salinger : I love you the best. You know that. This is the only thing I have that I can take away from you. To make you stop. Either you get help right now, or get outta here!

  [after a long pause, Bailey exits the room without a word] 

• Joe Mangus : [after telling Bailey that their father was also an alcoholic]  I'm sorry, Claudia. I didn't know you were standing there.

  Claudia Salinger : It's OK. I should know, right? Who my father really was...

  Joe Mangus : That wasn't who he was. It was just a small part of him.

  Claudia Salinger : It isn't small. It's everything. He was an alcoholic.

  Joe Mangus : He stopped drinking long before you were even born, Claudia.

  Claudia Salinger : But it... it changes everything.

  Joe Mangus : How?

  Claudia Salinger : Because I thought I knew him!

  Joe Mangus : You did, sweetie! Everything you remember about your father is still true. He wasn't perfect, Claudia. He made mistakes, he had faults. It didn't make him any less of a person. Just made him human.