Party of Five (TV Series)

The Intervention (1997)

Scott Wolf: Bailey 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 : Bailey, your father was an alcoholic... just like you. Belive me, I was there. I've known him all my life. He was sober for 18 years before he died. But for many years before that, years...

  Bailey Salinger : Bull! That's a load of crap! I don't believe you! I thought that you couldn't get any lower then what they did. Lying about Owen. Saying he was hurt to get me to come over here, but you... you son of a bitch!

  Joe Mangus : Come on, Bailey.

  Bailey Salinger : What do you think? You think that just because he's dead you can say anything you want about him?

  Joe Mangus : He'd want you to know if he were alive right now. He'd want me to tell you.

  Bailey Salinger : My father was not an alcoholic! I am NOT an alcoholic! Get out of here, Joe. Get the hell out of here! I don't need to listen to this!

  [to Charlie] 

  Bailey Salinger : Have you heard this load of crap? Have you? Or, hey this was probally your genius idea, right? Let's get Joe to say that Dad... Nick Salinger, was a drunk and then maybe...

  Charlie Salinger : Joe... is that true?

  Julia Salinger : [as Joe nods]  I don't believe it.

  Bailey Salinger : You see?

  Charlie Salinger : He didn't... I would have known.

  Joe Mangus : You were just a little kid when he quit, Charlie. You were only six when he stopped drinking for good. You were probably too young to recognize the signs.

  Charlie Salinger : What signs?

  Joe Mangus : As far back as you can remember to when you were six, do you remember him coming home from the restaurant late every night, and I would always be with him when he walked in the front door?

  Julia Salinger : That doesn't mean... look, he had a business to run.

  Charlie Salinger : He liked hanging out with you and the guys late after work, shooting the bull...

  Joe Mangus : And drinking... a lot.

  Julia Salinger : No.

  Joe Mangus : Honey, I was the one who had to drive him home night after night from the restaurant because he was so drunk that he couldn't drive himself. That's why I was always with him when he came home. Remember, Charlie?

  Julia Salinger : [to Charlie]  Did he?

  Charlie Salinger : [in denial]  I don't know. I don't remember.

  Joe Mangus : Come on. I think you do. Don't you remember the fights and arguments he had with your mother afterwords? The shouting behind closed doors? It was very bad for a long time. If he hadn't gotten the help he needed when he did, he might not have lived to...

  Julia Salinger : But I never saw him drunk or take a drink in my life. Not once. Not even a bottle of beer or a glass of wine.

  Joe Mangus : That's right. And why do you think? Not a drop, not an ounce, nothing. He owned a restaurant. Hell, he owned a bar. Why never a sip? Because he knew he couldn't... ever. That's what it's like to be an alcoholic.

• Bailey Salinger : At least I'm still in school. I'm not the one dropping out here. What are you gonna do, huh? Take a year off so you can get pregnant again?

• Bailey Salinger : [to Sarah]  It's funny, because this is what we used to talk about, remember? And I finally have an answer to that question that you asked me. When you were looking for your mom... your real biological mother, and you would say to me, "I wonder what I got from her? My voice... or my dark hair?" Remember? And you asked me what I got from my parents since you never met them before they died three years ago. It's like Claudia plays the violin like mom. And Julia looks just like her, and Charlie looks like him. And this is what I got. This is what my father gave me.

• Bailey Salinger : [to Sarah]  You think that I'm an alcoholic. Why don't you just say it? That's what you came here to say, isn't it?

  Sarah Reeves : I think you're an alcoholic.

  Bailey Salinger : Well, well, I think you're full of crap. I think you're all full of crap. And if you think I'm gonna hang around here and listen to you all tell me what a lush you think I am, as delightful as that sounds, it's been real.

  Sarah Reeves : If we're all wrong then why are you running away? See, you leave now and all that does is say to us, "Bailey's got a problem and he's too afraid to deal with it." So, so okay. So I'm wrong. So we're all full of crap. So set us straight, Bailey. Explain it. You know, make us see it from your side.

  [pauses] 

  Sarah Reeves : Stay.