Party of Five (TV Series)

The Trouble with Charlie (1995)

Neve Campbell: Julia Salinger

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• [last lines] 

  [Charlie enters the house] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Hey, sweetie. We're just going to read Owen a bedtime story.

  [Owen gurgling] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Charlie?

  Bailey Salinger : What's with you, man?

  Claudia Salinger : Are you okay?

  Julia Salinger : Did something happen?

  Charlie Salinger : I just... I can't do this anymore.

  Claudia Salinger : Do what?

  Bailey Salinger : What are you talking about?

  Charlie Salinger : [to Bailey]  You gave Bill his raise, huh? Even though I told you

  Bailey Salinger : Yeah, yeah, I just figured

  Charlie Salinger : Well, I don't want to hear about it, okay? I'm just... Bottom line, I am just sick of being second-guessed. And I am sick of being undercut, like it's just assumed whatever I do is wrong.

  [to Bailey] 

  Charlie Salinger : Like you never made a bad choice.

  Bailey Salinger : Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't... Look, if that's it

  Charlie Salinger : That's not it. That's not even close to being it. It's like I don't even have the authority to make a single decision and have everyone say, "Okay. That's the way it's gonna be because Charlie said so."

  Claudia Salinger : Is this all because of the sleepover?

  Charlie Salinger : No. It's like... What's yours is yours, and what's mine is yours. I don't have anything that is just mine. Not the money that I make, not the right to take a job.

  Julia Salinger : This is about Seattle.

  Charlie Salinger : [sighs]  It's all of it. It's everything. Everything is a fight. Nothing's easy. You won't let me make decisions, and you won't let me make the rules. You... You won't even let me make mistakes. And I... I... I can't keep doing this, and then know that you don't even appreciate it. You don't even respect me.

  Julia Salinger : Charlie, I swear we do.

  Charlie Salinger : [sighs]  And then I get angry and... I do things, Claud... that... I don't mean to do. And that really scares me. I mean, that makes me think I got to get away.

  [to Kirsten] 

  Charlie Salinger : And not just for a four-day weekend or a week. I mean, really away.

  [to Claudia] 

  Charlie Salinger : 'Cause if I ever actually hit you...

  Claudia Salinger : Charlie, you didn't hit me. Just forget about it.

  Charlie Salinger : No.

  Julia Salinger : Charlie...

  Charlie Salinger : You need me to be a man, but... You won't let me be one. And... I have to have something that's just mine, something that I don't have to fight for... or beg for.

  [sighs] 

  Charlie Salinger : And I... I can't breathe here anymore. So... I'm getting my own place. I'm moving out.