Party of Five (TV Series)

Where There's Smoke (1995)

Lacey Chabert: Claudia Salinger

Quotes 

• [Claudia knocks the door of Julia's room, gets in, and sees her brushing her hair] 

  Claudia Salinger : Are you gonna see Griffin today?

  Julia Salinger : If they let me.

  [she turns around] 

  Claudia Salinger : So he could go to jail, huh?

  Julia Salinger : I hope not. Maybe.

  Claudia Salinger : I really don't get it, Jule. I mean, why would he do this? Why would he steal from us?

  Julia Salinger : I don't know.

  Claudia Salinger : But doesn't it make you mad? Why aren't you mad at him, Julia? I'm mad at him.

  Julia Salinger : I don't know. I'm not sure. Sometimes people do stupid things. You know, like, when they feel really bad about themselves, and you just... You have to try and understand.

  Claudia Salinger : Okay. There's no way I can go with you. Right?

  Julia Salinger : I'm sorry.

• [Kirsten and Claudia are rearranging some paperwork in the backyard, and Charlie approaches them] 

  Charlie Salinger : You're not gonna believe this. Crack of dawn, I'm sitting there, right? And I should be getting a check. And that bastard Arbogast practically accused me of setting the fire. Me!

  Kirsten Bennett : What? Wait a minute. He said that?

  Charlie Salinger : Get this. He's been digging through my finances. And he found out about that loan I applied for after I took over

  Kirsten Bennett : Wait? What loan? You applied for a loan?

  Charlie Salinger : Yeah. Yeah. I told you that. We were tight making payroll. But I got turned down, and he said that was suspicious.

  Claudia Salinger : But I don't get it. What does that have to do with the fire?

  Charlie Salinger : Nothing. And then he starts going on about how I upped the insurance, which is totally ridiculous because we were under-insured in the first place.

  Kirsten Bennett : You upped the insurance? You didn't tell me about that.

  Charlie Salinger : I didn't tell you I bought new napkins either. It was no big deal. Only he tried to make it out like I set the fire so that I could collect the insurance. He's just stalling because he doesn't want to pay me what he owes me. Well, I set him straight. Man, can you believe that guy?

  [he leaves, and Kirsten stays thinking]