Party of Five1994

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 sneak away without a word. Only here's the thing, Charlie. Jake came to see me today and he told me that you went to him to ask for his help 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. For what you did with Kathleen and the restaurant. 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! And I was gonna get the hell out of here, out of this house, out of this city, out of this state, and 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 and you should go. I want you to go. I'm telling you to go, Bay.