Nicole Barber:
[while arguing with Charlie] You're being so much like your father.
Charlie Barber:
[angered and hurt by the remark] DO NOT COMPARE ME TO MY FATHER!!!
Nicole Barber:
[getting smart with him] I didn't compare you to him. I said you were acting like him.
Charlie Barber:
You're exactly like your mother. Everything you were complaining about her, you're doing. You're suffocating Henry.
Nicole Barber:
[offended] First of all, I-I love my mother. She was a wonderful mother.
Charlie Barber:
I'm just repeating what you told me.
Nicole Barber:
Secondly, how dare you compare my mothering to my mother! I may be like my father, but I am not like my mother!
Charlie Barber:
[trying to get it through her head] YOU ARE!!! And you're like my father! You're also like my mother! YOU'RE ALL THE BAD THINGS ABOUT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE!!! But mostly your mother. When we would lie in bed together, sometimes I would look at you and see her, and just feel so gross!
Nicole Barber:
[disgusted] I felt repulsed when you touched me!
Charlie Barber:
[annoyed while going through the pantrys] You're a slob. I made all the beds, closed all the cabinets, picked up after you like an infant!
Nicole Barber:
The thought of having sex with you makes me wanna peel my skin off.
Charlie Barber:
You’ll never be happy. In LA or anywhere! You’ll think you found some better, opposite guy than me, a-and in a few years, you’ll rebel against him because you need to have your voice, but you don’t want a voice! You just want to fucking complain about not having a voice!
Nicole Barber:
I think of being married to you and that woman is a stranger to me! I mean, we had a.... child’s.... marriage....
Charlie Barber:
You’ve regressed. You’ve gone back to your life before you met me. It’s pathetic.
Nicole Barber:
People used to tell me that you were too selfish to be a great artist. I used to defend you. They were absolutely right.
Charlie Barber:
All your best acting is behind you. You’re back to being a HACK!!
Nicole Barber:
[on the brink of tears] You gaslighted me! You’re a fucking villain!
Charlie Barber:
Oh, you wanna present yourself as a victim because it’s a good legal strategy?! FINE, [Nicole shakes her head in shame] BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW YOU CHOSE THIS LIFE!!! You wanted it until you didn’t! You used me so you could get out of LA.
Nicole Barber:
[warningly] I didn’t use you....
Charlie Barber:
[holding back laughter] You did, and then you blamed me for it. You always made me aware of what I was doing wrong, [voice trembles] how I was falling short! 'LIFE WITH YOU WAS JOYLESS!!!'
Nicole Barber:
[running out of words to throw at him] What, so you had to go and fuck someone else?!
Charlie Barber:
[tired of being reminded of his adultery] YOU SHOULDN'T BE UPSET THAT I FUCKED HER, YOU SHOULD BE UPSET THAT I HAD A LAUGH WITH HER!!!!
Nicole Barber:
[wanting to know if Mary Ann meant anything to him] Do you love her?!
Charlie Barber:
[annoyed] 'NOO!!' But she didn’t hate me. You hated me!
Nicole Barber:
You hated me! You fucked someone we worked with!
Charlie Barber:
[not listening] You stopped having sex with me in the last year! I never cheated on you!
Nicole Barber:
That was cheating on me!
Charlie Barber:
[still not listening] But there’s so much I could've done! I was a director in my 20s who came from nothing and was suddenly on the cover of fucking Time Out New York! I was hot shit, and I wanted to fuck everybody and I didn’t! And I loved you and I didn’t wanna lose you! But I’m in my 20s and I didn’t wanna lose that too, and I kinda did! And you wanted so much so fast! I didn't even want to get married. And....'FUCK IT!!!!' There's so much I didn't do.
Nicole Barber:
[chuckles sarcastically] Thanks for that!
Charlie Barber:
[also sarcastically] YOU'RE WELCOME!!
Nicole Barber:
[hurt by his statement and jumping like a maniac] I can't believe I have to know you FOREVER!!!!
Charlie Barber:
[losing his patience with her] You're fucking insane! [punches the wall in a rage] AND YOU'RE FUCKING WINNING!!!!
Nicole Barber:
[appalled] Are you kidding me?! I wanted to be married! I’d already lost! [sadly] You didn’t love me as much as I loved you!
Charlie Barber:
[trying to calm down; realizing that they're way off topic] What does that have to do with LA? [Nicole stares at him, incredulous] What?!
Nicole Barber:
You're so merged with your own selfishness, you don't even identify it as selfishness anymore! YOU'RE SUCH A DICK!!!
Charlie Barber:
[finally fed up; very harshly, still refusing to listen] EVERY DAY, I WAKE UP AND I HOPE YOU'RE DEAD!!!!! [voice breaking] DEAD, LIKE, IF I COULD GUARANTEE HENRY WOULD BE OKAY, I'D HOPE YOU GET AN ILLNESS, AND THEN GET HIT BY A CAR AND DIE!!!!!
[He begins weeping, and then falls to his knees as Nicole hugs him]
Charlie Barber:
[through tears] I'm sorry.
Nicole Barber:
[comforting him] Me too.
