Party of Five (TV Series)

Have No Fear (1995)

Paula Devicq: Kirsten Bennett

Quotes 

• [Charlie and Kirsten walk down the street and start going up the stairs of the house] 

  Charlie Salinger : And drive down this street. Check out that paint job. My paint job.

  Kirsten Bennett : [laughs]  Great paint job, Charlie.

  Charlie Salinger : It's an $800 paint job. Not bad.

  [laughs] 

  Charlie Salinger : So lunch is on me. A big splurge.

  Kirsten Bennett : Let's go to Salinger's. I wanna check on Joe.

  Charlie Salinger : Okay.

  Kirsten Bennett : You're not worried about him?

  Charlie Salinger : Of course I'm worried about him. He's gotta take better care of himself.

  Kirsten Bennett : He's pretty sick, Charlie.

  Charlie Salinger : Yeah, he's sick. I know he's sick. He's got a heart problem. But he's gonna be okay.

  Kirsten Bennett : It's scary, isn't it? I mean, you love him.

  [they reach the porch] 

  Charlie Salinger : What? What are you doing, Kirsten?

  Kirsten Bennett : I'm trying to be realistic. Everybody's walking around like Joe just got diagnosed with a bad case of the hiccups or something.

  Charlie Salinger : He went into the hospital for observation. One night.

  Kirsten Bennett : [sighs]  Okay. But things are gonna have to change at Salinger's.

  Charlie Salinger : What?

  Kirsten Bennett : Someone's gonna have to run the place for him.

  Charlie Salinger : Then I'll help him find someone.

  [she gives him a serious look] 

  Charlie Salinger : No. No. Forget it. And you know what, Kirsten? You're just making trouble here, so cut it out. You didn't see his doctors running around getting nervous. I'm telling you, he's just gonna take it easy for a while. By Christmas, he'll be the same old Joe.

• [Kirsten comes to the restaurant near midnight and finds Charlie alone working on receipts] 

  Kirsten Bennett : Hey, you.

  Charlie Salinger : Hey. I'm almost done. I'm just double-checking these receipts. Actually, I'm triple-checking. I mean, I've closed up before, you know, but now it feels kind of... Different.

  [she sits in front of him] 

  Kirsten Bennett : My guess is you know what you're doing. You know this place the way Joe did, the way your father did.

  Charlie Salinger : No, it was different with Dad. He'd close up at 11:00, and then he'd make up this huge pot of spaghetti and sit around with Joe and the other guys and... They'd tell stories, you know, about the business, about their kids. At his funeral, guys he hadn't worked with for 15 years told stories like he was still their best friend. Because this place...

  [looking around the restaurant] 

  Charlie Salinger : Wasn't work for him. It was his life. He made it his life.

  Kirsten Bennett : Is that what you're afraid of, Charlie? Are you afraid of turning into your father?

  Charlie Salinger : No. No. I'm just afraid of not being as good as he was.