“Blind” quotes from 7th Heaven

Frankie

I came all this way to beg you in person. Please watch Mercy. Please. Be my friend, and do me this one favor. I just need an hour, and your sister said your aunt and uncle would be gone all day. [pauses] I think Johnny's cheating on me. I want to follow him, catch him in the act. And I can't do that unless you watch Mercy.

Mary

[hesitates] One hour, right?

Frankie

Two hours max.

Mary

Please don't blow this.

Frankie

I won't. I won't. I'll just go get Mercy.

Mary

You left her in the car?

Frankie

I rolled the window down. Man, you're the best friend ever. [leaves]

Mary

Yeah, or the stupidest friend ever.

None of this is my fault. I didn't want a baby. I didn't want to get married.

Eric

But you did want sex, right? That you did want. You just didn't want the responsibility that comes with the sex.

Annie

What are you doing?

Frankie

What do you mean?

Annie

What are you doing with that man?

Frankie

Look, Johnny is a great husband and father.

Annie

He tried to hit you. He would have hit you if my husband hadn't stepped in.

Frankie

But I love him, okay?

Annie

Do you love Mercy?

Frankie

Of course I love her!

Annie

Then why do you keep putting her at risk? If Johnny had hit you, or if someone had called the police, you and Johnny would be in jail right now. If that happened, then what would happen to Mercy?

Frankie

Are you actually suggesting that I leave Johnny? I can't raise a kid on my own.

Annie

You can't stay with a man who hits you. You can't. Mercy will grow up thinking that's what women do: they get hit. Is that what you want to teach her?

Julie

This was a mistake. I'm never leaving Erica again, ever!

Mary

Please don't say that.

Hank

We come home, the house is a mess, the baby is a mess, there's another baby here we don't even know. You had guests over after we told you not to, and you were drinking. What is wrong with you?

Mary

The beer isn't mine, it's Frankie's. Frankie drank it.

Hank

That's your defense. "The beer belongs to my pot-smoking friend?" How stupid do you think we are?

Julie

Let's just forget the fact that I'm a recovering alcoholic, and that any trace of alcohol in my house doesn't exactly make me happy. Let's assume that you're telling the truth, it's not your beer. Let's talk about how you, my underage niece, happens to have be involved with an underage friend who has beer. What's happened to you? Who are you?

Julie

I don't know if I believe Mary.

Hank

I think we should tell Eric and Annie about her--about the beer, and that she's still hanging out with Frankie.

Julie

I hate to get her in trouble. If this were an isolated incident. She wasn't drunk. She could be telling the truth.

Hank

But if she is in trouble, and we don't say anything, how are we going to feel later? That we knew she was in trouble, and we did nothing.

Lucy

I'm sorry about tonight I was trying to watch everyone and I shouldn't have let Simon sneak out of the house.

Eric

It's not your fault you weren't in charge of Simon. Simon is in charge of Simon.

Simon

[about his earring] But if I take it out, the hole will close up!

Eric

Exactly!

Simon

That's not fair. Why can't I keep the earring?

Ruthie

Because you look like a girl!

Annie

You went out of the house tonight without our permission. You went to the house of someone we don't know and have never met. At that house you allowed that someone we don't know to pierce your ear.

Eric

Be grateful that the only thing we're doing is making you take out your earring out.

Simon

Fine!

Lucy

Why don't you girls go outside and play, and I'll set us up a picnic lunch?

I don't like eating outside. It's a bug thing.

Lucy

Okay. Well, then, we'll have a picnic indoors.

Sarah

With orange soda?

I don't like orange soda, and neither does Ruthie.

Sarah

Ruthie likes orange soda.

Lucy

Who wants a cookie?

Ruthie's my best friend, and I think I know if she likes orange soda!

Sarah

She was my best friend first.

But you obviously don't know her as well as I do!

Sarah

Yes, I do.

NO, YOU DON'T!

Lucy

Really. Taste a cookie. They're still warm.

What's Ruthie's favorite color?

Sarah

Purple.

Blue! What does she want to be when she grows up?

Sarah

A vet.

Queen Elizabeth! See, I told you that you didn't know her. I know her. She's my best friend!

Lucy

[to Sarah and Rachel] Okay, I have been listening to you two all day, and a couple of things are clear. You both like Ruthie, and you both have a different relationship with Ruthie--which happens. Different people see different things in you, and they bring out different qualities, and...

No offense, but if I wanted an after-school special lecture, I'd turn on my TV.

Lucy

[to Rachel] Okay. You be quiet for a second and listen to me! [to Sarah] And you! well, you like adults. And I'm an adult, a very tired adult, who's tired of having to listen to you and Rachel fight. I need a time-out, an adult time-out, which can only happen if you both go home. Now. Right away. I will call your parents and tell them whatever you want me to tell them, but please just go home! I promise that Ruthie will have you both over again separately!