Charlie and Avery in “Hitting Bottom”

Charlie

Why did you tell Claudia all that stuff about our father?

Well, she came in all upset, and I just--

Charlie

Exactly. Exactly! She's upset. She's upset about drinking in our family, so you tell her that her father was some kind of abusive drunk? Why would you do that?

Charlie, wait--

Charlie

Because this whole alcoholism thing, the way it works, she's gonna think that whatever happened to Dad is gonna happen to Bailey!

She asked me what I remember. All I did was--

Charlie

The fact of the matter is that Dad was never that bad! I remember him from back then too, you know, and I don't remember any of the stuff that you told Claudia. I mean, he drank too much, sure, and there was some yelling, definitely, but he got his act together pretty quickly, and Bailey will too. So as far as all this stuff you told Claudia, I don't know, maybe you have your own reasons for believing it, but we don't need to hear it, okay?

You think I'm carrying out some sort of old grudge against Nick?

Charlie

Everyone knows you were in love with her, so of course you're going to blow up every flaw he had. You didn't want to believe that he belonged with her.

That's not it.

Charlie

You're just trying to get back at him.

That's not even close, Charlie. Because there's so much worse that I could have told her.