Season 3 (1996–1997)
| Series # |
Season # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 1 | "Summer Fun, Summer Not" | Steve Robman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | August 21, 1996 (1996-08-21) |
| Bailey and Will plan a trip to Mexico for Labor Day, but Sarah and Will's girlfirend, Gina, tag along. The car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and later the car is stolen, and the girls desert them. Bailey and Will end up having a fight over blaming each other for their predicament, but they realize that 10 years of friendship is not worth a fight. Kirsten's mother, Ellie, is spending a few days with them because her marriage is falling apart. She tells Kirsten that Gene discovered about an old affair of hers, and Kirsten won't forgive her until she forgives Charlie. Meanwhile, Julia runs into Griffin, who has arrived back in town without telling her. He tells her that after serving his sentence, he came back to visit his mother, but unwilling to live with his authoritarian father, he joined the Merchant Marines and is currently on shore leave for a few weeks. Julia gets somewhat angry that Griffin never answered her letters that she wrote to him while he was in New Orleans, because he claims not the type of person who communicates or writes letters. He tells her that he's still in love with her. Also, Claudia returns from summer camp in love with a boy who everybody thinks is made up, but he comes to visit Claudia and she gets mad at everybody for not believing her. | |||||
| 46 | 2 | "Going, Going, Gone" | Michael Engler | P.K. Simonds & Mark B. Perry | August 28, 1996 (1996-08-28) |
| Will is leaving for college in Seattle and his new roommate, Tucker, comes to meet him. Bailey feels threatened by his presence and they have a fight. Bailey finds his car and decides to live in a dorm to meet people and move on with his life. Kirsten gets a job far away and they have to deal with the distance. She tells Charlie that if they were married things might have been different. Meanwhile, Julia wants the immature and irresponsible Griffin to find a place of his own and gives him some money, but he spends all the money and his buying her a car to impress her. Later, Julia gets fired from her receptionist job after Griffin shows up there and confronts her stern boss after he won't leave. Julia and Griffin then have a serious argument where she tells him to grow up and stop acting like a lovesick wild child, and Griffin yells back claiming that he's always had a problem with authority stemming from his lifelong abuse and mistreatment by his abusive father. Griffin decides to leave town to settle in San Diego with the Merchant Marines to move on with his life and give Julia some space. Claudia wants her relationship with Byron to be just like Julia and Griffin's, but Byron is more interested in Julia than in her. As a result, Claudia breaks up with Byron and unfairly blames Julia for stealing her boyfriend. | |||||
| 47 | 3 | "Short Cuts" | Ellen S. Pressman | Lisa Melamed | September 4, 1996 (1996-09-04) |
| Bailey meets a guy, named Cooper, at his first day of college. This guy convinces Bailey to take easy classes so he can make good grades and have time to have fun. Bailey faces a very difficult computer test and finds cheating as the only way out. At Grant High School, Sarah, Julia and Justin are seniors competing for a writing competition that gives a college spot. Sarah and Julia are writing about their family dramas and Justin decides to write about Julia's pregnancy, which makes her really furious. After Kirsten's boss discovers that she copied her essay from a book, Charlie decides to help her and accidentally finds her anti-depressives prescription. Kirsten reveals that she has been diagnosed as a manic depressive which the symptoms apparently surfaced the previous year shortly after their aborted wedding. She loses her PhD and her job. | |||||
| 48 | 4 | "Deal With It" | Dennie Gordon | Susannah Grant | September 11, 1996 (1996-09-11) |
| Kristen is getting more and more depressed, and not even a job as Salinger's hostess makes her feel better. Charlie tries to help her as much as he can, but nothing seems to work, yet he refuses to give up on her. He wants her to get better fast and medication can take six weeks. Meanwhile, Cooper lets Bailey crash in his place. Julia starts to date him and things get awkward between the three of them. Bailey asks Julia not to date his friend, but she decides to date him anyway. Later she realizes how much she and Cooper don't have in common. Bailey is looking for a new place and finds a cheap apartment with a good roommate, an older woman named Callie Martel, who Sarah really doesn't like, but Bailey tells her not to worry. Also, Claudia has to find a plumber to fix the pipes and gets yelled at because it costs $3,000, but she says she's 13 and that was not her job. | |||||
| 49 | 5 | "Mixed Signals" | Ken Topolsky | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | September 18, 1996 (1996-09-18) |
| Cooper wants to sleep with Julia but she tells him that she is not ready because of her pregnancy scare. Julia then tries to see if she can go through with sleeping with Cooper and she can't so they break up for good. After Bailey moves out of the house, Claudia finally takes down the camping tent in the living room where she has been sleeping for the past two years and moves into his old room. Jody tells Claudia that her mother's new boyfriend came into her room at night and kissed her, so Claudia invites her to stay for a couple of days. After Charlie tells Claudia that Jody cannot sleep over anymore, she confides in him that Jody's mother's boyfriend is sexually abusing her. Meanwhile, Kirsten depression turns into compulsive cleaning and organizing which drives her crazy and she decides to go off the medication, but she immediately becomes depressed more than ever. Callie tells Bailey that her old boyfriend, Tom, is going to be at the art show she's appearing in to display her paintings, and asks Bailey to pretend to be her boyfriend so he will stop asking her out. Bailey says he'll help her out but then finds out that Tom is his art professor. Later, Jody angrily confronts Claudia for telling Charlie about her mom's boyfriend's advances and adding that Charlie told Jody's mother who reacted by throwing her boyfriend out, in which she got drunk and arrested, and Social Services is sending Jody to live with her divorced father far away. After Claudia has an argument with Charlie for betraying her trust about Jody, she makes a phone call to Kirsten's parents. | |||||
| 50 | 6 | "Going Home" | Daniel Attias | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | September 25, 1996 (1996-09-25) |
| Kristen's parents, Gene and Ellie, arrive and Charlie gets furious with Claudia for telling them about Kristen's worsening mental problems since he does not want help dealing with Kristen due to his stubborn pride. Gene keeps blaming Charlie for Kristen's mental condition and threats to sue him. Ellie can't interfere or side with Charlie this time because she doesn't want to ruin her marriage again. They decide to take Kristen back to Chicago to commit her to a mental hospital, and Charlie tries to stop them. They all ask Kristen what she wants, but she is too withdrawn and disturbed by this point into a child-like state to decide anything. Meanwhile, Julia and Sarah go to Dartmouth University in Vermont for their college interviews but they can't keep their minds away from home, so Julia realizes it's better to go to a college close to home. After Bailey has an argument with Charlie about keeping Kristen's mental problems a secret, he goes back to his apartment where Callie confides in him that she is having similar problems with her father and she and Bailey drink to celebrate their independence from their dysfunctional families. After Charlie caves in and allows Gene and Ellie to take the near-catatonic Kristen away to have her committed, Bailey and Julia decide to go home to comfort Charlie and Claudia can't forgive herself for what happened. | |||||
| 51 | 7 | "Personal Demons" | Michael Engler | Mark B. Perry | October 30, 1996 (1996-10-30) |
| Charlie is angry and frustrated because Kristen is gone from his life. A social worker, named Grace Wilcox, comes by the restaurant looking for support in her feed-the-homeless program. She wants the leftovers from Salinger's, but Charlie kicks her out of the place. An old friend of Nick Salinger's, named Earl, arrives looking for a job, and Charlie gives him one because his father used to know him. Claudia believes that everything bad happening is the house's fault, so she gets an exorcist. Someone opens an account in the name of Nick Salinger, and they think it was the exorcist but actually it was Earl. Meanwhile, Bailey tells Callie that the last time he had sex was two years ago. She seduces him and they sleep together. Sarah is throwing a Halloween party and Bailey goes so he won't feel so bad for cheating on her. Julia is upset because Justin is dating a new girl and tries to ruin everything, but regrets and get them back together. Bailey has a fight with Sarah and goes to Callie for comfort, but she is with another guy, so Bailey decides to look for comfort in a beer. | |||||
| 52 | 8 | "Not So Fast" | Ken Topolsky | Karen Krenis | November 6, 1996 (1996-11-06) |
| Julia meets a Stanford teacher who is also a writer. They become friends and she gets inspired to write. She asks for his opinion and he tells her that she's not good. She is devastated but after she finds out that her mom only chose music after college she realizes that it's too soon to decide what to do for the rest of her life. An old violinist colleague of Diana, named Avery Baltus, introduces himself to Claudia and tries to develop in her Diana's talent with the violin. Claudia gets overexcited and Charlie tells her not to hurry, she still has her whole life ahead, but she is stubborn and decides to enter the conservatory. Elsewhere, Bailey has the chickenpox and Sarah is taking care of him, but he doesn't want to dut to his guilt over cheating on her. They have a fight, but Sarah loves him too much to stay mad at him forever. | |||||
| 53 | 9 | "Gimme Shelter" | Steve Robman | Susannah Grant | November 13, 1996 (1996-11-13) |
| Charlie has a slogan contest at Salinger's and the winner wants to bring homeless people to have dinner at the restaurant. Charlie has to kick them out so his clients won't leave and Grace prints in the newspaper a bias opinion what he did, giving him a hard time. They have a discussion and after Grace admits being wrong about him they come up with a solution. Meanwhile, Sarah is worried because Bailey is drinking too much, but he says he's only celebrating. He tries to get in the college hockey team but he's not in good shape, so he gets invited to the wrestling team, which is the worst at the college and his coach, Mr. Petrocelli, is too lenient on the team. Also, Bailey doesn't support Sarah's new job and they have a fight. She says he's changed since he moved in with Callie. Also, Julia is having problems with the roofers, Sam and his brother Alec. Alec offers her pot, and she turns it down. She talks with his brother, Sam, and he fires Alec. They flirt. Claudia tries to get back at Charlie for not letting her go to the conservatory. | |||||
| 54 | 10 | "Close To You" | Vicky Jackson LeMay | Catherine Butterfield | November 20, 1996 (1996-11-20) |
| Bailey saves Callie from being date raped. She is scared of going out of the house and Sarah tries to be her friend and wonders why she doesn't have many female friends. Meanwhile, Charlie is helping Grace with her homeless program. He worries about her safety because she lives in a dangerous neighborhood. She tries to kiss him, but he tells her that he has someone - Kristen. After Sam gets fired for not covering the roof, Julia rehires him from her own money. He discovers her lie and she kisses him. Elsewhere, Claudia is offered a column in the school paper about heart stuff and she soon realizes that something's up with Bailey due to his moody behavior. Callie tells him that she wants someone like him. | |||||
| 55 | 11 | "I Do" | Ellen S. Pressman | P.K. Simonds & Lisa Melamed | November 27, 1996 (1996-11-27) |
| Joe is getting married to a younger woman and wants the wedding held at the Salinger house, which reminds Charlie of his own aborted wedding to Kristen. Charlie realizes that if he and Kristen had gotten married, they would be celebrating their first anniversary. Charlie asks Grace to be his date at the wedding, but she gets confused when he makes a speech that is definitely about Kristen. She tells him to make decisions about his life. Meanwhile, Sarah wants to fix Callie with her cousin to keep her away from Bailey, but Callie turns it into a double date right away. She feels like Bailey and her are getting apart, and she decides to sleep with him, but Bailey can't do it. They promise to give it another try, but Bailey sleeps with Callie again. Elsewhere, Sam doesn't want anything with Julia and Claudia says she's pathetic, but Julia insists and Sam decides to go back to the house. | |||||
| 56 | 12 | "Desperate Measures" | Michael Engler | Mark B. Perry | December 11, 1996 (1996-12-11) |
| Charlie decides to go to Chicago to see Kristen and leaves Julia in charge of the household chores. Kristen is very happy to see him, although Ellie is not. She tells him that she wants to run away to San Francisco on a road trip, but halfway there she becomes depressed and withdrawn again and Charlie realizes she's not ready to go back and they return to Chicago. She says Charlie is part of her problem. Charlie leaves her there. Back in San Francisco, Julia is more concerned about her personal life and going out with Sam than her little brother and sister. Claudia claims to be sick, but Julia won't believe her and thinks she's faking to gain attention. Julia continues spending all her time with Sam until she gets a phone call the very next day from the local hospital saying Claudia had collapsed at school the previous day from appendicitis and had a surgery. Claudia won't forgive Julia for ignoring her until she overhears how sorry she is. Also, Bailey lies to Sarah in order not to sleep with her. He skips wrestling practice and Sarah finds a drunk Bailey passed out at his place. He tells her he slept with Callie, but they don't break up. Callie is tired of being used by Bailey. | |||||
| 57 | 13 | "Christmas" | Dennie Gordon | Susannah Grant | December 18, 1996 (1996-12-18) |
| It's Christmas time and the Salinger's grandfather Jake Gordon comes back. Charlie decides to get rid of all Kristen's stuff left so he can finally move on with his life. He tries to help a homeless man at the restaurant find a job and place to live, but learns that the man also suffers from the same mental illness just like Kristen. Sarah and Callie are away for the holidays. Bailey, alienated with his family, wants to spend Christmas all by himself, but Coach Petrocelli doesn't let him and instead asks Bailey over to his place to watch wrestling on TV where they bond by talking about Bailey's dead parents and Petrocelli's failed marriage and a daughter who never calls or writes. Meanwhile, Julia notices that Jake can't see very well and he tells her he's going blind. Charlie sees him leaving early Christmas morning and Jake says he has to go for a chemotherapy appointment for cancer and he doesn't want to be a burden on them anymore. Julia asks Bailey to spend Christmas in the house and he brings Coach Petrocelli with him since Coach's daughter is not coming to visit anymore. Stuart gives Claudia a very expensive gift and she tries to give him a bad gift, but he loves it. She tells him that she doesn't like him in that way, and he gets mad, but apologizes and stay over for Christmas dinner. Grace shows up and Charlie invites her to stay, and they all happily celebrate Christmas. | |||||
| 58 | 14 | "Life's Too Short" | Eric Jewett | Lisa Melamed & Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | January 15, 1997 (1997-01-15) |
| Libby Dwyer, Julia's old friend, has killed herself. Justin and Julia feel like if they paid more attention to her she would be alive. Her death makes everybody wonder what they are doing with their lives as they find a note realizing that the pressure for Libby to study hard to enter college was too much for her to take. Sarah realizes that life's too short to spend it with a ruined relationship so she decides to break up with Bailey who takes it very hard and begins drinking even more. Meanwhile, Charlie is having some friends over for his high school reunion. He misses the good old days, but the truth comes up and he realizes his school life wasn't as good as he remembered. | |||||
| 59 | 15 | "Significant Others" | Ken Topolsky | P.K. Simonds | January 15, 1997 (1997-01-15) |
| Bailey is very excited with wrestling and wants to tryout for All Stars. Although Coach Petrocelli doesn't think he is able, Bailey gets obsessed to win. He wants someone to be there for him, but Callie is mad at him and wants him to move out, and everybody else is busy, but Claudia, who misses him at home and she shows up. Afterwords, Bailey celebrates every victory with a few drinks, and every time he gets more and more drunk. Meanwhile, Julia finds out that Sam was engaged and she joins him in his dinner with his ex-fiancée. She is getting married and he realizes he still loves her. Elsewhere, Charlie gets an award for helping the homeless and realizes how much he likes Grace when another man asks her out. | |||||
| 60 | 16 | "I Declare" | Michael Engler | Chris Levinson | January 22, 1997 (1997-01-22) |
| Bailey is not doing so well in school due to his increasing drinking. Callie throws a big party at their place and the landlord threats to kick them out for the loud noise and not paying the rent on time. He is trying to stay sober, but he finds it very hard. Unable to keep up with school, Bailey decides to quit some classes. Meanwhile, Charlie doesn't want to rush things with Grace, but the more they try to slow it down, the more they want to be together, so they sleep together. Julia is accepted in Stansford, but is not sure she wants to go. She wants a time off studies, and to find herself. Charlie thinks it's all Sam's fault for influencing her. Elsewhere, Ross is dating one of Claudia's teachers, and she outs him to the entire school. She tries to fix it, but Ross tells her it's not that easy. | |||||
| 61 | 17 | "Misery Loves Company" | Rodman Flender | Mark B. Perry | January 29, 1997 (1997-01-29) |
| Will surprises Bailey showing up at his place for a weekend visit. After seeing how frequently (and how much) that Baily drinks beer and hard liquor on a daily basis, Will thinks Bailey drinks too much, and asks Sarah what's going on, but she doesn't want to talk about Bailey because of their recent breakup (and because of his drinking all the time). Will tries to advice Bailey about his excessive drinking, but he convinces Will that it's no big deal. Callie asks Bailey to move into her room. Meanwhile, Grace's apartment burns down, so she moves into the Salinger house. Charlie doesn't want Julia to turn down Stansford. Julia, angry with Charlie, moves to Sam's so she won't have to listen to him. Charlie doesn't want her there, and they have a big fight. Upset over Julia invading his privacy, Sam tells Julia she should go back to the house. Also, Claudia tries to get Bailey to help, but he ignores her. | |||||
| 62 | 18 | "MYOB" | Daniel Attias | Lisa Melamed | February 5, 1997 (1997-02-05) |
| Bailey is spending so much money on drinking that he can't even afford rent. Julia wants to get Bailey and Sarah back together, but she's still very mad at him and Bailey continues being rude and belligerent due to being drunk all the time. Sarah warns Julia about Bailey's drinking problem, but Julia doesn't believe it. Julia gets Bailey a job with Sam at another construction site after seeing how short on money that Bailey has. Bailey steals expensive liquor from the house he was working on and gets fired. After Julia confronts Bailey by asking if he has a drinking problem, he refuses to give an answer and tries changing the subject. Julia wonders if what Sarah told her is true. They try to talk to Bailey about it, but he won't listen. Taking advantage of Julia and Charlie's fight, Bailey gets Charlie to support him. Meanwhile, Julia and Claudia don't like Grace living at their house. Grace thinks that moving in with Charlie was not a good idea after she has an encounter with a woman at a grocery store while shopping with Charlie and Owen in which the woman mistakes Grace as being the nanny instead of Charlie's girlfriend. Charlie tells Claudia she should try to be Grace's friend, and so Claudia offers to volunteer at her program, but that doesn't last long. It is revealed that the non-maternal Grace can't stand the kids. Charlie wonders if Grace really wants to be there. | |||||
| 63 | 19 | "Point of No Return" | Michael Engler | Susannah Grant | February 12, 1997 (1997-02-12) |
| Grace's friendly parents, Martin and Rose, are spending time with them, and Grace doesn't like it since they seem to try to give them advice, but Charlie does not seem to mind. Meanwhile, Claudia is spending time with Avery, which makes his son jealous of her. Bailey spends all his money in drinking and can't afford a clown for Owen's 3rd birthday party, so he dresses as a clown. He gets to the party drunk and ruins it with his antics and belligerence. Afterwards, Martin tells Charlie that Bailey might have a drinking problem, but Charlie still refuses to accept that idea, even though everybody else thinks so too and they all convince Charlie that Bailey has a serious drinking problem. Also, Julia breaks up with Sam because he's a racist. | |||||
| 64 | 20 | "Intervention" | Steve Robman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | February 19, 1997 (1997-02-19) |
| The Salinger family tries to solve Bailey's drinking problem. Claudia calls him and tells a story about Owen falling down the stairs. Bailey rushes to the house, when Charlie, Julia, Claudia, Grace and Sarah hold him. One by one, they all try to show Bailey that he has a serious drinking problem. Still in denial, Bailey refuses to accept it and fights with everybody. Joe arrives later that day and tells Bailey that his late father, Nick Salinger, also had a serious drinking problem for many years, but he stayed sober for 18 years until he died. Bailey doesn't believe Joe, but Charlie does and proves it to be true with stories from his childhood. They all try to get Bailey into an AA program, but he refuses claiming that alcoholism is a part of who he is and he openly states he would rather die than seek treatment. After everybody has given up, Claudia tells Bailey that if he doesn't face his drinking problem and look for help to stop his self-destructive lifestyle, than he will no longer be a part of the family. Bailey leaves without saying a word. | |||||
| 65 | 21 | "Hitting Bottom" | Dennie Gordon | P.K. Simonds | February 26, 1997 (1997-02-26) |
| Bailey is alone and the Salingers' strategy to not speak to him doesn't seem to be working. Bailey actually increases his drinking, and vandalizes his father's gravestone, blaming his dead father for giving him this "disease". After contemplating suicide, Bailey decides to drink himself to death. As a result, Baily continues to alienate other people in his life with his constant drunkenness first by angering Coach Petrocelli by missing an important wrestling match and later Callie by wanting to use her for sex. The drunken Bailey even puts three-year-old Owen in danger by kidnapping him from day care and keeping him out all day. Meanwhile, Claudia goes to Avery searching for answers for questions about her father. Like Bailey, Claudia too blames their late father for Bailey's drinking problem. Elsewhere, Griffin returns with a minor leg injury from a boating accident in the Merchant Marines, and Julia encourages him to sue so he can be financially stable for a while while he looks for steady work. Later that night, Bailey gets into a car accident while driving his jeep with Sarah, who gets seriously injured. After trying to drink himself to death by drinking several whiskey bottles, Bailey passes out, but later wakes up and upon seeing that he's not dead, goes to Sarah's hospital bed and asks for her help. | |||||
| 66 | 22 | "Leap of Faith" | Susannah Grant | Lisa Melamed | March 5, 1997 (1997-03-05) |
| As Sarah begins to recover from Bailey's car accident has has left her face physically scarred, he starts to go to AA meetings. On Bailey's first meeting he bumps into Walter Alcott, the man that killed his parents. Bailey has second thoughts about going to the meetings, and he quits. Sarah meets a new guy at her doctor's office who asks her out on a date. Meanwhile, Griffin gets $100,000 from his lawsuit settlement, and decides to help his estranged father, and Julia realizes that Major Holbrook is friendly with Griffin just for the money. Also, Grace decides to run for city council and makes the Salingers's house her campaign headquarters. | |||||
| 67 | 23 | "Promises, Promises" | Lou Antonio | Mark B. Perry | March 19, 1997 (1997-03-19) |
| Bailey is sober for a week. Callie gets jealous because Bailey is spending much more time with Sarah than with her, so she tries to help Bailey, but she can't for Bailey tells her that she's part of the reason for his drinking. Callie goes to Sarah and tries to find out why Sarah is helping Bailey so much. Sarah tells her that she doesn't love Bailey, because she has a new boyfriend. Callie gets drunk and Bailey moves out of her apartment and back to the Salinger house. Meanwhile, Julia starts skipping school in order to hang out with rebel Griffin, and she starts to get F in history, but he tells her to go back to school, and she goes. Also, Claudia is rightfully convinced that Grace is too self-absorbed with running for city council and doesn't care about her and Owen, so she makes up a story about a reporter wanting to meet her just to spend some time with Grace. When the ruse is revealed, Charlie gets somewhat angry with Claudia that she led Grace on, but Claudia points out that she proved that Grace is more concerned about the reporter and the publicity then the family. | |||||
| 68 | 24 | "A Little Faith" | Ken Topolsky | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman & Chris Levinson | March 26, 1997 (1997-03-26) |
| Claudia is invited to play the violin at a concert in Los Angeles, and nobody can take her there, but Bailey. They go and Claudia kicks him out of the rehearsals because he is distracting her. In the hotel room, Bailey has nothing to do... and he really wants to drink. He calls Sarah, but she isn't at home, he calls Charlie, but he isn't at the restaurant or at home. So he can't resist and drinks out his entire hotel room's mini-bar, and forgets to pick up Claudia. Joe shows up and find a drunk Bailey. He and his wife pick up Claudia, who is very disappointed at Bailey. Afterwords, Joe has a serious talk with Bailey where again Bailey tries to pass the blame for all this on his dead father, while Joe responds that even if Bailey did inherit his father's alcoholism then he also inherited the will to stop drinking. On the way back home, they pass by an AA meeting at a local church, and Claudia tells Bailey to go and he does. Back in San Francisco, Grace is really sick, and she may be pregnant. But when the results arrive, and she isn't which makes her thrilled. Charlie is sad, and when they talk, Grace tells him that she doesn't want to have children. Also, Julia decides to travel with Griffin on a road trip through Nevada, but the motorcycle breaks and they have to get back to San Francisco to get it fixed. Griffin decides to buy the repair shop. | |||||
| 69 | 25 | "You Win Some, You Lose Some" | Michael Enlger | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | April 2, 1997 (1997-04-02) |
| Bailey begins to show signs of recovery as he makes peace with Coach Petrocelli and other people that he let down during his drinking binges. At the same time, Sarah gets dumped her boyfriend. Her mother tells Bailey that she got into Brown University (Sarah's disapproving parents are trying to keep her away from Bailey), and Bailey gets mad at her because she is moving away, but she decides to go to Berkeley instead. They kiss, but Sarah tells Bailey that she just wants to be friends with him. Meanwhile, Charlie and Grace break up because she reveals that she doesn't like children. Charlie, although telling Grace that he does love her, says that his parental responsibilities come first. Shortly afterwards, Grace wins the election for city council and after a victory party Charlie throws for her at the restaurant, she gladly moves out of the Salinger house, thus giving up her responsibilities to the family. Also, Justin is going to Europe for two months and ask Julia to go with him. But she doesn't and gets married to Griffin in haste. Charlie, Bailey and Claudia give Julia their mom's wedding ring, and she moves out to travel Europe with Justin. |
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