Brothers & Sisters

As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the “State of the Parties” episode.

Jon Robin Baitz: Hi, this is Robbie Baitz. I’m the creator of Brothers & Sisters. What you’re about to see is an episode that Molly Newman and I wrote, that we never used, very early on in the season. It was supposed to be the second episode. When you’re creating a show, there’s a moment of trying to define what things are and how things fit together, and there was a sense that this episode was slowing down the storytelling. But in retrospect, what we found was that it had a sort of beautiful, elegant, maybe stately pace. And it was telling a real story that had to be told. We managed to bridge the gap without it, but it’s such a pleasure to be able to include it on the DVD, and here it is.

Jonathan: I don’t have to go home to New York. I think I’d like to stay for a bit in L.A. and be magisterially supportive of you.

Kitty: I have to concentrate on something other than the fact that I’m burying the man that I loved the most in the whole world.

Sarah: I’ll be right there. I need my phone.
Tommy: All this time, I thought it was surgically attached.

Gabe: Cool limo!
Sarah: It’s not a limo, it’s a … funeral vehicle.

Sarah: I had a sense early on after the first week something wasn’t right.
Tommy: Payroll problems.
Sarah: No, it wasn’t just that. It was like, the engine of the company, if you listened, it just didn’t sound right.

Sarah: Tommy, Dad lied to me, don’t you understand? He looked me in the eye and lied.

Justin: People are who they are, and my dad shouldn’t have had to just be a father.

Nora: Funny. Once the funeral was over, suddenly every conversation begins with a variation of “Are you keeping busy?” “Is your day full?” “Are you doing things?”
Kevin: Well, I’m glad to see I’m as trite as everybody else. … So, are you?
Nora: Yes! Yes. Sometimes. And then sometimes, it gets very, very quiet here. The thing is, there’s no amount of busy that can keep me from missing him.
Kevin: Well, if you ever want to miss him with someone else in the room, just call me.
Nora: I’m so glad you said that. I’ve been thinking maybe I can move in with you. … I’m kidding. I’m kidding!
Kevin: You just added another year of therapy to my life.

Saul: Your father gambled this company away on a bad investment and sent us down the rabbit hole. I have been trying everything I know to fix it.
Tommy: I don’t believe you.
Saul: Of course you don’t. Your sister knows I’m telling the truth because she understands the world rather better than you do. But let’s face it, you’ve never really been on top of this sort of thing, have you, son.

Lyla: Honey, you don’t want to wash out on camera. You’ll be starring in Dead, White and Ill.

Warren: Hey, they know what they’re doing. Look at me. I used to look like an escaped Berkeley lesbian. Now? Sort of gorgeous.

Sarah: You know, there’s a fine line between high standards and bizarrely neurotic.

Kitty: My father just died.
Warren: Oh. I’m sorry. … Did you love him or did you hate him?
Kitty: Loved.
Warren: Good. Did he know you loved him?
Kitty: (nods)
Warren: Then you’ll be fine. Grief has a beginning and an end. Regret and anger, they can hang around forever.

Kitty: Well, that was so damn lefty and pat and simplistic. Wow.
Warren: Oh, please, no thanks necessary. And let’s save the petty insults for the show. That’s our money.

Warren: It’s just television. Nobody’s fixing nothing. Just two jerks arguing about the fate of the world.

Jack: Good going, OK, that’s a start. Hey, does anybody want a drink? There’s vodka in my office.

Warren: All’s fair in love and TV.

Nora: He was such an extraordinary man, to so many people. I was so lucky to have loved a man and respected him all these years. How many wives can say that, huh?

Kitty: It was basically a disaster.
Jonathan: Look, Kitty, I don’t think that’s such a terrible thing, frankly. You’re too good for this. Let’s face it, the most you can aspire to in a show like this is to be a bigger smartass than the other guy. Tell them you change your mind, go back to New York, back to your radio show. We can live happily ever after.

Kitty: Whatever actual intelligence I may have, it is nowhere in sight on this show. I think I may have shamed the family.
Kevin: Shamed the family? What, are we in Sicily now?

Kitty: Have any Demerol?
Sarah: Speaking of which, what happened to Justin?

Justin: I know you were a friend of my father’s, but you are not mine. My mom thinks my dad walked on water, so I’m gonna say this once. Don’t ask me for anything, and don’t you ever come around my family again.
Holly: It’s not that easy. Promises were made.
Justin: I’ll make it that easy, OK? Whatever arrangements you had died with my father. It’s over. You don’t exist. So get on with your life and disappear for good.

Kitty: There is one person in my life who embodies … embodied all of my ideals, everything I’m talking about, and that is my father, William Walker.
Warren: Why do people on the right always talk about their daddies?
Kitty: Because we have respect. Because we listen. He was a man who created jobs, he was a man who built a business. He was somebody that you could look up to. He was somebody that I am very happy to say that I could believe in.

Sarah: Sometimes I think it would be better if we found out that Dad did it. They can’t indict him.

Saul: What is it, Thomas, I don’t …
Tommy: I know my sister understands business rather better than me, but unless you can give me some easy to understand proof exonerating you of gutting the pension fund, I will say whatever they want to hear to send you away.

Kitty: I need someone who tells me that I can be great. I know it sounds childish, but with everything that’s going on right now, I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m 38, and when I come home at night I feel like I’m six.

Kitty: Thank you for being so nice about my show, and not calling me a fascist or anything.
Nora: The night’s still young.

Nora: Our cease-fire is holding pretty well so far. As long as we don’t talk about Justin or the war … or gay marriage or the death penalty or stem cell research or almost anything except the weather, we should be just fine.

For more recaps and memorable lines, visit the pages for Season 1 and Season 2.

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