Plot summary
Bailey is alone, and the Salingers' strategy to not speak to him does not 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, Bailey 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 Holbrook 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 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.
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