Following last episode when Owen got lost in the mall, he keeps needing Charlie's attention. Begins with Charlie singing to Diana (mockingbird song as in 5x23) to make her sleep while Daphne watches. Then, Owen appears to remind Charlie that he promised a fishing trip. They go to a small lake in a little boat and they start fishing. Charlie is sleepless but manages to stay awake, entertain and comfort Owen. Finally, fish bites and they happily pick them. This was a great scene, worth watching as a moment father-son. Just remember all the things Charlie did for his "first child" since In Loco Parentis. He mainly raised him. Anyway, in home, Charlie tells Owen to clean the fish, but while he is briefly distracted by Daphne and Diana, Owen uses detergent in the fish, without realizing that now they can't eat them. Seems that Charlie and Daphne are taking turns for Diana, and Owen still demands time. So Charlie takes his two children for a walk, buys Owen something he liked but refuses to go to a movie because Diana can't go. Owen gets jealous again and later apologizes. His "father" explains to him that Diana cannot feed herself and needs constant attention, unlike him, his needs can wait. Comforted, Owen helps to stop Diana's crying for the first time and asks Charlie to play Hearts (cards game), telling him that he uses to play it with Kirsten (she taught him, even a trick, shooting to the moon). He agrees but falls asleep. Later, Owen is in the backyard, still mad at Charlie for letting him down and alone, so Charlie suggests going to the Exploratorium (something usual for them, check 3x06 when Bailey took him), but the kid, now disappointed, doesn't want to. At the end, the kid goes alone and sad to bed, but his "father" can't comfort him because he wants to sleep. Charlie tells Daphne that his parents always had time for them, and they were four kids, but Daphne says he has to talk to Owen. I liked some parts of this story, because it says a lot. There is an obvious answer to Charlie's question about his parents: They were two. In this case, Charlie and Daphne are two for Diana, but for Owen, Charlie is alone, single parent. So that's one of the reasons of why Daphne can't stay together with Charlie: she can't give Charlie's "first child" the love he needs. Today, Owen needed Kirsten, he mentioned her before playing cards. Because is the truth, it's unfair for Owen to ask only Charlie's attention. And if Daphne barely can take care of Diana so far, she can't love or take care of Owen, they don't have a bond. She lets Charlie handle Owen alone, she doesn't help him. If Kirsten was here (absent this episode), she would play with Owen, take him to a movie, for icecream, or to the beach. She would comfort him, talk to him, make him laugh. She raised him since she was his nanny, being Owen 6 months old. She did a lot for him, because he is her "first child" and she loves him. And considering the future (SPOILER ahead), Kirsten will be mother to a "second child", but I'm sure that she will never neglect Owen, she will always love him, and with Charlie they'll raise all their kids, including Owen, as Nicolas and Diana raised their own. And they'll be happy together.
On the other hand, Joe visits to see Diana and observes Bailey's actions when Sean Sullivan, owner of a chain of restaurants in SF, opens a new place across Salinger's (warning for the restaurant). Bailey decides to counterattack and shut that place down. He pushes away a good chef from Sean's place, Sean answers trying to ruin him over his license to sell alcohol (Bailey is only 20), and finally Bailey calls the INS to shut the place down, because he hired a waiter illegally (he knew that the young guy Tuan didn't have a VISA yet). Joe criticizes him for taking extreme measures and leaving people unemployed but Bailey feels proud. Charlie was mainly surprised by his actions. In this case, I'm siding with Bailey, if Sean wanted to put Salinger's out of business or make him lose money, customers and employees, he has to react and fight. Bailey defended Salinger's, if he lost, people would be unemployed too. Besides, he didn't start the fight, he just answered, and Sarah didn't complain about what he did (she was in the restaurant when Bailey is almost arrested for serving alcohol).
As for Julia, she realizes that Ned doesn't want her to meeet his family. She finally convinces him and meets them in a dinner. Turns out that Ned has a strict father, a doctor graduated from Stanford who pretends Ned to be a doctor too one day. Ned's mother is a quiet woman who tries to bring peace to the family. And Ned's brother, Richie, is autistic. Also, they didn't like Maggie and now they like Julia. Anyway, after finding out all this, Julia notes Ned's anger towards his parents (especially his father), she ponders breaking up, but he asks for patience. This wasn't a bad story overall, is a warning sign for Julia, as explains why Ned is agressive, liar and possesive (Griffin keeps noticing this today hearing Julia's words in dinner). To finish, Claudia deeply misses home and calls Charlie to let her return, but he says it's a very expensive school so she has to stay. However, she doesn't listen and stages a plan: with one of her friends, she puts a smoke bomb in the guys place in school, trying to be expelled. The problem is that her teacher forgives her, so she finally calls Griffin to complain. This story was a little funny and reminded me Claudia's antics in season 2 with Jody.
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