Love and Mercy Page #7

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on you, man.

Brian!

Brian, come on.

Brian, I thought we were

gonna have a serious meeting.

A band meeting.

Hey, you guys

shouldn't talk over there.

Let's everybody

come to the deep end.

We can't stand

in the deep end, Brian.

We're too shallow

for the deep end.

Listen, cousin, we're not...

we're not gonna let you

do this to us anymore.

The lyrics on this album

do not make any sense.

"To ride in the rough

and sunny down snuff"?

What is that?

It's a gothic cowboy trip.

Brian, tell them. The lyrics

don't matter, all right?

It's about the music. Throw the lyrics out.

They're just words.

We need to throw you out.

I'm telling you, Brian,

we need to destroy this sh*t

- before it destroys us.

- Hey...

everybody please whisper, let's...

let's come to the other side.

I have been writing lyrics

professionally since I was 14 years old.

- I don't need to be here.

- Good, then go! Please.

It's safer for everyone

on the deep end!

We have got to finish this album and

we are not gonna do it this way.

Not in these fragments!

Breaking it up

and moving us all around.

The house is bugged.

Okay, Phil Spector

has the house bugged.

He's a violent gangster

and he's angry at me.

Dad is listening

in all the time!

Just whisper, okay?!

- I know what I'm talking about!

- We're not going to whisper, Brian!

Jeez.

Tell him it's over.

You and I are going

to rewrite these songs,

put them together in a normal

album and get on with it.

Just us!

Family first, right?

Okay, right, well...

Now, can we have

a serious meeting now?

I want to do a chanting album.

Okay? No words.

All Hawaiian singing.

And we can turn it into a

children's show for television.

And it'll be

completely unstructured,

and it'll be about animals

and eating right.

Everyone.

I'm worried about you, brother.

I think I might be losing it.

I don't blame you.

There's a lot to lose out there.

It's a lot harder

than I thought it would be.

We just gotta

stick together, brothers.

We just gotta stick together.

It'll all be okay.

Where is everybody?

Did you fire them, too?

They're working

on the new album.

They think they can simplify

what I was doing and release it.

So, uh, to satisfy

the record company.

"Smiley smile."

Your masterpiece.

Cheer up, I got good news.

I sold the publishing rights

to A&M Records.

$750,000.

What?

I sold the rights

to the Beach Boys music.

Got the most I could for it,

not as much as I wanted,

but something.

They're...

our songs. You can't do that.

Anyway, what are you

worried about it?

They're never going to

amount to anything.

You've peaked, Brian.

Look around.

Five years from now no one

is gonna remember you

or the Beach Boys.

What was I supposed to do?!

That's all I got. You fired me!

Your own father.

Now...

maybe we can be a family again.

So, in fact, you're saying

that there should

be a code of ethics

that we abide by. Correct?

Absolutely, and that's what

the entire argument's about.

Dan Rather just wanted

to get to the bottom

of the Iran-Contra situation...

What do you want?

I'm sorry to bother you,

but he wants to see you.

Now.

I have nothing

to say to that man.

I'm not talking

about Dr. Landy.

I'm talking about Brian.

Gene doesn't know I'm here.

Brian sent me.

He needs you, Melinda.

Can I take you to him?

- Hey.

- Hey.

I'm glad you came.

- It's been a while.

- Yeah.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm sorry I couldn't come to see you.

It's been a...

Gene had to give me

a day off, you know?

It's been real, real busy.

He wouldn't let me out.

Well...

It's really hard

making a record.

- You know?

- You don't... you don't look well.

- Are you okay?

- Nuh-uh.

I feel awful.

I fall asleep everywhere I go.

I'm nauseous all the time.

Gene's really a tough

producer, you know?

I mean, I don't really, uh...

know what he wants.

He's really demanding.

And, uh...

I'm, uh... I'm...

I'm signing contracts

all the time and documents.

Making record deals

and I don't know...

I don't know what's ha... I

don't know what's going on.

- You know what I mean?

- Brian, you need...

- you need real care.

- I miss you. I miss my family.

I miss you. I wanna be with you.

You understand?

- I wanna be with you.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- Okay.

But, I, um...

I hear voices.

I hear voices.

- Since when?

- 1963.

- Are you kidding?

- No kidding.

I just didn't tell you 'cause I

didn't want to scare you away.

I'm right here.

- I'm right here.

- I can't live this life anymore.

- Okay.

- It's a hellhole.

- Please.

- Then let's go.

I don't... how?

You and me,

we're gonna walk outta

here right now.

And everything

will change. Okay?

Yeah, that's what I want.

That's what I want.

Great.

If you're ready, I'm ready.

- Yes, I wanna be with you.

- I'm ready.

- Okay.

- Let's... let's go.

All right.

Hey, guys.

Wow, it really sounds like I

missed something here. Huh?

Hey, Brian?

- Brian.

- Listen to me, man.

- No.

- I'm really sorry that you feel like

you live in a hellhole.

I had no idea.

You know, I've really tried to

make you feel comfortable, man.

Why can't I be with her, Gene?!

For the same reason, man, that

you cannot be with anybody.

You're sick.

Look at you, man. You're sick,

but you're gonna get better.

Come into the

control room, please.

- Let's walk out of here.

- Hey, what's it gonna take, Melinda?!

A court order? You really

want to push it that far?

I told you to stay away.

- Come on, let's go.

- If you stray from the program, you lose.

Everything will change.

We'll walk out of here.

- I can't be here.

- You can see your friends and your family

and you can get your life back.

- Brian, please.

- Do you understand?

You asked me here. You

asked me to come here.

If I let you go,

- you're gonna spiral down.

- Well, I'm here!

I came! You'll come with me.

I love you. I love you.

And you're gonna die here.

I'm gonna have to put

you in an institution.

Brian, look at me.

Look at me, stay with me.

Listen...

you need to get back

to your life.

You need to get back

to yourself.

Who you are inside.

Please, baby,

please come with me.

There's no way out.

No way out.

You know I love Brian.

I love him very much,

but with everything

that he's gone through...

it feels a little selfish wanting

to be with him right now.

I do not want to be

one more person in his life

who wants something from him.

So I'm gonna walk away.

But I cannot leave him

in that house with Gene.

I can't.

I can't even think of him there.

Gene is killing Brian.

Gloria, I know you know.

You know better than anyone.

You're seeing it every day.

I need your help.

Dr. Eugene said he's

gonna call immigration

because he knows

I have no papers,

- but I don't care.

- What he is doing to you,

to Brian, he is a monster.

We cannot let this go on.

I just need something. Something

to bring to Brian's family.

Something we can use

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