Plush

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[WOMAN GASPS]

WOMAN:
Wait! Come back!

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYS]

No, don't do this!

Aah! Stop!

Aah! Aah!

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING STOPS]

MAN:
What's up, Austin!

[AUDIENCE CHEERS]

That's my sister right there.

WOMAN:
Hayley, you rock!

We have a little song

about obsession.

Aah!

# the voice said to go

# move me

# impossibly tall

# to walk and I've over it

WOMAN:
It was always

me and my brother.

We used to hide

under my bunk bed.

I'd come up with a line.

Jack would pluck a melody

out of the air.

But then the songs

started to work.

# let me in, let me in

# the look in your eye

that is punishing me #

So we packed up the truck

and moved to I.A.

Whoo! Oh, my god!

The music was like

our secret place.

And jack and I

were two halves of the key.

And we walk towards the fire.

Ready to erupt.

Nothing could hurt us.

Because jack and I

had each other.

And then I met carter.

- Hi.

- Hi.

He's a journalist,

not a musician.

But he loved my lyrics,

my words.

Things happened really fast.

Pregnant with twins.

Beautiful.

I was 19.

Carter's daughter Lila

was our flower girl.

She lives with her mom

half the time.

Jack was our best man.

Do you cherish her?

- Of course.

- Cherish her.

Of course.

Jack!

- I love you.

- I love you too.

Bye.

Okay.

WOMAN:
Bye!

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CANS RATTLING]

WOMAN:
Carter and I were

baby bjorning it.

Jack was busy

doing what rock stars do.

[JACK SINGING SOFTLY]

# we are the flesh,

we are the blood #

# baby, you and me

We got Willie nelson

coming to our show.

Gonna get high with Willie.

Give it to me.

Jack. Jack.

Jack. Go f***ing call

an ambulance!

MAN:
He's od-Ing.

Baby, wake up.

WOMAN:
I don't know

if it was the hand of fate

Or if I'd abandoned him.

The guilt pulled me

away from my husband

And my kids.

It took months before I even

started to write again.

But then the lyrics

just poured out of me

Like a volcano.

And then all the songs

Ended up being about jack.

I like your new hair. Blond.

Kind of like

a rock-Angel thing going on.

Yeah. Yeah. [COUGHS]

So how do you replace someone

As special as

your brother on guitar?

Well...

uh...

Enzo is... Is great.

Annie heard him playing

in a bar.

At the audition,

it turned out

He knew all of our songs

really well.

Enzo sort of looked like

my brother.

- Rock and roll.

- You got it, baby.

You'll hear him.

He's coming on...

[HORN HONKS]

- I'm so sorry, guys.

The limo's here.

We can meet at a place...

yeah.

Nobody can replace my brother.

That's... That's not

what this is about.

This album is just my way

of honoring him.

Well, I look forward

to hearing it.

Thank you.

CHILD:
Hiya!

Oh! Oh!

This is my ball! Ha ha.

How'd it go?

Well, I think we have ourselves

another spin cover.

- Fingers crossed, right?

- Mm-Hmm.

- All right, thanks again.

- Thank you. Bye.

- Oh. Put that in the car?

- Yeah. Hurry up.

I'll just be a sec.

Say goodbye to your mother.

Wow! Good hug.

I'm going to miss you guys.

I love you.

You guys

go with Mrs. R. Now, okay?

I'm going to go say goodbye

to daddy.

Mmm.

You okay?

- Yeah. Just...

- Yeah?

Never perform without jack.

Well, it's Austin.

It's your home turf.

Say your byes. Let's do this.

- Bye.

- Bye.

[LIMO STARTS]

WOMAN:
Johnny!

MAN:
Hayley!

Open.

- Ahh.

- Ahh.

- Highly inflamed.

- Yep.

You need to moderate

your drinking...

Let's just administer the shot,

okay, doc?

Just a little numbing spray.

Okay. So this is going

to go down your nose.

There we go.

Say "ahh."

- Ahh.

- A little prick.

# the voice said to go

# move me

# impossibly tall to walk,

and I'm over it #

# so I fashioned a key

# I twisted it and I'm inside

# let me in, let me in

# you know, I won't stop

until I can see #

# let me in, let me in

# the look in your eye

that is punishing me #

# I won't stop

# no, I won't stop

# I won't stop

# no, I won't stop

# I won't stop

# no, I won't stop

# let me in, let me in

# the look in your eye

that is punishing me #

Thank you, Austin.

Y'all are awesome.

So our new album came out today.

And we're going to play

a new song off of that.

This is for jack.

[AUDIENCE CHEERS]

# where did you go

# why did you go, my mystery

# you left me alone

# you left me to drown

in misery #

# so where are you now

# why would you want

to leave me #

# to go sleep in the clouds

and dream #

# still shining down on me

# in pieces underneath

# 'cause half of me is gone

# half of me is gone

# baby, please wake up

# baby, please wake for me now

# ooh

[INAUDIBLE]

# ooh

[MUSIC ENDS]

[LIGHT APPLAUSE]

Thank you so much, Austin.

Give me a second. Yeah?

Uh, did you hear the applause

on "half of me"?

Yeah.

No. There wasn't any.

Sometimes the new ones

take time to grow on you.

You know that.

Okay? Smile. It's your party.

Hayley, can you sign this

for me, please?

- Sure.

- Thanks.

Big fan.

Can you kiss that too

with the black?

I'm sorry?

Just put on the black lipstick

and kiss it.

Uh, that's not really my color.

Just put the lipstick on, okay?

ENZO:
Hey! She said

it's not her color.

MAN:
Hey!

Come here!

Hayley!

Hayley, come back here!

ENZO:
I better walk you

to your room just in case.

HAYLEY:
Okay.

Do you...

Do you want to come and hang out

for a little bit

Or is... Is that awkward?

Come on, girlfriend.

Who's going to worry about me?

Okay.

ENZO:

You shouldn't look at that.

Yeah, well, I try not to, but...

this guy has written, like,

half a f***ing novel

About how I don't have

any talent left.

The new songs are

too sentimental,

And they don't have any edge.

Hayley, don't read the blogs.

I mean, even the douche bag

from spin hated it.

Like, of everything I've done,

You would think that this time

They would have

a little more compassion.

You can't take this personally.

Well, I wrote, like,

half a dozen songs

About the death of my brother.

It's pretty personal.

Hayley...

you already got one going

over there.

Yeah, I do.

Look, maybe you just

need someone

To bounce some stuff off of.

Like you and jack did.

Come on, sit down.

I am going to give you

a neck rub.

My little goody bag.

- For you.

- Thank you.

Just relax.

I don't know

if it's the xanax or the vodka,

But I'm feeling kind of trancy.

Unh. Feel that?

Ahh.

That is a massive knot.

Girlfriend, you are stressed.

Mind if I go deep down

into the tissue?

Go as hard as you can.

[MACHINE VIBRATING]

[ENZO CHUCKLES]

[HAYLEY SIGHS]

[GROANS]

I'll do anything you want,

Hayley.

I just want you to feel good.

It feels really good.

[MOANING]

[MOANS LOUDER]

[BUZZING]

BOY:
Mommy, I hate rabies.

Rabies? Okay.

You're looking better, Benjy.

I like your scarf, Lila.

Very cool.

I want to go back to my friends.

Okay.

[BENJY MUMBLES]

- Bye.

- Talk to you then.

What are you working on?

Trying to finish that

Texas debutante murder story

For vanity fair.

There's so many grisly details

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