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STORY TREATMENT
By Jeffrey D. Dean, Sr.
Marty and Jennifer
"Stephen Spielberg Presents" in white lettering over a black background.
The sound of a ticking clock. The title logo appears.
FADE IN: INTERIOR DOC BROWN WORKSHOP. MORNING. The
single ticking clock transforms into a chorus of clocks all ticking, much similar to
the opening introduction from the song "Time" by Pink Floyd, which is the fourth
track on their 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon." The scene finally opens as
the camera pans across various clocks of all kinds all reading the exact same
time. 7:53. One clock has a small figure of Harold Lloyd hanging desperately
from the hands of a skyscraper clock from the movie "Safety Last!" (1923)
Amidst the clocks there is a bulletin board with a couple of old news articles that
read "Brown Mansion Destroyed" and "Brown Estate Sold to Developers."
A radio comes on with a commercial about Statler Toyota. A coffee pot
begins to pour coffee but there is no carafe, the liquid sizzles and runs onto the
floor. A television comes on with a woman news reporter talking about a recent
theft of a case of plutonium. There is a picture of a yellow and black nuclear logo
in the background of the report. An automated toaster burns the same two
pieces of toast over and over again, automated machines crack and cook eggs.
A robotic can opener opens a can of Kal Kan dog food and empties the contents
into a dog food bowl marked "Einstein." The dog food plops with a sickening
sound onto a pile of spoiled food that is now overflowing in the bowl. The robot
arm drops the can into a trash can that is almost full of empty dog food cans.
The front door of the garage opens. Enter Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) a
good looking young man about 17 years old wearing jeans and sunglasses. He
calls out "Doc" several times while he places a set of keys under a doormat. He
comes through the door of Doc Brown's workshop and calls out for Doc again
and whistles for Einstein. He gags at the site (and perhaps the smell) of the dog
food and grumbles in disgust, puts down his skateboard and kicks it across the
floor. It rolls, stopping at a hidden yellow box with nuclear logo we saw in the
news report. Near the box is the only clock that shows a different time than the
others. It reads 8:20.
He goes over to a huge guitar amplifier. It has one of the biggest
speakers you might ever see. He plugs in a banana colored "Erlewine Chiquita"
electric guitar, reaches up and flips a switch marked CRM 114. This is a
subliminal "nod" to Stanley Kubrick, who used this designation as a reference
throughout many of his films. He flips a bunch of circuit breakers and other
switches and turns all the dials so that the amp is on maximum overdrive. As he
does so the lack of shielding in the guitar causes a loud buzz to increase as each
knob is turned.
strums the instrument. The speaker explodes, sending him flying backwards
hard against a bookshelf. The book shelf falls spilling its entire contents over him
until he is covered in books and papers. He sits up, staring at the destroyed
speaker which is still sparking menacingly. He lifts up his sunglasses and in a
voice of awe says, "Woah! Rock and Roll."
A fire alarm begins ringing off the wall. It's actually a telephone rigged to
an alarm bell. He scrambles up, searches for the phone frantically in all that
mess, finds it by pulling the phone cord and letting that lead him to it. When he
answers, it's Doctor Emmet Brown calling. (Played by Christopher Lloyd). He
asks Marty to meet him that night at the Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 a.m. He asks
him where he's been all week.
He responds, "working."
the clocks are exactly 25 minutes slow. He flips out at the news. "Doc are you
telling me it's 8: 25?" He confirms this and asks "why?" Marty, in complete
frustration shouts into the phone "I'm late for school." He slams down the
receiver, grabs his skateboard and rushes out.
CUT EXTERIOR WORKSHOP AND HILL VALLEY VILLAGE SQUARE:
The soundtrack plays. "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News," as he
makes his way to school on his skateboard, by using the various vehicles
passing by through town to tow him there. The drivers all seem as though this is
all par for the course here in town and perhaps Marty, or many of the kids in town
get around this way.
CUT EXTERIOR HILL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL. As he arrives at school a
pretty young girl runs out to meet him. She is Jennifer Parker whom we learn is
his girlfriend, (played in the first movie by Claudia Wells). She warns him that
the principal Strickland is looking for him because this will make 4 times in a row
that he has been late.
He
admires the vehicle with a longing and daydreams out loud about how nice it
would be to take her to the lake in something like that. Reminded by this,
Jennifer asks if him if his mother knows about their plans to go to the lake
together for the weekend. He scoffs at the notion of telling his mother the truth.
He informs Jennifer that his mother thinks he's going camping with the guys. He
believes she would freak if she knew the truth. He says he'd get the standard
lectures about how things were when she was his age and mumbles, "really, I
think she was born a nun." Jennifer smiles and says "she's just trying to keep
you respectable."
They draw in for a kiss but are rudely interrupted by a unicef style
donation can that is shoved in between their faces and rattled by an old woman
She's collecting
contributions for a fund that will be used to stop the Mayor from replacing the
clock. (Apparently they plan to "buy off" the Mayor somehow to keep him from
replacing it). She hands them a flyer and verbally tells them the history of how
the clock tower has been "frozen in time" at 10:04 pm on the night of November
12, 1955 ever since it was struck by lightning . She represents the Hill Valley
Preservation Society, who believe the clock tower should be preserved as is.
He graciously gives her a quarter saying "it's all I have" which is probably the
truth. She thanks him and insists he take a copy of the flyer so he can tell others.
She runs off to stop other unsuspecting "victims" (citizens) who are passing by.
He and Jennifer nearly kiss again when they are interrupted by the beep
of a horn. It's Jennifer's father in an AMC Eagle station wagon. He has arrived
to pick her up. She scribbles "I love you" on the back of the flyer and runs to
jump in the car with her dad. He smiles, staring at the note on the back of the
flyer and puts the treasure in his pocket. He gets back on his skateboard and
hitches a ride from a passing police cruiser.
he never warned him of the car's "blind spot," and says "I could have been
killed!" George says that he never noticed a "blind spot" in the car before when
he was driving it. George gives Marty a quick hello before turning back to Biff
and asking if his insurance was going to pay for the damage. Incredulously, Biff
insists that George's insurance should cover it then demands to know who's
going to pay his cleaning bill since he spilled beer on his shirt during the wreck.
Biff asks George if he's finished filling out his reports for him. George
says he was thinking he had until Monday. Biff, annoyed, puts his hand behind
his head begins wrapping his knuckles on George's forehead saying "hello, hello
is anyone in there?" He grabs Georges shirt and says "think, Mcfly, think, I have
to have time to retype them!" He asks him "do you know what would happen if I
turn in my reports in your handwriting?" George hesitates to answer, this being
an obvious rhetorical question. Biff answers his own question, "I'd get fired!"
George nods in understanding. Biff stops and stares at him suspiciously. "Now,
you wouldn't want that to happen would you?" George hesitates again,
uncertainty on his face, he's obviously not sure if this is another rhetorical
question or if it's bait. Biff takes a hostile tone and grabs his shirt menacingly
again. "Well, would you?"
George says "well of course Biff..." Biff wraps his hand in George's shirt
angrily, "now you know I wouldn't want that to happen!" Biff slaps his shirt away
then goes to the refrigerator, looks in and complains that all George has is light
beer.
He helps himself anyway, spouts an order about not giving him the
reports too early on Sunday because he sleeps in. As he's leaving he says to
Marty in a very inappropriate and suggestive manner "say hello to your mom for
me." After Biff leaves George apologizes to his son for letting Biff roll over him
saying, "Biff just happens to be my supervisor and I'm afraid I'm not very good at
confrontations." Marty, in despair says "ya Dad, but the car... I needed that car"
he reminds George of his lake trip. Once again George apologizes.
CUT INTERIOR DINING ROOM MCFLY HOUSEHOLD. The family sits
down to dinner - George, his wife Lorraine (Lea Thompson), and their children
Marty, Dave (Marc McClure) and Linda (Wendie Jo Sperber). Lorraine drops a
thin cake onto the table. It says 'Welcome Home, Joey', next to a picture of a
bird flying out of jail. Uncle 'Jailbird' Joey has failed to make parole, again. Linda
laments how he's a family embarassment. Lorraine makes excuses for him.
Dave, in his fast food uniform, jumps up, it's not just that he's tired of the
conversation, he announces that he's going to be late for work. (Apparently
tardiness runs in the family).
maybe it's time to change that oil" to which George points and laughs in a
choking nerdy laugh that resembles more grunting than anything else. Linda
criticizes Marty for pouting over the car and tells him that while he was doing that
Jennifer called three times for him. Lorraine becomes upset at this news,
disapproving how girls call guys in this day and age and how when she was their
age she never called a boy, or chased after a boy, or went parking with a boy.
This inevitably leads to a conversation between Linda and Lorraine about
the proper way to meet boys, which causes Lorraine to use how she met George
as an example. Linda, in outrage says "that was so stupid, grandpa hit him with
the car!"
the most romantic story ever told. She explains that after her father hit George
with the car she cared for George. Linda jumps in and says "we've all heard this
story before you felt sorry for him so you asked him to the "fish under the sea
dance." Lorraine corrects her. "Enchantment Under the Sea dance." Lorraine
tries to engage George into the conversation by asking him if he remembered
that night and tries to pry his memory (even though he isn't even listening to her)
by mentioning the terrible lightning storm they had that night. She continues
with her recounting of the dance and how when they kissed that night on the
dance floor she "knew she'd spend the rest of her life with him." When she says
this she almost tears up, but they don't seem like tears of joy, more like tears of
regret.
They all look at George now who is absorbed in a re-run of the
Honeymooners. He turns, laughing in that same nerd laugh and pointing at the
television screen, seemingly obvlivious to his wife's conversation, and her
obvious pain.
Marty is getting visibly nervous and is obviously worried that he has lost
his mind and is about to do something really stupid with that car, with Einstein
still in it.
Doc turns to him and with an insane and excited tone in his voice says, "if
my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... we're going
to see some serious shit."
He switches off the brakes! Free now, the DeLorean excells rapidly, right
toward them!
Marty tries to inch his way out of the car's path but Doc gives him a
disapproving look and he sheepishly and reluctantly rejoins the madman in the
path of the careening Delorean.
Marty clenches his eyes tightly shut, turns his head and seems to brace
for the impact. Instead, however a bright light quickly emanates from deep within
the center of the Delorean and it spreads outward like colorful lightning,
surrounding the vehicle and engulfing it. Before the car can hit them it flashes
like the sun then... vanishes in an instant, leaving nothing but two burning fire
trails where the tires would have traveled on either side of them. Marty looks
back behind them where the Delorean should be but all that is left of is that fire
trail and the license plate which ironically reads "outatime," spinning there in the
center of the car's firey wake. It falls to the ground. Doc cheers like a madman,
but Marty stares in horror at him.
Doc is raving about how it "worked!"
He can't believe his ears. He asks, "what worked Doc, you just
disintegrated Einstein!"
He tells him to calm down and that no one disintegrated anything. The
Doc begins to explain that he has just made Einstein the world's first time
traveler!
Again Marty appears to not be able to process what he's hearing. You can
see by the look on his face he's starting to realize how right Principal Strickland
might have been in his prediction about Doc Brown being "dangerous."
He is still explaining that he sent Einstein exactly one minute into the
future.
Marty, still disbelieving asks, "Doc are you telling me you built a time
machine? Out of a Delorean?"
He confirms this and remarks how he used a Delorean because he
wanted to give it some style, and also because it's stainless steel construction
was the perfect conductor for the energy of the flux capacitor, which is the device
that makes time travel possible.
him out of the way just in time as the Delorean reappears, at the exact spot it had
disappeared only a moment earlier. He manipulates the remote control and
brings the car to a screeching halt.
has to use his foot to open the door. There, inside, is Einstein, still strapped in,
looking warm and cozy and happy to have taken a ride in the car.
Once more Einstein's watch is lifted and placed next to Doc's control
watch, the two watches are now exactly one minute apart. He explains that,
from Einstein's perspective the trip was likely instantaneous because he skipped
He mentions that it took all that time and his entire family
fortune to realize the dream of this day. Still lost in the past, Doc gets out of the
vehicle and looks around at the mall, commenting how it was once farm land as
far as the eye could see.
Doc tells him the cold hard truth. He has done something incredibly
stupid. He's taken the Plutonium from Libyan terrorists who stole it for him with
the promise that he would build them a nuclear bomb. What's worse, he double
crossed them, giving them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball parts.
They have now donned their yellow radiation suits and Doc demonstrates
how to drop the plutonium rod into the nuclear reactor he has built on the back of
the Delorean. Then, Doc Brown leans onto the doorway of the car and begins a
farewell address about how he is about to embark on an historic journey. He
stops mid sentence and slaps himself in the forehead and laughs at his own
stupidity. He has forgotten to pack extra plutonium for the trip back. He heads
over to pick up the case and as he turns to come back he stops. Einstein begins
to bark in warning of something or someone approaching. Doc looks in the
direction the dog is barking. He sees headlights come on in the distance across
the parking lot near the entrance.
Doc, in dismay says, "it's too late, they found me, I don't know how but
they found me!"
Marty asks, "who found you?"
He says, "who do you think? " He points and screams, "the LIBYANS!"
A VW microbus races toward them across the parking lot.
A man pops
out of the sun roof with an M-16 automatic rifle and begins shooting . He yells for
him to run then he grabs a pistol from his bag, but it's too late, the VW bus is on
him. He tries to shoot but the pistol is not loaded. His handsgou up and he
surrenders, the pistol clattering limply to the pavement.
Maybe they just want their plutonium back. Then, the man opens fire on Doc,
riddling his body with bullet holes.
Marty screams, "NO! Damn you bastards!"
Hearing Marty's screams the terrorist turns his gun on the teenager, but he
dodges and hides. The van tries to go around Doc's large moving van to get at
him from the other side. He jumps into the Delorean, slamming the door behind
him and takes off in it. There is a car chase through the parking lot. They are
shooting but the bullets are just bouncing off the stainless steel of the car. The
rifle jams. It looks like he might be in the clear but the man goes back into the
VW bus, then re-emerges with an shoulder mounted anti-tank rocket launcher,
aiming it at the Delorean. He drops the shifter into low gear and mumbles, "let's
see if that thing can do 90." He speeds away.
circuits are still on from Doc's preparations. We see the speedometer almost
reach 88 mph but he has to swerve and it drops again. It picks up speed again.
He heads toward the one hour photo processing booth near the exit.
Unexpectedly, to Marty at least, we see the Delorean engulfed in that
same ethereal energy we witnessed during the Einstein time travel experiment.
He stares out of the windshield and braces for impact with the photo booth. The
light surrounds him, then, suddenly the photo booth and the mall parking lot are
replaced by a corn field. The car strikes a scare crow and it is propelled toward
him. He screams. The scarecrow bounces off the windshield and the car plows
into a barn.
protective sign and a fence. The man screams in anguish... "MY PINE, WHY
YOU," then takes another shot which hits a mailbox with the name PEABODY on
it.
FOLLOW DELOREAN TO THE STREET. As Marty speeds away down
the road the old man is shooting wildly and shouts after him, "You space bastard!
You killed my pine!" The Delorean races off into the early morning sunrise down
a two lane highway,, inside Marty is muttering to himself that it's only a
nightmare.
CUT EXTERIOR ROAD NEAR LYON ESTATES ENTRANCE. By sunrise
he reaches his destination, the trusted gates of his home turf, the Lyon Estates.
Suddenly he puts his foot hard down on the brake pedal and stares in disbelief.
Where his subdivision should be is nothing but plowed earth and some tractors.
The stone gates which bear the subdivision's name appear to have just been
erected recently. Near the entrance is a billboard sign advertising "coming soon,
Lyon Estates."
it to completely die.
He takes off the radiation suit, pushes the car behind the
billboard, covers it with some branches and debris to hide it further, and proceeds
down the road toward town. A sign reads "Hill Valley: 2 Miles."
He hides the watch and looks away nervously. The man glares at him
and leaves. He finally does find what he believes to be Doc Brown there in the
book and he tears the page.
When he comes out of the phone booth he starts to ask Lou for directions.
Lou gets curt with him, telling him to either make an order or leave. Lou doesn't
like loiterers to begin with and especially not ones that look like they belong in a
circus.
He asks for a Tab (a sugar free cola made by Coca-Cola in Marty's time).
"Look kid, I can't give you a tab unless you order something." (A tab in
that timeframe means they keep a running tab of everything you order then you
pay the tab as you leave).
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He asks for a Pepsi Free, another sugar free brand of Pepsi that is only
mentions that he is going to night school and will make something of himself
someday. Excitedly he jumps up and shouts, "that's right, he's going to be
Mayor!"
Goldie's eyes flash with delight. "That's right, I'm going to be Mayor" he
pontificates how he will someday "clean up this town." Lou hands him a broom
and says he can start by sweeping the floor. Goldie insists that he will be Mayor
to which Lou scoffs, making a sarcastic comment about how "that will be the day"
when the town has a "colored" Mayor. Goldie walks past Marty, carrying the
broom. His eyes narrow as he mouths the words again, "Mayor Goldie Wilson,"
he nods his head in approval, "I LIKE the sound of THAT!"
He looks around and George is gone. He sees him ride past the door to
the diner on his bike.
this strange and foreign place, and instinctively, like any good kid in trouble he
stays close to dad!
Reruns
her about a "terrible" dream that he went back in time. She is but a shadowy
figure across the room. The compress on his head partially obscures his vision.
He hears her voice again as she draws closer, reassuring him that the nightmare
is over and he's safe and sound now, back in good old 1955.
"Ninteen fifty FIVE?" He sits up in alarm. At the same time she switches
on a lamp and he's dumbfounded. Before him stands a thin and attractive girl
about his own age, but it's still definitely his mother! Lorraine Baines. He starts
to get out of bed, throws back the covers and sees his purple Calvin Klein
designer underwear. "Where are my pants?" He asks in dismay.
She points, "they're over there,... on my HOPE chest!" Immediately she
calls him Calvin Klein thinking the embroidered logo on his underwear must be
his name. Lorraine does something unthinkable, she reaches out for him in a
seductive way and he recoils.
more aggressive with him but he hears a woman's voice outside the door
shouting for Lorraine to come to dinner. Lorraine, now horrified, says "oh my
God it's my mother" and tosses him his pants. She runs out of the room but not
without giving him a wistful and wanting look.
CUT BAINES FAMILY DINING ROOM. DINNER. Marty meets the rest of
Baines family. Her brothers Milton and Toby, her sister Sally, and sitting quietly,
happily playing in a crib against the wall is little "jailbird" Joey. He says, "so
you're my Uncle Joey." Rapping lightly on the bars of the crib he whispers "you
better get used to these bars, kid."
grandmother Stella) notices Marty's interest in Joey and the crib. She explains
that Joey loves it in there and cries every time they try to take him out so they
just leave him in there all the time.
(Marty's maternal grandfather) rolls a television into the dining room on a
rolling tv, as if for the very first time, it's obvious he has just purchased the tv on
wheels. "Look at it roll!" He laughs as he drags it and the family cheers. "Now
we can watch tv and eat at the same time" the father says proudly. They all sit
and eat over the exact same episode of "The Honeymooners" that George was
watching in the McFly kitchen only the night before, back in 1985. When Marty
recognizes the episode he can't believe the coincidence and blurts out, "hey I've
seen this one, this is the one where..." He cuts himself off seeing their confused
looks. One of his young uncles asks, "what do you mean you've seen it? It's
brand new." (It's a bit unclear what they are talking about now, the episode or the
rolling tv). He explains he saw it in a rerun, which only confuses the boy more.
He now looks at Marty like an alien. "What's a rerun?"
Marty starts to try and get directions from Sam, however when he
mentions "John F. Kennedy Drive" Sam gets miffed and asks Stella, "who the hell
is John F. Kennedy?" Stella shrugs. Nevertheless he has gleaned enough
information from the conversation to figure out how to get to Doc Browns from
there. Lorraine grabs his leg and suggests that he can spend the night, in her
room. He leaps up so fast that he nearly knocks over the table. He frantically
makes excuses and runs out of the house. She stares after him with a deep look
of longing. Obviously she's mistaking her maternal feelings for a lover's crush.
After he's gone Stella remarks that he's a very strange boy, to which Sam
replies, "he's an idiot" and then "his parents are probably idiots too." He glares
at Lorraine and says "if you ever have a kid who acts like that, I'll disown you!"
She blushes.
CUT EXTERIOR BROWN ESTATE. Marty makes his way over to Doc's
house, which he has probably never seen before, being that it will be destroyed
in a fire according to the news articles seen in Doc's workshop in the first scene.
He appears visibly impressed by the Brown Estate and, boldly approaching the
front door, he rings the door bell. The door swings open and shuts again
immediately, as if the person inside is afraid to talk to Marty. Marty looks really
confused now. How could anyone know who he is? The door opens a second
time and Doc jumps out of the doorway at him wearing a ridiculous bowl shaped
contraption with what looks like christmas lights decorating it. Doc takes some
electrodes, licks them, and begins attaching them to Marty's forehead while at
the same time shushing him and not allowing him to say a word.
He can't help
begins to try and guess who Marty is and what he wants. He guesses that he
comes from a great distance, and Marty confirms this as accurate. He shushes
him again then, looking at Marty's quilted vest (which looks very much like a life
preserver), he guesses that Marty wants him to make a donation to the Youth
Coast Guard Auxillary.
Marty's had enough. He yanks the electrode suction cups off of his
forehead and tells him straight up that he's from the year 1985. He says, "I came
here in a time machine that you built."
Doc is looks extremely shaken by the news. There is an awkward silence
in which he assumes Doc is taking in this news and processing it. Doc grabs him
by the shoulders histrionically and in an awe inspired voice asks him, "do you
know what this means?"
Marty says "no."
In complete frastration and disappointment, he responds, "it means that
this damned thing doesn't work at all!" He rips the thought reader off of his head,
throws it down, and walks away from Marty, dismissing him entirely as he
contemplates his next move.
Marty does not give up though and continues to try and convince a now
skeptical Doc Brown that he is in fact a time traveler from the future. He shows
him his Drivers license, He dismisses it as a forgery. He shows him his family
photo from Disney World, Doc takes a quick look and calls it "cheap photographic
trickery" and points out that the top of Marty's older brother, Dave's, head is
missing from the photo.
Doc keeps calling him "future boy" after an old time travel show from the
50's and demands to know who is the President in 1985. Marty tells him Ronald
Reagan.
Doc scoffs loudly, "the ACTOR?" He gathers up some plans and
drawings and runs outside, with Marty still following him.
FOLLOW THEM EXTERIOR BROWN ESTATE. Doc continues to mock
Marty's story, obviously thinking that has been sent there by the neighborhood
kids to play a prank on him. He sarcastically suggests that perhaps Jerry Lewis
is the Vice Presiden, and Jane Weinman is the first lady and Jack Benny is the
Secretary of the Treasury!
Eventually, however, he is able to convince the good Doctor by telling him
how he got that bump on his head (the one the bandage is covering).
He
relates the story that Doc's 1985 counterpart told him, how that on the night of 5
November 1955 he was standing on the toilet, hanging a clock and slipped and
banged his head on the sink, and that's when he had the vision for the flux
capacitor which is what makes time travel possible. Doc Brown stops dead
immediately emerges from his workshop and stares at him in silence shock.
It Works!
He
runs into his study and grabs a photograph of Thomas Edison and begins talking
to it. "Tom, Tom, how could I be so careless?" Marty comes in, looking very
concerned.
Doc looks at him in total dismay and says "1 point 21 gigawatts" again.
He mumbles at the photo again. "How am I going to generate that much power?
It can't be done, it's impossible!"
When Marty tells Doc that it's easy, all they need is some plutonium, Doc,
beside himself, sarcastically remarks that maybe in 1985 plutonium is available
at every corner drug store but in 1955 it's "a little" hard to comeby. He informs
him flatly that he's stuck there in 1955. Forever!
Marty can't accept that answer and shows him the love note Jennifer
wrote and tells him, "I can't be stuck here, Doc!"
Doc brown explains to him that in 1955 the only thing that he knows of,
short of a nuclear reaction, that could generate that sort of power is a bolt of
lightning. He remarks, "unfortunately you never know when or where lighting is
going to strike."
Marty glares at the note in his hand, turns it over, and his eyes light up.
"We do now!" When he reads the flyer about the clock tower being struck by
lightning he confirms what Marty is thinking. Since the clock tower will not be
struck by lightning for another week they have time to plan and prepare to
somehow harness that lightning when it strikes.
Doc triumphantly and confidently says, "it just might work!" Then, he tells
Marty, "next Saturday we're sending you BACK TO THE FUTURE," as he says
this he dramatically points into the sky (and into the camera).
Marty approves of the plan and seems to calm down saying "this is
perfect," he remarks that it's only a week and he can just spend the time hanging
out in 1955, see the sights, explore the neighborhood.
Doc immediately warns him that he can't "explore" at all. That it is
absolutely imperative that he have no contact with anyone else or any THING
else here in the past.
Marty sheepishly accepts this but something in his demeanor, a twinge of
guilt and worry on his face, tips him off that it might be too late.
Doc gets serious now and asks him if he has interracted with anyone else
since arriving in 1955.
Finally after a bit of urging, he confesses that he "might of, sort of,
bumped into his parents."
Doc is taken aback! Gravely, he asks for the family photo again, it now
dawning on him what he saw earlier. He holds it under the light to see. Dave's
head is beginning to fade from the photograph.
Marty is totally confused by this.
Doc explains that he must have somehow interfered with the natural
course of his parent's relationship. Marty still doesn't understand so Doc tells
him that he has prevented his own existence in the future, that his older siblings
will soon completely be erased from the photo because they are being erased
from existence itself. He further informs him that if they cannot repair the
damage he has done, Marty too will eventually be erased from existence!
When the bell rings and the halls fill with students Doc asks
him to point out his father. They see George being literally kicked in the ass
down the hallway by several laughing bullies. All George does in response is say
"ya ya ya, real mature." Doc offers consolation to him in the way of a sarcastic
remark, "maybe you were adopted," to which he nods sadly.
Suddenly, Principal Strickland appears, looking exactly as he looks in
1985 and rips a "kick me" sign off of George's back, calling him a slacker! Marty
mutters under his breath, "Jesus, didn't that guy ever have hair?"
Doc wonders out loud what Lorraine ever saw in George to begin with.
Marty admits that she only ever felt sorry for him because her dad hit him
with the car. The realization hits home, exactly how Marty interfered with their
relationship. He laments... "he hit ME with the car." The mystery is solved.
Doc Brown explains that this is called "the Florence Nightingale effect" and
uses the example of when a nurse falls in love with her patient.
Marty steps forward and boldly grabs George, ushering him over to
Lorraine who is now standing at her locker with two other girls. He explains to
George that there is someone he wants him to meet. Practically dragging his
father over to his mother he introduces them to each other. This does not have
the effect he'd hoped for, however, as his mother is only interested in Marty now.
George wanders off, humiliated, as Lorraine fawns over Marty and as he is
completely distracted by her unexpected attention. He looks around for George,
sees him slowly and sadly wandering down the hall, starts after him. The bell
rings and Lorraine runs to her next class, as she passes Doc Brown she gushes
to her girlfriends about Marty... "isn't he a dream boat?"
When he returns, defeated, Doc gives him the bad news. The situation is
more serious than they had first thought. Not only does George lack the selfconfidence to win a popular girl like Lorraine, but it appears that Lorraine is
"amorously infatuated" with him instead. Marty stops in his tracks. "Wait a
minute Doc," he asks, "are you telling me that my mother has the hots for me?"
Doc says "precisely!"
As they discuss their options, which appear to be few, Doc notices and
"Enchantment Under the Sea Dance" poster on the wall and points it out, calling
it a "ryhthmic ceremonial ritual," and suggesting he get his parents to go to this
event. The light bulb comes on. He says, "Doc that it, they're supposed to go
to this dance." He tells Doc the story that his mother had relayed to him many
many times. They decide that the logical plan of action is to get George McFly,
who's described by some as "that irish bug" to ask the most popular girl in school
out!
CUT INTERIOR HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA. Marty begins his efforts
anew in the cafeteria over lunch. He sits down with George. After being
humiliated several times already, however, George appears in no mood to
socialize with Marty. So far the new kid he barely knows has brought him nothing
but trouble.
Marty notices that George is writing feverishly in a tablet that he quickly
hides when he takes too much interest. He finally wrenches the truth out of
George and is stunned to learn that he writes science fiction stories.
Marty says, "gettoutatown, I never knew you ever did anything creative!"
When he George to him read some, totally fascinated, he hides them under his
arms.
George explains that no one reads his stories because he's afraid they
might tell him they are "no good" and George just can't "take that kind of
rejection." George says, "I guess you wouldn't undertstand those feelings."
Marty, with heartfelt empathy does in fact understand, having uttered almost
those exact same words about his own creative activities not more than 24 hours
earlier.
Marty goes back to the task at hand, trying to convince George to talk to
Lorraine again and tells him that she told him that she wants George to ask her
to the dance. George receives this news with complete skepticism saying, "I
think she'd rather go with someone else."
Marty asks him, "who?"
He looks down at his writings, points his pencil at the table past Marty and
says, "Biff!"
He turns around to see Biff grabbing and pawing at his mother as she
angrily fends off his obscene gestures and advances, literally wrapping his legs
around her and groping at her breasts right there in the lunch room. She slaps
him and says she's not that kind of girl, to which he responds that maybe she is
but she just doesn't know it yet. He cannot take this another minute. He stomps
over and grabs Biff by the shirt and tries to yank him to his feet but Biff is an
unmoveable mountain! Biff, however does slowly stand to his feet and we can
see the contrast in size between the two young men. He towers over Marty like
Goliath himself. He is not intimidated however. They both square off toe to toe,
fists raised. It would have turned violent right there and then but Strickland once
again appears out of nowhere like magic. Biff sees the principal and lowers his
fist. Marty senses him and does the same. The boys consider each other for a
moment longer. Biff smooths Marty's collar and quietly says "you're new here so
I'm going to cut you a break" he says "now make like a tree and get out of here."
Strickland goes off to put out another fire somewhere.
CUT EXTERIOR NEIGHBORHOOD OF GEORGE MCFLY. After school
Marty is following George home. George turns around and angrily demands why.
He is now pleading with George to ask Lorraine out. George says he can't go to
the dance because he'll miss Science Fiction Theatre. He keeps insisting until,
finger pointing, George declares that neither he, nor anyone else on this planet
can make him change his mind and storms into his house. He pulls out his
family photo and all that is left of his older brother is his shoes and socks.
Getting an idea, he mumbles reflectively. "Science Fiction Theatre, huh?"
He has what looks like a ray gun holstered to his waste with a
belt. The figure places a pair of walkman headphones on the sleeping George's
head, inserts a tape labeled "Edward Van Halen" into the walkman, cranks the
volume and hits the play button. A cacophony of rock and roll noise pollution
floods George's ears at full blast and he bolts upright in his bed, grabbing at the
headphones. When he sees the figure before him, however he freezes in fear,
his hands lightly resting on the headphones as if afraid to touch them anymore
being that they obviously came from this creature who has invaded his room.
George points in utter terror at the figure and breathlessly asks, "who are
you?"
Marty presses play again and George writhes in agony to the roaring
heavy metal in his ears. He presses stop and responds to George through the
microphone on the radiation suit helmet using his best "Darth Vader" bass.
"Silence Earthling." The microphone gives him a metalic and electronic tone to
his voice.
planet Vulcan.
Marty takes off, grabbing a nearby truck to be towed away, but soon Biff
and his henchmen give chase in Biff's Ford Super De Lux Convertable.
CUT INTERIOR DINER FRONT WINDOWS. Everyone has been
watching from the diner. As he rolls past them being chased by Biff's car,
Lorraine repeats her line, "isn't he a dream?"
CUT EXTERIOR VILLAGE SQUARE. Marty loses control and goes
across the sidewalk, crashing into a couple. By the time he gets back up on his
skateboard Biff's sedan is on him. He twists around and puts his hands on the
hood of Biff's car, now he's being pushed rather than towed.
have him now and begin to steer toward a parked truck to ram him. He jumps up
on the hood of the car with both feet and the car rolls over the skateboard. He
runs aft, across the hood, jumps the windshield, lands both feet in the front cab of
the car ,then he hops and skips over the seats and onto the trunk of the car
before any of Biff's henchmen can grab him. By now the car has completely
rolled over the skateboard and he gets there just in time to jump down onto the
skateboard and roll away in the opposite direction. The four men in the car are
so stunned by this maneuver they watch him roll off in amazement, helpless to
stop him.
Biff, however has forgotten that the car is still rolling forward toward the
parked truck. He turns back and realizes his mistake in horror. They all scream
"SHIT!" He spins the wheel and presses the brake. The car squeals to a halt
sideways and just clips the back of the truck, which opens up and spills manure
all over Biff and his henchmen. The manure literally fills Biff's car and stops in a
1955 to carry electricity from one point to another. The Delorean will be fitted at
the end with a catch hook (similar to the type used on aircraft to hook the
mooring cables when they are landing on an aircraft carrier). The electrical
cable will be strung across the street between two poles and then grounded. The
idea is for the hook on the back of the Delorean (that goes straight into the flux
capacitor) will strike the cable at just the right moment when the lightning is
arcing between the two poles and this will channel the 1.21 gigawatts of
electricity into the flux capacitor, jump starting the time circuit and sending him
back to his future.
Doc sets up a demonstration using jumper cables and an electric toy car.
Marty sets the car down and it rolls toward the cable, at just the right moment
Doc hooks the last jumper cable to the other side of the circuit and the car
speeds up dramatically, going faster and faster, until it flies right off the
demonstration exhibit rolls across the floor, hits some rags, and causes the rags
to burst into flame. Doc gasps and runs for a fire extinguisher.
"You're not instilling me with a lot of confidence Doc" Marty says as Doc
puts out the fire.
Just as the flames go out there is a knock on the door. Doc peeks outside
then desperately closes the door again. "It's your mother" says Doc! Marty is
dumbfounded. They quickly cover the time machine with a tarp. When Doc let's
Lorraine in she approaches him coyly.
Marty asks her how she found him and she abashedly admits that she
followed him. Then, being coy again, she asks him to ask her to the dance.
Doc turns and faces the other way. Both of them had assumed that George
indeed asked Lorraine to the dance so when she asks Marty, he's more than a
little surprised. He point blank brings up George, wondering why she wasn't
going with him. At first she doesn't even seem to know who he's talking about.
Then, realizing he means George Mclfy, she is very surprised by the suggestion,
admitting that even though George is kind of cute, she needs a man who can
stand up for himself, who can protect the woman he loves. He blushes from ear
to ear and it appears, from his back, that Doc may be squelching out and out
laughter at the predicament Marty has got himself into.
In the most unexpected move ever, he accepts her invitation to go to the
dance. Later he tells Doc that he has a plan to get his parents together but he
has to take her to the dance to make it work. Skeptically Doc seems to accept
this answer, but not totally. He begins to look at his young new friend with new
eyes.
Lorraine into the dance as her knight in shining armor. It's a fool proof plan, or so
he thinks.
When George finally seems on board with the plan Marty gives him a pep
talk. He places his hand on his dad's shoulder and says "if you put your mind to
it, you can accomplish anything." (Something that Jennifer had said to him just
before he went back in time about his music).
inside looking very handsome and dashing in a white tux, except for the fact he's
dancing all alone, occassionaly looking up at the clock for his appointed time.
Marvin Berry and Starlighters are playing "Night Train."
CUT TO EXTERIOR SCHOOL PARKING LOT. Doc Brown's 1948
Packard Custom Eight Victoria convertible pulls in with Lorraine in the passenger
seat and Marty driving. When they are fully stopped Lorraine suggest they "park"
first. Even in 1985 Marty knows that means she wants to make out. Now, he
starts to see the wrinkles in his plan. He realizes his young mother might not be
the "born nun" he always thought she was and that could be disasterous for the
whole operation. Just then, she produces a small flask of whiskey and drinks,
looking around to make sure the coast is clear, she hands it to him. He lectures
her that she shouldn't drink because she might regret it later in life. Angrily she
tells him not to be "a square." He shrugs and takes a swig. As he does, she
lights up a cigarette.
"Jesus, you smoke too?" Now she gets peeved and complains, "your starting to
sound like my mother."
CUT INTERIOR SCHOOL GYMNASIUM. Back in the dance the band
ends their song and announces it's time for a break.
CUT TO EXTERIOR SCHOOL PARKING LOT. Lorraine asks him why
he's so nervous. He asks her if she ever had to do something but when it came
time to do it did she realize she couldn't go through with it? She grins wickedly
and without further warning Lorraine makes her move, she's all over him. As he
struggles she plants her lips to his aggressively, her eyes pop wide and she
backs away, staring at him with an extremely odd expression. He asks her
what's wrong and she says that when she kissed him it was almost like she was
kissing her brother. He is not surprised.
car swings open and Marty rolls his eyes, thinking George is jumping his queue.
A very large arm reaches in and drags him out of the car. It's not George, it's Biff
Tannen.
"You cost me 300 bucks to fix my car you sonofabitch," growls Biff, "and
now I'm going to take it out of your ass." From inside the car we hear Lorraine
shout to "leave him alone." Biff looks in at Lorraine in her very provocative party
dress and grins wickedly. Biff hands him over to his henchmen saying to
Lorraine, "well, looky what we have here." She realizes her cleavage is showing
then sees his look and tries to dart out the passenger side. Biff is too quick, he
jumps into the car with her and is on her, tearing at her dress. Even the
henchmen are taken aback by this sudden act of barbarism. Biff whips his head
around and screams at them, "this ain't no peep show" and slams the car door.
You can see poor Lorraine's feet and legs flailing wildly as Biff climbs on top of
her.
FOLLOW MATCH, SKINHEAD, AND 3D EXTERIOR BACK PARKING
LOT. They carry him out behind the school and toss him into the open trunk of
the first car they see and slam the lid shut. Emerging from the car are Marvin
Berry and the Starlighters who have been back there taking their break, smoking
on a doobie. They chase Biff's gang off, literally kicking their asses as they flee.
They hear Marty's voice and realize he's locked in the trunk. What's worse, when
they look for the keys they hear Marty's muffled voice saying, "the keys are in the
trunk."
CUT FRONT PARKING LOT OF SCHOOL. DOC'S CAR. You can hear
Lorraine crying and Biff laughing, and you can still see Lorrianes feet flailing
inside the car. Apparently she's being raped. George McFly appears, sees the
commotion inside the car, pauses, putting on his best acting face he thinks the
show is on. He stomps over to the car, swings the door open and, as he does,
says his line as they rehearsed it.
"Hey you get your damned hands offfff...." His voice trails off as, in
horror, he sees that it's Biff in the car, not Marty. Biff, sweating profusely and
breathing hard tells George in a menacing tone that he has the wrong car.
Lorraine cries out George's name and balefully begs for help.
George assesses the gravity of the situation in a flash. Biff tells him to just
walk away. George's demeanor suddenly changes. A look comes over him that
no one has ever seen before. He points angrily at Biff and says, "no Biff, you
leave her alone!" Biff climbs out of the car and tells George he's been asking for
it and now he's going to get it. George takes an awkward swing at Biff but the
brute just grabs his arm and twists it hard behind his back. George goes to his
knees, grimacing in pain.
CUT TO BACK PARKING LOT. Marvin Berry is using a knife to try and
jimmy the trunk lock. It works but he cuts his hand badly in the process. The
trunk pops open and Marty jumps up, thanking them profusely he tosses them
the keys and he darts back to save Lorraine from Biff.
CUT TO FRONT PARKING LOT. DOC'S CAR. Biff still has George at his
mercy and Lorraine leaps out of the car and onto Biff's back digging her nails into
him. Biff throws her to the ground and she hits hard. Biff starts laughing at the
sight of this, cruelly. When George sees this his face twists in rage and the fist
on his free arm clenches white. As Biff stands there laughing at Lorraine, George
uses the leverage provided by the angle at which Biff is holding him and strikes
upward full swing. The punch hits Biff so hard his head flips back against the car
and his face goes blank. It's lights out as Biff drops onto the pavement. Out
cold.
Marty rounds the corner just in time to see George's swing and Biff drop
like a stone. He stops dead and stares in utter disbelief.
George stares at his own hand as if it had acted on it's own, a mixture of
total surprise and elation on his face. He looks down at Lorraine who is still
sitting where Biff shoved her. She is staring up at George with a newfound
adoration. He offers her the hand that had just saved her and asks her, "are you
okay?"
She smiles and nods, almost trancelike, then takes his hand as he lifts
her.
Without saying a word he wraps his arm around her protectively and
begins to escort her proudly into the school. A small crowd is gathering around
Biff's limp body. Another small crowd gathers behind where Marty still stands,
watching this entire thing with glee and pride. A girl watches George escort
Lorraine and asks "who is that?" Her boyfriend says, "that's George Mcfly" in a
tone of awe and wonder. "THAT'S George Mcfly?" She asks incredulously.
He looks at his family photo expecting to see it restored. To his utter
shock and dismay his brother is completely gone from the photo and his sister is
half gone. Getting George and Lorraine together at the dance was not enough,
it didn't fix a thing. His brow furrows in complete confusion, as it dawns on him
what the problem is. He runs back toward the alley.
CUT TO BACK PARKING LOT. Marty runs up and asks why they haven't
gone back in to resume playing for the dance. They are wrapping Marvin's hand
in a large bandage and inform him that Marvin's hand is too badly injured and the
band can't play without Marvin. He urges them to go back in and play music,
talking a mile a minute, he pleads with Marvin:
"Marvin, you gotta play! That's where they kiss for the first time, on the
dance floor! You see, if there's no music they can't dance and if they can't dance
they can't kiss and if they can't kiss they can't fall in love and then I'm history!"
Marvin sits up and tells him, "hey man the dance is over, unless you know
someone else that can play the guitar!"
CUT TO INTERIOR SCHOOL GYMNASIUM. DANCE STAGE. Marty
stands to the right of the stage, Marvin's red Gibson ES-345 strapped to him,
almost dwarfing him, he is strumming the chords to "Earth Angel" by the
Penguins. George and Lorraine are out on the dance floor, together, but George
has appeared to have lost his nerve, he's holding her practically at arms length
and he looks terrified.
Marty has mounted the family photo on the machine head of the neck,
weaved in with the strings, and he keeps looking out at the couple then back at
the photo desperately hoping to see them kiss and to see the photo restored.
Nothing is happening as the song continues. Finally, Lorraine sweetly asks
George "aren't you going to kiss me?" George balks, indecisively. A red headed
punk appears from nowhere and shoves George away exclaiming that he's
cutting in. George starts to sheepishly walk away in humiliation. The bully is
literally dragging Lorraine away from George while she calls out his name. The
bully cruelly laughs at George.
An horrible dischordant sounds start eminating from Marty's guitar. The
other members of the band grimace and look his way. He stares at his right
hand. It' begins to phase in and out of existence. George continues to walk
away sadly. He peers out on the dance floor and weakly says, "George," as he
begins to collapse onto the floor.
The little punk is now holding Lorraine tightly against her will and trying to
dance with her. Suddenly George reappears and shoves the kid to the ground.
He approaches Lorraine and puts both of his hands gently on her face and draws
her to him.
Marty springs up instantly and the music from his guitar is beautiful again.
He looks at the picture as one by one each person in the photo magically
reappears. He smiles in absolute relief. He's done it!
The song ends and Marty, triumphant looks out at George, who waves.
He waves back looking triumphant and starts to put the guitar down. Marvin
Berry urges him to play another number, something that "really cooks." He
thinks about it then agrees. He steps up to the microphone and announces,
"this is an oldie," he stops, then adds, "well, it's an oldie where I come from." He
tells the band to play a standard 12 bar blues in the key of B. He launches into
the opening and distinct riff for Johny B. Goode, by Chuck Berry. The band joins
in, feeling the vibe and grinning in pleasure and amazement. Everyone begins to
dance excitedly.
CUT TO BACKSTAGE OFFICE. As Marty plays, we see Marvin on the
phone in the backstage office shouting, to Chuck Berry, his cousin about that
"new sound" he's been looking for. Marvin shouts into the reciever, "well listen to
this," and holds the phone out so that Marty's riffs can be heard.
CUT TO STAGE. Marty begins to put on his best showmanship. He hops
across the stage, kicking one leg up like Chuck Berry. He kicks his amplifier over
like the Townsend from The Who, he drops to his knees like Van Halen and does
a solo that employs hammeron pulloffs, then he plays the guitar behind his neck
like Jimi Hendrix. When he lies down on the stage with the guitar and begins
scooting across the floor like Angus Young of AC/DC, however, the band literally
stops playing. He looks up to see everyone is staring at him. You could hear a
pin drop in there. He gets up, regains his composure, steps up to the
microphone and says, "I guess you're not ready for that yet..." pauses, adds "but
your kids are going to LOVE it!"
He hands the guitar back to Marvin Berry who scrutinizes the instrument
for damage.
CUT INTERIOR BACK STAGE NEAR BACK EXIT. Marty runs back stage
and heads for the exit. He's met by Lorraine standing in a doorway. He stops
and she asks if it's okay for George to drive her home. Giver her a playful chuck
under her chin and says "I had a feeling about you two." She agrees with him.
George and Lorraine stand arm in arm to say their goodbyes and ask him if they
will ever see him again. He says, "I personally guarantee it."
As he's about to leave, he stops and says, "oh, by the way, if you two ever
have kids..." they blush, "and one of them accidentally sets fire to the rug when
he's 8 years old, go easy on him will you?" They nod. He runs out the exit,
leaving Lorraine reflecting about how nice the name Marty is.
timeline is restored.
Doc frowns, staring at the picture and asks Marty, "never?"
Marty confirms it and looks concerned.
Doc says "never mind that now" and continues to prep the Delorean. He
reminds Marty of the plan and points down the street in the direction of where he
has drawn a starting line. He sets the time dial to send him back to the exact
moment he left and comments, "it will be like you never left."
They hug. Doc says "see you in 30 years" and Marty, almost in tears says
"I hope so." Doc reassures him saying "don't worry" and tells him as long as he
sticks to the plan everything will be fine. As he says this, he reaches his hand
into the pocket where Marty had slipped his note hours earlier. Doc feels
something, pulls out the envelope, reads the address and demands to know
what is the meaning of this? Doc guesses that it's information about the future
and becomes furious, ripping up the envelope and lecturing him about trying to
slip him information that could jeapordize his own existence the way Marty had
done to himself!
Marty is adamant and says "I'll just tell you outright then." He never gets
the chance however. The wind picks up and a large branch falls on the cable,
disconnecting it from the clocktower. The connector falls all the way to the steps
of the courthouse. Doc frantically grabs a rope and tells him to get the connector
and he'll throw the rope down to him from the clock so that Marty can tie the
connector to the rope.
CUT INTERIOR CLOCK TOWER STAIRWELL. Doc scrambles as fast as
he can up the stairway to the clock. He climbs bravely out on the very thin
ledge. He drops the rope to Marty, who ties the connector to it and Doc drags
the connnector up. Frantically, he begins trying to make his way to the other
side of the clock to reconnect the cable. As he does so Marty tries to yell up at
Doc to warn him about his being shot by the terrorists but Doc can't hear him
because the thunder and the wind are picking up as the moment of the lightning
strike approaches. The ledge breaks and Doc nearly hangs for a moment by the
decorations around the clock, until he manages to climb back up. Marty is still
shouting his warnings, unheard. Doc shouts to Marty, "look at the time!"
Marty realizes he has to go now.
FOLLOW MARTY DOWN THE ROAD IN DELOREAN. He runs back to
the DeLorean and races it down the road, stopping and lining himself up at the
painted starting line. He gets out of the car and installs the grappling hook style
contactor into the flux capacitor like Doc showed him. He gets back in the car,
looks at the alarm clock and laments that he didn't have enough time to warn
Doc, until he realizes he's got all the time he needs as long as he has a time
machine. He resets his destination time to arrive 10 minutes earlier. Speaking
to himself he says, "I'll just go back early and warn him."
it had near the billboard on the first day and it again will not start back up. The
timer goes off and he slams his head on the steering wheel. The car starts!
He
throws it in gear and speeds begins speeding toward the town square.
CUT EXTERIOR CLOCK TOWER. Doc is still struggling to get the
connector to the other side of the clock so he can reconnect it. When he gets
there it won't reach because it's pinned down partially by the fallen branch. He
gives it a good hard tug and it snaps free. Doc looks down and gasps in horror to
realize that it has now disconnected at the other end, by the tree branch.
Doc looks and it's almost time, he sees the Delorean speeding toward the
cable where it crosses the road. He gets an idea and with no more time to spare
he connects the cable, wraps a large section of cable around the hands of the
clock, and using his jacket he slides down the cable toward the tree branch.
CUT TO DELOREAN. Marty can now see that Doc is in trouble but he
keeps accelerating. The Delorean has almost reached 88 mph and the cable
ahead.
CUT TO EXTERIOR TOWN SQUARE NEAR COURTHOUSE. Doc lands
near the tree branch, jumps up, pulls the cable free of the branch, grabs the two
ends and connects them just as the lightning strikes the clock tower. Electricity
arcs between Doc's two hands and lights up the cable, crossing the street just as
the Delorean hits 88 miles per hour and at the exact moment the hook connects
with the cable. The electricity flows down the connector into the Delorean and it
flashes with light, disappearing. Leaving behind the now familiar fire trail where
the tires were traveling.
FOLLOW DOC DOWN THE STREET. Doc celebrates joyously in the
street then he looks up at the clocktower smiling in satisfaction surveying the
damage he did to the ledge.
dismay. He's too late. Doc is being shot. He hears his own voice in the distance
scream, "no, you bastards!" His eyes widen in amazement as he sees an exact
duplicate of himself darting out of the way of the terrorist bullets. He falls and
rolls down the hill to the parking lot surface. Gets up and observes as it's all
unfolding as it did before, with him now on the sidelines watching helplessly as
the Libyrans chase the Delorean around the parking lot and toward the photo
booth.
DeLorean vanishes, the shocked Libyans lose control of their van and it crashes
into the photo booth and rolls over on it's side. Throwing caution to the wind, not
even knowing if the Libyans survived the crash or not, he runs down to check on
poor Doc.
FOLLOW MARTY DOWN THE HILL TO THE PARKING LOT BELOW. In
complete devastation he falls down next to the inventor's limp dead body and
begins to mourn. He can't bear to look and turns his head. Doc's eyes flutter.
He senses movement and turns back just as Doc sits up.
"You're alive!" He whispers in amazement. "But how?"
Without saying a word, and as if he's just remembering this for the first
time himself, he opens his coveralls to reveal a bullet proof vest covered in
flattened bullets.
Martys asks "how did you know?"
Doc reaches in his top pocket and pulls out the letter he had slipped him in
1955. It was taped back together and laminated to preserve it.
Marty demands, "what about all that talk about screwing up future
events? The space time continuum?"
To which Doc merely says, "well I figured, what the hell!"
He
tells him to look him up when he gets there and Doc says he will (but he doesn't
really seem sincere). They both share a look as if to say they know that wouldn't
be appropriate.
Linda at the table bickering over her numerous boyfriends calling her at all hours.
Dave wears a suit and tie. Linda is dressed in a woman's business attire herself,
and her hair is perfect.
his clothes again. He nods and asks him what he's wearing.
Dave stands up and looks at Marty oddly and says, "I always wear a suit
to the office. " The kitchen, too, has beautiful expensive furniture, including a
white grand piano.
Just then, the back sliding door opens and in walk George and Lorraine,
they have just returned from the Country Club. George carries a tennis racket
and Lorraine is demanding a rematch. George asks "why, were you cheating?"
They look like two completely different people.
Marty falls on the floor he's so shocked!
They are concerned and ask him if he's alright and if he hit his head.
He gushes as he picks himself back up, "Mom, Dad, you guys look
GREAT!" George's hair is pleasantly styled and he looks fit as a fiddle, carrying
himself with an air of sophistication that Marty has never seen before. His
mother, too, is in terrific shape. George playfully makes a provocative grab for
her backside as he walks away behind her and she giggles.
Lorraine heads to the dining room table while George goes to the living
room. He stands eyeing Marty with a knowing look as he puts his sun glasses in
his inside coat pocket. He continues to gaze at Marty, almost as if he knows
what is going on. Linda tells Marty that Jennifer called. Lorraine, standing at the
table, remarks how much she likes that sweet girl Jennifer. Then she asks him if
this isn't the night they go to the lake?
He says, "mom we talked about this remember the car is wrecked."
Havoc breaks loose at this. Dave jumps up and demands why he is never
told about these things. George just stammers for a second then tells everyone
to calm down and that the car is fine. He heads to the front door. "See, there's
Biff out there waxing it right now."
CUT EXTERIOR MCFLY RESIDENCE. DRIVEWAY. George opens the
door and we see an out of shape Biff waxing a beautiful BMW in a green running
suit. George barks at him from the doorway, "I want two coats of wax this time."
Biff, slightly irritated" says "I'm just finishing up the second coat now."
George barks louder, "now Biff, don't con me."
Biff becomes extremely apologetic, calling him "Mr. Mcfly." He says "I
meant I was just starting the second coat."
George closes the door with, "that Biff, what a character.
CUT INTERIOR MCFLY DEN. He's always trying to get away with
something," then, "he's been that way ever since High School." He sits down
and Lorraine hops on his lap, reminding him that if it wasn't for Biff they never
would have fallen in love.
Marty is looking more and more disoriented.
Suddenly Biff runs in carrying a box and shouting, "it's just arrived I think
it's your new book!"
They all gather to look at the contents and it's a novel, written by George
Mcfly about a couple who are brought together by a space man. On the front
cover is a figure in a yellow radiation suit, pushing a boy and a girl together.
George tells Marty, "see son, it's like I keep telling you, if you put your mind to it,
you can accomplish anything."
Biff hands Marty a set of keys and says, "it's all waxed up, ready for
tonight."
He looks truly baffled now. Lorraine and George look at each other like
they are pleased at his surpirsed reaction.
CUT TO INTERIOR GARAGE. DARKNESS. The door swings open and
in the flooding light outside we see as Marty stands in awe at what is inside. It's
the jet black Toyota 4 X 4 pickup he always admired. He can't believe his eyes.
He walks in and leans on it, exhausted by all of this. He hears Jennifer's voice
asking him for a ride.
He runs to her and holds her tightly saying "you are a sight for sore eyes."
She comments that he's acting like he hasn't seen her for a week.
He says, "I haven't!" They kiss. We see George and Lorraine who have
been watching from the screen door, almost knowingly, turn away to give them
their privacy.
Jennifer is now staring at them both like they are completely insane.
Doc grabs him by the shoulders and says, "something's got to be done
about your kids."
Reluctantly they get in the Delorean, with Marty continuing to object a
little.
CUT INTERIOR DELOREAN. Doc backs up for a take off. He says, "Doc
you better back up more, you don't have enough road to get up to 88."
"Roads?" Doc Brown says dramatically as he puts his sunglass visor
back down. "Where we're going we don't NEED roads."
CUT TO EXTERIOR DELOREAN. The Delorean hovers a few feet in the
air and the tires retract under the car sideways. They advance forward a space,
turn, and fly straight toward the camera and pass overhead, picking up speed.
There is a flash and the familiar sound of the time jump.
Fade to black.
Music.
Credits roll.