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By Jeffrey D. Dean, Sr.
A Flying Delorean?
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. 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."
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.
Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) comes out of the house, and wants to
show Marty the matchbooks he just got printed up for his auto detailing service,
just in time to see the DeLorean fly away and vanish in a flash of light. "A flying
DeLorean?" he asks, in disbelief, then he growls, "what the hell is going on
here?"
Fade Black.
Clouds.
Music.
Back to the Future Part II Logo
They reappear in the year 2015, and immediately find themselves flying
against traffic it appears to be night time but we soon learn it's 4:29 pm Doc
crosses to the right "lane" as they are descending into Hill Valley on October 21,
2015. Jennifer is confused, and Marty tells her they're in a time machine. She
gets excited about seeing their future, the wedding, and where they will live.
Doc knocks her out with a sleep inducing "alpha rhythm generator." Marty
is clearly upset, but Doc tells him that she was asking too many questions about
her future, and she's not essential to his plans. He reassures him that when she
wakes up she'll think it was a dream.
They land in an alley. Marty refuses to get out because it's raining too
hard. Doc looks at his watch and tells him to wait 5 seconds. The rain stops
right when Doc predicted and the sun comes out instantly. Doc praises the
weather service saying it's "too bad the Post Office isn't as efficient." When
Marty gets out, Doc peels off a rubber mask, saying he went to a rejuvenation
clinic and got a natural overhaul. He says they added 30 or 40 years to his life
(he looks the way he did in 1955, some 30 years younger than his 1985
counterpart). He says they also replaced his spleen and colon.
Marty asks about his own future, expecting that by now he's some sort of
rock star. Doc warns Marty that no one should know too much about their future.
He throws Marty some clothes and tells him to put them on.
While Marty complies Doc goes to the end of the alleyway and, using high
tech binoculars, begins to spy across the green. Marty's future son, Marty Jr.
(played by Michael J. Fox) comes into view. Doc goes back to Marty and says
they're precisely on schedule.
Doc helps Marty figure out the power laces on the shoes and the self
adjusting sleeves on the jacket. He instructs him to pull his pockets out because
all the kids in that era wear their pants inside out. He gives Marty a ball cap that
actually looks similar to a 1950's "jughead" beanie cap identical to the one we
saw Marty Jr. wearing moments earlier.
Doc begins to outline his plan. He is to go into the Caf '80s (a nostalgic
theme restaurants located where Lou's Diner used to be) in exactly two minutes
and order a Pepsi. A guy named Griff is going to show up and ask Marty whether
he is in or out about "tonight's opportunity". Marty is to tell him he is out, say no,
and come back immediately.
When Marty demands to know what this has to do with his kids Doc shows
him tomorrow's copy of USA Today, and the headline reveals that on this date,
Martin McFly Jr. will be arrested for theft, and within 2 hours of his arrest, he will
be tried, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary. He is
taken aback by the two hours, but Doc explains that the justice system works
swiftly these days since all lawyers have been abolished.
Doc also reveals that next week Marty's daughter Marlene will attempt to
break Jr. out of jail and will get sentenced to 20 years herself, causing a chain
reaction that destroys Marty's entire family. Doc explains that in a few moments
Griff will pressure Marty Jr. into agreeing to be a patsy in this break in he has
planned. Doc intends for Marty to take Marty Jr.'s place and stand up to Griff. To
accomplish this he will have to intercept the real Marty Jr. before he can get to
the Caf 80's. Doc warns him to be careful because Griff has "some short circuits
in his bionic implants."
Doc insists that Marty help him put Jennifer, still unconscious, on a pile of
boxes against the wall of the alley. They carry her over there and gently set her
down, all the while Doc continues to explain the plan. Doc assures him that
Jennifer will be alright where she is.
Marty, nervous, enters the town square. There is a pond in the middle
where the park and parking lot, used to be. The Texaco is now robotic. He
passes a sign on the movie theatre that says "Jaws 19" by "Max Spielberg
(Stephen's son). As Marty watches a live bilboard commercial for Statler Toyota,
a hologram of a giant shark comes from the theater, swoops down on Marty and
"bites" him, he screams and ducks, holding his arms up shielding himself. He
then sarcastically criticizes that the shark "still looks fake."
Marty goes into the Caf '80s. Several video screens compete with each
other to get him to order something. The screens use personalities: Michael
Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, speaking in broken form
reminiscent of the 80's AI icon "Max Headroom," (Matt Frewer).
Marty orders a
talking about George Mcfly. Biff knocks him on the head with his cane saying,
"Hello! Anybody home?" Then Biff informs him he's talking, not about his
grandfather, George, but his FATHER, Marty Mcfly!
A voice yells "GRAMPS!" It's Griff Tannen (also played by Thomas
Wilson). He stands in the doorway and begins yelling at old Biff for not applying
two full coats of wax to his car. Marty asks Biff if he and Griff are related, and
Biff knocks him on the head again saying "why would he call me grandpa if we
weren't related?"
Marty says, "he's Griff?"
Biff goes to Griff and they begin to argue about the wax job. Griff grabs
him and drags him outside. Then he tells Marty not to go anywhere because he's
next.
Marty notices two boys turn on an antique shooting game. He begins to
demonstrate how to use it by grabbing the revolver control and shooting at all
the opponents, one of the boys ( played by a young Elijah Wood) says "you
mean you use your hands?" The other kid says, "that's like a baby toy!" They
storm off.
Just then Marty Jr. peers in through the window of the cafe. One of his
sleeves is malfunctioning and hangs down. He comes in and asks for a Pepsi.
Marty has no choice but to duck behind the counter.
Enter Griff and his gang (played by Ricky Dean Logan, Darlene Vogel,
and Jason Scott Lee) . Griff yells, "Mcfly, I thought I told you to stay in here!"
The gang then begin bullying Marty Jr. in the typical Tannen gang way. Griff
presses Marty Jr. for a decision about "tonight's opportunity." Marty Jr. says it
might be dangerous, that he has to discuss it with his father. Griff yells "wrong
answer Mcfly" and throws him over the counter. He lands hard and is passing
out, mumbling "okay, Griff whatever you say, I'll do it."
Marty picks him up and leans him against the counter saying "stay down
and shut up" but Marty Jr. never sees him, he's out cold. Marty grabs his hat off
his head and puts it on. (He's left his on top of the video machine).
He now stands up, jumps over the counter, and faces off with Griff and his
gang boldly. Griff demands he give the right answer. Marty tells him flatly, NO,
then starts to walk away.
Griff calls Marty chicken, hiding a telescoping bat behind his back. Marty
doesn't like being called chicken and turns around to confront Griff over it. He
swings at Marty with his bat and misses, hitting a video waiter. When Marty puts
up his dukes, Griff is wearing pneudralic shoes that raise his height. Marty tries
to distract Griff & throws a punch which Griff easily catches. Marty kicks him in
the groin instead and pushes him against the others, then he runs out the door
with them all in hot pursuit.
Outside, old Biff is waxing Griff's car. Marty passes him and sees two kids
with what he thinks are scooters. When he grabs one it turns out to be a "Mattel
hoverboard," fitted with a steering column.
1955 he rips off the handle, to the little girl's objections and hands it to her.
Again, like what happened in 1955, Griff and his gang chase after Marty,
but this time, not in the car, on hover boards of their own. Marty grabs the back
of a passing Jeep.
Biff, who watches the chase from the front of the diner mumbles
"something about this is very familiar."
Marty grabs onto a rope from the Jeep's back and is towed behind like a
water skier. The jeep takes him past Griff's car again and Griff swings at him
with the Bat. Marty lets go and, out of control, he goes over the water in the
fountain.
The board stops dead. He's hovering a few feet above the water and
"drying mode" then blows itself dry. He tries to give her back her hoverboard, but
she declines, saying "no thanks, I've got something way better now" holding
Griff's "Pit Bull."
As he heads back to the alley he passes the electronic billboard sign
again. A man asks for a donation to save the clock tower. The billboard flashes
that the Cubs win the World Series in Tokyo, sweeping Miami. Marty is surprised
about Miami. The old man says he wishes he could go back to the beginning of
the season and put some money on the Cubs. Marty gets and idea. He heads
to a memoribilia shop he saw earlier, one with a Gray's Sports Almanac in the
window.
Cut to interior of antique shop. The woman hands Marty the Sports
Almanac, bragging that it still has its dust cover. Outside on the sidewalk he
examines it and wickedly laughs to himself that he can't lose.
Doc arrives. Biff comes around the corner and sees the flying DeLorean.
Immediately he says to himself "I haven't seen one of those in 30 years. "
Then a strange look comes over his face.
Awakened, Marty Jr. comes out of the diner and bumps into Biff.
Biff looks back and forth at Marty and Marty Jr. and says "two of them?"
Doc looks at the courthouse and asks Marty what happened. Marty says,
"My kid showed up and all hell broke loose." Doc apologizes, explaining that he
used too much of the sleep inducer on Jennifer and there wasn't enough to keep
Marty Jr. sedated for long.
Marty and Doc watch as the original USA Today headline changes from
He starts to put
the almanac in the trash, but sees the police; they duck around the corner and
watch as two police officers, (Mary Ellen Trainor and Stephanie Williams)
examine Jennifer and scan her thumb with their cell phone.
A computer voice
says, "McFly, Jennifer Jane Parker, 3793 Oakhurst Street, Hilldale, age 47."
They remark in amazement "47? That's a helluva good face lift."
They begin to put her in their cruiser to take her home.
Marty suggests they go explain.
Doc scoffs, asking him, "What will we say, that we're time travelers?
They'll have us committed." He explains that the cops are taking Jennifer to
Marty's future home. He says they can arrive there shortly after the cops do and
take her back to 1985.
Marty is excited about seeing his future home and himself as an old man.
This makes Doc realize another serious problem. He says, "Jennifer could
conceivably see her future self. The consequences could be disastrous.
Marty asks him what consequences.
He says, "I foresee two possibilites: one, Face-to-face with her future self,
she simply passes out or two, the encounter creates a paradox, which starts a
chain reaction and unravels the very fabric of the space-time continuum and
destroy the entire universe." They hide against the wall until the police cruiser
passes overhead.
Looking at the digital sign, Doc laments that the skyway will be jammed
and that it will take forever to get there. He then lectures marty about the
Almanac once more and throws it in a trash can.
After they leave, Biff emerges from a nearby screen door where he has
been hiding and listening in on everything.
time machine?" Then he retrieves the almanac and hails a taxi cab to follow
them.
Chicken Fricassee!
Cut to Hilldale, exterior future Mcfly residence. The police car arrives at
night. Jennifer, still unconscious, is carried to the front door while they discuss
what a bad neighborhood this is. One cop says that Hilldale is "nothing but a
breeding place for tranks, lobos, and zipheads." The other one agrees, saying
that they should tear it down. They use her thumb print to open the front door
and carry her inside.
Cut to interior of Mcfly residence. Darkness. She wakes up. They tell
her she got a little "tranked", but can walk and ask her to turn on the lights.
She
repeats, half dreamily, "Lights on?" The lights come on to her command and they
sit her down on the couch.
They caution her to be careful in the future. Again, dreamily, she repeats,
"The future?"
They leave.
She looks at the window in front of her but sees a giant video screen,
broadcasting the 24 hours a day scenery channel. She mumbles to herself that
she's in the future. Her future daughter, Marlene is walking around upstairs. She
stops and examines framed wedding photos of her and Marty, and picks one up.
She whines, "I get married in the "Chapel O'Love?" In the photo, Marty wears a
tux-patterned shirt and she wears a mini skirt. They look like poor white trash.
The doorbell rings. She drops the photo and tries the front door, but
there's no doorknob. The doorbell rings again and she hears someone coming
down the stairs shouting "mom is that you?" She quickly hides in the closet
under the stairs, attempting to peer through the slats of the closet door but she
cannot see much as her future daughter, Marlene, ( Michael J. Fox in drag)
comes down the stairs and opens the door.
There is George (played by Jeffrey Weisman wearing a Crispin Glover
mask) and Lorraine (Lea Thompson). George is floating, inverted, his hair
hanging down. Marlene asks what happened to her grandpa's back. Lorraine
says he threw his back out again on the golf course; George floats in upside
down in a strange traction device. Lorraine asks Marlene if her folks are home
yet. Lorraine is holding a small pizza in a sandwich bag, saying she bought pizza
for everyone.
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CUT TO SKYWAY: Doc, our Marty, and Einstein are flying in the
DeLorean weaving in and out of rush hour traffic. Doc frantically explains that
future Jennifer usually gets home around this time, and hopes they're not too
late. He grabs his goggles worriedly.
Marty asks him what's the matter.
Doc says he thought he saw a taxi in his rear display that he thought was
following them.
CUT INTERIOR McFly home. Lorraine changes channels on the window
scenery screen wondering when they are going to get it fixed, she lifts it,
revealing the window.
Marlene says that when the repairman called her dad "chicken", he threw
him out of the house, and now they can't get anybody to fix it.
Lorraine grumbles about Marty's propensity to lose all self-control when
somebody calls him chicken. Her and George mimic Marty in unison, "Mom, I
can't let them think I'm chicken." Lorraine continues to explain how in 1985, he
got into a drag race and struck a Rolls-Royce when someone challenged him,
calling him "chicken".
CUT TO ENTRANCE HILLDALE DEVELOPMENT. NIGHT. The DeLorean
lands. They exit the vehicle and Marty is impressed that they live in Hilldale (not
knowing it has become a slum). Doc heads out to find Jennifer, taking Einstein
with him and giving Marty explicit instructions to wait by the time machine so as
not to run into his 2015 counterpart, amid Marty's protests. He's wanting to see
where he lives. Doc runs down the street toward the Mcfly future residence.
The taxi that was following the DeLorean lands down the street. Biff pays
with his thumbprint, gets out, and as the taxi pulls away he sneaks behind some
dumpsters near a recycling storage area.
INTERIOR Mcfly home. Living Room. Lorraine continues telling Marlene
how the accident caused Marty to be injured and to never play the guitar again.
The driver of the Rolls Royce pressed charges and Marty was made to pay
damages, causing him to ultimately give up on his music. He then spent the last
few decades feeling sorry for himself.
listens to all of this with growing alarm. The front door opens and Marty Sr.
(2015 Marty) enters. The home computer system announces, "King of the
Castle."
Jennifer runs to the den closet and hides there. She watches as Marty
After he's gone, Biff cautiously approaches, carrying his cane and the
Gray's Sports Almanac. He can't believe his good fortune. He climbs into the
Delorean. It raises up. He has trouble controlling it for a second and it backs
into a waste bin. He finally gets the hang of it though and it turns, speeds into
the air, flies off.
INTERIOR: Future Mcfly residence: Kitchen. The family has gathered at
the dinner table. Lorraine puts a tiny Pizza Hut pizza in a Black and Decker
Hydrator, which is completed 3 seconds, restored to full size and cooked.
Lorraine worriedly mentions how Jennifer is very late.
Marty Sr. doesn't know where Jennifer is. He says she's probably in one
of her moods. The phone rings, and Marty Sr. moves to the den to take the call
on video chat. It's his coworker, Douglas Needles (played by Flea). Needles
pressures Marty to collaborate in an illegal business venture, assuring Marty that
the boss won't find out. Marty is still not sold on the idea.
Needles asks, "what are you chicken?"
To prove he's not, Marty pulls out his ID card and angrily scans it,
completing the nefarious transaction. Needles looks extremely satisfied.
Instantly he gets another video call. The screen lights up with the image of an
asian man (Jim Ishida), and the name on the screen announces, Ito Fujitsu,
Marty's boss. He screams "Mcfly!" Fujitsu informs Marty that he was monitoring
his last transaction on the company card. The words "YOU'RE FIRED" flash
across the screen. Marty cries out, "no, fired, I can't be fired!"
"YOU'RE FIRED" then begins to print on every printer in the den!
One prints out right next to where Jennifer stands, she takes it and puts it
in her pocket as Marty sits down and, depressed, grabs his guitar.
Doc appears at the window behind her and tells her to meet him at the
front door. She tells him that there's no door knob and he explains she can open
the door with her thumb print. She's still trapped in the tiny office off of the den,
however. She watches as Marty Sr. begins to play a few bars of "Power of
When they arrive to their destination Marty asks if they are home. A jet
passes overhead, barely missing them.
Doc says, "we're home alright!" They fly straight to Jennifer's house, park
in the driveway. It's the middle of the night. They carry to her front porch, lay her
gently on her porch swing so as not to wake her parents. Doc explains that when
she wakes up she'll just assume it was all a nightmare. Doc says she will
probably sleep for a couple of hours.
Marty notices security bars on the windows of her family home and
remarks he does not remember those.
wreck in front of the house and this seems rather odd to him as well.
CUT TO EXTERIOR LYON ESTATE ENTRANCE: They drive past the
gate and fail to noitice that the lion statues on either side of the entrance are
broken and vandalized with graffiti. They also fail to notice a pack of dogs
looking wild and dangerous running past them in the street. Marty gets out in
front of his house.
Doc tells him he'll be back at his workshop "dismantling this thing."
He
drives away.
Marty can't open the gate to his back yard. He finds it locked with an
unfamiliar padlock. He jumps the gate and proceeds to climb through his
bedroom window as he's done hundreds of times before. He falls into his bed.
A young teenage girl jumps straight out of his bed and screeches, "Rape!"
A very large man runs into the room carrying a baseball bat. Marty says, "I'm
Marty stands back up just as Strickland suddenly rushes out of the house, firing
two shots after them while screaming, "EAT LEAD, SLACKERS!"
Marty flees the front porch of Strickland's house in complete and sheer
terror.
CUT TO THE VILLAGE SQUARE: HELL VALLEY: Marty runs into the
town square and immediately bumps into homeless Red (George 'Buck' Flower),
the former mayor. who promptly says, "Watch where you're going, crazy drunk
pedestrian!"
Marty turns to look at the court house and the old faithful clock tower but in
its place is a huge high rise hotel and Casino. A massive flashing neon sign on
the front reads, "Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise" with an equally large profile pic
of Biff Tannen above, looking much as Marty remembered him from before he
ever went back to 1955.
In the village square there is a biker gang circling. A tank passes by in the
street. The whole town looks like a scene from a Mad Max movie. There is a
toxic waste reclamation plant across the street. Off to the side, near the
entrance is a small boutique museum. A video narration greets everyone, inviting
them in. Biff Tannen's family history and life are "recapped" in a short
documentary.
family, starting with Biff's great-grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, the fastest
gun in the west." Then, the video quickly summarizes how Biff, after coming from
"humble beginnings" becomes a millionaire overnight by betting on a single horse
race on his 21st birthday and then earns himself the nick name "the luckiest man
alive" by winning bet after bet. It recounts how he parleyed those winnings into a
multi million dollar Corporation called "BiffCo." It speaks of his lobbying to
legalize gambling.
The narrator continues to talk about Biff's life, including the women he
dated (Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield) and finally he married "high school
sweetheart", Lorraine Baines McFly. There's a short clip of him slipping Lorraine
the tongue. Marty screams in horror! Biff's aging henchmen, looking like an
Elvis entourage, sneak up behind him as he's distracted by all of this and hit him
in the head. It all goes dark.
CUT INTERIOR PENTHOUSE SUITE: DARKNESS. He wakes up to
see a shadowy image and he hears his mother's voice comforting him. She tells
him to relax, that he's been asleep for almost 2 hours. Reminiscent of the scene
in Lorraine's bedroom in 1955 after he's hit by the car, he once again thinks it
was a nightmare. She tells him that he's safe and sound on the 27th floor and
turns on the lights. He jumps up to see his mother, alcohol in hand, and her large
voluptuous cleavage spilling out of the top of her shirt.
so, BIG!"
He hears the sound of Biff screaming in the hallway. He shakes his head
in confusion and asks what's going on.
She says "it's your father."
Biff bursts in through the door followed by his Elvis entourage. He's
screaming about how Marty is supposed to be in Switzerland.
Marty stammers, "my my FATHER?"
Biff complains to Lorraine about all the perfectly good dough he's throwing
away on her good for nothing kids! He points out that they are all losers like
their natural father.
Lorraine tells Biff that he's not even half the man George
Mcfly was. He pushes her down (just like he did in the parking lot of the dance in
1955, when George decks him). Marty rushes at Biff, but his henchmen grab
block. While the henchmen hold Marty, Biff cowardly punches him in the
stomach.
Lorraine goes off and says she's leaving. As she climbs the stairs he
reminds her that without him she won't be able to pay for her clothes, jewelry,
liquor, and cosmetic surgery.
She stops and, cupping her breasts, she squeezes herself in his direction
and says "I never wanted these THINGS you can have them."
Then, he threatens to have Dave's probation revoked, and put all of her
kids in jail with their uncle Joey, "one big happy jail bird family."
Defeated, she comes back down the stairs toward the bar agreeing sadly
to stay if he just leaves her kids alone.
Biff storms out with a warning that he'll be back in an hour but Marty better
not be here. Lorraine apologizes for herself to Marty explaining that it was all her
fault as she pours herself another drink at the bar. This makes Marty very angry
and he goes to her and demands to know why she would leave his dad for Biff.
She puts her hand on his head and mourns balefully, "they must have
really hit you hard this time!"
reminds her poor disoriented child that his father is where he's been for the last
explains he took from the burned out Library. Meanwhile, Doc uses a chalk
board to show how something has caused a new timeline to skew off the original
creating an alternate reality. As he explains all this, Marty tears out a front page
news article about the murder of his father, the award winning author, who was
mysteriously shot to death in an alley.
On a chalkboard, he draws the normal timeline and the alternate timeline
(1985A) a reality that is alternate to Doc, Marty, Jennifer and Einstein but reality
for everyone else. He then goes to the Delorean and pulls out the bag in which
Marty had been carrying the Gray's Sports Almanac in 2015 and then, produces
the actual receipt from the purchase.
shows him the fist-shaped tip of a cane that he found on the floor of the
DeLorean. Marty recognizes it immediately as Biff's cane, the old Biff from the
future. Doc nods in agreement and says, "it was in the Delorean because Biff
was in the Delorean, with the Sports Almanac."
Doc then theorizes that somehow old Biff from 2015 followed them, took
the Delorean, then went somewhere into the past and gave himself the book. He
then pulls out a magnifying glass, points it at a news article depicting Biff's first
horse race win in 1958. Marty looks through the magnifier and can clearly see
the Gray's Sports Almanac in Biff's pocket!
Marty grumbles, "that sonofabitch stole my idea." He then stops as the
realization hits him. "It's all my fault, none of this would have ever happened if I
hadn't bought that damned book."
Doc waves that off saying "it's all in the past."
Marty corrects him, "you mean in the future."
"Whatever!" Doc exclaims. "The point is, it just shows how time travel
can be misused."
Marty suggests they go back to the future and stop Biff from stealing the
time machine.
Doc, frustrated, explains that they can't because if they proceed into the future
from where they are now they will only go to the altered future of this timeline,
where Biff is corrupt and powerful. He then holds up a newspaper article for
Marty to see. "And where this has happened to me." The headline reads
"Doctor Emett Brown Committed" and shows them dragging Doc Brown away in
a straight jacket.
Doc says the only way to fix it is somewhere in the past, where the new
timeline skews off from the original. He says they must find out under what
circumstances and at what time frame Biff gets his hands on the book and
prevent that from happening.
Marty voluteers to ask Biff where and when he got the book.
the book and was warned to keep it in a safe. He asked the old man what was
the catch. The old man said, "No catch; just keep it a secret." Biff says he never
saw the old coot again.
Marty reaches for the Almanac but Biff pulls it back, turns, places it back in
the safe. As he does so his back is turned to Marty and Marty takes one of the
"Biff Pleasure Palace" matchbooks from an ashtray on the desk.
Biff says there's one more thing. He sits down in his thronelike highback
chair and tells Marty how the old man who gave him the book warned him that
someday a crazy wild eyed old man claiming to be a scientist and or some kid
would show up asking about the book and when they did... Biff holds up a
revolver and cocks it pointing it at Marty and smiles. He says, "I just never
thought in a million years it would turn out to be you."
Marty distracts Biff as he always does by saying "what's that" and pointing
behind him. When Biff looks away Marty throws the ashtray at him. Biff ducks
and it sticks to the back of the chair. This however was the only distraction Marty
needed. He's on his feet and fleeing toward the exit. Biff takes a couple shots
and misses.
CUT INTERIOR STAIRWELL. Marty runs upstairs with Biff close behind
shooting wildly.
running down with them close behind, realizing he will get caught if he continues
he jumps to the upward flight of stairs and proceeds toward the roof while the
henchmen lumber downward thinking he's heading for ground.
Biff finally emerges from his penthouse into the stairwell and looks down.
Something above catches his eye, however, it's roof exit closing behind Marty.
CUT EXTERIOR CASINO ROOF. Marty goes to the edge of the roof and
realizes he's trapped. Biff emerges from the exit pointing his gun at him.
Biff gives him a choice, either jump, making it look like death by suicide or
he dies of "lead poisoning." Biff prefers the suicide choice because it's "nice and
neat."
Marty tells him that he'll never get away with it because the police can
match the bullet to his gun.
Biff laughs and says, "kid,, don't you know already, I own the police?"
Then he adds, "besides they couldn't match the bullet I put in your father from
this same gun." Biff then lifts up the gun and points it saying "ironic, two Mcfly's
with the same gun."
Marty, now looking completely hopeless and desperate, looks down at the
waiting pavement below. Then, much to Biff's surprise and pleasure, Marty
jumps up onto the ledge and leaps off the building.
Biff is left standing in shocked glee, he spreads his arms and starts to
laugh as if he can't believe Marty's stupidity. He calls him an idiot.
As he goes to the edge to look at the carnage below, Marty rises up as if
floating in mid air. He's riding on the Delorean. Biff is stunned. Doc then swings
open the wing door and it hits Biff, knocking him over. Marty jumps into the
Delorean from the open door and it closes. They speed away.
Marty tells Doc he's not going to believe it but they have to go back to
November 12, 1955.
Doc says, "I don't believe it!" Then as he sets the time circuit for the jump
he openly theorizes that perhaps Biff chose that very date because it's some sort
of "space time continuum hub."
As they ready for the time jump Marty reminds Doc that they have to first
go get Jennifer and Einstein because they can't just leave them there. Doc
explains that when they manage to repair the damage and put everything right
the regular timeline they all came from will be restored and will "instantly
transform around" Jennifer and Einstein. He adds that they won't even have any
memory of this "horrible place."
EXTERIOR SKY. NIGHT. Doc and Marty emerge into the past not far
from the old billboard sign, near the entrance to the unfinished "Lyon Estates,"
where Marty hid the Delorean the first time. They float silently down to that exact
spot behind the billboard and get out.
Marty says that it feels like he was just here yesterday, to which Doc
reminds him that he was just there yesterday. He then informs Marty that he has
to take time to repair the short in the time circuit and instructs him to stick to
young Biff of 1955 like glue and look for an opportunity to get the book, but adds
a warning that he must wait until young Biff has the book and old Biff leaves.
Marty doesn't understand this, so Doc explains that old Biff must think he
has succeeded and must get back into the time machine and go to 2015 or else
they will never get the time machine back from him in 2015, causing a major
paradox.
Marty says, "right!"
Coming prepared for all contingencies, Doc opens a suitcase with money
in it from all different time periods and gives him some 1955 money, telling him to
use it to buy era appropriate clothing.
CUT TO EXTERIOR TANNEN HOME. MORNING. Marty, wearing a 50's
leather and a black hat and a pair of binoculars communicates with Doc using a
walkie talkie. Biff exits the house through the front door with the sounds of a
woman shouting after him. He shouts disrespectfully back at her, calling her
grandma.
He follows Biff to a mechanic's shop in the middle of town. Terry, the
mechanic who repaired Biff's car after the manure truck incident, drops it off, and
Biff is outraged to find that the repair bill is $300, including an $80 fee for the cost
of the manure itself.
CUT TO NEARBY TREE. Old Biff hiding behind it, and mutters that he
remembers the incident. Biff and the mechanic head toward the shop continuing
to haggle over the fee. Marty uses the opportunity to jump into the back seat of
Biff's car and cover himself with an old army blanket that just happens to be lying
back there.
When Biff and the mechanic return they are still arguing and Biff carries a
few oil cans with him that he tosses into the back angrily. They hit Marty and he
winces in pain. Finally, Biff pays Terry and the mechanic drives away as fast as
he can, spooked by Biff's demeanor.
Lorraine comes out of a shop with a girlfriend, excitedly carrying the dress
she will wear to the dance that night. Biff, seeing her, heads her way. He
demands that she go to the dance with him. She informs him that she's going
with "Calvin Klein."
This does nothing but infuriate him.
behavior he exhibited in the lunch room in the first movie. Insisting that she
inside the garage. Young Biff demands to know how Old Biff knows where he
lives.
Old Biff tells him to shut up and listen. He then asks "do you want that
girl?" Then suggests to his younger self that he knows a way to make it happen.
Then he asks him "how would you like to be rich?"
Young Biff scoffs, saying "you're going to make me rich, now that's rich!"
Old Biff pulls out the almanac and immediately explains that the book in
his hand contains all of the outcomes from every sporting event to the turn of the
door. He's locked in, trapped. He calls Doc on his walkie-talkie, telling him Biff
and old Biff left with with the book; and asks him to fly over in the Delorean. Doc
refuses to take the Delorean out in broad daylight and says he'll get there
somehow.
De Ja Vu!
Biff comes out the other side of the tunnel, the Almanac is sitting right on
the dash board of the car. Marty whispers from the back seat that he plans to
wait until Biff goes in the dance, then grab the Almanac from the dash and get
out of there. Doc quickly tells Marty to come up with a new plan, saying that the
risk of him bumping to his other self at the dance is just too great. He has to
remind Marty that his other self will also be at the dance attempting to get his
parents back together.
As Doc says this, behind him his own 1955 counterpart appears, sees him
from behind and asks him to hand him a 5/8 wrench. Doc, keeping his back to
his younger counterpart corrects him.
"Don't you mean a 3/4?" He asks.
The younger Doc thinks about it and then agrees, wondering how he
knew. Older Doc reaches in to the tool box, pulls out the wrench then backs up
to his younger counterpart, acting as though he's inspecting the cable as an
excuse to keep his back to him.
the Almanac there on the dash but at the last second, just as Marty prepares to
grab it, he doubles back and takes it with him.
Frustrated and disappointed, Marty has no choice but to follow him inside
through the back entrance. Marvin Berry and the Starlighters are playing "Night
Train" and all the kids are dancing. George is there on the sidelines of the
dance floor, dancing alone. Marty peers at George through his binoculars then
he notices Biff's henchmen are at the punch bowl, spiking it. He can also see the
almanac in Biff's back pocket. Strickland sees their suspicious activities at the
punch bowl and heads their way. They split.
Again, Marty follows them. Biff tells his gang to keep looking for Calvin
Klein because he caused $300 damage to his car. They head off to do as he
says. Biff stays outside near the railing reading something. Marty continues to
spy on him not far away but then he sees Doc's convertible pull into the parking
lot. Using his binoculars he sees himself pulling in with his mother in the
passenger seat. He then sees the Almanac still in Biff's back pocket. He drops
down to the alcove behind the railing and sneaks up on Biff. He reaches up and
is just about to snatch the book out of Biff's pocket when Strickland magically
appears from nowhere. Biff spins around, turning his back on Strickland to hide
whatever it was he has been reading. Unfortunately this spins the Almanac out
of Marty's reach and he has to retreat or be spotted.
Biff is reaches into his back pocket and then begins fidgeting with
something, hunched over as Strickland approaches sarcastically remarking how
nice it is to see him here this evening. Strickland reaches down and grabs
whatever Biff has been fidgeting with, peruses it and says "oh, sports statistics,
interesting subject matter." Biff gets smart with him and he shakes the book at
Biff, calling him a slacker. He sends Biff on his way, keeping the Almanac.
Marty secretly follows Strickland as he walks across the parking lot, not
realizing until too late that Strickland is leading him right past Doc's car with his
counterpart and Lorraine sitting in there talking. He has to drop down and slide
his way across the drivers side door so as not to be seen. As he does this he
hears Lorraine going on about how when she is older and has kids she's going to
let them do whatever they want.
His counterpart mumbles to himself "I'd like to have that in writing." Marty
mumbles, "ya, me too."
CUT TO INTERIOR SCHOOL. STRICKLAND'S OFFICE. Strickland
enters and fills a coffee cup with liquor. Marty, slinking down by the floor, enters
the office quietly and makes his way under Strickland's desk by his feet.
Strickland throws the Almanac on the desk and looks away. Marty tries to
reach up and grab the book but Strickland backs up in his chair against the desk,
sandwiching Marty's hand there. Marty winces in pain.
Strickland grabs the Almanac from the desk, looks out at some trouble
brewing in the parking lot and leaves, but as he does he tosses the Almanac in
the trash. Marty can't believe it. What a lucky break!
However, when he recovers it from the trash and opens it, he finds it's a
copy of oh LaLa, a porn magazine, wrapped up in the Almanac's dust cover. He
is cresfallen!
He calls Doc and tells him that Biff must still have the Almanac and he has
no idea where he could be by now. Marty laments. "I blew it Doc."
Doc tells Marty to think about it, there's got to be some way he can figure
out where Biff is. Marty thinks about it then remembers what happens out in the
parking lot when he and Lorraine were parking. Through the window behind
Marty we see the epic struggle between George and Biff. Marty hears the
ruckus and looks out the window. Then he calls to Doc and tells him he knows
EXACTLY where Biff is right now.
He darts outside, arriving, once again just as George punches Biff. Across
the parking lot he also observes his counterpart amidst the crowd of onlookers
celebrating and looking very proud. He mumbles to himself, "talk about De Ja
Vu." He continues to watch as his counterpart looks at his family photo, gets
worried, and turns, disappearing in the crowd.
He waits until George escorts Lorraine in to the dance then he runs across
the parking lot to Doc's car where a small crowd gathers around the unconscious
Biff. He tells one fellow who leans over Biff that he knows CPR and asks him to
stand back and make some room.
The guy asks, "what is CPR?"
As Marty looks down on Biff's lifeless body he bends down and starts to
grope for the Almanac. As he does Biff wakes up, looks at him and says, "you!"
With no time to mess around Marty reaches down and decks Biff again. He's out
cold again. Marty grabs the Almanac and runs for it.
The man who was trying to help Biff shouts after Marty, "he just stole that
guy's wallet!"
Marty swings
down and drops the bags on them again, knocking all three out just as Marty's
counterpart finishes playing the high note. He watches as his counterpart leaves
the stage, stops and puzzles over Biff's henchmen lying there, shrugs, and steps
over them to leave.
Marty calls Doc and they agree to meet on the roof of the gym in one
minute. Marty leaves through the door, but then stops and peers back into the
window to watch his counterpart saying goodbye to Lorraine and George. As
he's intently watching he hears Biff's voice.
"Hey butthead!"
Marty turns and Biff stands before him, they are almost toe to toe. Biff
challenges him to a fight. He starts to walk away but Biff calls him a chicken. He
turns around to face Biff again, but just then his counterpart comes running out
and the door swings open, slamming into his face and knocking him on his butt.
Biff does a double take as the other Marty runs off, but then forgets all
about the "twin" when he sees the Almanac in Marty's pocket. While Marty is still
laying there Biff kicks Marty for taking what belongs to him, and again for
damaging his car. He grabs the Almanac, turns, and stomps off to his car, jumps
in, tosses the book in the back seat without looking and speeds away.
CUT EXTERIOR GYMNASIUM ROOF. Doc waits for him there with the
Delorean. Marty shows up and has to admit to Doc that he messed up again and
that Biff now has the Almanac... again.
find Biff, they know the route he will take if he's going home.
Biff thinks Marty is gone and says to himself "that will teach him!"
Marty's head pops up over the trunk and Biff sees him in the rear view
mirror.
Marty glides to the driver side door, keeping himself low, unaware the Biff
sees him and is preparing to strike. As Marty gets even with Biff and starts to
make his move for the book which is still stuck to the windshield, Biff reaches out
and punches him hard. He loses his grip with one hand and is almost thrown
under the car.
They are in the wrong lane now and Biff, at the last minute sees an
oncoming truck. He veers away and Marty is almost hit by it. Then, Biff goes
back over into the other lane and begins to try and sideswipe the tunnel wall on
the drivers side, to sandwhich Marty. Marty puts the board against the wall and
then uses the round shape of the tunnel wall to swing up and over Biff, while at
the same time he grabs the Almanac and he's now free of the car with the book
in hand. He stops and almost does a victory dance right there, but then he sees
Biff screech to a halt, spin around and then begin to rev his engine.
Marty looks behind him at the long tunnel and realizes he's in big trouble.
He desperately makes a break in the other direction and Biff holds back, revving
his engine, toying with him like a cat with a mouse. As Marty starts to think he
just might make it to the other end of the tunnel and safety Biff squeels his tires
and bears down on him fast.
Biff laughs maniacally and chases Marty all the way to the other end of the
tunnel, toying with him. When Marty is almost out of the tunnel Biff guns it and
tries to run him down but suddenly the flag streamer Doc had got stuck to the
axle earlier drops down for him. Marty grabs the streamer.
Doc yells, "hang on Marty" and lifts the Delorean up, carrying Marty to
safety. Biff looks behind him at Marty floating away in total disbelief. When he
looks back at where he's going, he's headed straight for a manure truck. He
spins sideways and clips the truck, the same way he did a few days earlier in
front of the diner. Once again his car is filled with manure until his head is
sticking out of a huge pile. He spits manure out of his mouth and screams, "I
HATE MANURE!"
newspaper with George Mclfy's obituary. The headline changes from "GEORGE
MCFLY MURDERED" to "GEORGE MCFLY HONORED."
He gets on the walkie talkie and as Doc is still struggling with the wind
sheer he tells him about the newspaper changing and that his father is alive! He
asks, "that means Jennifer and Einy are okay right?"
Doc looks at the newspaper he has saved which tells of his being
committed in 1985. It changes to "Doctor Emmet Brown Commended." He nods
and grins shouting into the walkie talkie, "that's right Marty, it's the ripple effect,
the future is back, now let's go home!"
A bolt of lightning almost hits the Delorean. It misses and strikes the tree
behind Marty. He then asks Doc if he's alright. Doc says something about him
almost buying the farm. (Meaning he was almost killed). Marty tells him to be
careful because he doesn't want to be struck by lightning. As the words come
out of his mouth the Delorean is struck full on by a bolt of lightning. It spins up
and then vanishes leaving two curly queue fire trails in the sky.
Shocked and dismayed, Marty calls for him on the walkie talkie. It's
useless, he's gone. All that's left of Doc and the Delorean is the streamer that
drops forlornly to the earth, smoking ominously.
As Marty continues to call for Doc on the walkie talkie it starts to pour
down rain. Headlights appear in the distance coming Marty's way but he stands
in the middle of the street mournfully calling for Doc on that radio. The car slows
and pulls up to Marty, who stands shielding his face from the rain so he can see
the figure who now gets out of the vehicle.
A mysterious looking man in dark hat and a trench coat approaches calling
his name. "Mr. Mcfly?" Marty is beside himself and says, "that's me." The man
says, "I've got something for you, reaches in his trench coat as if he's going to
pull a gun, but he pulls out a brown letter satchel instead.
"It's a letter," the man says. He reveals that he is from Western Union and
they have been holding a certain letter for the last 70 years, with instructions to
deliver it to someone answering to the name Marty Mcfly, at this exact spot on
this exact date and time. He says he lost a bet whether or not Marty would be
here.
He has Marty sign for the letter, then stands, uncharacteristically (for a
Western Union Delivery man) and watches as Marty opens it and reads. Marty
shouts to the man, "it's from the Doc!" He reads the letter aloud as the man
listens. The letter states that Doc is alive and well and living for the past 8
months in the year 1885.
He gleefully tells the man from Western Union that "Doc's alive, in the old
West, but he's alive!" The man obviously thinks he's insane and asks him if he
needs any help. Marty says, "there's only one man who can help me now" and
he runs down the road.
I'm back, I'm back from the future." Doc says, "GREAT SCOTT!" and faints dead
away.