by Bob Gale
Lorraine: Stop it!
Biff: C'mon!
Marty: Leave her alone, you bastard!
Biff: You guys, take him in back and I'll be right there.
The gang continues to watch Biff.
Biff: Well c'mon, this ain't no peep show!
Biff closes the door and his gang takes Marty off. They spot a car.
Skinhead: Let's put him in there.
3-D: Yeah.
Skinhead: That's for messing up my hair.
They put Marty in the trunk and lock the door. One of the Starlighters, REGINALD, opens the car door and faces the gang.
Reginald: The hell you doing to my car?
3-D: Hey beat it, spook, this don't concern you.
The other Starlighters, including Marvin, get out of the car.
Marvin: Who are you calling spook, pecker-wood?
Skinhead: Hey, hey listen guys. Look, I don't wanna mess with no reefer addicts, OK?
Three of the Starlighters chase Biff's gang off. Marvin and Reginald turn to the car. Marty taps the trunk of the car from inside.
Marty: C'mon, open up, let me out of here!
Marvin: Reginald, where're your keys?
Marty: The keys are in the trunk.
Marvin: (disbelief) Say that again?
Marty: I said the keys are in here!
The other 3 Starlighters are seen coming back to the car. Cut to Doc's car. George walks over to it and opens the door.
George: Hey you, get your damn hands off her! (realises who's in there) Oh!
Biff: I think you got the wrong car, McFly.
Lorraine: George, help me, please!
Biff: Just turn around, McFly, and walk away.
George stays where he is.
Biff: Are you deaf, McFly? Close the door and beat it.
George: No, Biff, you leave her alone.
Biff: All right, McFly, you're asking for it, and now you're gonna get it.
Biff gets out of the car. George tries to punch him, but Biff grabs his arm and twists it, causing George to let out cries of pain.
Lorraine: Biff, stop it. Biff, you're breaking his arm. Biff, stop!
Cut to the Starlighters at their car.
Marvin: Give me a hand, Reginald.
They manage to get the door open. But Marvin hurts himself.
Marvin: Ow, dammit, man, I sliced my hand!
Marty: (re: keys) Whose are these?
Reginald: Mine.
Marty gives them to him.
Marty: Thanks, thanks a lot.
Cut back to George, Lorraine and Biff at the car.
Lorraine: Stop it, stop it Biff! You're gonna break his arm! Stop it!.
Lorraine jumps on Biff.
Lorraine: Biff, leave him alone! Let him go! Let him go!
Biff pushes her off and laughs. George clenches his other hand into a fist as Biff continues to laugh. Then, when Biff is unaware, George hits him in the face. Biff falls down to the floor. George looks at his fist with a I can't believe it! I did it! expression and then turns to Lorraine.
George: Are you OK?
He helps Lorraine up and they walk hand in hand to the gym. A crowd, including Marty, has developed.
Girl in Crowd: Who is that guy?
Boy in Crowd: That's George McFly.
Girl in Crowd: (disbelief) That's George McFly?
Marty looks at the photo. Linda is still disappearing, everything isn't fixed yet!
Marty: Excuse me.
Cut to Doc at the Courthouse. He's fixing up his equipment when he hears thunder in the distance.
Doc: The storm!
Cut back to Marty. He's with the Starlighters. Marvin's hand is bandaged and they're making sure he's OK.
Marty: Hey guys, you gotta get back in there and finish the dance!
Reginald: Hey man, look at Marvin's hand. He can't play with his hands like that, and we can't play without him.
Marty: Yeah well look, Marvin, Marvin, you gotta play. See that's where they kiss for the first time on the dance floor. And 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 I'm history.
Marvin: Hey man, the dance is over. Unless you know someone else who could play the guitar.
Cut to inside the gym. Marty is on stage playing Marvin's guitar. Marvin looks at him, is impressed with his guitar playing, and then heads for the microphone.
Marvin: This is for all you lovers out there.
Music: Earth Angel by Marvin Berry The Starlighters
Marvin: (singing) Earth Angel, Earth Angel, will you be mine? My darling, dear, love you all the time.
The song continues as Marty looks at the photo. Linda is now gone. Cut to George and Lorraine dancing.
Lorraine: George, aren't you gonna kiss me?
George: I, I don't know.
A bully, DIXON, approaches. He's one of the guys who was kicking George earlier.
Dixon: Scram, McFly. I'm cutting in.
He pushes George aside and starts to dance with Lorraine. George walks away. Cut to Marty. His playing isn't too good.
Reginald: Hey boy, are you all right?
Marty: I can't play.
Cut to Lorraine.
Lorraine: George! George!
Cut to Marty. He's starting to be erased! Looking at the photo, Marty sees himself starting to vanish. Marty then looks at his hand and sees it is starting to vanish.
Marty: (weakly) George.
George pushes Dixon aside.
George: Excuse me.
George pushes Dixon away from Lorraine and they look at each other. Then George and Lorraine kiss. Suddenly Marty stands upright again. He's saved! He looks at the photo. First himself, then Linda, and finally Dave reappear. The future is saved! Meanwhile Marvin finishes the song.
Marvin: (singing) The vision of your happiness, whoa, whoa, whoa! Earth Angel, Earth Angel, will you be mine? My darling dear, love you for all time. I'm just a fool, a fool in love, with you.
The dancers cheer.
Marvin: Yeah man, that was good. Let's do another one!
Marty: Uh, well, I gotta go.
Marvin: C'mon man, let's do something that really cooks.
Marty: Something that really cooks.
Marty thinks - then comes up with the perfect piece!
Marty: (to dancers) All right, All right this is an oldie, but uh, it's an oldie where I come from. (to Starlighters) All right guys, it's a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and uh, try and keep up, OK?
Music: Johnny B Goode by Marty McFly with the Starlighters
Marty starts to play the famous intro from this song. The dancers and the band seem to like it, so Marty starts to sing.
Marty: (singing) We're down in Louisiana, down in New Orleans, Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood an old cabin made of earth and wood There lived a country boy name of Johnny B Goode. He never ever learned to read or write so well, He could play a guitar just like he's ringing' a bell. Go, go, go Johnny go, go; go Johnny go, go, go; go Johnny go, go; Go Johnny go, go, go; Johnny B Goode..
Cut to George and Lorraine dancing. A couple dance past them.
Boy Dancer: Hey George, heard you laid out Biff, nice going!
Girl Dancer: George, you ever think of running for class president?
Marvin heads to the edge of the stage, where there is a telephone. He dials a number.
Marvin: Chuck, Chuck, its' Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry! You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!
Marvin holds the phone to the music so Chuck can hear it (Note: this is a little joke - Chuck Berry originally composed the song.). Marty then plays a solo. He goes a bit overboard, and by the time he's finished playing some rock music, the dance is silent, looking at him. Strickland is covering his ears.
Marty: I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.
Marty exits, but sees Lorraine
before he gets to the door.
Marty: Lorraine!
Lorraine: Marty, that was very interesting music.
Marty: Uh, yeah.
Lorraine: I hope you don't mind but George asked if he could take me home.
In the background is George. He comes up to them.
Marty: Great! Good, good, Lorraine. I had a feeling about you two.
Lorraine: I have a feeling too.
Marty: Listen, I gotta go but I wanted to tell you that it's been...educational.
Lorraine: Marty, will we ever see you again?
Marty: I guarantee it.
George: Well, Marty, I want to thank you for all your good advise, I'll never forget it.
Marty: Right, George. Well, good luck you guys.
Marty heads for the door, and then turns back to the couple.
Marty: Oh, one other thing, if you guys ever have kids and one of them when he's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug, go easy on him.
George: (a bit uncertain - what an odd thing to say!) OK.
Marty leaves. Lorraine turns to George.
Lorraine: Marty, such a nice name.
At the clocktower, Doc checks his watches (He's wearing 2 for some reason).
Doc: Damn, where is that kid? Damn. Damn, damn.
Marty pulls up, in his 1985 clothes.
Doc: You're late, do you have no concept of time?
Marty: Hey c'mon, I had to change, you think I'm going back in that, that zoot suit? The old man really came through, it worked!
Doc: What?
Marty: He laid out Biff in one punch! I never knew he had it in him! He never stood up to Biff in his life!
Doc looks at the photograph. Marty, Linda and Dave are all restored.
Doc: Never?
Marty: No, why, what's the matter?
Doc slips the photo back in Marty's pocket, shaking his head.
Doc: All right, let's set your destination time. This is the exact time you left. I'm gonna send you back at exactly the same time. It'll be like you never left. Now, I painted a white line on the street way over there, that's where you start from. I've calculated the distance and wind resistance retroactive from the moment the lightning strikes, at exactly (checks watch) 7 minutes and 22 seconds. When this alarm goes off you hit the gas.
Marty: Right.
Doc: Well, I guess that's everything.
Marty: Thanks.
Doc: Thank you.
Marty hugs Doc.
Doc: In about 30 years.
Marty: I hope so.
Doc: Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88 miles per hour, the instance the lightning strikes the tower, everything will be fine.
Marty: Right.
Doc then finds the note in his pocket.
Doc: What's the meaning of this?
Marty: You'll find out in 30 years.
Doc: It's about the future, isn't it?
Marty: Wait a minute!
Doc: It's information about the future, isn't it!
Doc tears the note up.
Doc: I warned you about this kid. The consequences could be disastrous!
Marty: Now that's a risk you'll have to take! Your life depends on it!
Doc: No, I refuse to accept the responsibility!
Marty: In that case, I'll tell you straight out.
The lightning strikes a tree branch, causing it to fall over and disconnect the cable. Doc looks at it, putting the letter in his coat pocket as he does so (you have to look very carefully to see him do it).
Doc: Great Scott! You get the cable, I'll throw the rope down to you.
Marty: Right, I got it.
Doc picks up the rope and Marty picks up the cable. Doc runs up the Courthouse stairs to get to the clock. The clock turns to 9.58. Doc opens the door next to the clock and steps out. He sees the gargoyle next to it.
Doc: Ahh, hoo ooh, ah!
Marty: Doc!
Doc throws the rope down and Marty attaches it to the cable.
Doc: C'mon, c'mon let's go.
Marty: All right, take it up, go.
Doc pulls it up. Marty shouts to him.
Marty: Doc!
But Doc can't hear due to the lightning.
Doc: Huh?
Marty: I have to tell you about the future!
Doc: Huh?
Marty: I have to tell you about the future!
More lightning.
Doc: Ahh!
Marty: On the night I go back in time, you get...
The clock strikes 10 - for what will be for the last time!
Marty: Doc!
Doc: Go, go! (gestures with hands)
Marty: No, Doc!
Doc: Look at the time, you've got less than 4 minutes! Please hurry!
Marty gets into the car and drives off. Doc sees the DeLorean leave.
Doc: Yeah!
The clock turns to 10.01. Doc then climbs over the ledge, and looks down. As more lightning happens, Doc slips. Meanwhile Marty reaches the white line on the street outside the Bluebird Motel, parks the car and connects the hook into the flux capacitor.
Marty: Dammit, Doc, why did you have to tear up that letter? If only I had more time... wait a minute, I got all the time I want! I got a time machine! I'll just go back early and warn him. 10 minutes ought to do it.
Marty changes the destination time from 1.35am to 1.24am.
Marty: Time circuits on, flux capacitor (pausing, trying to think of a word) fluxing, engine running, All right!
The engine stops.
Marty: No, no, no, no, no, c'mon, c'mon!
At the clocktower, Doc almost connects the cable, when he slips. He breaks a bit off the ledge as well. The cable slips down and catches on his trousers.
Doc: Whoa! Oh!
The clock turns to 10.02. Doc manages to get the cable back in his hands, then tries to connect them. But he can't. The fallen branch is stopping him from doing so!
Doc: Ah!
Cut back to Marty.
Marty: C'mon, c'mon, here we go, this time. Please, please, c'mon!
Marty bumps the horn with his head. The car starts working! He drives off towards the Courthouse. Cut to Doc. He pulls the cable hard - and it unconnected from the cable attached to the lamppost. Cut to Marty, with a close up of the time display panel. The clock turns to 10.03. Marty hits 75mph. Doc looks up and sees the DeLorean headlights gradually appearing. He attaches the rope to the clockface, taking care not to disturb the hands. Marty wipes some sweat off his face. Doc finishes connecting everything and then slides down the rope.
Doc: Argh!
Cut to Marty in the DeLorean. The DeLorean hits 88mph and lets off blue flashes - it's about ready to travel through time.
Marty: Doc!
Cut to Doc. Doc gets the cable out of the branch. The clock turns to 10.04. Lightning strikes it, and the lightning causes electricity to go down the cables, which Doc reconnects just in time, getting himself a slight electric shock as he does so.
Doc: Ahh!
The lightning enters the flux capacitor. Marty gets sent back to 1985. Doc dances with delight because the experiment was successful.
Doc: Yoo!
And then he turns to the Courthouse.
OCTOBER 26, 1985
We see the courthouse. The clock is still at 10.04. A helicopter flies overhead - we're back in 1985. On the park bench is RED, a homeless bum.
Music: Heaven Is One Step Away by Eric Clapton
The above song is playing on Red's radio. Suddenly we hear three sonic booms as Marty re-enters 1985. Red looks up and sees the DeLorean.
Red: Crazy drunk drivers.
Marty opens the doors and gets out.
Marty: Wow, ah Red, you look great. Everything looks great.
Marty looks at the Bank of America clock.
Marty: 1:24, I still got time.
Marty gets back in the car and tries to start it. It doesn't start.
Marty:
Oh my God. No, no not again, c'mon, c'mon. Hey.
The Libyans' van drives past.
Marty: Libyans!
It then turns and passes the Texaco station before leaving the Square. Marty chases after them.
He runs into the mall (now called Lone Pine Mall because Marty knocked down one of the pines in 1955!) at 1.33. He's too late. Doc has been shot and falls forward. Marty watches his past self.
Past Marty: No! Bastards!
The Libyans spot Past Marty and aim for him. Past Marty turns away, thinking it's the end. However the Libyan's gun is jammed, giving Past Marty enough time to get into the DeLorean - with the camera - and close the door. He drives off.
Libyan: Go!
Marty watches his past self drive off in the DeLorean. He watches the DeLorean leave 1985 and the Libyans crash into a photo booth. Once it is safe, he rolls down the embankment towards Doc, who's lying there.
Marty: Doc, Doc! Oh, no!
Doc moves.
Marty: You're alive?
Doc undoes his radiation suit - he's got a bullet proof vest on.
Marty: Bullet proof vest, how did you know? I never got a chance to tell you.
Doc gets out the note Marty wrote in 1955. It's been fixed back together.
Marty: About all that talk about screwing up future events, the space time continuum?
Doc: Well, I figured, what the hell.
Doc is driving Marty home. He pulls up at Marty's house and Marty gets out, carrying his skateboard.
Marty: About how far ahead are you going?
Doc: About 30 years, it's a nice round number.
Marty: Look me up when you get there, guess I'll be about 47.
Doc: I will.
Marty: Take care.
Doc: You too.
Marty: All right, good-bye Einie. Oh, watch that re-entry, it's a little bumpy.
Doc: You bet.
Doc reverses and travels down the street. The three sonic booms are heard - Doc's gone into the future. Marty then climbs over his gate and gets back into his house.
Music: Back In Time by Huey Lewis The News
Marty is in bed, in the same pose he was in when Doc phoned earlier that morning. The radio alarm goes off, playing the above song, and Marty yawns.
Marty: What a nightmare.
Marty walks to the kitchen and passes the living room. He walks past it, then stops and looks again. All the furniture is different! It's new and much better looking. Marty walks into the kitchen, where his siblings are having breakfast. DAVE is now in a suit, and LINDA looks much more attractive than she did at the start of the film.