by Bob Gale
Red looks at him and then walks off. Marty gets a look at Courthouse Square. It's now full of strip bars, adult book stores and the like. There are bikers everywhere - it seems Hill Valley is hosting a biker's convention. Marty looks again. There is a toxic plant in the Square and a tank owned by the Hill Valley Police is driving around. Marty looks at the Courthouse. It's now a high rise building. The clock has been removed and extra stories have been built on top. Then Marty gets the biggest surprise - it is now BIFF TANNEN'S PLEASURE PARADISE!!! A neon image of Biff using a money bill as a cigar can be seen. At the top of the building is the word "Biff's" in big neon letters. Big chimneys are also polluting the air.
Marty crosses the square and walks to the Pleasure Paradise. To the right of the main entrance is the Biff Tannen Museum. There's a TV screen playing. Marty goes to watch it.
Narrator: (v.o) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Biff Tannen Museum, dedicated to Hill Valley's number one citizen, and America's greatest living folk hero, the one, the only, Biff Tannen. Of course, we've all heard the legend, but who is the man? Inside you will learn how Biff Tannen became one of the richest and most powerful men in America.
The TV screen shows Biff driving away from a big house in an expensive car.
Narrator: (v.o) Learn the amazing history of the Tannen family, starting with his great grandfather, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, the fastest gun in the west.
The TV screen shows a picture of Buford.
Narrator: (v.o) See Biff's humble beginnings, and how a trip to the races on his 21st birthday made him a millionaire overnight.
The TV screen shows a racehorse and then Biff after his win with his money. Afterwards a copy of the Hill Valley Telegraph appears on screen - "Hill Valley Man Wins Big At Races".
Narrator: (v.o) Share in the excitement of a fabulous winning streak...
The TV screen shows the Hill Valley Telegraph - "Biff Wins Again".
Narrator: (v.o) ...that earned him the nickname, "The Luckiest Man On Earth".
The TV screen shows the Hill Valley Telegraph - "Biff Tannen: The Luckiest Man On Earth".
Narrator: (v.o) Learn how Biff parlayed that lucky winning streak into the vast empire named Biffco.
The TV screen shows Biff outside one of the Biffco plants.
Narrator: (v.o) Discover how in 1979 Biff successfully lobbied to legalise gambling, and turned Hill Valley's dilapidated Courthouse into a beautiful casino-hotel.
The TV screen shows the Hill Valley Telegraph - "Gambling Legalised".
Biff: (on video) I just want to say one thing - God bless America.
Narrator: (v.o) Meet the women who shared in his passion as he searched for true love...
The TV screen shows pictures of Biff with women, before cutting to a picture of Lorraine!
Narrator: (v.o) ...and relive Biff's happiest moment, as in 1973 he realised his life long dream by marrying his high school sweetheart, Lorraine Baines McFly.
The TV shows the wedding day. As Biff and Lorraine leave the church, a reporter's arm with a mike is seen.
Reporter: (v.o, on video) How do you feel Mr Tannen?
Biff: (on video) Third time's the charm.
Biff kisses Lorraine. Marty can't believe it!
Marty: No!!!
Biff steps backwards - into the arms of 3-D, MATCH and SKINHEAD!!! Skinhead grabs Marty.
Marty: No!
Skinhead: Hey wait, you're coming with us upstairs!
Marty: Let me go!
Match: Sonny, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
3-D hits Marty on the head and Marty passes out. As the screen fades to black we can hear "The easy way" quietly.
OCTOBER 27, 1985
Marty wakes up in a bed. He wakes up a bit and sees his mother LORRAINE.
Marty: (Still half-asleep) Mom? Mom, is that you?
Lorraine: Just relax Marty. You've been asleep for almost two hours.
Marty: (Still half-asleep) I had a horrible nightmare. It was terrible.
Lorraine: Well, you're safe and sound now. Back on the good ol' 27th floor.
Marty, now wide awake, sits up suddenly! Lorraine turns on the lights.
Marty: 27th Floor?! (Looks at Lorraine) Argh! Mom, Mom that can't be you.
Lorraine is thinner than she was when Marty left 1985, and her breasts are bigger - she's obviously had surgery. She's dressed up in a tight outfit.
Lorraine: Yes it's me, Marty. Are you alright?
Marty: I'm fine. I'm fine. It's just that you're so, you're so big.
Lorraine: Everything's going to be fine, Marty. Are you hungry? I can call room service.
Marty: Room service?
Biff: (o.s) Lorraine!
Lorraine: Oh my God, it's your father.
Marty: My father?
BIFF enters. This Biff is dressed up in a suit, and has a yellowy-ginger hair colour rather than the grey he had at the start of the film. 3-D, Match and Skinhead are with him.
Biff: You're supposed to be in Switzerland you little son of a bitch!
Marty: (horrified) My father!
Biff: Did you get kicked out of another boarding school?
Lorraine takes another sip of her drink.
Biff: (to Lorraine) Damn it Lorraine, do you know how much perfectly good dough I've spent on this no good kid of yours, huh? On all 3 of them?
Lorraine: What the hell do you care, we can afford it!
She walks out of the room, tripping over on the way, during the following. Biff follows her.
Lorraine: (continued) The least we can do with all that money is provide a better life for our children.
Biff: Oh, hold on one second. Let's get this straight. Marty is your kid, not mine, and all the money in the world wouldn't do jack shit with that lazy bum.
Lorraine: Stop it Biff, just stop it!
Biff: Just look at him. He's a butthead just like his old man was.
Lorraine turns to Biff angrily.
Lorraine: Don't you dare speak that way about George! You're not even half the man he was!
Biff pushes Lorraine and she falls to the floor. Marty tries to run towards Biff.
Marty: You son of a bitch!
3-D: Hey!
Match and Skinhead hold Marty back. Lorraine lets out a cry of pain. Biff walks over to Marty.
Biff: Always the little hothead, huh? You wanna take a poke at me?
Biff punches Marty in the stomach. Marty lets out a cry of pain, as does Lorraine. Biff laughs, and Lorraine gets up. She walks over to the stairs.
Lorraine: Damn it Biff, that's it. I'm leaving!
Lorraine starts to walk up the stairs.
Biff: So, go ahead. But think about this, Lorraine. Who's going to pay for all your clothes, huh? And your jewellery and your liquor? Who's going to pay for your cosmetic surgery, Lorraine?
Lorraine: You were the one who wanted me to get these, these things. (She points to her breasts) If you want them back, you can have them.
Biff: Look Lorraine, you walk out that door, I'll not only cut off you, I'll cut off your kids!
Lorraine turns around sharply and runs back to the banister.
Lorraine: You wouldn't!
Biff: Oh, wouldn't I? First your daughter Linda, I'll cancel all her credit cards. She can settle her debts with the bank all by herself.
Biff walks up the stairs.
Biff: (continued) Your idiot son, Dave, I'll get his parole revoked. And as for Marty, well, maybe you'd like all three of your kids behind bars just like your brother Joey. One big happy jailbird family.
Biff is now right next to Lorraine.
Lorraine: Alright, Biff. You win. I'll stay.
Lorraine goes down the stairs. Biff turns to Marty.
Biff: As for you, Ill be back up here in an hour, so you'd better not be!
Biff leaves, slamming the doors as he goes. 3-D, Match and Skinhead follow him.
Lorraine: He was right, and I was wrong.
Marty: Mom, Mom, what a
re you saying? You're actually defending him!
Lorraine sits down and has another drink.
Lorraine: I had it coming. He's my husband, and he takes care of all of us. And he deserves our respect.
Marty: Respect! Your husband? How can he be your husband? How can you leave Dad for him?
Lorraine: Leave Dad? Marty, are you feeling OK?
Marty! No! no, I'm not feeling all right! I don't understand one damn thing that's going on around here and why nobody can give me a simple straight answer.
Marty sits down next to Lorraine.
Lorraine: Oh, they must have hit you on the head hard this time.
She runs her hand through her son's hair.
Marty: Mom, I just want to know one thing.
He holds her hand.
Marty: Where's my father? Where's George McFly?
Lorraine: Marty! George, your father is in the same place he's been for the past 12 years. (takes a sip) Oak Park Cemetery.
Marty faces the camera with a horrified look on his face. Cut to Marty running through the cemetery. In the background is a factory. Marty finally finds a gravestone. It reads "In Loving Memory Of George Douglas McFly, Born April 1st 1938, Died March 15th 1973."
Marty: NO! No!
Marty kneels down in front of the gravestone. He pushes away some plants on the stone (maybe flowers?)
Marty: This can't be happening! (reads) March 15th 1973? No, oh please God no, no, please God, please God, no, this can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be.....
A shadow appears on the gravestone. Marty hears a twig snap and turns around. It's DOC and EINSTEIN!
Doc: I'm afraid it is happening Marty, all of it!
Marty: Doc!
Doc: When I learnt about your father, I figured you'd come here.
Marty: Then you know what happened to him? You know what happened, March 15th 1973?
Doc: Yes Marty, I know.
Cut to Doc's garage. It's a mess. Doc opens a book - Hill Valley Telegraph Archives March 1st - April 30th 1973. On the page he turns to is a headline - "George McFly Murdered: Local Author Shot Dead." We stay focused on the paper as Doc speaks.
Doc: (v.o) I went to the public library to try and make sense out of all the madness. The place was boarded up, shut down, so I broke in and borrowed some newspapers.
The camera turns to Marty and Doc.
Marty: I don't get it Doc, I mean how can this be happening? It's like we're in hell or something.
Doc: No, its Hill Valley, although I can't imagine hell being much worse!
Einstein whines. Doc takes a candle and goes over to him.
Doc: Oh Einie, I'm sorry boy, the lab is an awful, awful, awful, awful mess!
Doc gets Einstein's basket and he gets inside.
Doc: Atta boy. (to Marty) Obviously the time continuum has been disrupted creating this new temporally venced sequence resulting in this alternative reality.
Marty: English, Doc!
Doc: Here, here, here, let me illustrate.
Doc finds blackboard and stands it up. He picks up some chalk.
Doc: Imagine that this line represents time.....
Doc draws a line on the blackboard.
Doc: ...Here's the present, 1985 (He writes "1985" on the board), the future (he writes "F"), and the past (he writes "Past"). Prior to this point in time... (He points to 1985) ...somewhere in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent, creating an alternate 1985.
Doc draws the tangent on the board and writes "1985-A" on it.
Doc: Alternate to you, me and Einstein. But reality for everyone else.
Doc goes to the DeLorean and gets a bag out.
Doc: Recognise this? It's the bag the sports book came in. I know, because the receipt is still inside. I found them in the time machine, along with this!
Doc shows Marty what he found. It's the top of 2015 Biff's cane!
Marty: It's the top of Biff's cane, I mean old Biff from the future!
Doc: Correct! It was in the time machine because Biff was in the time machine - with the sports almanac!
Marty: Holy shit!
Doc: You see, whilst we were in the future, Biff got the sports book, stole the time machine, went back in time and gave the book to himself at some point in the past.
Doc draws a line from the "F" on the board to the point where the tangent skewed into 1985-A. He then takes out a copy of the Hill Valley Telegraph, "Hill Valley Man Wins Big At Races". Next to it is a picture of Biff.
Doc: Look! (chuckles in a "how simple!" style) It says, right here, that Biff won his first million betting on a horse race in 1958. He wasn't just lucky, he knew because he had all the race results in the sports almanac. That's how he made his entire fortune! Look in his pocket with a magnifying glass.
Marty does so. He sees the almanac in Biff's pocket.
Marty: The almanac! (Doc chuckles again) That son of a bitch stole my idea!
Marty slams his fist on the table.
Marty: He must have been listening when I..... it's my fault! If I hadn't bought that damn book, none of this would ever have happened!
Doc: Well, that's all in the past.
Marty: You mean the future.
Doc: Whatever! It demonstrates precisely how time travel can be misused and why the time machine must be destroyed - after we straighten all of this out.
Marty: Right, so we go back to the future, and we stop Biff from stealing the almanac.
Doc: We can't! Because, if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of this reality! (He underlines 1985-A on the board). In which Biff is corrupt, and powerful, and married to your mother; and in which this has happened to me!
Doc shows Marty another paper. The headline says "Emmett Brown Committed - Crackpot Inventor Declared Legally Insane." A side story says "Biffco To Build New Dioxin Plant" and "Nixon To Seek 5th Term." Einstein whines as Marty takes it.
Doc: No, our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the timeline skewed into this tangent. In order to put the universe back as we remember it, and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date, and the specific circumstances of how, where and when, young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac.
Marty: I'll ask him.
Cut to the movie "A Fistful Of Dollars". Clint Eastwood looks up to the camera. The other guy shoots him, and Clint falls into some barrels. The other guy smiles, and fires again - he's out of bullets. Clint gets up and reveals the bullet-proof vest. Cut to Biff. He's in his jacuzzi with two women, all 3 watching the movie.
Biff: Bullet-proof vest! Great flick, great frigging flick The guy is brilliant!
Marty comes up behind and turns the TV off using the remote.
Biff: Hey, what the hell's going... (sees Marty) Ah!
Jacuzzi Girls: Ahh!
Marty: Party's over Biff.
He throws the remote in the jacuzzi.
Marty: Sorry ladies.
Biff: How'd you get past my security downstairs?
Marty: There's a little matter we need to talk about.
Biff: Yeah, money, right? Well forget it!
Marty: No, not money. (slowly) Grays Sports Almanac.
Biff looks horrified - how did Marty find out?
Biff: You heard him girls, party's over.
Cut to Biff. He enters a room wearing a robe. Marty follows him. In the room is a big painting of Biff.
Biff: Start talking kid, what else do you know about that book?
Marty: First, you tell me how you got it. How, where, and when.
Biff: Alright, take a seat.
Marty stays standing. Biff walks over to the painting of himself. He turns to Marty.
Biff: Sit down! (He does) November 12th 1955, that was when.
During the following Biff reveals the painting is really a safe! He opens the safe.
Marty: November 12th 1955? That was the day I went back... (covering) that was the day of th
e famous Hill Valley lightning storm.
Biff: You know your history, very good. I'll never forget that Saturday. I'd just picked my car up from the shop because I'd enrolled it in a drag race a few days earlier.
Marty: I thought you crashed it into a manure truck.
Biff: How do you know about that?
Marty: (covering) My father told me about it.
Biff: Your father?
Marty: Before he died.
Biff: Yeah right. So there I was, minding my own business (he opens the safe) when this crazy old codger with a cane shows up.
Biff takes a box out of the safe.
Biff: He says he's my distant relative. I didn't see any resemblance.
He puts the box on the table.
Biff: So he says "How would you like to be rich?" So I say "Sure."
Biff opens the box and takes the sports almanac from it.
Biff: So he lays this book on me. He says this book'll tell me the outcome of every sporting event 'til the end of the century. All I have to do is bet on the winner, and I'll never lose. So I say "What's the catch?" He says, "No catch, just keep it a secret."
Biff puts the book back in the box and closes it.
Biff: After that he disappeared. I never saw him again.
Marty takes a "Biff's Pleasure Paradise" matchbox and puts it in his pocket.
Biff: Oh, and he told me one other thing. He said some day, a crazy wild eyed scientist or a kid may show up asking about that book. And if that ever happened.....
Biff laughs as he pulls out a gun.
Biff: Funny, I never thought it would be you.
Marty: Yeah well Biff, you're forgetting one thing. What the hell is that?
He points behind Biff. Biff looks, and Marty throws the matchbox tray at him. It hits the chair just about Biff's head. Marty runs off. Biff turns back and sees him go. He fires at Marty and misses.
Biff: You're dead, you little son of a bitch!
Biff presses a button which calls for security. Marty runs out and sees the elevator. He runs to it, just as 3-D, MATCH and SKINHEAD come out of it.
3-D: Hey, get back here!
Match: Hey, hey!
Marty runs to the stairs and runs down them. The gang follows him. Marty switches to the other flight of stairs and climbs back up. Biff's cronies do not realise he's done this and carry on downwards. Marty, now back at the top of the stairs, goes out onto the roof. Biff enters. He sees the door to the roof closing and realises where Marty is. Marty runs to the edge of the roof and looks down. It's a long way down! Biff approaches him.