Bob Gale - Back to the Future - 3

Cut back to outside the saloon. Marty watches out of a window as Buford and his gang hold Doc.

Buford: Listen up, Eastwood! I intend to shoot somebody today and I'd prefer it to be you. But if you're just too damn yella, I guess it'll just have to be your blacksmith friend.

Doc: Forget about me, Marty, and save yourself!

Buford: You got one minute to decide. You hear me runt? One minute!

Marty turns, wondering what he should do. He notices a stove. Cut back to the train.

Barbed Wire Salesman: I never seen a man so broken up over a woman. What'd you say her name was? Cara? Sara?

Friend: Clara?

Barbed Wire Salesman: Clara!

Clara has been listening and turns to them.

Clara: Excuse me.

Barbed Wire Salesman: Ma'am.

Clara: But was this man tall, with great big brown puppy dog eyes and long silvery flowing hair??

Barbed Wire Salesman: You know him?

Clara: Emmett!

Clara stops the train by pulling on a string. She gets out and runs back towards Hill Valley. Cut back to outside the saloon. No sign of Marty.

Buford: Times up, runt!

He points his gun towards Doc.

Buford: Prepare to meet your maker, blacksmith.

Marty: (o.s) Right here, Tannen!

Buford turns to see Marty. Marty has his gun around his waist. They get into positions like shooting scenes in Western movies. The people inside the Saloon come out and join the crowd.

Buford: Draw!

Marty: No!

Marty throws his gun down.

Marty: (continued) I thought we could settle this like men.

Buford: You thought wrong, dude.

Buford shoots Marty and Marty falls. Is this the end? Buford thinks so and walks over to him, laughing. Doc looks at Marty in disbelief.

Buford: Ahh, thank ya!

Buford steps right in front of Marty, aiming to finish him off. Marty suddenly kicks Buford's gun out of his hand. He lifts up his tunic to reveal the stove. He's using it just like a bulletproof vest! Just like in the Clint Eastwood movie "A Fistful Of Dollars" (which Biff was watching in 1985-A). Buford tries to punch Marty but breaks his hand. Marty takes off his "vest" and hits Buford on the head with it. Buford falls, gets up again and Marty punches Buford. Buford crashes into the gravestone that should say "Here Lies Clint Eastwood" before landing headfirst into a manure cart. Everyone stares and then begins to laugh.

Seamus: That was good.

The Deputy Marshall and his officers are seen riding towards them. The Gang Members spot them.

Gang Member 1: You know what I think? I think Buford's going to jail.

Gang Member 2: You're right.

They let Doc go and run off, but Doc trips one of them up. He gets up and follows the other 2.

Deputy Marshall: Get him out of that shit. (re: gang) Get them!

Most of the officers chase after Buford's gang. The Deputy himself points his rifle at Buford's head.

Deputy Marshall: Buford Tannen, you're under arrest for robbing the Pine City Stage. You got anything to say?

Buford slowly spits some manure.

Buford: I hate manure.

Where is Marshall Strickland during all this? In a cut scene he was shot by Buford Tannen, but you could also say he was attending to other business or was attending a hanging or something like that. Meanwhile, back in Hill Valley:

Doc: (to Marty) Look!

Doc points to the broken tombstone. Marty gets the photo out just in time to see the tombstone vanish from the photo.

Marty: Yes!

Suddenly they hear the train whistle.

Doc: The train!

Marty: Can we make it?

Doc: We'll have to cut it off at Coyote Pass!

Music: A Science Experiment (The Train Part 1) by Alan Silvestri

Marty and Doc get on their horses. A BOY stops Marty.

Boy: Hey Mr, Mr Eastwood. Here's your gun, Mr.

He gives the gun to Marty.

Marty: Thanks, kid.

Marty spots Seamus by the saloon. Seamus grins at him and fakes a punch.

Marty: Seamus!

Marty throws the gun to Seamus. Seamus catches it.

Marty: Worth $12, never been used.

Seamus: Maybe I'll trade it for a new hat.

Marty: Right, and take care of that baby!

He and Doc ride off.

Seamus: I will!

Clara runs down the street and enters Doc's shop.

Clara: Emmett! Emmett! Emmett!

Clara sees the model Doc used to demonstrate the plan. She sees the model DeLorean.

Clara: (reading) Time machine.....

Doc and Marty meanwhile are chasing the train on their horses. Doc manages to climb on the last carriage.

Doc: C'mon Marty!

Marty: Argh, argh!

Doc: Ah, gimme your hand!

Doc grabs Marty's hand and pulls him onto the train. They both fall over on each other.

Marty: Argh! Whoa! Whoa! Argh!

Meanwhile Clara is following them on her horse. Doc and Marty runs across the roofs of the carriages.

Doc: Wa-ha!

Marty: Whoa!

Doc: Hoo! C'mon, Marty!

Marty jumps onto another car.

Marty: Argh!

Doc: C'mon, let's go! Masks on.

By now they're on the tender. They pull their bandannas over their mouths and climb over the tender, before dropping into the cab of the locomotive. Doc is holding a gun.

Doc: Reach!

The engineers (the same one we spoke to at the station a few days earlier, plus another one) put their hands up.

Engineer: Is this a holdup?

Doc and Marty look at each other.

Doc: It's a science experiment! Stop the train before you hit the switch track up ahead.

The train stops. Marty jumps out and changes the points.

Marty: Doc!

He holds his hand up. Doc points his gun at the engineers.

Doc: Uncouple the cars from the tender.

They do so, and Doc starts the train. Marty jumps on as it passes him. Doc pulls the whistle on the train.

Doc: I've wanted to do that my whole life!

Marty laughs.

Music: It's Clara (The Train Part 2) by Alan Silvestri

We see the DeLorean. In the background the train appears and stops just before it would hit the DeLorean. Marty and Doc grab coloured logs and put them in the fire.

Marty: What are these things, anyway?

Doc: My own version of Presto Logs. Compressed wood with anthracite dust chemically treated to make the fire burn hotter and longer. I use them in my forge. These three will light the fire sequentially, make the fire burn hotter, kick up the boiler pressure and make the train go faster.

Meanwhile Clara sees the coaches by themselves on the track, and guesses that Doc has the locomotive. She gestures to her horse to move.

Clara: Hiyah!

Marty is in the DeLorean. Doc is in the train. Doc blows the whistle and the train starts to move. It bumps into the DeLorean, which also starts to move. Marty and Doc speak to each other through walkie-talkies, as before this will be denoted by (w.t).

Marty: (w.t) Ready to roll!

Clara can now see the train, but Marty and Doc can't see her.

Clara: Emmett!

Cut to Marty in the train.

Doc: (w.t) Marty. are the time circuits on?

Marty turns them on.

Marty: (w.t) Check, Doc.

Doc: (w.t) Input the destination time - October 27th 1985, 11am.

Marty does so, then checks the speed.

Marty: (w.t) We're cruising at a steady 25 miles an hour, Doc.

Doc: (w.t) I'm throwing in the Presto Logs.

One by one, Doc throws them in.

Doc: (w.t) Marty, the new gauge will show the boiler temperature. The colour coding indicates when each log will fire. Green, yellow, and red. Each detonation will be accompanied by a sudden burst of acceleration. Hopefully we'll get up to 88 miles per hour before the needle hits two thousand.