Bob Gale - Back to the Future - 2

Marty: Woah!

Marty looks into the street. There's a car coming!

Marty: Argh!

Marty just misses the car. He hovers over the pond. With a few "jumps" he makes it.....almost the whole way across. He's about a metre away from the other side. Cut to Griff's gang.

Data: Hey McFly, you bojo! Those boards don't work on water.

Whitey: Unless you've got power!

The gang laugh. Griff turns to his car. He gets a box out of it. The gang all walk down the street and stop. Griff presses a button on the box and a Pit Bull hoverboard pops out. This board works on jet power.

Griff: Hook on!

The gang connect their hoverboards to Griff's. Marty is trying to move, he's pushing his foot in the water as if trying to start a skateboard.

Griff: Batter up!

The board blasts off. Griff and his gang are on the way! Marty tries pushing the board again, but it doesn't work. Griff is getting closer. Then, just as Griff would have got Marty, Marty jumps off the board and lands in the water. Griff's board catches on a rock and Griff and his gang all fall off. They fly through the air and smash through the front window of Courthouse Mall. Marty resurfaces.

Marty: Holy shit!

He grabs the hoverboard and gets out of the water. Cu to Biff.

Biff: Buttheads.

Marty comes out of the underground entrance of Courthouse Mall and sees the police outside the Mall. A crowd has also gathered. A button flashes on Marty's jacket and he presses it.

Computerised Voice in Jacket: (v.o) Drying mode on. Jacket drying.

There's a beep.

Computerised Voice in Jacket: (v.o) Your jacket is now dry.

Marty walks over to the girls he borrowed the hoverboard from.

Marty: Hey kid, little girl, thanks.

Girl 1: Keep it, I've got a Pit Bull now.

Girl 2: Come on.

They walk off to see what's going on at the Mall. They have Griff's Pit Bull. An old man, TERRY, approaches Marty.

Terry: Save the clocktower. (To Marty) Hey kid, thumb a hundred bucks will ya, help save the clocktower.

Marty: I... Sorry, no. Another time.

Terry: Come on, kid. That's an important historical landmark. Lightning struck that thing sixty years ago.

Where Goldie Wilson III's advert was earlier, a "Sportsflash" holo-announcement starts. It says that the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Gators in the World Series.

Marty: Wait a minute.....Cubs win World Series....against Miami?

Terry: Yeah, something huh? Who would have thought? 100 to 1 shot. I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and put some money on the Cubs.

Marty: No, I just meant Miami.....what did you just say?

Terry: I said I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the Cubbies!

Terry walks off. Marty has an idea. Cut to inside the Blast From The Past antique store. The SALESWOMAN takes the almanac from the window and gives it to Marty.

Saleswoman: Now, this has an interesting feature, a dust jacket. Books used to have these to protect the covers, of course that was before they had dust repellent paper. And if you're interested in dust, we have a quaint little piece from the 1980's, it's called a Dustbuster

Outside, Marty looks at his purchase. Doc arrives in the DeLorean, hovering next to the shop.

Doc: Marty!

Marty: I can't lose!

Doc: Marty, up here!

Marty turns and sees Doc.

Marty: Doc, what's going on?

Doc: Stand by, I'll park over there.

Biff leaves the Cafe 80s as Marty says:

Marty: Yeah, all right. Hey, right on time.

Biff: Flying DeLorean? I haven't seen one of those in (realises) thirty years.

Marty Junior leaves the Cafe - it appears he's regained consciousness. He bumps into Biff.

Marty Junior: Sorry, excuse me, sorry.

Marty Junior goes out into the road and a car almost hits him. It beeps its horn at him.

Marty Junior: Hey, I'm walking here, I'm walking here!

Biff looks at Marty Junior, then turns to Marty and Doc at the DeLorean - of course both Martys look alike.

Biff: What the hell?

Marty Junior: Don't drive crank, low-res, scuzzball....

Biff: 2 of them?

In the DeLorean, Marty says hi to EINSTEIN.

Doc: I left him in a suspended animation kennel. Einstein never knew I was gone!

Doc gets out of the DeLorean.

Doc: Marty! What in the name of Sir Isaac H Newton happened here?

Marty: Oh yeah, Doc, listen, my kid showed up, all hell broke loose.

Doc: Your kid? Great Scott, the sleep inducer!

Doc sits down. During the following Biff sneaks behind the DeLorean and listens in, unseen.

Doc: Because I used it on Jennifer there wasn't enough power left to knock your son out for the full hour. Damn!

Marty: (re: USA Today) Doc, Doc, Doc, look at this, it's changing!

The newspaper is changing from "Youth Arrested" to "Gang Arrested". The picture of Marty Junior changes to one of Griff and his gang. At the Courthouse, Griff and his gang are led away by the cops. Doc looks at them through his futuristic binoculars.

Spike: Get off, go on!

Griff: I was framed!

Cut to Marty and Doc.

Doc: Why yes, yes of course! Because this hoverboard incident has now occurred, Griff goes to jail. Therefore your son won't go with him tonight and that robbery will never take place. Thus history, future history, has now been altered and this is the proof! Marty, we've succeeded, not exactly as I'd planned but no matter. Let's go get Jennifer and go home!

Marty puts the hoverboard in the DeLorean and says hi to Einstein again.

Marty: Hi Einie, hi buddy!

Marty picks up the almanac in its bag, but the book falls out and lands at Doc's feet.

Doc: What's this?

Marty: Uh, it's a souvenir...

Doc: 50 years of Sports Statistics. Hardly recreational reading material Marty.

Marty: Hey Doc, what's the harm of bringing back, er, a little info on the future? Thought maybe we could place a couple of bets.

Doc: Marty! I didn't invent the time machine for financial gain. The intent here is to gain a clear perception of humanity. Where we've been, where we're going. The pitfalls and the possibilities. The perils and the promise. Perhaps even an answer to that universal question, why?

Marty: Hey Doc, I'm all for that! What's wrong with making a few bucks on the side?

Doc: I'm going to put this in the trash!

Doc runs over to the alleyway, a moving bin is there. He's about to put the almanac in the bin when he sees a police car in the alleyway. He stops suddenly and looks in. The cops, OFFICERS REESE and FOLEY have found Jennifer!

Doc: Great Scott!

Officer Reese: McFly, Jennifer Jane Parker. 3793 Oakhurst St, Hilldale. Age 47.

Officer Foley: 47? That's a hell of a good facelift.

Cut to Marty and Doc watching.

Marty: What the hell are they doing Doc?

Doc: They used her thumbprint to assess her ID. Since her thumbprint never changes over the years they simply assume she's the Jennifer of the future.

Marty: Well, we gotta stop them!

Doc: What are we going to say, that we're time travellers? Hey, they'd have us committed.

Meanwhile the officers have been performing checks on Jennifer.

Officer Foley: She's clean, that means we take her home.

Officer Reese: Home, to Hilldale? It'll be dark by the time we get out there.

Cut to Marty and Doc.

Doc: They're taking her home, to your future home! We'll arrive shortly thereafter and get her out of there and go back to 1985.

Marty: You mean I'm going to see where I live? I'm going to see myself as an old man?