Bob Gale - Back to the Future - 2

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 the 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.