Bob Gale - BACK TO THE FUTURE

Doc: Great Scott! (realises something) Let me see that photograph again of your brother. Just as I thought, this proves my theory, look at your brother.

Now Marty notices that Dave's head is vanishing.

Marty: His head's gone, it's like it's been erased.

Doc: Erased from existence.

Hill Valley High School. Doc and Marty walk up to the entrance and go inside. Marty is amazed.

Marty: Whoa, they really cleaned this place up, looks brand new.

Doc: Now remember, according to my theory you interfered with your parents' first meeting. They don't meet, they don't fall in love, they won't get married and they won't have kids. That's why your older brother's disappeared from that photograph. Your sister will follow and unless you repair the damages, you will be next.

Marty: This sounds pretty heavy.

Doc: Weight has nothing to do with it.

Inside the school, Doc and Marty see students walking to lessons. George is one of them. Some boys are behind him.

Doc: Which one's your pop?

Marty: That's him.

Marty points at George, and we cut to see him. The bullies have pinned a Kick me sign on his back, and are doing just that.

George: OK, OK you guys, oh ha, ha, ha, very funny. Hey, you guys are being real mature.

Cut back to Doc.

Doc: Maybe you were adopted.

Cut back to George.

George: OK, real mature guys. OK, Biff, will you pick up my books?

He doesn't do so because MR STRICKLAND arrives. He's still bald, even in 1955!

Strickland: McFly!

Cut to Marty.

Marty: That's Strickland. Jesus, didn't that guy ever have hair?

Cut back to George and Strickland.

Strickland: Shape up, man. You're a slacker. You wanna be a slacker for the rest of your life?

George: No.

Cut back to Marty and Doc.

Doc: What did your mother ever see in that kid?

Marty: I don't know, Doc, I guess she felt sorry for him cause her dad hit him with the car... hit me with the car.

Doc: That's a Florence Nightingale effect. It happens in hospitals when nurses fall in love with their patients. Go to it, kid.

Marty walks over to George - Strickland has now gone.

Marty: Hey George, buddy, hey, I've been looking all over for you. You remember me, the guy who saved your life the other day?

George: Yeah.

Marty: Good, there's somebody I'd like you to meet.

Marty spots Lorraine and her friends and leads George over to them.

Marty: Lorraine.

Lorraine: Calvin!

Marty: I'd like you to meet my good friend George McFly.

George: (shyly) Hi, it's really a pleasure to meet you.

Lorraine: (ignoring George, to Marty) How's your head?

Marty: Well uh, good, fine.

Lorraine: Oh, I've been so worried about you ever since you ran off the other night. Are you OK?

The bell rings and George goes to class.

Lorraine: I'm sorry I have to go. (to her friends as they leave) Isn't he a dream boat?

Marty walks back to Doc. They are now alone in the hallway.

Marty: Doc, she didn't even look at him.

Doc: This is more serious than I thought. Apparently your mother is amorously infatuated with you instead of your father.

Marty: Whoa, wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me that my mother has got the hots for me?

Doc: Precisely.

Marty: Whoa, this is heavy.

Doc: There's that word again, heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

Marty: What?

Doc: The only way we're gonna get those two to successfully meet is if they're alone together. So you've got to get your father and mother to interact at some sort of social.....

Marty: What, well you mean like a date?

Doc: Right.

Marty: What kind of date? I don't know, what do kids do in the fifties?

Doc: Well, they're your parents, you must know them. What are their common interests. What do they like to do together?

Marty: Nothing.

Doc walks over to some lockers. A poster for the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance is next to them.

Doc: Look, there's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.

Marty: Of course, the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance! They're supposed to go to this, that's where they kiss for the first time.

Doc: All right kid, you stick to your father like glue and make sure that he takes her to the dance.

Cut to the cafeteria. George is sitting alone, writing in a pad, when Marty comes and sits next to him.

Marty: George, buddy. remember that girl I introduced you to, Lorraine? (notices the writing) What are you writing?

George: Uh, stories, science fiction stories, about visitors coming down to Earth from another planet.

Marty: Get out of town, I didn't know you did anything creative! Ah, let me read some.

George: Oh, no, no, no. I never, uh, I never let anybody read my stories.

Marty: Why not?

George: Well, what if they didn't like them, what if they told me I was no good? I guess that would be pretty hard for somebody to understand.

This reminds Marty of his auditions a few days ago (or 30 years in the future?)

Marty: Uh no, not hard at all. So anyway, George, now Lorraine, she really likes you. She told me to tell you that she wants you to ask her to the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance.

George: Really?

Marty: Oh yeah, all you gotta do is go over there and ask her.

George: (mortified) What, right here right now in the cafeteria? What if she said no? I don't know if I could take that kind of rejection. Besides, I think she'd rather go with somebody else.

Marty: Who?

George: Biff.

Marty looks over to Lorraine. Biff and his gang are by her table pestering her.

Biff: C'mon, c'mon.

Lorraine: Leave me alone.

Biff: You want it, you know you want it, and you know you want me to give it to you.

Lorraine: Shut your filthy mouth, I'm not that kind of girl!

Biff: Well maybe you are and you just don't know it yet.

Lorraine: Get your meat hooks off of me.

Biff doesn't. Marty goes towards Biff and pushes him.

Marty: You heard her, she said get your meat hooks off (realises how much taller Biff is than him) uh please.

Biff: So what's it to you, butthead? You know you've been looking for a...

Marty and Biff are about to start fighting when Biff notices Strickland standing there, watching.

Biff: ...since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break. Today. So why don't you make like a tree, and get out of here.

He lets go of Marty. Marty looks towards George, but he's gone. Cut to a street. George is going home. Marty follows him.

Marty: George!

George: Why do you keep following me around?

Marty: Look, George, I'm telling you George, if you do not ask Lorraine to that dance, I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life.

George: But I can't go to the dance. I'll miss my favourite television program, Science Fiction Theater.

Marty: Yeah but George, Lorraine wants to go with you. Give her a break.

George: Look, I'm just not ready to ask Lorraine out to the dance, and not you, nor anybody else on this planet is gonna make me change my mind!

George goes into his house. Marty gets an idea.

Marty: Science Fiction Theater...

It's early in the morning. Marty has snuck into George's bedroom. He's wearing his radiation suit. Marty gets a personal tape player out of his bag and puts the headphones over George's ears. George stays asleep. Marty gets out a cassette marked Edward Van Halen and puts it in the player. He presses play and a piece of loud music plays. Only George can hear it, however it wakes him up, He sees Marty and gasps.