Bob Gale - BACK TO THE FUTURE

George: Who are you?

Marty plays a bit more of the music again.

Marty: Silence Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I'm an extra-terrestrial from the planet Vulcan.

Marty does the Vulcan sign from Star Trek. Cut to that afternoon. George is at the Texaco station. Marty comes over and talks to him.

George: Marty! Marty! Marty!

Marty: Hey, George, buddy, you weren't at school, what have you been doing all day?

George: I overslept, look I need your help. I have to ask Lorraine out but I don't know how to do it.

Marty: All right, OK, listen, keep your pants on, she's over in the caf. God, how do you do this? What made you change your mind, George?

George: Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and he told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain.

Marty: Yeah, well, uh, let's keep this brain melting stuff to ourselves, OK?

George: Oh, yeah, yeah.

Marty: All right, OK.

Marty tries to unscrew the lid of his Pepsi bottle. He can't. George takes it, puts it in a bottle opener and opens it. The two then walk to Lou's Cafe.

Marty: All right, there she is, George. Just go in there and invite her.

George: OK, but I don't know what to say.

Marty: Just say anything, George, say whatever's natural, the first thing that comes to your mind.

George: Nothing's coming to my mind.

Marty: (muttering) Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.

George: What, what?

Marty: Nothing, nothing, nothing. Look, tell her destiny has brought you together, tell her that she's the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. Girls like that stuff.

Marty notices George has a little pad and he's writing in it.

Marty: What, what are you doing George?

George: I'm writing this down, this is good stuff.

Marty: Yeah, OK.

George: Oh.

Marty: Let's go.

George: Oh.

Marty: Will you take care of that?

George: Right.

Music: Roll With Me Henry by Etta James

George walks into the Cafe. He hesitates, but Marty enters behind him and gives him a little push to get him going. Teenagers are everywhere, and the above song is playing on the jukebox. George goes over to the counter.

George: Lou, gimme a milk, chocolate.

Lou gives him one. George takes a large sup and walks over to Lorraine, who is in the corner seat with her friends.

George: Lorraine, my density has popped me to you.

Lorraine: What?

George: Oh, what I meant to say was...

Lorraine: Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?

George: Yes, yes, I'm George, George McFly, and I'm your density. I mean, your destiny.

Lorraine smiles - is something about to happen between them? Lorraine giggles for a second, but then the music stops - Biff and his gang have just walked in. Biff spots George.

Biff: Hey, McFly! I thought I told you never to come in here. Well it's gonna cost you. How much money have you got on you?

George: Well, Biff...

Biff starts walking towards George and Lorraine, but Marty, who is sitting on one of the stools, next to the counter, trips Biff up. Biff gets up and turns to Marty.

Biff: All right, punk, now-

Marty: Whoa, whoa, Biff, what's that?

Marty points with his finger. Biff turns around, and Marty punches Biff. He then pushes past Biff's gang as he runs out of the Cafe as the music starts up again.

Lorraine: That's Calvin Klein, oh my God, he's a dream.

Outside the Cafe, Marty spots two boys on home made scooters. They can be described as skateboards with crates on them acting as handlebars.

Marty: Whoa, whoa, kid, kid, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Marty lifts one of the boys off his skateboard

Boy on Skateboard: Hey!

Marty: Look, I'll get it back to you, all right?

Boy on Skateboard: You broke it!

Marty has broken the handlebars off, leaving him with a skateboard. Biff and his gang run out of the Cafe. Marty starts to use his skateboard. People watching are amazed.

Boy on Skateboard: Wow, look at him go!

Cut to Biff.

Biff: Let's get him!

Biff and his gang head to their car. Biff and 3-D sit in the front, Match and Skinhead in the back. Marty meanwhile has grabbed the back of a passing truck. Cut to the Cafe. Lorraine, George and the others are watching the whole thing.

Girl in Cafe: What's that thing he's on?

Boy in Cafe: It's a board with wheels!

Lorraine: He's an absolute dream.

Cut back to Biff.

3-D: Come on, come on, come on, come on!

The car drives off, flattening part of the hedge as it catches up with Marty. It is now almost touching Marty. Marty looks ahead. A car door is opening! Letting go of the truck, he swerves to avoid it.

Marty: Argh!

Marty jumps over a hedge with the skateboard.

Marty: Whoa!

Marty bumps into a man and woman exiting the Courthouse, they all fall over. Marty gets up as Biff's car follows him. Marty grabs the front of the car and is being pushed by it. Match and Skinhead are throwing stuff at him.

Biff: I'm gonna ram him.

They're heading towards a manure truck, but only Marty sees this. He gets off the skateboard. The car drives over it, but Marty runs through the car and lands safely back on the skateboard. Biff and his gang are looking at him, they turn around and see the truck.

Biff, Match, 3-D, Skinhead: Shit!

They're right - it's a manure truck! Biff swerves but still hits it, and both car and passengers are covered with manure. Several people from the Cafe run over, including Goldie Wilson.

Goldie: Hoo!

Marty takes the skateboard back to the kid.

Marty: Thanks a lot, kid.

Cut to Biff.

Biff: I'm gonna get that son of a bitch!

Cut to Lorraine and her friends. During the following, George quietly leaves.

Lorraine's Friend 1: Where does he come from?

Lorraine's Friend 2: Yeah, where does he live?

Lorraine: I don't know, but I'm gonna find out.

Cu to Doc's lab. Doc is watching the video from 1985.

1985 Doc: (on video) My God, they found me. I don't know how but they found me. Run for it, Marty!

He rewinds the tape.

1985 Doc: (on video) My God, they found me. I don't know how but they found me. Run for it, Marty!

Marty enters.

Marty: Doc.

Doc: Oh, hi, Marty. I didn't hear you come in. Fascinating device, this video unit.

This reminds Marty of that night.

Marty: Listen, Doc, you know there's something I haven't told you about the night we made that tape.

Doc: Please, Marty, don't tell me, no man should know too much about their own destiny.

Marty: You don't understand.

Doc: I do understand. If I know too much about my own future I could endanger my own existence, just as you endangered yours.

Marty: (reluctantly) You're, you're right.

Doc: Let me show you my plan for sending you home.

Doc and Marty walk over to a beautiful model of Courthouse Square. It's not painted, but Doc has obviously worked hard at it.

Doc: Please excuse the crudity of this model, I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it.

Marty: It's good.

During the following Doc demonstrates on the model.

Doc: Oh, thank you, thank you. OK now, we run some industrial strength electrical cable from the top of the clocktower down to spreading it over the street between two lamp posts. Meanwhile, we outfitted the vehicle with this big pole and hook which runs directly into the flux-capacitor. At the calculated moment, you start off from down the street driving toward the cable accelerating to 88 miles per hour. According to the flyer, at 10.04pm lightning will strike the clocktower sending 1.21 gigawatts into the flux-capacitor, sending you back to 1985. All right now, watch this.