Back to the Future Part III Story Treatment

Back to the Future Part III Story Treatment By Jeffrey D. Dean, Sr. Back From The Future

Black Background. White Text. Organ music and a xylophone. Stephen Spielberg Presents. A Robert Zemeckis Film. Saturday November 12, 1955. 10:03 PM.

FADE IN. EXTERIOR CLOCK TOWER. NIGHT. Doc stands on the ledge in front of the clock. Lightning flashes all around the clock tower. He looks and it's almost time. The Delorean is speeding toward the cable where it crosses the road. He gets an idea and with no more time to spare he connects the cable, wraps a large section of cable around the hands of the clock, and using his jacket he slides down the cable toward the tree branch. Cut to the Delorean, Marty can now see that Doc is in trouble but he keeps accelerating. The Delorean has almost reached 88 mph and the cable ahead. Doc lands near the tree branch, jumps up, pulls the cable free of the branch, grabs the two ends and connects them just as the lightning strikes the clock tower. Electricity arcs between Doc's two hands and lights up the cable, crossing the street just as the Delorean hits 88 miles per hour and at the exact moment the hook connects with the cable. The electricity flows down the connector into the Delorean and it flashes with light, disappearing. Leaving behind the now familiar fire trail where the tires were traveling. Doc celebrates joyously in the street then he looks up at the clocktower smiling in satisfaction surveying the damage he did to the ledge. He turns and walks toward his car parked to the side. A figure comes running around the corner and past the theatre toward him. It's Marty in his black leather jacket. He grabs Doc from behind and turns him around calling his name.

Doc is shocked at first and doesn't recognize him, but then he screams in horror! "I just sent you back to the future!" Marty says, "ya, Doc, but I'm back, I'm back from the future." Doc says, "GREAT SCOTT!" and faints dead away. FADE TO BLACK MUSIC TITLE THUNDER FADE IN: EXTERIOR BROWN ESTATE. SOMETIME AFTER 10:00 PM. HEAVY RAIN. Doc's cream colored convertible pulls up his drive and stops. A figure gets out, then pulls another lifeless person from the car and carries him over his shoulders to the entrance of the Estate. Camera lingers on the outside of the Estate, panning it in time lapse. CUT TO INTERIOR BROWN ESTATE. DEN. Pan across portraits of Thomas Edison and other notable figures in history. Camera pans down to the fireplace where shoes and socks are drying. Marty lies sleeping in a chair, using the floating hoverboard as a footstool. Doc Brown is passed out on the couch. Behind him the television goes from white noise to "It's Howdy Doody Time."

He springs up with a start and

exclaims, "Great Scott!" He runs to the TV and turns it off. He doesn't see Marty dozing in a chair and he actually walks right past him. He picks up a microphone and begins voicing a log into a recorder. The experiment was a complete success. He notes that, afterward, he may have seen a vision of Marty and

imagined he had 'come back from the future.' He postulates it was either a dream or an hallucination, he's not sure which. Marty appears from behind and says hello. Doc completely loses it, screaming then backing away as he trips on the hoverboard and falls onto the organ. It whines out dischordantly as he leans on it, trying to move away from Marty's advance, as if Marty were some sort of apparition. Marty is trying to explain but Doc only screams more, flailing his hands and yelling, "no you can't be here, but you are here!" He then darts into his bathroom and locks the door. Marty stands at the door and tells the tale of how he got here, including information about the stolen time machine, the Almanac, Marty pretty much spills the beans to this Doc about every future event that will happen after he goes back to 1985. When he gets to the part about Doc being trapped in 1885 Doc swings the door open and skeptically asks if he's trapped in 1885 how does Marty know about it? Marty pulls out the telegram and says, "you sent me a letter." CUT TO BROWN RESIDENCE INTERIOR DEN: Doc reads the letter out loud. The letter reveals that the Delorean, severely damaged by the lightning, has been hidden for 70 years, buried in the old "Delgado Gold Mine." The letter includes instructions on how to repair the time circuits using 1955 replacement parts. It also notes that the flying circuits are irreprably damaged. The letter instructs Marty to take the DeLorean back to 1985 and destroy it, as he thinks the

time machine has caused too much destruction. It explicity warns him to not come back to 1885 to get him, as Doc has been in the old West for 8 months at the time of writing the letter and he is perfectly content there. He has even made a life for himself as the town blacksmith.

Dead Doc!

CUT TO DELGADO MINE EXTERIOR. LATE MORNING EARLY AFTERNOON. Later that morning. Doc and Marty take cover near the Boot Hill Cemetary as Doc sets off dynamite to blast his way into the mine. CUT TO INTERIOR DELGADO MINE: Flashlights in hand they go in and search until they locate a section that is completely boarded off with Doc's initials on it. They tear the boards down and shine their flashlights in, to see the Delorean hidden under a dust covered tarp! Doc is completely amazed. They find the tires have decayed and the gas has been drained. CUT TO EXTERIOR DELGADO MINE: DARKNESS. Doc is using a tow vehicle to pull the Delorean out of the hole they blasted in the side of the hill. Marty follows Copernicus, Doc's dog who looks just like Einstein, into the old Boot Hill Cemetary. The dog stands in the cemetary whimpering. Marty walks over to investigate what could be troubling Copernicus. It's a tombstone. He hits it with the flashlight and read the epitaph. "Here Lies Emmett Brown, Died September 7, 1885." Marty's eyes go wide and he calls to Doc frantically to get over there.

Doc comes over, sees the inscription and comes unglued upset that Marty is standing right on the grave. The subtext on the stone reads: "erected in eternal memory by his beloved Clara." Doc wails. "Who is Clara?" The tombstone gives the details of his death as following: "shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars." Doc reads it in outrage and asks, "what kind of future is that?" Marty uses a polaroid to take a snapshot of the tombstone. CUT TO THE INTERIOR LIBRARY: HISTORICAL ARCHIVE SECTION. They are pouring over ancient newspaper articles and historical documents from 100 years of Hill Valley history trying to ascertain the exact details of Doc Brown's life and times in the old West. What they find is a lot of disturbing information about the person who allegedly killed him. Marty reads from the documents about Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (played by Thomas F. Wilson and who, we remember, was idenified as the great grandfather of Biff Tannen at the Casino Museum in the alternate reality). They read how Mad Dog was a notorious gunman who got his nickname from his short temper and his tendency to drool. He bragged that he had killed 12 men ("not including Indians or Chinamen"), but this claim cannot be substantiated because in 1884, Buford killed a newspaper editor who had written an unfavorable story about him. They also find information about the McFly family living in Hill Valley in 1885. Marty surmises that the "Emmett L. Brown" on the tombstone is not Doc but a distant relative. Doc rules this out, however, because he knows that the

Browns did not first arrive in Hill Valley until 1908, and when they did they were known as the Von Brauns. They find a photo of Doc posing at the construction site of the clock tower. Even though Marty has been warned in the letter not to go to 1885 to save Doc, he announces that is precisely what he is going to do.

Where You're Going There Are No Roads!

CUT EXTERIOR DRIVE IN PARKING LOT: Doc has fitted the Delorean time circuits with a repair panel on the front of the car made up mostly of transistors and vaccuum tubes. Doc makes last minute preparations for the time jump and we hear Marty's voice come from the rest room. He says the boots don't fit and expresses trepidation over what Doc has given him to wear. Doc says "nonsense, haven't you ever seen a Western?" Marty appears carrying the boots in his hand and looking like a rodeo clown. He says, "yes, I have Doc and Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this." Doc has no idea who Clint Eastwood is. Marty looks around and mentions how far the walk will be back to town. Doc explains that he chose the Drive In for the launch location because the open country hasn't changed much in over 70 years, he should be able to avoid anyone seeing the time-machine and avoid crashing the DeLorean upon re-entry. Doc sets the time circuits in the DeLorean to September 2nd, explaining that the date on the letter was September 1st. He doesn't want Marty to arrive

and prevent Doc from writing the letter, which would cause a major paradox. Marty gets in the Delorean and Doc points toward the other end of the Drive In as his target exit. There is a wall with a large mural of Indians on horseback. Marty objects, worried that he might crash into those indians. Doc, a little frustrated with him, explains that he's not thinking fourth dimensionally, reminding him that by the time he gets to the wall he will have hit 88 mph and those indians won't be there. Marty says, "righhht!" They say their goodbyes and Doc closes the door behind Marty. He gets the Delorean into position at the opposite end of the Drive In. Doc holds a starting gun near the concession stand and yells, "ready?" He mutters, "hyo silver." The gun goes off and he peels off, accelerating fast across the parking area toward the movie screen and the wall with the painted life sized native Americans. We see the usual flashes of light but no fire trail this time. (Perhaps because they launched on sand and gravel). Marty sees the wall vanish, then he emerges into the open desert. The painted natives turn into real natives on horseback, running straight at him. They are whooping and shooting. "INDIANS!" He yells, then swerves to a stop. He spins the Delorean around and takes off in the same direction as the indians staying just ahead of them. They are shooting at him and seem to be chasing him across the plains. Marty sees a gully ahead and decides to go to ground like a rabbit. When he

gets down there he discovers a cave and quickly backs into it. He gets out of the Delorean just as the natives start leaping over him in the gully. He hears a few horn blasts approaching now and more shouting and gunshots following behind the indians. When he peeks out of the gully the Calvary begin jumping over the him and the gully shooting at the fleeing natives. An arrow is sticking in the driver's side rear section of the Delorean (the engine compartment). He grabs it and yanks it out. He examines it, probably wondering what it might be worth in 1985 then tosses it away. He still hasn't put on his boots. He reaches in and grabs them along with some other things he brought with him. He stops and sniffs. The sound of fluid running under the car makes him look under there (just below where he pulled out the arrow). He ripped the fuel line when he pulled the arrow out. As he stands there wondering what to do now he hears a low growl and turns to face down a very large grizzly bear. He darts out of the cave and starts running in his stocking feet, dropping his boots as he goes. He trips on some rocks and falls rolling down an embankment. He tries to get up but the momentum causes him to stumble hard through a fence. He hits his head and he's out cold. A red haired stranger with a heavy Irish accent approaches him and tries to revive him. He looks up and calls to someone named Maggie to "fetch some water." He has a heavy irish accent. It is Seamus Mcfly, Marty's great grandfather. (Played by Michael J. Fox).

CUT TO INTERIOR FARM OF SEAMUS AND MAGGIE MCFLY. BEDROOM. LATE AFTERNOON. Marty is lying on the bed. He rolls over and calls to his mother. A woman in a pioneer dress (played by Lea Thompson) wets a rag and comes over to him. "There there now," she comforts in the same Irish accent, "you've been asleep now for around 6 hours." Marty, eyes still closed, starts talking about a terrible nightmare. (Played by Lea Thompson) The woman says, "well, you're safe and sound now right here at the Mcfly Farm." His eyes snap open as he shouts, "Mcfly farm?" He stammers when he sees her. "You're my... you're my" he stops and asks, "who are you?" She introduces herself as Maggie Mcfly wife of Seamus Mcfly. He tells them his name is Clint Eastwood He soon realizes he's in the homestead of his ancestors, his great grandfather Seamus, his great grandmother Maggie, and his infant grandfather, William. At dinner, he explains that he's searching for the local blacksmith. Seamus gladly offers to help but his wife Maggie has reservations and makes them known immediately. Marty is, after all, a stranger and they know nothing about him and he's such a 'strange young man." Seamus insists, saying he has a "good feeling" about him and that helping him is "the right thing to do." He gives Marty a new hat (which makes Maggie do the sign of the cross in the kitchen) and offers for him to spend the night.

The next morning Marty gets directions from Seamus into town. He follows the unfinished railroad tracks to the train station for Hill Valley, which is now still just an underdeveloped mining town. The clock tower is still not up and the site is surrounded by scaffolding. He crosses the street, stepping in manure on the way, ruining his tennis shoes. He makes his way to the Palace Saloon. At first he wants something else but quickly learns they only serve one thing there. Whiskey. One of the customers mentions his "maccasins" and another says, "I didn't know the circus was in town."

He ignores them and asks the barkeep where

he can find the blacksmith. From behind he hears the now familiar Tannen wail. Mcfly! Buford Tannen and his posse storm into the saloon and are mistaking Marty for his great grandfather, Seamus. Marty introduces himself as "Clint Eastwood." They laugh at the name. Buford starts interrogating the bartender as to the whereabouts of "that no good blacksmith." The bartender swears he has no idea. It dawns on Marty that this man who looks exactly like a western version of Biff is the one and only Buford, "Mad Dog" Tannen. He exclaims, "you're Mad Dog!" The place goes deadly silent and men scramble for cover. Buford Tannen slams his drink down and turns to Marty in rage. "Mad Dog?" He blusters. "No one calls me Mad Dog!" Now a revolver is unholstered and he shouts "dance" and begins to shoot at Marty's feet. Marty actually starts to dance, which makes the gang laugh. He does the

moon walk. They are amazed. When he spins around he stomps his foot hits a loose board which launches a spittoon in the air. It lands right on Buford, drenching him with bile. Tannen points his gun and pulls the trigger over and over again, but the bile from the spitoon moistened the caps on his pistol and it won't fire. Someone tells Marty he better run but he's already headed for the exit. He makes tracks out of the saloon running down the street but the gang rides up on him fast on their horses. They lasso him with a rope and begin dragging him through the streets. When they drag him to the end of town they begin to string him up at the unfinished clock tower. Buford says there ain't been a "good ole fashioned hanging," around these parts in a while and that they need to break in the new courthouse. Marty is lifted, rope around his neck, kicking and flailing and clawing at the rope desperately. A shot rings out and the rope snaps. Marty tumbles to the ground. Down the street, Doc stands with a rifle, upon which he has mounted a makeshift scope with which he has expertly just shot the rope. Doc warns Buford that the next bullet will go right in his head and brags that he can "shoot the flea off a dog's back at 500 yards." Tannen and Doc then have an argument over a shoeing job Doc did for him. Tannen claims that the horse threw a shoe and it's Doc's fault. Doc tells him that since he never paid him for the work they are even. Doc offers to reshoe the horse but Tannen says he already shot it and now

Doc owes him 75 dollars for the horse and 5 dollars for a bottle of whiskey that broke in the fall. Doc says "that's your problem not mine!" Buford then menacingly warns him to watch his back! The Tannen gang ride away. Doc turns to Marty and, miffed, demands to know what he is doing here, reminding him that the letter specifically forbade him coming back to get him. "What idiot dressed you in that ridiculous outfit?" Doc asks him. Marty smiles, "you did!"

Where You're Going, There Are No Gas Stations!

CUT INTERIOR BLACKSMITH SHOP: Marty explains why he's here, that Doc will be shot in less than a week by Buford Tannen. He shows him the photo of the tombstone. Doc has no idea who "Clara" is. Only moments later Mayor Hubert (played by Hugh Gillin) stops by and reminds Doc that he agreed at last week's town meeting to pick up the new school teacher. They've just received word that she's coming in tomorrow morning. As he's leaving, almost fogetting, he tells Doc the teacher's name is Clara Clayton. Marty and Doc have a discussion about her. Doc cannot believe he would jeapordize the time continuum by engaging in a romantic love affair with a woman from the past.

Marty suggests it's "love at first sight." Doc declares that's all the more reason to not meet her at the train station. He determines from that moment not to go. He then starts making his plans to get the DeLorean Marty came back in, and leave 1885 together. As they get up to go Marty casually mentions the ruptured fuel line. Doc stops in his tracks and almost moans. "You mean we're out of gas?" Marty reminds him that they still have the fusion generator. Doc explains that Mr. Fusion powers the time circuits but the Delorean's engine runs on ordinary gasoline, it always has, and unfortunately for them, there won't be a gas station around those parts until sometime in the next century. Marty asks, "what do we do?" CUT EXTERIOR DESERT. A team of horses pulls the Delorean to the sound of western music. Doc cracks the whip and screams "YAH!" They are trying to get the Delorean back to the blacksmith shop as fast as they can so as not to be seen. Doc is timing it just right to make it to town after dark but not so late that they are up all night. Marty holds the speedometer cable in his hand hoping the horses can pull the car to 88 mph. Doc tells him it's no use, explaining that even the fastest horse in the world can only run around 44 miles per hour. CUT INTERIOR BLACKSMITH SHOP. Marty sits in the Delorean and Doc has begun attempting to develop an alternate fuel source. He's pouring a bottle of alcohol mixture into the gas tank. "The bartender said that's the strongest he's got," Marty tells him.

"Try it Marty," says Doc. Marty turns the key and the car begins to turn over. Doc yells for him to give it more gas. Marty does. Suddenly an explosion occurs in the back of the vehicle. There is a large puff of smoke and something comes flying out from underneath the Delorean. Doc goes back and picks it up, examining it with a look of hopelessnes. He tells Marty they just blew the fuel injection manifold. Doc hand the useless part to him, and despondently remarks, "it will take a month to fix it." "A month!" Marty yells, "we have until Monday!" He tosses the useless part on the floor. (It's important to note here that thousands of people have mistakenly believed Marty was trapped in 1885 because they were out of gas and they wonder why Doc couldn't concoct a fuel mixture. The real reason Marty was trapped was because in Doc's first attempt to do just that the fuel manifold blew and it was that which caused the dilemma in this movie). They begin brainstorming alternate ways to get the Delorean to 88 mph since it will never make it on its own power. Doc even suggests waiting until winter when the lakes freeze over so they can use the ice and pull it like a sled, until Marty reminds them they have only 3 days. Doc theorizes that even though it won't move on it's own power, and it can't be pulled, perhaps it could be pushed. But how? The train can be heard approaching from the east in the distance. At that moment the train blows it's whistle. Doc turns and looks at it out the window, then turns back to Marty, eyes

wide. "Of COURSE!" He says. CUT EXTERNAL TRAIN STATION. Doc and Marty are speaking to the engineer, pretending to have bet each other about the top speed of a typical locomotive engine. They want him to say whether or not it can get up to 90 miles per hour. The engineer states that theoretically it could be possible but they would have to have a long-enough section of straight track, preferably on a level grade; have no cars coupled behind except the tinder car to carry the wood for the boiler, and find a way to get the temperature hot enough without blowing destroying the steam engine. They ask him when the next train comes through. He says "Monday morning at 8 O' Clock." CUT EXTERIOR TRAIN STATION. RAILWAY MAP. Doc examines the map looking for a long enough stretch of straightaway. They have a discussion about the name of a ravine called "Shonash" (the Native American name). Doc observes that in their time it's called "Clayton" Ravine.

The track goes over the

ravine via bridge in 1985, however, Marty sees on the map that there is no bridge as yet.

Where You're Going, There Is No Clara!

CUT TO EXTERIOR, CLAYTON RAVINE. They stand looking at an unfinished track which dead ends right at the base of the ravine. Marty thinks

this is a deal breaker, but Doc, once again, tells him he's not thinking "fourth dimensionally" and reminds him that in 1985 there is a bridge and if he gets up to 88 mph before he hits the ravine he'll sail right over the ravine on the bridge, in 1985. They hear a woman's screams approaching.

A buckboard wagon

appears, apparently out of control with a woman at the reigns. It is heading straight for the ravine. They start riding. Doc rides up alongside the buckboard and reaches out his hand for the woman. Finally she grabs it and jumps into his arms just seconds before the buckboard disconnects from the horses and goes over the edge and falls to the dry riverbed below. Destroyed. Doc and the woman lock eyes and become hypnotized by each other. It turns out the woman is none other than Clara Clayton (Marty Steenburgen). When Doc didn't show up at the train station to meet her she rented a buckboard and headed to her ranch alone. The horses were spooked by a snake on the way and she lost all control. . They escort her to her ranch, which is a part of schoolhouse. Doc escorts her to her door and the two can't stop talking (nor can they keep their eyes off each other). They discover they have much in common. He accidentally mentions that he's a scientist, but quickly changes it to blacksmith. However she doesn't drop it and asks him what kind of science. She love science as well. Marty eventually tells Doc they have to be going, and they head off. CUT EXTERIOR WOODED AREA. They ride together toward town. Doc observes that it's an incredible coincidence that Clara Clayton almost fell into

"Clayton" Ravine. Marty stops in his tracks and tells Doc about a story they tell in Hill Valley High School about how the ravine is named after a school teacher who fell in there around 100 years ago! He remembers the story because all his classmates "have teachers they'd like to see fall into the ravine." Doc now realizes that they may have seriously changed history. He regrets inventing the time machine noting that it's caused nothing but disaster. CUT TO INTERIOR BLACKSMITH WORKSHOP. Marty stands by a calendar that reads September 5. He calls Doc on one of the walkie talkies from the second movie. It has a large gangly battery wired and taped to it. Doc is next to the Delorean, (also in the work shoop) prepping it for the big day. He picks up his walkie talkie with the same huge battery taped to it and answers. Marty is pleased that they still work. The Delorean has been fitted with standard size rail car wheels so it can move on the tracks. As he did in the first movie, he has built a scale model and now begins to demonstrate the plan. The plan is to place the Delorean on the track Sunday night, on the other side of a "switch track." Then, they will get on the train Monday morning, "commandeer" it before it hits the switch track, decouple the box cars and passenger cars, then switch the train onto the unfinished section of the track using the switch track. They will push the waiting Delorean with the train. Doc says he'll create highly volatile sterno logs that will boost the temperature of the boiler at specified points. The train will reach 88 mph just before the ravine. Just after the demonstration, Clara shows up at the shop and they have to

scramble to cover the Delorean. She has brought her telescope to him in hopes he might be able to fix it explaining that it was damaged in the buckboard accident. He promises to repair it right away and give it to her this evening. She reminds him that this evening is the unveiling of the clock. There is an entire Town Festival planned. He says he wouldn't miss that and they agree to meet at the Festival. She leaves.

Shut Your Pie Hole, Buford!

CUT TO EXTERIOR VILLAGE SQUARE. NIGHT. The clock is being unveiled. Everyone is having their pictures taken with the clock. Marty and Doc join in, posing together where Doc once posed alone in the earlier photograph. The festival begins with a bluegrass band (played by ZZ Top). The first song is "Doubleback." Doc and Clara finally meet and begin to dance together. CUT TO DANCE. Marty takes part in an old fashioned "duck hunt" shooting game, trying out a Colt 45 at some moving targets. He thinks it's like the video game and brags that he's a "crack shot." However, he misses badly and the gentleman running the demonstration laughs. CUT TO EXTERIOR HILL VALLEY. EDGE OF TOWN. Buford Tannen and his gang attempt to enter but are stopped by "Marshal" Strickland (James Tolkan) who has put up a sign saying "check all weapons." They are not happy to have to surrender their weapons but Strickland insists. Evidently the sign was erected especially for Buford and his gang because other town's folk have their

guns, including the man at the shooting game. CUT TO FRONT OF SALOON: Buford and gang see Doc Brown and Clara dancing. Buford pulls out a small single shot Derringer revolver he had concealed earlier just for this purpose. CUT TO DANCE. Marty has bumped into Seamus and Magee Mcfly. She carries William in a papoose. They have a friendly conversation as he finishes his pie. He looks down at the heavy metal pie plate and it is embossed with the name "Frisbee." He holds it up to them and chuckles, saying, "look, Frisbee, far out." CUT TO DANCE FLOOR. Buford Tannen sneaks up on Doc holding the pistol and shoves the barrel into the center of his back, announcing that if he shoots Doc at that range he will die eventually but he will linger for days in agony. (This explains how Doc is shot that evening but doesn't die until the 7th). Instead of pulling the trigger, however, Tannen demands a dance with Clara. Doc says that he'd rather be shot, but Clara, eager to keep Doc from being shot agrees to the dance.

They dance for a bit but Buford is no gentleman and

eventually she kicks him in the shin. He back hands her and she falls to the ground. Doc hollers at him and Buford raises the pistol to shoot. Buford says, "no damn you... damn you right to hell." Marty sees this, however and reaches onto the table grabbing the heavy tin pie plate (the one embossed with the name Frisbee). He tosses it at Buford's hand. It spins, flying like a frisbee, and as Buford pulls the trigger it strikes his

hand, knocking the gun away. Buford then wants to fight Marty but he tells him to "just leave his friends alone" and turns his back. Buford then calls him "yellow." Marty stops, (as he did in the second movie when someone called him chicken). He slowly turns back around and says "no one calls me yellow." Marty then foolishly agrees to an old fashioned gunfight. Marty sets the time to 8 am on Monday morning saying "I do my killin' before breakfast." Buford and his gang leave warning him that he better be there. Doc does not appear pleased but he tells Marty they will discuss this later because he has to take Clara home. Everyone swarms around Marty, patting him on the back. The man from the demonstration game steps up and gives Marty a holster with a brand new Colt Peacemaker, saying it's good publicity for his gun sales if Marty wins. Marty is excited about the gift until the man says, "of course if you lose I'm taking it back." Seamus and Maggie approach him, very upset that he blew his chance to walk away and prove he's the better man. Seamus tells him that he reminds him of his brother, "Martin." Marty is shocked to learn he had a great uncle with his same name. Seamus explains that Martin could never walk away from a fight because he didn't want to be called "yellow." One day he was stabbed to death in a brawl in Virginia City.

Written In the Stars!

CUT TO EXTERIOR SCHOOL TEACHER'S RANCH. Clara and Doc sit looking at the stars through her telescope he has repaired for her. Doc is pointing out the constellations. They discuss the possibility of human space travel some day and they are both in agreement it will happen. The conversation turns to Jules Verne, an author they both seem to love. They begin to realize just how much in common they have. They kiss for the first time as a shooting star passes overhead in the background.

A Tombstone By Any Other Name.

CUT INTERIOR DOC BROWN'S WORKSHOP. Cuckoo clock goes off. Doc has elaborate automated systems for making breakfast, just like he did in his workshop in 1985. The system starts frying eggs. Marty awakens to this and gets up. He looks at Doc's bed, calling for him. No answer. The bed is empty and unslept in. He sees the peacemaker and holster lying on the desk, picks it up and admires it. He dons the holster in his long johns and begins practicing his draw in the mirror, reinacting a scene from "Taxi." He draws then says, "you talking to me?" Then he switches to Clint Eastwood impressions. "Go ahead, make my day." CUT TO EXTERIOR SIDEWALK. Marty walks through town proudly wearing his peacemaker. All the passersby are greeting him with friendly hellos,

treating him with respect, one offers him a cigar. They are all so impressed with his standing up to Buford Tannen. (This is meant, in a roundabout way, to be a way of explaining how one punch in 1955 so drastically changed George Mcfly and Biff Tannen. The implication is that after George stood up to Biff it was probably impossible for Biff to bully him anymore because he was a local town hero from that moment on). Marty is approached by the creepy undertaker (though he doesn't realize it) who offers him a new suit, the kind you would wear in a coffin. He encounters Doc, who is smiling like the cat that ate the canary. He's obviously just now coming back from Clara's. They walk together through town and notice a tombstone in front of the undertakers, immediately recognizing it as the one they found in Boot Hill Cemetary with into which Doc's epitaph had been etched. Doc checks the photograph, notices the tombstone and the date are still apparent, but the name has vanished. He realizes the name on the tombstone could have vanished because it's now going to be someone else's tombstone. He explains that the photograph represents what will happen if the events of today continue to run their course until tomorrow. The undertaker comes by again, this time measuring Marty. When Marty asks why, the undertaker explains that there are betting odds in town that he will lose and he needs to know the dimensions to build a coffin. Doc informs Marty that someone else's name is going to end up on that tombstone now, instead of Emmet Brown. It may be even be Marty's.

This time it's Marty who uses the Doc signature catch phrase. "Great Scott!!" "I know, this is heavy," says Doc. Borrowing Mary's signature catch phrase. As if for the first time, Doc notices Marty's peacemaker and does not approve. He asks him if he's going to go up against Tannen tomorrow. Marty tells him, "Doc, tomorrow I'm going back to the future with you." But then he adds he wants to be ready for Buford in case he shows up early and grumbles, "you heard what the sonofabitch called me last night." Doc lectures him that he can't go off half cocked whenever someone calls him a name. He remarks that he was afraid they might be seeing a repeat of the Rolls-Royce incident then remembers Marty knows nothing about that. The cat being out of the bag now, Marty is curious about this new information about his future, but Doc shuts up, already having said too much.

Think Doc, Think!

CUT EXTERIOR DESERT. NIGHT. They have placed the Delorean on a platform and are prepping it. Doc drops another bomb shell. He's not going back. He intends to stay with Clara. Marty is opposed to this, reminding him that neither one of them even belong here.

Doc is adamant that he cannot deny he is in love with Clara.

Marty demands that Doc consider the ramification of further contaminating

the timeline. Doc stubbornly refuses to listen. Marty intently tells him to think. He asks, "You're the scientist, Doc, what is right, up here?" He points to his forehead. Doc turns away and finally admits that his young friend is right. He releases the Delorean from it's platform and it rolls onto the tracks. Doc says "at least let me go say goodbye to her." Marty reminds him that he can't just say "see ya later I'm going back to the future." Doc again agrees that he's right as he examines the Delorean one more time. Marty, relenting a bit, suggests they bring Clara with them. Doc brightens. "To the future?" Marty nods. Doc thinks, then says, "no, you're right I am a scientist." Doc points out that he can't be an hypocrite about it, using the time machine for his own personal gain. He vows that when they get back to 1985 they are going to destroy this "infernal machine." He walks away, choking back tears and says, "time travel has somehow just become far too painful." CUT TO SOME TIME LATER SAME LOCATION. Marty is sleeping on a blanket by a camp fire. Doc sits up, staring at a flower given to him by Clara. He looks over at Marty, then the time machine as if reconsidering a few things. CUT INTERIOR SCHOOL MARM HOME. Clara sits at her desk grading

papers. There is a knock on the front door. Doc calls in to her. She runs to the door, excited at this very late and unexpected visit, inviting him in. He sadly declines. She asks what's wrong. Doc tells her that he's going away and he will never see her again, cryptically, without further explanation. He gives her a half hearted explanation of why he must leave but she knows he's holding something back. She asks him wherever he's going take her with him. He says she can't. Getting upset now, she insists he tell her the truth. Doc realizes he cannot lie to his beloved and he tells her the unabashed truth about his time travel. Instead of understanding she explodes in fury that he would take advantage of her love of Jules Verne with some cockamammie story about time travel. She slaps in in the face then says, "if you don't love me just say so." Doc says "but that's not the truth!" She slams the door in his face. As he leaves, crest fallen, hat in hand, he sadly places the flower she gave him on her window sill. As he walks away we see through the window as she falls on her bed, weeping bitterly.

A Drink To The Future!

CUT INTERIOR SALOON. Emmet walks in as if in a daze. The barkeep

is shocked when he orders a whiskey and tries to talk him out of it because of how "he gets" when he drinks whiskey. He reluctantly pours Doc a drink. Doc tells him to leave the bottle. He doesn't drink the whiskey right away, though, he just stands there holding it and begins to talk to a traveling salesman who immediately guesses this is about a woman. They discuss briefly Doc's recent heartbreak. The salesman brings up the "future." Doc says, "boy I could tell you about the future." CUT TO EXTERIOR DESERT CAMP. DAYLIGHT. Marty wakes up to find Doc missing. Reluctantly he goes to town, worrying about missing the train. CUT INTERIOR SALOON. Doc still stands in the same place at the bar, holding a shot of whiskey. He's going on and on about the future to anyone who will listen. He describes the horseless carriage to them, telling them it's an "automobile." One person asks him if everyone has one of these automobiles does anyone walk or run anymore? Doc says, of course they do, but they do it for fun. "What kind of fun is that?" The stranger (played by Pat Butramm, "Mr. Haney" from Green Acres) scoffs and everyone laughs. CUT EXTERIOR LIVERY STABLES. Marty rides up and runs into the blacksmith's workshop but doesn't find Doc there. He runs around town searching. He sees Doc's horse in front of the Saloon and heads that way. CUT INTERIOR SALOON. One of the patrons who has been incredulously listening to Doc ramble about the future asks the barkeep how

many whiskeys he's had. The barkeep tells him "none, that is his first one and he ain't touched that one yet." Marty runs into the saloon asks Doc what he's doing. Doc turns around and goes on and on about how he's lost Clara. Marty urges him they have to go back to the future. Doc says, "you're right!" Setting the drink down he turns to the gentlemen to whom he's been speaking and tells them he and his friend must now catch a train. They all lift their glasses and toast to the future. Doc grabs his drink to toast with them. The bar tender screams, "Emmet NO!" It's too late, he downs the shot in one gulp. His eyes go wide, then, they go blank. He falls flat on his face. Out cold. Marty tries to wake him but can't. He asks how many he had. The bartender says, "just the one." Marty can't believe that. The bartender says, "there's some fellas that can't hold their liquor." Marty asks for coffee.

Fist Full of Future!

CUT EXTERIOR OUTSKIRTS. Buford and his gang ride hard toward Hill Valley.

CUT INTERIOR TRAIN STATION. Clara stands at the ticket counter buying a one way ticket on the next train. CUT TO INTERIOR SALOON. The bartender mixes a concoction involving lots of red hot chili pepper sauce. He tells Marty it will take about 10 minutes to sober him up with it. Marty looks at the clock. In 10 minutes it will be 8 AM, the time when they are supposed to board the train and also the time set for the gun fight. Marty asks himself, "why do we have to cut these things so close?" They pour the concoction down his throat using a funnel. Doc wakes up instantly and jumps up, running outside he sticks his head in the horse trough and lays there face down in the water. Marty and the barkeep drag him up and he's out cold again. The barkeep says it's going to take a few more minutes. CUT TRAIN BOARDING PLATFORM. The train approaches and Clara moves into position, bags in hand, waiting to board. The train stops. CUT INTERIOR SALOON. Seamus arrives in the bar as Marty is still trying to revive Doc. The bartender is surprised and tells Seamus he didn't think to see him here this morning. Seamus agrees and says, "something inside me told me I needed to be here," he starts to turn away and mumbles, "as if my very future depended on it." Almost on cue, Buford and their gang ride up past the clock that says 7:55. He begins calling "Eastwood" (Marty) out and saying that it's 8 O' Clock. Marty looks at the clock then shouts at Tannen that it's not 8 yet.

Tannen says, "it is by my watch" and continues to call him out. Marty keeps desperately trying to revive Doc. The entire saloon starts egging Marty on, demanding a gunfight.

He actually seems like he's

considering it but when he looks at the photo of the tombstone a name starts to appear on it. Clint Eastwood. Marty turns and sees Seamus staring at him forlornly hoping he'll do the right thing. He announces he doesn't feel up to a fight and that he forfeits. Buford turns in confusion to one of his gang and asks what that means. The gang member actually knows! He says, "it means you win without a fight." Buford turns back to shouting through the window telling Marty he can't do that. He calls him a gutless yellow turd. Marty's eyes glisten with anger at this. It looks like he might actually fight but at the last minute he recovers and turns back to trying to revive Doc. The patrons in the bar start egging him on saying "if you don't go out there everyone everwhere will say that Clint Eastwood is the biggest yellow belly in the west." Marty doesn't care anymore. He tells them that Buford is just "an asshole." Doc revives. Buford is counting to ten then he's coming in there but he doesn't know how and skips a few numbers. They sneak out the back but one of the gang sees them and starts shooting. Doc falls to the street but Marty, dodging bullets, falls into a nearby store room and bumps into a wood stove. The door to the stove falls off and lands next to him. CUT TO INTERIOR TRAIN. Clara boards and has a seat. In the seat behind her salesman who tried to cheer Doc up at the saloon the evening before

is telling a friend about this "poor heartbroken and pathetic" soul he met last night. He relates how much the man loved the woman and that he lost her and said he couldn't go on knowing how much he hurt her. CUT INTERIOR STORE ROOM. Marty watches as they drag Doc to the middle of the street. Buford then gives Marty an ultimatum: either come out in 1 minute, or Doc gets it. Doc shouts "forget about me Marty and save yourself!" Marty looks around and eyes the door to the wood stove on the floor. CUT INTERIOR OF TRAIN. Clara now listens intently to the saleman who's still going on about that broken hearted fool he met. He tries to think of the name of the woman who broke the man's heart. "Clara," he finally recalls. She spins around and faces him, excusing herself. She gives him a description of Doc and asks if that was the man? He confirms it. The train has been traveling about a mile or so. She stands up and yanks on the brake cord. The train screeches to a halt and she runs out along the tracks back toward town. CUT TO EXTERIOR SALOON. Buford Tannen looks at his watch and shouts, "time's up runt." He turns and takes aim to shoot Doc. Marty appears, calling to him, and walks out into the middle of the street. They square off, high noon style. Doc backs away from Buford but the gang grabs him again. There's a tense moment. Seamus watches, he can't seem to believe Marty is going to do it.

Buford shouts "draw!" Marty shouts, "NO!" Everyone looks back and forth from Buford to Marty in total confusion but no one is more confused than Buford. Marty unbuckles his holster and lets it drop to the street. "I thought we could fight this out man to man." He says. Buford says, "you thought wrong, dude" and shoots him right in the chest. He goes down. Doc's eyes fill with grief and anger and Seamus too, grieving, turns away. Tannen just stands there, arms outstretched, turning to everyone and laughing. He walks over to Marty and tries to kicks him in the foot to see if he's dead. Marty reaches out with his foot and kicks the gun out of his hand. He then jumps to his feet face to face with Tannen. Infuriated, the gun slinger reaches out and punches him in the abdomen. We hear a faint metallic clunk when his fist connects. Then, the giant man doubles over, holding his hand and screaming in agony. Marty lifts up his Clint Eastwood style poncho to reveal the door to the wood stove with a bullet mashed in it. He has acted out the scene from "Fist Full Of Dollars." A Clint Eastwood movie that Biff Tannen was watching in the Casino penthouse when Marty asked him about the Almanac. He then starts wailing on Buford. At one point the man falls right into the tombstone and breaks it. Marty just keeps hitting him and he's unable to recover. He's finally knocked back into a cart full of manure.

Just then a martial and some deputies come riding. Evidently the Tannen gang had just robbed a stage coach the day before. The gang sees the Martial and one of them says, "I think Buford is going to jail." All 3 of his gang run away leaving Buford to be arrested. Some deputies chase after them. Buford stands up and as the charges are being read he spits out manure saying how much he hates it. Marty and Doc look at the photo of the tombstone. They watch as it disappears. A little boy comes up and hands Marty his six shooter and holster. He thanks the kid then tosses it over to Seamus who is standing nearby looking proud, as if Marty is his own son. Marty suggests Seamus can get 8 dollars for it. Seamus says he might even get another hat. The train whistle blows moving away, off in the distance. They've missed it. It's time for a new plan. Just as they ride out of town to go try and catch the train Clara runs back in to town. Finding the blacksmith shop empty she examines the scale model of the train tracks and time machine Doc made for his demonstration. She reads the words "time machine" on the model Delorean, nearby where it sits there's a sign that says "Silver Mine." She knows where they are now. Running out she jumps on nearby horse and rides hard toward the old silver mine.

Where We're Going, There Is A Bridge!

CUT EXTERIOR DESERT TRAIN TRACKS. The train barrels away from

Hill Valley picking up steam. Doc and Marty come riding fast, overtaking it. They struggle to pull themselves aboard the moving train. It's touch and go there but they finally get on the train. They don bandanas over their faces and proceed to "rob" the train. All they want, however is the engine. They make the engineer stop the train right at the switching track. Doc holds them at gun point as Marty runs out and switches the track. Doc orders them to decouple the cars from the engine. They then move away, headed toward the Delorean at the entrance to the old silver mine. CUT EXTERIOR DESERT. SITE OF THE ROBBERY. Clara rides up and sees the disconnected box cars. She looks confused. Doc is blowing the train whistle like a little kid. Clara hearing the whistle blowing and sees the steam from the exhaust stack ahead in the distance. She rides after them. CUT RAILROAD TRACKS SITE OF DELOREAN. The engine slows down and stops behind the Delorean.

Doc has created some highly volatile

"sterno logs" that he has color coded and numbered. With these he'll get the train engine up to 88 mph, hopefully without blowing the boiler until after they go back to the future. Marty climbs inside the Delorean and Doc drives the engine. Using the tires from the Delorean on the front of the train to absorb the shock, he blows the whistle and slowly inches the train forward until it makes contact with the rear of the Delorean. As they begin to move, the look on Marty's face seems to suggest that he is now hopeful that this crazy plan of Doc's might just work. At the same

time, however, he also seems nervous, no doubt thinking about the what ifs and the deep ravine waiting for them just ahead. The train and the Delorean pick up speed. CUT TRAIN TRACKS DIRECTLY BEHIND THE TRAIN AND THE DELOREAN. Clara rides fast trying to catch up with the engine. Doc and Marty are in constant communication with each other using the walkie talkies, coordinating their efforts. Behind the train we see Clara riding, overtaking it slowly. Doc stokes the boiler with his specially modified logs. They are designed to go off in succession with just the perfect amount of time in between detonations to keep from overheating the boiler. Marty monitors the pressure with a pressure gauge color coded to match the logs. Behind the train Clara has caught up and is now struggling to pull herself aboard the back of the engine. Doc has not seen her. She manages to climb aboard and is clinging to the aft ladder when the first log goes off. There is a sudden burst of speed and the train luches forward so quickly she goes vertical, barely hanging onto the ladder. After a moment the train planes out and she is able to start climbing the ladder. The only way to get to the front of the engine is up and over the tinder car. Marty tells Doc that they just hit 35 mph. Clara is climbing onto the wood piles in the tinder car when she sees Emmet climb out of the Engine cab window and begin his slide to the front of the car and to the waiting Delorean. She starts screaming his name and he almost thinks he hears her, stops, but then continues on toward the front. A green

smoke pours out of the exhaust stack as Doc scoots toward the front of the engine and Clara climbs over the wood, chasing him. Marty looks at his pressure gauge and tells Doc to hang onto something because they are about to yellow line (and the second log will explode). When it does explode Doc hangs on as he goes vertical and Clara is blown back, almost right off the train. Marty keeps Doc apprised of their speed as it climbs. Doc hurries to get into the Delorean. He's scaling the side of the engine on the catwalk, his back to the engine and his arms holding the side rails. Clara makes it to the front of the tinder car and climbs into the engine. She's now hanging outside the window screaming his name but he has made it to the very front of the engine and can neither see her nor hear her. He's about to make the leap from the train to the Delorean when Marty opens the wing doors and tells him they just past 45. His eyes widen and Marty cheers him on. He's about to jump. The speedometer reaches 50. Inside the engine Clara is looking around desperately. She spies the whistle cable. On the front of the train Doc is leaning forward to jump when the whistle sounds. He stops and blinks in disbelief. How can the whistle be blowing itself? The train whistle blows again and he realizes, someone is in the engine. He peeks around the front of the engine back to the cab and sees Clara hanging out the window waving and screaming his name. "Clara!" He screams in dismay. She doesn't know that this train engine is

about to plummet over the edge of the ravine. She screams to him that she loves him. He's staring wide eyed, mouth open, dumbfounded. Marty starts yelling for Doc to hurry, not realizing what's going on yet. Doc tells him what's happening using the walkie talkie. "Clara!" Marty says this, as if she's the Yoko Ono of the back to the future team. Then he exclaims in sarcasm, "perfect!" Doc, of course announces he's going back for her! Marty tells him they are passing 60 and he's never going to make it, which, of course does not stop him. He declares that he is now going to take her back with him to the future after all. He calls to her, coaxing her to climb out of the window and come toward him. At first she's reluctant but then she actually does it. She begins scooting along the catwalk the way he did. He begins moving back toward her cheering her on. She's in high heeled boots and the ledge she's on is very narrow. It's very precarious. He keeps moving back toward her and she keeps coming forward. They pass 60 and the needle on the gauge in Marty's hand approaches the red line. The lovers are undaunted. They are just about to touch fingers when Marty yells that the log is about to blow. When it does the entire exhaust stack disintegrates in a massive explosion and the train lurches forward. The rail that Doc and Clara are clinging to snaps and Clara falls, her boot is caught on the ledge and she hangs there, upside down screaming. Doc, throwing caution to the wind practically leaps the

few short feet to her and grabs her, hauling her up. Now as the train approaches 88 mph and Marty sees the end of the line ahead Doc struggles to hold onto Clara and the train too. Marty takes the hoverboard out from the back of the seat and shouts to Doc. Doc, seeing his plan readies himself. Marty sends the hoverboard back toward Doc and Clara and Doc leaps onto it, still holding Clara. They float out and away from the train just as it approaches 88 mph. Marty turns back, closes the wing door and braces himself. The Delorean hits 88 mph just as it goes through the barrier. The Delorean lights up, there's the familiar sound of the time leap and the Delorean is gone. The train plummets over the side of the ravine and crashes at the bottom in a spectacular explosion as Doc floats Clara safely to the ground. CUT EXTERIOR HILL VALLEY RAIL CROSSING. DAYLIGHT. There are a few quick flashes and the sound of the time jump and the Delorean appears on the bridge rolling across the ravine. A sign reads "Eastwood Ravine." As he reaches the other side the rail guards go down and a car, stopped at the crossing watches in amazement and Marty rolls past in the Delorean, fitted to ride on train tracks. Marty smiles and waves. A woman on the other side of the crossing pokes her head out of her car as if recognizing him. As he slows to a stop he hears a train whistle. In horror he realizes the train is coming. With only seconds to spare he opens the wing door and leaps out just as the train rams the Delorean and the car explodes into a hundred different pieces. The locomotive doesn't even slow down and just pushes the

debris of the once fine machine all over the tracks. Marty watches this with a kind of sadness. He gets up, wanders around looking at the carnage and mumbles, "well Doc, it's destroyed, just like you wanted." CUT EXTERIOR JENNIFER PARKER HOME. Marty pulls up in his 4 x 4 and climbs up onto her porch. She's still sleeping where he and Doc had left her in the alternate 1985 what seemed so long ago. He sits next to her and kisses her. She awakens. She tells him about a crazy dream she had. CUT EXTERIOR ROADWAY STOP HILL VALLEY. The black 4 X 4 pulls up in front of the Hilldale entrance. Jennifer is still going on about her dream. Marty sees the Hilldale entrance and blurts out, "hey this is where we live," he corrects himself, "I mean it's where we are gonna live." Jennifer stares at him. "Marty, It was just a dream?" Marty stammers but before he can answer another truck pulls up next to them. The driver is Needles, Marty's personal "Biff" stylel bully. This is Marty's future supervisor whoh bullies and tricks Marty into swiping his card in 2015, getting him fired in the process. Jennifer rolls her eyes when she sees him and his ridiculous entourage. Needles commends Marty on such a "nice set of wheels" and says "let's see what she can do" revving his engine in the universal challenge to a drag race. Marty declines but then Needles calls him chicken.

Jennifer is now scared, she realizes the events foretold in her "dream" are now unfolding right before her eyes. She tries to convince Marty to calm down. He gets a strange look on his face and shifts gears. Needles and his gang laugh wickedly as both trucks begin to rev their engines waiting for the light to change and the drag race to commence. Jennifer is begging Marty to reconsider. The light changes and they hit the gas. Needles' truck races off across the intersection while Marty, unknown to Jennifer, has put his truck in reverse. He squeels his going backward then spins the truck around in the other direction. Jennifer is shocked. Marty asks her, "you didn't think I was stupid enough to race that ass hole?" Just then, ahead, a Rolls Royce comes out of the next intersection. Needles' truck swerves, barely missing it. Stunned, Marty realizes, "I would have hit that Rolls Royce!" Jennifer suddenly remembers the fax paper she brought from 2015. She grabs it out of her pocket and stares in silence as the words "YOU'RE FIRED" dissipate until it's just a blank sheet. She stares at Marty. He looks at her confused. CUT EXTERNAL RAIL CROSSING. Jennifer and Marty get out of the truck and walk among the debris. He's evidently fessed up to her about everything. "You're right" she remarks, "there's not much left."

Marty says, "Doc's never coming back," then he picks up a torn and burned piece of the old photo which shows Doc standing alone by the clocktower and says, "I'm sure gonna miss him, Jennifer." Suddenly, without warning there is a large FLASH and the familiar sound of a time jump. Their hair is blown back and then they themselves are blown back as a train appears on the tracks before them! It has the letters ELB embossed on its side. The train has all kinds of futuristic accessories. It even has a wing door like the Delorean. It opens and Doc and Clara emerge. Marty is pleased, Jennifer is totally stunned. The Browns introduce them to their kids, both boys, Jules and Verne. (Played by Todd Cameron Brown and Daniel Evans). Doc introduces his boys to Marty and Jennifer. Marty happily says he never thought he'd see Doc again. Doc explains that he had to come back and get Einstein and that he didn't want Marty to worry about him. He gives Marty a gift. It's the photograph they both took together at the clock tower in 1885. Jennifer interrupts, holding the blank fax sheet out to Doc and asking him what it means. Doc says, "it means your future isn't written yet, no one's is, your future is what you make it, so make it a good one, both of you!" He tells his boys to buckle up and tells them to stand back. They say their goodbyes.

Marty asks where he's going now, "back to the future?" Doc shakes his head. "Already been there." The train rises up into the air, hovering. It turns and moves away from them a bit as they watch. It then shoots up and over the camera. FADE TO BLACK SUNBURST LETTERING "THE END." MUSIC.. DOUBLEBACK BY ZZ TOP ROLL CREDITS