Back to the Future - 3

He lowers his rifle and talks to the crowd.

Marshall Strickland: Come on, this is a party! Come on, let's have some fun!

The music starts playing again and the dancing resumes. Buford goes to Marty.

Buford: 8 o'clock. Monday. You ain't here, I'll hunt you and shoot you down like a duck.

Gang Member 1: It's dog, Buford. Shoot 'im down like a dog.

Buford is upset that everyone has seen his stupidity.

Buford: Let's go, boys! Let these sissies have their party!

They leave and Doc talks to Marty.

Doc: Marty, what are you doing, saying you're going to meet Tannen??

Marty: Doc, don't worry about it! Monday morning, 8am. We're gonna be gone, right?

Doc: Theoretically, yes, but what if the train's late?

Marty hasn't thought of this.

Marty: Late??

Clara arrives at Doc's side again.

Doc: We'll discuss this later.

Marty: No, we'll discuss this now - late?

Clara: Thank you for your gallantry, Mr Eastwood.

Marty tries to be modest.

Marty: No, hey, ma'am.

Clara: Had you not interceded, Emmett might have been shot!

Doc: Marty - (covering) uh, Clint, I'm going to take Clara home.

Two MEN at the party pull Marty to them before he can respond to Doc.

Man 1: You sure set him straight, Mr Eastwood. I'm glad somebody finally got the gumption to stand up to that son of a bitch.

Man 2: You're all right in my book, Mr Eastwood. I'd like to buy you a drink.

Marty: Hey, look, I don't want a drink. It was no big deal.

There is a tap on Marty's shoulder. It's the Colt Gun Salesman. He's holding a Colt Peacemaker and a gun belt.

Colt Gun Salesman: Young man, young man. I'd like you to have this brand new Colt Peacemaker and gun belt, free of charge!

Marty takes them.

Marty: Free?

Colt Gun Salesman: I want everybody to know that the gun that shot Buford Tannen was a Colt Peacemaker.

Marty: Hey, hey, thanks.

Colt Gun Salesman: Of course, you understand that if you lose - I'm taking it back.

The Colt Gun Salesman smiles as he walks off. Marty tries to think of something to say.

Marty: Thanks again.

Marty walks off and meets up with Seamus and Maggie. The three walk together. During the following Marty has a "I don't really need this" look on his face.

Seamus: You had him, Mr Eastwood! You could have just walked away, and nobody would of thought the less of ya for it. All it would have been was words - hot air from a buffoon. Instead you let him rile ya - rile ya into playing his game, his way, playing his rules.

Marty: Seamus, relax, I know what I'm doing.

Maggie: He reminds me of poor Martin.

Seamus: Aye.

Marty: Who?

Seamus: Me brother.

Marty is amazed - there's another Martin McFly? (Note: before Marty ever went back in time, he may have been named after Seamus' brother).

Marty: Wait a minute - you have a brother named Martin McFly?

Seamus: Had a brother. Martin used to let men provoke him into fighting. He was concerned people would think him a coward if he refused. That's how he got a bowie knife shoved through his belly in a saloon in Virginia City. Never considered the future, poor Martin. God rest his soul.

Seamus walks off. Maggie turns to Marty.

Maggie: Sure hope you're considering the future, Mr Eastwood.

She follows her husband. Marty looks after them.

Marty: (to himself) I think about it all the time.

Cut to a field at night, outside Clara's cabin. Doc and Clara are sat on their horses watching the stars through her telescope.

Clara: And that crater in the middle north-west, out there all by itself like a starburst?

Doc: Uh-huh.

Clara: That one's called Copernicus. (laughing) Listen to me, I feel like I'm teaching school!

Doc: Oh, please, continue your lesson. (laughing) I never found lunar geography so fascinating. You're quite knowledgeable.

Clara: When I was 11, I had diphtheria. I was quarantined for 3 months, so my father bought me this telescope and put it next to my bed so I could see everything out my window. (pauses) Emmett, do you think we'll ever be able to travel to the moon, like we travel across the country on trains?

Doc smiles - he doesn't just think it will happen, he knows!

Doc: Definitely, although not for another 84 years and not on trains. We'll have space vehicles - capsules to sail off in rockets - devices that create giant explosions - explosions that are so powerful that they...

Clara finishes his sentence - she seems to know it from somewhere.

Clara: (continued) ...they break the pull of the Earth's gravity and send their projectile through outer space.

Clara: Emmett, I read that book too. You're quoting Jules Verne, "From The Earth To The Moon".

Doc: You've read Jules Verne?

Clara: I adore Jules Verne.

Doc: So do I. "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", my absolute favorite. The first time I read that when I was a little boy I wanted to meet Captain Nemo and...

Clara: (laughs) Please, Emmett, you couldn't have read that when you were a little boy, it was only first published 10 years ago.

Doc: (covering) Oh, yes, well - I meant it made me feel like a boy. (he pauses) I never met a woman who liked Jules Verne before.

Clara: I never ever met a man like you before.

They kiss, and a shooting star flies overhead.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1885

Cut to next morning at Doc's workshop. In a scene very similar to the first scene in BTTF1, we pan across to see Doc's inventions and clocks. Eggs and pancakes start cooking as Marty wakes up and gets out of his bed.

Marty: Doc! Doc!

Doc isn't there, so Marty talks to himself.

Marty: I hope you know what you're doing.