BACK TO THE FUTURE

Courthouse Square. It's early evening. Doc is connecting the cables for the experiment. He has the radio on.

Radio Announcer: (v.o) This Saturday night, mostly clear, with some scattered clouds. Lows in the upper forties.

Doc: Are you sure about this storm?

Marty: Since when could the weatherman predict the weather, let alone the future.

Doc: You know Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life, you've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing, that I'm gonna be around to see 1985, that I'm gonna succeed in this. That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time. It's going to be really hard waiting 30 years before I could talk to you about everything that's happened in the past few days. I'm really gonna miss you, Marty.

The sentence That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time, makes Marty remember - Doc won't be able to do this because he will be shot.

Marty: I'm really gonna miss you. Doc, about the future...

Doc: No! Marty, we've already agreed that having information about the future could be extremely dangerous. Even if your intentions are good, they could backfire drastically. Whatever you've got to tell me I'll find out through the natural course of time.

At Lou's Cafe, Marty writes a note.

Marty: (reading) Dear Dr Brown, on the night that I go back in time, you will be shot by terrorists. Please take whatever precautions are necessary to prevent this terrible disaster. Your friend, Marty.

Marty signs it and puts it in an envelope. He writes on the front Do not open until 1985. Cut to Doc on his ladder, fixing the cables. A cop comes up to the DeLorean (covered up).

Cop: Evening, Dr Brown, what's with the wire?

Doc: Oh, just a little weather experiment.

Cop: What you got under here?

Doc: Oh no, don't touch that. That's some new specialised weather sensing equipment.

Cop: You got a permit for that?

Doc: Of course I do.

He comes down. During the following Marty slips the note into Doc's pocket.

Doc: Just a second, let's see if I could find it.

Doc gets out his wallet. We cut to Hill Valley High School. We see students and couples walking to the dance. Marty pulls up in Doc's Packard with Lorraine. He stops the car.

Marty: Do you mind if we park for a while?

Lorraine: That's a great idea. I'd love to park.

This isn't what Marty expected to hear!

Marty: Huh?

Lorraine: Well, Marty, I'm almost 18 years old, it's not like I've never parked before.

Marty: What?

Lorraine: Marty, you seem so nervous, is something wrong?

Marty: No, no.

Lorraine takes a sip of alcohol from a bottle she's bought.

Marty: Lorraine, Lorraine, what are you doing?

Lorraine giggles a bit.

Lorraine: I swiped it from the old lady's liquor cabinet.

Marty: Yeah well, you shouldn't drink.

Lorraine: Why not?

Marty: Because, you might regret it later in life.

Lorraine: Marty, don't be such a square. Everybody who's anybody drinks.

Marty takes a sip, but spits it back out when he see Lorraine lighting up a cigarette!

Marty: Jesus, you smoke too?

Lorraine takes off her jacket to reveal her dress.

Lorraine: Marty, you're beginning to sound just like my mother!

Music: Night Train by Marvin Berry The Starlighters

Cut to the gym. MARVIN BERRY and the STARLIGHTERS are playing the music at the dance. They finish their piece.

Marvin: We're gonna take a little break but we'll be back in a while so, don't nobody go nowhere.

Cut to George. He looks at his watch. It's almost 9 o'clock! He looks at another clock. A few minutes past 9! He hurries off to the car park. Cut back to Marty and Lorraine in the car.

Music: Pledging My Love by Johnny Ace

(the above song is playing faintly on the radio)

Lorraine: Marty, why are you so nervous?

Marty: Lorraine, have you ever, uh, been in a situation where you know you had to act a certain way but when you got there, you didn't know if you could go through with it?

Lorraine: Oh, you mean how you're supposed to act on a first date?

Marty: Ah well, sort of.

Lorraine: I think I know exactly what you mean.

Marty: You do?

Lorraine: You know what I do in those situations?

Marty: What?

Lorraine: I don't worry.

Lorraine kisses Marty. Then she stops and turns to him.

Lorraine: This is all wrong. I don't know what it is but when I kiss you, it's like kissing (pause) my brother. I guess that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Marty: (with relief) No, it makes perfect sense.

Footsteps are heard.

Lorraine: Someone's coming.

The car door opens. Marty, thinking it's George, turns around and sees it's Biff with his gang! Biff pulls Marty out of the car.

Biff: You cost 300 bucks damage to my car, you son of a bitch. And I'm gonna take it out of your ass. (to his gang) Hold him.

Lorraine: Let him go, Biff, you're drunk.

Biff: Well lookie what we have here!

Lorraine covers up her dress a bit by backing into the car. Biff follows her.

Biff: No, no, no, you're staying right here with me.

Lorraine: Stop it!

Biff: C'mon!

Lorraine: Stop it!

Biff: C'mon!

Marty: Leave her alone, you bastard!

Biff: You guys, take him in back and I'll be right there.

The gang continues to watch Biff.

Biff: Well c'mon, this ain't no peep show!

Biff closes the door and his gang takes Marty off. They spot a car.

Skinhead: Let's put him in there.

3-D: Yeah.

Skinhead: That's for messing up my hair.

They put Marty in the trunk and lock the door. One of the Starlighters, REGINALD, opens the car door and faces the gang.