- [last lines]
- Marty McFly: Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [21:04] If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
- Marty McFly: [57:58] Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely.
- Marty McFly: Whoa. This is heavy.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: 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 McFly: [to Uncle Joey as a baby, playing in his playpen] So you're my Uncle Joey. Better get used to these bars, kid.
- Marty McFly: [23:01] Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some *style?*
- [in the past, Marty observes his dad's incompetence]
- Marty McFly: Jesus, George, it was a wonder I was even born.
- Marty McFly: [43:42] Calvin? Wh... Why do you keep calling me Calvin?
- Lorraine Baines: Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Marty is showing Doc Brown the flux capacitor in the DeLorean time vehicle]
- [51:57]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: It works! It works!
- [grabs Marty]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: I finally invent something that works!
- Marty McFly: [quietly] You bet your ass it works.
- [Marty and Doc observe George's incompetence in 1955]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Which one's your pop?
- Marty McFly: [points him out] That's him.
- [they see him getting kicked around by other school bullies]
- George McFly: [has a "kick me" sign on his back] Okay. Okay, you guys. Ah-ha-ha-ha. Very funny. You guys are being real mature.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Maybe you were adopted.
- [Dr. Emmett Brown is doubting Marty McFly's story about that he is from the future]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, future boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?
- Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
- [chuckles in disbelief]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?
- [rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
- Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa. Wait, Doc!
- Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury.
- Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
- [closes the door leaving Marty outside]
- Marty McFly: No, wait, Doc. Doc. The-the-the bruise on your head, I know how that happened. You told me the whole story. You were standing on your toilet and you were hanging a clock, and you fell and you hit your head on the sink. And that's when you came up with the idea for the flux capacitor,
- [somberly]
- Marty McFly: which is what makes time travel possible.
- [Doc opens the door and looks at Marty with a stunned look on his face]
- George McFly: Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain.
- 1955 radio weatherman: [It's Marty's last night in 1955. Doc is setting up the cable that will channel the lightning bolt into the time machine] ... Hill Valley area weather this Saturday night. Mostly clear, with some scattered clouds. Lows tonight in the upper 40s.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Are you sure about this storm?
- Marty McFly: Since when can weathermen predict the weather, let alone the future?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: 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 going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this!
- [gestures at time machine]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!
- [Marty looks solemn, knowing that Doc is destined to be murdered before he gets to use the time machine himself]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: It's gonna be really hard waiting 30 years before I can talk to you about everything that's happened in the past few days. I'm really gonna miss you, Marty.
- Marty McFly: I'm really gonna miss *you*.
- [pause]
- Marty McFly: Doc, about the future...
- Dr. Emmett Brown: No! Marty! We've already agreed that having information about the future can be extremely dangerous. Even if your intentions are good, it can backfire drastically!
- [Marty nods reluctantly]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Whatever you've got to tell me, I'll find out through the natural course of time.
- [addressing the shocked expressions at the dance after playing a wild heavy metal guitar solo]
- Marty McFly: I g-guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.
- [repeated line also said by George]
- Marty McFly: If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
- Lou: You gonna order something, kid?
- Marty McFly: Ah, yeah. Give me- Give me a Tab.
- Lou: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.
- Marty McFly: Right. Give me a Pepsi Free.
- Lou: You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it.
- Marvin Berry: [on the phone, as Marty plays "Johnny B. Goode"] Chuck! Chuck, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!
- [holds the receiver out]
- [Stella Baines is Marty's future grandmother]
- Stella Baines: You know, Marty, you look so familiar to me. Do I know your mother?
- Marty McFly: [turning to look at Lorraine, his mother in the future] Yeah, I think maybe you do...
- [Lorraine's parents are talking about Marty McFly, Lorraine's future son]
- Stella Baines: He's a very strange young man.
- Sam Baines: He's an idiot. Comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots, too. Lorraine, you ever have a kid who acts that way, I'll disown you.
- Marty McFly: [whilst with his girlfriend] What happens to us in the future? Do we become assholes or something?
- Marty McFly: [heads for a door then stops] Oh. One other thing. If you guys ever have kids, and one of them, when he's eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug... go easy on him.
- [Marty places headphones over his father's ears and wakes him up by playing Van Halen music at full blast. George wakes up screaming - Marty pauses the music. George looks up to see Marty, who is unrecognizable because he is wearing a radiation suit]
- George McFly: Who are you?
- Marty McFly: [after giving him another earful of loud rock music] Silence, Earthling. My name is Darth Vader. I am an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan!
- [makes Live Long and Prosper sign with his hand]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Let me show you my plan for sending you home. Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.
- [reveals intricate tabletop model of the town square]
- Marty McFly: [impressed] It's good.
- [pacing in front of the clock tower]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [looks at his watch] Damn! Where is that kid?
- [looks at a small alarm clock in his other hand]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Damn!
- [looks at a second watch on his other wrist]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Damn! Damn!
- [Marty enters his house and sees Biff harrassing George]
- Biff Tannen: I can't believe you'd loan me your car without telling me it had a blind spot. I could've been killed!
- George McFly: Blind spot? Now, now, Biff, now I never noticed that the car had any blind spot before when I would drive it. Hi, Son.
- Biff Tannen: What, are you blind, McFly? It's there. How else do you explain that wreck out there?
- George McFly: Biff, can I- Can I assume that your, uh, insurance is gonna pay for the damage?
- Biff Tannen: My insurance? It's your car. Your insurance should pay for it. I wanna know who's gonna pay for this?
- [shows his shirt]
- Biff Tannen: I spilled beer all over it when the car smashed into me. Who's gonna pay my cleaning bill?
- Marty McFly: [Reading a letter he has just written] 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.
- [Writes the words "Do not open until 1985" on the envelope]
- Goldie Wilson: [rushes up to George] Say! Why do you let those boys push you around like that for?
- George McFly: Well, they're bigger than me.
- Goldie Wilson: Stand tall, boy. Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know, if you let people walk over you now, they'll be walking over you for the rest of your life. Look at me. You think I'm gonna spend the rest of my life in this slop house?
- Lou: Watch it, Goldie.
- Goldie Wilson: No, sir! I'm gonna make something of myself. I'm going to night school, and one day, I'm gonna be somebody!
- Marty McFly: That's right! He's gonna be mayor.
- Goldie Wilson: Yeah, I'm...
- [smiles, one of his front teeth is gold]
- Goldie Wilson: Mayor! Now *that's* a good idea! I could run for mayor.
- Lou: A colored mayor. That'll be the day.
- Goldie Wilson: You wait and see, Mr. Caruthers. I *will* be mayor! I'll be the most powerful man in Hill Valley, and I'm gonna clean up this town.
- Lou: Good. You can start by sweeping the floor.
- [hands Goldie a broom]
- Goldie Wilson: [stands tall with a hand over his heart] Mayor Goldie Wilson. I like the sound of that.
- [collects George's dishes]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Deleted Scene, Doc Brown uses a sound fork and hits the time machine with the sound fork and frantically steps back] I knew, I knew it, I knew it.
- Marty McFly: Doc, do you have a 75-ohm matching transformer?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: What?
- Marty McFly: [Realizing where in time he is] Not invented yet. That's right.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Walks over to his future self's suit case] So, these are my personal belongings, huh?
- Marty McFly: Yeah.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Opens up the suit case and picks up a hair dryer] What's this thing?
- Marty McFly: It's a hair dryer.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: A hair dryer? Don't they have towels in the future?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Picks up a pair of underwear] Oh, look at these underpants. They're all made of cotton. I though for sure we'd all be wearing disposable paper garments by 1985.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Picks up a Playboy Magazine] What's... this?
- [Looks at the magazine]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [exclaims] Suddenly, the future's looking a *whole* lot better.
- Younger Dr. Emmett Brown: [running out of the room] 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott!
- Marty McFly: [following] What-what the hell is a gigawatt?
- [1955 Doc is watching a video of 1985 Doc]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: What on Earth is this thing I'm wearing?
- Marty McFly: Ah, this, this is a radiation suit.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Radiation suit? Of course. 'Cause of all the fallout from the atomic wars.
- Marty McFly: [watching a Honeymooners episode in 1955] Hey, hey, I've seen this one. I've seen this one. This is a classic. This is, uh, where Ralph dresses up as a man from space.
- Milton Baines: What do you mean, you've seen this? It's brand new.
- Marty McFly: Yeah, well, I saw it on a
- [realizing]
- Marty McFly: ... rerun.
- Milton Baines: What's a rerun?
- Marty McFly: You'll find out.
- [referring to the DeLorean]
- Marty McFly: [looks through a camcorder] This is heavy-duty, Doc. This is great. Uh, does it run, like, on regular unleaded gasoline?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately, no. It requires something with a little more kick. Plutonium.
- Marty McFly: Um, plutonium. Wait a minute. Are...
- [lowers the camcorder]
- Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is NUCLEAR?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Hey, hey, hey! Keep rolling. Keep rolling there.
- [Marty raises the camcorder]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
- Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and, in turn, gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts. Come on! Let's get you a radiation suit. We must prepare to reload.
- [Marty wakes up in Lorraine's bed]
- Marty McFly: Mom. That you?
- Lorraine Baines: There, there, now. Just relax.
- [pats a damp cloth on Marty's forehead]
- Lorraine Baines: You've been asleep for almost nine hours now.
- Marty McFly: I had a horrible nightmare. I dreamed that I went... back in time. It was terrible.
- Lorraine Baines: Well, you're safe and sound now, back in good old 1955.
- Marty McFly: [opens his eyes wide] 1955?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [holding Marty's video camera] No wonder your president has to be an actor. He's gotta look good on television.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [Doc has just finished the final preparations for Marty's return to 1985] Well, I guess that's everything.
- Marty McFly: [pause] Thanks.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Thank *you*!
- [Marty emotionally embraces Doc, which surprises him]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: See you in about 30 years.
- Marty McFly: I hope so.
- [in 1955, catching George spying on a woman undressing in her bedroom]
- Marty McFly: He's a Peeping Tom!
- Marty McFly: [Doc has just been shot. Marty runs over to him] Doc! Doc!
- Marty McFly: [Marty turns Doc's body over to reveal it is apparently bullet-ridden and lifeless. Marty begins to cry] No! No!
- Marty McFly: [Doc suddenly blinks and sits up] You're alive.
- Marty McFly: [Doc unzips his radiation suit to reveal a bulletproof vest underneath] Bulletproof vest? How did you know? I never got a chance to tell you.
- Marty McFly: [Doc smiles and removes a weathered piece of paper from his pocket. Marty unfolds the paper to reveal it is the warning letter he had written in 1955, taped back together] What about all that talk about screwing up future events? The space-time continuum?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell?
- Marty McFly: [acting cool] Do you mind if we... park... for a while?
- Lorraine Baines: That's a great idea. I'd love to park.
- Marty McFly: Huh?
- Lorraine Baines: Marty, I'm almost 18 years old. It's not like I've never parked before.
- Marty McFly: What?
- Lorraine Baines: Marty, you seem so nervous. Is something wrong?
- Marty McFly: [trying to maintain composure] No. No.
- [Lorraine takes a sip from a liquor bottle]
- Marty McFly: [grabbing the bottle from Lorraine] Lorraine! Lorraine, what are you doing?
- Lorraine Baines: [starting to laugh] I swiped it from the old lady's liquor cabinet.
- Marty McFly: Yeah, well, you shouldn't drink.
- Lorraine Baines: Why not?
- Marty McFly: Because you... You might regret it later in life.
- Lorraine Baines: Marty, don't be such a square. Everybody who's anybody drinks.
- [Marty takes a sip from Lorraine's bottle then spit-takes as he notices Lorraine lighting a cigarette]
- Marty McFly: [nauseatingly] Jeez! You smoke, too?
- Lorraine Baines: Marty, you're beginning to sound just like my mother.
- George McFly: Lorraine. My density has brought me to you.
- Lorraine Baines: What?
- George McFly: Oh. What I meant to say was...
- Lorraine Baines: Wait a minute. Don't I know you from somewhere?
- George McFly: Yes. Yes. I'm George. George McFly. I'm your density. I mean, your destiny.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: [reads the "Save the Clock Tower" flyer and reacts with hope] This is it! This is the answer. It says here that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04 p.m. next Saturday night! If... If we could somehow harness this lightning... channel it into the flux capacitor... it just might work. Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Oh, my God. They found me. I don't know how, but they found me. Run for it, Marty!
- Marty McFly: Who? Who?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Who do you think? THE LIBYANS!
- Marty McFly: HOLY SHIT!
- Marty McFly: Let's go over the plan again, so eight-thirty where are you going to be?
- George McFly: I'm gonna be at the dance.
- Marty McFly: And where am I gonna be?
- George McFly: You're going to be in the car with her...
- Marty McFly: Right, so right around nine o'clock she's going to get very angry with me.
- George McFly: Why would she get angry with you?
- Marty McFly: [reluctantly] Because, George, nice girls get angry when guys take advantage of them.
- George McFly: [Realizing] Ho! Hooo! You-you mean you're going to go touch her on her -
- [gestures at a bra in his hand]
- Marty McFly: No, no, no listen, George it's just an act! Okay? So around nine o'clock you're walking through the parking lot, you see us... struggling in the car. You walk up, you open the door and you say
- [pause]
- Marty McFly: ... your line, George!
- George McFly: Oh! "Hey you! Get your damn hands off her!"
- Biff Tannen: Since you're new here, I-I'm gonna cut you a break, today. So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?
- [on the phone while all the clocks chime at once]
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Are those my clocks I hear?
- Marty McFly: Yeah, it's 8:00.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Perfect! My experiment worked! They're all exactly 25 minutes slow!
- Marty McFly: Wait a minute - wait a minute, Doc... are you telling me that it's 8:25?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely.
- Marty McFly: Damn! I'm late for school!
- [hangs up, grabs his skateboard and rushes out]
- Marty McFly: Do you know where Riverside Drive is?
- Sam Baines: It's on the other end of town. A block past Maple. East end of town.
- Marty McFly: A block past Maple? That's, uh, that's John F. Kennedy Drive.
- Sam Baines: Who the hell is John F. Kennedy?
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