

[Note: This scene paid homage to a similar scene Marty was protected by a steel stove-cover breastplate he was wearing During the street shoot-out on Monday morning, Returning to the future year of 1985, and had traveled to 1885 In the meantime, the romantic relationship between "Doc" andĬlara made the return to the future even more problematic - sheĭidn't believe him and was heartbroken when he told her he was Proposed to fight a gun duel with Marty at 8 am on Monday morning.

The courthouse clock tower, both Marty and "Doc" wereĪgain confronted by "Mad Dog" Tannen, and "Doc" escapedĭeath by both Marty's and Clara's interventions, although the gunslinger ĭuring the town's Saturday evening festival to dedicate "Doc" hypothesized that he could use a hijacked steam locomotive to push the DeLorean up to 88 mph on straight tracks - however, the only track suitable ended at an uncompleted bridge over Clayton ("Shonash") Ravine (scheduled to be completed in the summer of 1886).Īt the bridge site, "Doc" heard screams and rescued Clara Clayton in a runaway, horse-drawn buggy from falling into the ravine - and it was love at first sight. Pulling the car with a team of horses, or using alcohol in the tank didn't work either. Marty was dragged through the dusty streets at the end of "Mad Dog's" rope, and left hanging in front of the newly-built courthouse and clock tower, where he was saved by the 1885 "Doc".Īfter "Doc" was told about his upcoming death in a few days, he agreed to leave with Marty to go "back to the future", although he was curious about the arrival of the town's new schoolteacher Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen) - noted on his tombstone as his "beloved Clara." But time-travel would be nearly impossible for them - there was no gasoline, making a speed of 88 mph unthinkable. In the local saloon, he was confronted by gunslinger Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, whom he accidentally covered with the contents of an overturned spitoon. Marty took the name "Clint Eastwood" as his own, and claimed he was looking for his blacksmith friend in the western town of Hill Valley. After being chased by a bear, he was knocked unconscious, and taken under the care of the McFly family - his great-great grandparents, newly-arrived Irish immigrants, led by Seamus (himself), with his wife Maggie McFly (Lea Thompson), and their newborn child ("the first of our family to be born in America") William Sean McFly, Marty's great-grandfather. After concealing the car in a rock cave, he found that an arrow had damaged the car's gas tank (and emptied it). Marty found himself in the middle of an Indian/cavalry chase. So Marty time-traveled to Septemin the repaired time travel De Lorean to save "Doc" from his fate ("It's not gonna happen, Doc") within five days. Wilson) - shot in the back "over a matter of $80". He was killed by Biff's great-grandfather - outlaw ancestor and "notorious gunman" Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen (Thomas F. The murder occurred only one week after the 1885 "Doc" wrote the Western Union letter. In the graveyard nearby, Marty and the 1955 "Doc" learned from a tombstone that "Doc's" older counterpart ("Emmett Brown") had been shot and killed in 1885's Hill Valley on Monday, September 7th. With the help of the 1955 "Doc," Marty dug out the DeLorean that the 1885 "Doc" had buried 70 years earlier, in order to repair it. In the 70 year-old Western Union telegram that Marty had received from "Doc" in the previous film (on the night of November 12, 1955), he learned that "Doc" had become a blacksmith in 1885 while vainly attempting to repair the DeLorean - which was hidden in the abandoned Delgado mineshaft near the old Boot Hill Cemetery outside of town. So, once I got the book back, you - that is, the you from 1985 - were in the DeLorean and it got struck by lightning, and (we) got sent back to 1885." I brought you home.Look, I came back to 1955 again with you, the you from 1985, 'cause we had to get a book from Bif. Don't you remember last night? You fainted. Fox) was still in his presence, after he had sent him "back to the future" - the 1985 Marty reminded him: "I came back from the future.

"Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd) was still disbelieving that Marty McFly (Michael J. The film opened on the early Sunday morning of Novem(the next day, from the previous film). Back to the Future (1985) | Back to the Future Part II (1989) | Back to the Future Part III (1990)
