Cousin's in Time: Part III

Ch 1

November 12, 1955

10:03 p.m.

(We are at the clock tower. Doc slides down the wire and connects the wires.)

Marty and Annie: Doc!

(The lightning bolt hits the clock tower, and Marty and Annie zap back to 1985. Doc runs down the pair of fire trails and yells happily. Doc goes over to his Packard, and Marty and Annie run over to him.)

Marty: (He grabs Doc and turns him around.) Doc! (Doc shrieks, obviously frightened.) Doc, calm down! It's us, Marty and Annie!

Doc: (He's still frightened.) No, it can't be you! I just sent you back to the future!

Annie: Yeah, yeah, you did, Doc. But we're back. We're back from the future.

Doc: Great Scott!

(Doc faints. Annie and Marty pick him up and drag him into Doc's Packard. They drive off to Doc's mansion, where they drag him into the house. Marty is sound asleep in one of the chairs, the hoverboard beneath his feet. Annie is in the other chair, and she also sounds asleep. Doc is passed out on the couch. Suddenly, Doc's television roars to live.)

Announcer: What time is it, kids?

Kids: Howdy dowdy time!

Doc: (He wakes up with a start.) Great Scott! (He goes over to the television, knocking the hoverboard out from underneath Marty's feet.) Howdy dowdy time? (He turns off the television and goes over to his tape recorder. He talks into it.) "Date, Sunday, November 13th, 1955 7:01 a.m. Last night's time travel experiment was apparently a complete success. Lightning struck the clock tower at precisely 10:04 p.m., sending the necessary 1.21 gigawatts into the time vehicle, which vanished in a brilliant flash of light, leaving a pair of fire trails behind. I therefore assumed that Marty, Annie, and the time vehicle were transported forward through time into the year 1985. After that...after that... I can't recall what happened. I don't even remember how I got home! Perhaps the jig watt discharge coupled with the temporal displacement field generated by the time vehicle caused a disruption of my own brain waves, resulting in a condition of temporary amnesia. Indeed, I now recall the moments after the time vehicle disappeared ... into the future ... I saw a vision of Marty and Annie saying, "We've come back from the future." But, that can't be possible….

Marty: Hey, Doc?

(Doc turns around, sees Marty, screams, trips over the hover board, and leans up against the organ.)

Annie: He's taking seeing us pretty well.

Marty: (He shoots her a look.) Annie, not the time! (He goes over to Doc.) Doc, calm down. It's us, Marty and Annie!

Doc: (He plays a few notes on the organ.) No, it can't be you two! I sent you both back to the future!

Annie: We know that Doc, but we told you last night that we came back from the future! Don't you remember? You fainted, and we brought you home!

Doc: (He retreats into the bathroom.) It doesn't make sense how you two are here!

Marty: Doc, yes, it does! You see; Annie, you-that is you from 1985, and I had to come back here to get a future book back from Biff. Then, you-that is you from 1985-were in the De Lorean, and you were sent to 1885!

Doc: 1885? (He opens the bathroom door and stares at them.) It's a very interesting story, you two, but there is something that doesn't quite make sense. If the me of the future is now in the past, how could you two possibly know about it?

Annie: That's simple, Doc. You sent us a letter.

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