Wednesday, March 4th, 2015, 7.25pm.
The screen is black and a clock starts ticking. Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 7.25pm appears. The date and time disappear and the screen shows an old fashioned clock with a man dangling from the hands. The camera pans around the sitting room to reveal Marty McFly Senior aged 47 and Jennifer Parker McFly, also 47 who are sitting watching television. They no longer live in Hilldale as shown in Back to the Future part II. Instead they live in a large fairly expensive house. It is also noticeable that 2015 as depicted in Back to the Future part II when Marty, Doc & Jennifer visited, isn't as futuristic as it was, but instead represents a more true to life 2015. Marty is now a retired rock star, and the camera pans around the room to show platinum discs hanging in frames, as well as Marty featuring on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Other such awards can be seen dotted around. The camera moves to show Marty looking at the old photograph he has with Doc standing by the Courthouse clock in 1885.
MARTY SENIOR
Can you believe Jen, its 2015 already? I mean the time's gone so quick since Doc left in the train with his family back in '85. I really thought he would've visited more often, or even come back to live in the present.
JENNIFER
Well, you remember all that trouble with the FBI over the missing plutonium and those awful terrorists back then. You had one hell of a job shaking them off. Doc would've probably have been arrested if he came back to live in this time.
MARTY SENIOR
Maybe he thought it was for the best. Anyway I don't think Clara would've felt at home a hundred years ahead of her time, and Doc always dreamt of living in the old west. I wonder how it all turned out for him. Things certainly made a difference without him today. The time we visited 2015 back then there were flying cars and all sorts. Doc must have been a major influence or invented something pretty big in that original reality to have made it so futuristic.
JENNIFER
Look at us then Marty, our lives turned out completely different. If it weren't for you avoiding that awful accident with the Rolls Royce in 1985, we'd have been living in Hilldale. We would've been married in the Chapel of Love! Imagine that?
MARTY SENIOR
Don't even think about it. I'd have never been as successful as I was.
JENNIFER
You would've injured your hand and never played guitar again.
MARTY SENIOR
The thought of that makes me shudder.
JENNIFER
More importantly, we'd have only had two kids. We wouldn't have had much money and struggled by bringing the two of them up. If it wasn't for your rock career, we never would've had Scott. He'd never have even been born.
MARTY SENIOR
Life without Scott? Geez Jen that would've been so different. Where are the kids anyway?
JENNIFER
Marlene's at her friends doing her homework and Junior and Scott should be in their rooms doing theirs.
MARTY SENIOR
I'm gonna go check on Scott, I bet he's playing that damn video game again.
Marty heads out of the door towards son, Scott's bedroom.
In the bedroom, there are posters of skateboarders and rock stars are on the wall. There is a skateboard leaning against the wall.
Scott McFly, aged 15 is sitting on his bed playing on his Wii U video game console as Marty suspected. He's playing a flight simulator game and is really good at it. After several moments of Scott cursing and making the usual sounds you make playing a video game, Marty enters the room.
MARTY SENIOR
I knew it Scott, playing that damn game again. Why aren't you doing your homework?
SCOTT
Aw Dad...
MARTY SENIOR
Come on son, you know how much your grades are slipping; I don't want to see another report like the one you got last semester. Get on with it.
SCOTT
I can't, my iPad's screwed up and my laptop finally died months ago.
MARTY SENIOR
Why does everything we get you get broken Scott? What about your iPhone? Can't you use that?
SCOTT
It takes far too long to use that old thing. It's only an iPhone 5, it's ancient!
MARTY SENIOR
You've got an answer for everything. You've still gotta do your homework; it's not an option. I'll go and get my laptop. You can do it on that.
SCOTT Aww.
Marty goes off to fetch his laptop. Scott gets up, switches his game off, picks up a school bag and takes the work he needs to do out of it. Marty soon returns with the laptop and gives it to Scott.
MARTY SENIOR
Now get on with it. No excuses, I'm gonna check on you shortly to make sure you're doing it.
Marty turns and leaves the room and Scott pulls a face.
In the living room, Jennifer has prepared drinks. Marty enters the room and takes his drink.
MARTY SENIOR
Cheers Jen, he's hard work sometimes. What were you saying about him not even being born?
JENNIFER
You wouldn't have him any other way Marty, he's just the same as you were at his age.
In Scott's room, Scott plays around with his dad's laptop. Instead of getting on with his homework he's snooping around his dad's files. He finds a folder called "Personal".
SCOTT
Dad, you old dog, what do you have in here?
Scott clicks the folder open and finds another folder called "Do not open until 2016". Scott looks round to see if anybody's coming in the room and opens it inquisitively. The folder opens and reveals a file called "My Journeys Back to the Future by Marty McFly". Scott scrolls down and sees words like "1955", "Doc" and "Time Machine" and illustrations of DeLorean cars and Flux Capacitors.
SCOTT
This looks interesting...
Scott looks round again to see if anybody's coming and proceeds to copy the file onto his iPhone.
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