Back to the Future part IV

Part 8

Saturday, October 31st, 1925, 5.48pm.

Inside the Browns’ farm kitchen, Clara is dressed up in fancy dress as a witch.

CLARA 
Okay come on in. Let’s see what you look like. 

Doc, Scott, Suzy and Edison the dog come into the kitchen. Doc is dressed as a wizard, with his white hair sticking up everywhere. Scott and Suzy are dressed as ghouls with papier-mâché masks. Even Edison is made up as a devil dog. 

CLARA 
You look wonderful. Emmett, let me adjust your collar, it’s sticking up. 

DOC 
Oh don’t fuss. It’s meant to be like that. 

CLARA 
You two look great. I can hardly recognise you both under all that make-up. 

SCOTT 
Great, we don’t want to be recognised. 

CLARA 
I do hope you will be careful. 

SUZY 
Don’t worry. I’ll keep an eye on him. 

Edison barks to Clara.

CLARA 
Yes Edison, you look lovely too. 

Clara makes a fuss of Edison.

SCOTT 
Have you finished the DeLorean Doc? Can I have a look? 

DOC
Later Scott, we’ve got a party to get to! 

That evening at the Courthouse Square, the Clock Tower chimes 7 o’clock.
The square is covered in pumpkins and Halloween decorations everywhere. The locals are all in fancy dress costumes enjoying a great evening. A band is playing 1920s music and people are dancing. Doc, Clara, Scott, Suzy & Edison arrive in Doc’s car. They park up and get out of the car. 

SCOTT 
C’mon! Let’s party like it’s1925! 

DOC 
This is giving me the strangest déjà vu. 

They wander along and mingle with the crowds.

DOC 
I can see Chuck Tannen over there with his wife Gertrude. 

Chuck and Gertrude Tannen are over the far side of the square. Chuck looks around to see if anyone’s looking before taking a swig of illicit booze.

SCOTT 
Doc, look over there. 

Further round, Kid Tannen is hanging with Cue Ball, Matches and Zane. They are hassling local girls.

DOC 
There’s your man. So far, so good. 

SUZY 
Look there’s your family Scott. 

The McFly family are enjoying the evening. Mary and William are having a dance whilst the kids hang around the side well away from the Tannens. A small mongrel dog comes over and starts playing with Edison.

SCOTT 
Hey Doc, look. Edison’s found a friend. 

Edison and the dog head over to a boy dressed as a ghost, painted white with chains. Edison seems over-the-moon to see the boy but at the same time a little confused.

DOC 
Great Scott! 

CLARA 
Are you okay Emmett? 

Doc comes across all emotional.

DOC
I thought this was all too familiar. That dog was my very first pet. Her name was, I mean is Tess. She followed me everywhere. We were inseparable. I had her for years. 

CLARA 
So the little boy is you is it Emmett? 

DOC 
Yes, aged eleven years old. Oh my, it’s my parents too. This is heavy.