The Court House Square 1985 (Copy)

The court house square 1985

Marty visits the home of his inventor friend Doctor Emmett brown on his way to school, but the scientist is out. The Doc phones and asks Marty to meet him tonight at 1:15am. After realising the clocks in Doc’s workshop are set 30 minutes back in time, the seventeen-year-old realises he is late and rushes to Hill Valley High School but he’s caught sneaking in the school by the head of discipline, Mr Strickland.

Marty’s band, the Pinheads are due to audition for the school dance but Strickland dismisses their chances by saying “no McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley”. During audition the band is quickly eliminated and the despondent Marty walks his girlfriend Jennifer Parker to the Hill Valley’s Courthouse Square.

Their conversation is interrupted by an insistent woman campaigning to preserve the Courthouse Clock Tower. It was struck by lightning thirty years ago and has never worked since. Marty gives the woman twenty five cents to go away and gets a ‘Save the Clock Tower’ flyer that he keeps with him. Arriving home, he’s in time to his father George being humiliated by supervisor Biff Tannen. As always his father takes the humiliation because he can’t handle confrontation.

At dinner Marty’s mother Lorraine remembers how she met George; her father hit him with the car. She fell in love with the injured teenager and decided to spend the rest of her life with him when they kissed for the first time at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance.

After midnight Marty meets up with the Doc, a wild eyed man of unknown years. He unveils his latest experiment, a time machine built in a DeLorean. Marty videotapes Doc as he explains how he invented time travel thirty years ago after hitting his head while hanging a clock. Doc came to with a vision of the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.

The DeLorean needs plutonium to generate the 1.21 jigowatts of electricity needed for time travel. Doc swiped his plutonium from some Libyan terrorists who suddenly turn up seeking vengeance. Doc is brutally gunned down and Marty manages to escape by jumping into the time machine. A fast paced chace forces Marty to travel at 88mph sending him back to 1955.