November 5, 1985
11:00 PM EST

Doc, Marty, and Sabrina were all at Westside Mall - along with the cat the Sabrina had picked out, whom she called Esmeralda. Doc figured that that Esmeralda should become the first time traveller in Doc's new time machine.

'Okay, Marty,' instructed Doc, 'Let's roll the tape.'

'Alright, Doc,' replied Marty, as he turned on the camcorder, 'I'm ready.'

As Marty was filming Doc, Doc was saying, 'Good evening, I'm Dr. Emmett Brown. I'm standing on the parking lot of Westside Mall. It's Tuesday evening, November fifth, 1985, 11:03 PM - and this is temporal experiment number one. C'mon, Sabrina - let's get Esmeralda into the DeLorean.'

'It's okay, Esmeralda,' Sabrina said, soothingly, as the cat began to hiss. She placed the cat into the kennel, and Doc made sure that the kennel was secure in the car.

Then Doc listed up his control watch and the watch on the kennel, and said, 'Please note that Esmeralda's clock is in complete synchronization with my control watch. Got it?' As Doc said that, the time on both clocks switched to 11:04 at the same exact time.

'Right, check, Doc,' replied Marty. Sabrina nodded in agreement.

'Good! Have a good trip, Esmeralda,' Doc said, as he shut the car door, and then he got out his remote. 'Watch this, Marty.'

Marty began to film Doc, as he was using the remote control to accelerate the car to 88 miles per hour.

'If my calculations are correct,' continued Doc, 'when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit! Watch this, watch this.'

Doc then let go of the lever - and the car headed towards him, Marty, and Sabrina. Then, as the car hit 88 miles per hour, it let off a blue glow and disappeared, leaving behind two fire trails - which almost hit the feet of Marty and Sabrina. The licence plate fell off the car and spun around on the ground.

'Ha, what did I tell you,' Doc shouted, excitedly, '88 miles per hour! The temporal displacement occurred at exactly 11:05 PM and zero seconds!'

'So where is Esmeralda?' asked Sabrina, a little concerned.

'The appropriate question is, when is Esmeralda! Esmeralda has just become the world's first time traveller! I sent her into the future - one minute into the future to be exact. And at exactly 11:06 PM, we should catch up with her and the time machine.'

'Cool beans,' Sabrina breathed, amazed. 'So I guess the time machine does work.'

'It's hard to believe that the day has finally come,' Doc said, with amazement. 'I figured that the stainless, steel construction of the DeLorean made the flux dispersal...' Then Doc heard a beep. He checked his watch - and, as he pushed Marty and Sabrina out the way, he shouted, 'Look out!'

The DeLorean then reappeared, and it appeared to be steaming. Doc walked over to it, and touched it. He drew back, in a flinch.

'What?' asked Marty, concerned, 'What? Is it hot?'

'It's cold! Damn cold!' replied Doc, as he used his foot to open the door. 'Ha, ha, ha, Esmeralda, you little devil. Esmeralda's clock is exactly one minute behind mine, it's still ticking.' Then then held up the clocks to compare. Doc's clock switched to 11:07 PM, at the exact same time as Esmeralda's clock switched to 11:06 PM.

Doc released Esmeralda from her kennel - and, as Sabrina picked her up, she purred contentedly.

'She's alright!' breathed Sabrina, cuddling her cat.

'She's fine,' Doc assured, 'and she's completely unaware that anything happened. As far as she's concerned, the trip was instantaneous. That's why Esmeralda's watch is exactly one minute behind mine. She skipped over that minute to instantly arrive at this moment in time. Come here, I'll show you how it works. First, you turn the time circuits on.' As Dod did so, three panels were shown, each with a different LED display. 'This readout tells you where you're going, this one tells you where you are, this one tells you where you were. You input the destination time on this keypad. Say, you wanna see the signing of the Declaration of Independence...' Doc typed in July 4, 1776. '... or witness the birth or Christ.' Doc typed in December 25, 0000. 'Here is the date that we want to travel to,' Doc said, as he typed in November 12, 1955. 'So, Sabrina, what time was it when Old Biff arrived on that date?'

'He arrived at 6:30 AM,' replied Sabrina, 'and he left at 6:38 PM. Maybe we should arrive at 6:40 PM. That way, we don't arrive - until after Old Biff is gone. Then I'll stop by Biff's house, and I'll give Biff a hypnotic suggestion - so that he gives me the almanac, and then forgets about the almanac and Old Biff. If Gertrude Tannen catches me, I can hypnotize her, too. Then I'll rescue Marty's counterpart from the garage, and we can meet up with your counterpart.'

'You're forgetting one very important detail,' Doc explained. 'We are currently in Toronto. It's going to take us many hours to drive over to Hill Valley.'

'This is where I come in,' Sabrina said, smile. 'You see, I was prepared for this. While we're in the DeLorean, I can do a little spell so that we land in Hill Valley. We just need to figure out the latitude and longitude of where we want to land. We want to land somewhere away from the public eyes, but close enough to Biff's home. It just requires a few crystals and an incantation. No incense or herbs.' Then Sabrina showed Doc some of the plans she had outlined.

Doc smiled at Sabrina, and said. 'I really must hand it to you, Sab. You sure do some rather good planning. This is a very brilliant idea!'

'Thank you, Doc,' replied Sabrina, hugging Doc.

Sabrina then poured two quarts of her potion into the potion chamber. Then Sabrina, Marty, and Doc squeezed into the DeLorean, and made sure that the doors were tightly locked. Sabrina laid her crystals onto the dashboard, and did her incantation - winking at Doc, when she was done. Doc checked to make sure that the time circuits and flux capacitor were turned on - and that the engine was running.

'Marty, Sabrina,' said Doc, 'brace yourselves for temporal displacement.'

Then Doc had accelerated the DeLorean to 88 miles per hour, until the DeLorean broke the time barrier.