Chapter 10 – Alternate 1985
George and Lorraine felt a sense of déjà vu as the next part of the video showed Marty waking up in a darkened room and asking for his mother, just like after he'd been hit by his grandfather's car back in 1955. At first glance, the McFly couple didn't recognize the silhouette of the middle-aged woman with huge curly light-colored hair, an expensive and low-cut glittering gown, and jewelry around her neck. However, they almost immediately realized who the woman was when she told Marty to relax and that he'd been asleep for almost two hours. Her voice, while tender and laced with concern, sounded quite unhappy and devoid of any joy. It was clearly Lorraine, except she looked vastly different! They couldn't believe their eyes! In the case of Lorraine (the one who was watching the video), she didn't want to believe her eyes!
"Oh, my goodness, is that me?! What in the world is all that I'm wearing?!" Lorraine mused in a mix of shock, horror, and disbelief.
"That can't be Lorraine. She wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything like that!" George thought in utter disbelief.
Once again, Marty believed his experiences had been a terrible nightmare (not that George and Lorraine blamed him), only for his mind to snap back to the reality of his situation when Video-Lorraine assured him he was "safe and sound now, back on the good ol' twenty-seventh floor".
George and Lorraine, however, figured that Marty was, in fact, far from safe, especially since he was obviously in the hotel building that Biff, in that twisted alternate reality, owned.
As Video-Lorraine turned a lamp on, Marty stared at her in utter shock, unable to believe that the woman was his mother, while Video-Lorraine wondered if her son was all right.
"Oh, my God, what on Earth happened to my chest? That looks so uncomfortable!" Lorraine mused in horror about her on-screen counterpart's exposed and enlarged breasts.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, it's just that you're so... big," Marty commented incredulously as he stared at Video-Lorraine's breasts.
"Poor Marty," the viewing Lorraine once more thought with a pang of sympathy.
"Everything's gonna be fine, Marty. Are you hungry? I can call room service," Video-Lorraine told her son before she picked up a telephone.
George and Lorraine noticed that Video-Lorraine was clearly tense and on edge, as if she was anticipating that something terrible would soon happen. The female of the McFly couple had trouble accepting that the woman in the video was really her.
"LORRAINE!" a clearly furious and menacing voice shouted from outside the room as a fearful Video-Lorraine told Marty it was his father.
George and Lorraine instantly knew who the voice belonged to and were proven correct when an enraged Biff, flanked by his three gang members, stormed into the room. "You're supposed to be in Switzerland, you little son of a bitch!" Biff exclaimed, pointing directly at an utterly horrified Marty. "Did you get kicked out of another boarding school?"
So the version of their youngest child in the alternate reality attended a boarding school in Switzerland, the McFly couple realized. That explained what their other son, Dave, meant when he had wondered what Marty was doing back in town.
"Dammit, Lorraine, do you know much perfectly good dough I blow on this no-good kid of yours, huh? On all three of them?" Biff roared furiously and Video-Lorraine angrily shot back with, "What the hell do you care? We can afford it! The least we can do with all that money is to provide a better life for our children."
"Unless I am dead in this horrible reality, where the hell am I?" George wondered about his own counterpart, while his intense anger and disgust towards the version of Biff in the video began to increase.
Lorraine once again questioned what on Earth had possessed her on-screen counterpart to marry Biff in the first place, not to mention leave George.
"Hold on one second, let's get this straight! Marty is your kid, not mine, and all the money in the world wouldn't do jack shit for that lazy bum!" Biff snarled, while Video-Lorraine, not in the mood to hear her husband's insults, pleaded for Biff to stop.
"Look at him. He's a butthead just like his old man was," Biff remarked with disdain, while an enraged Video-Lorraine glared at Biff and growled, "Don't you dare speak that way about George! You're not even half the man he was!"
"Was?" George mused, shivering as he began to feel convinced that his counterpart was dead.
"Why am I referring to George in the past-tense?" Lorraine wondered as a feeling of intense dread suddenly washed over her.
George's already-intense anger turned into pure rage as Biff furiously slapped Video-Lorraine so hard that she fell to the floor, while the observing Lorraine flinched in horror at the scene.
"You son of a bitch!" Marty cried out angrily as he rushed Biff, only for Match, Skinhead, and 3-D to quickly restrain him.
George's rage became white-hot, while Lorraine, too, was suddenly furious as Biff, after calling Marty a 'hothead' and challenging the teenager to 'take a poke' at him, punched the restrained Marty in the stomach while chuckling.
"Dammit, Biff! That's it, I'm leaving!" Video-Lorraine announced angrily as she headed for the stairs.
"Good," the observing Lorraine approved of her counterpart's decision, while George had a strong feeling it wouldn't be that simple or Video-Lorraine would've more than likely left a long time ago.
"Oh, ho-ho-ho, so go ahead," Biff taunted Video-Lorraine's decision to leave him. "But think about this, Lorraine. Who's gonna pay for all your clothes, huh? And your jewelry? And your liquor? Who's gonna pay for your cosmetic surgery, Lorraine?"
"He's got a lot of nerve!" the observing Lorraine thought with a mix of intense anger and utter disgust, while her heart went out to Video-Lorraine for having to put up with such a vile version of Biff Tannen.
"You were the one who wanted me to get these... these things!" Video-Lorraine roared back at Biff. "If you want 'em back, you can have 'em!"
"This version of me clearly has had enough," the observing Lorraine noted.
"This Biff deserves far worse than just a knock-out punch," George thought with wrath that was practically as hot as the sun itself. Normally, the science fiction author wasn't one who advocated violence, but he really, really felt like beating the version of Biff in the video to a bloody pulp.
"Look, Lorraine, you walk out that door, and I won't only cut off you, I'll cut off your kids!" Biff threatened angrily, causing a horrified Video-Lorraine to stop dead in her tracks as she gasped, "You wouldn't!".
"What happened to George in this reality? How did my life get to this point?" Lorraine wondered, even as she dreadfully suspected the worst about her husband's fate in the horrible alternate reality.
"Oh, wouldn't I?" Biff sneered as he headed towards Video-Lorraine. "First, your daughter Linda. I'll cancel all her credit cards. She can settle her debts with the bank all by herself."
Linda was dealing with debts? What exactly what she involved in? The McFly couple had, unfortunately, seen what became of Dave, but Linda hadn't been shown in the alternate reality.
"Your idiot son Dave, I'll get his probation revoked," Biff continued scornfully. "And as for Marty... well, maybe you'd like to have all three of your kids behind bars just like your brother Joey. One big, happy jailbird family."
At that point, George didn't just feel like beating Biff to a bloody pulp. A huge part of him felt like killing Biff!
"This is a hundred times worse than any nightmare I've ever had," Lorraine mused upon realizing the inescapable situation her on-screen counterpart was in, while Biff's mention of her baby brother increased Lorraine's anger towards the bully.
"All right, Biff, you win. I'll stay," Video-Lorraine told Biff with a defeated sigh.
"I'll kill him myself!" George thought furiously.
On one hand, the observing Lorraine felt immense sympathy for her video namesake, who was trapped in a life where she was living in constant fear under the thumb of a verbally and physically abusive husband who belittled her and her children. On the other hand, Lorraine could strongly relate to Video-Lorraine's dedication to keep (or was it their?) children as safe as possible.
After Biff and his gang exited the room, Video-Lorraine told Marty that Biff was right, while she had been wrong.
"What?!" the observing Lorraine mentally cried out in utter disbelief. "No! No! That is complete nonsense!"
"That son of a bitch has gotten into her head!" George realized with pent-up rage towards Biff.
Marty was appalled that his mother was actually defending Biff, only for Video-Lorraine to respond, "I had it coming. He's my husband, and he takes care of all of us... and he deserves our respect."
"Respect, my behind!" George mentally exclaimed at the same time an outraged Marty yelled "Respect?!".
"Oh, God, this is so hard to watch! She can't possibly believe what she's saying!" Lorraine was thoroughly taken aback by her on-screen counterpart's words.
"How can he be your husband?! How can you leave Dad for him?!" Marty exclaimed to Video-Lorraine, who was puzzled by her son's "leave dad" question and wondered if Marty was all right.
"At this point, I'd practically be more surprised if I wasn't dead," George mused uneasily.
"No... no... please don't tell me... I refuse to believe it!" Lorraine mentally protested as the mere thought of her husband being dead flooded her mind with horror.
"I don't understand one damn thing that's going on around here and why nobody can give me a simple straight answer!" Marty exclaimed, while Video-Lorraine stroked her son's hair, commenting that the members of Biff's gang must've hit Marty over the head hard this time.
This time? Neither George nor Lorraine could begin to imagine the horrors their children in the alternate reality would've been subjected to while having Biff for a stepfather.
As Marty asked his mother where his father, George McFly, was, a confused Video-Lorraine told him that "George, your father, has been in the same place he's been for the past twelve years."
"No..." Lorraine mentally trailed off in utter horror.
"Oak Park Cemetery," Video-Lorraine finished in a grief-stricken voice.
At that moment, the viewing Lorraine felt as though she'd been stabbed in the heart, while George, although he had been partially expecting it, was deeply perturbed upon learning about his own fate in the alternate reality.
As the next part of the video showed a horrified Marty stumbling upon his father's gravestone (In Loving Memory – George Douglas McFly – Born Apr 1, 1938 Died Mar 15, 1973) at Oak Park Cemetery and crying out "this can't be happening", George and Lorraine immediately recognized the date of the former's death as the same day he had received a book award from the local Civic Committee. Lorraine felt like breaking down and sobbing her own heart out, while George felt the sensation of intense chills running down his spine. The McFly couple wondered how George had died in the alternate reality and the science fiction author even begin to suspect that Biff had a hand in his death.
After Doc found Marty at the cemetery, they headed to the former's garage, which, like the rest of the town, was an utter mess. George and Lorraine were horrified and taken aback upon seeing the newspaper article that read 'GEORGE McFLY MURDERED – Local Author Shot Dead'. It was accompanied by the same photo of George as in the newspaper article about him being honored for his writings over twelve years ago on that same date.
"Who on Earth would do this to George?" Lorraine wondered, though a sinking feeling at the back of her mind indicated the answer was obvious.
"It was probably Biff himself, or at least someone he hired," George's suspicion of that theory grew stronger. It actually made sense. With George out of the picture, Biff would've been able to have Lorraine to himself without having to deal with any obstacles. The thought made George's intense anger towards Biff flare up again.
The McFly couple didn't disagree in the slightest with Marty's "It's like we're in Hell or something" remark or Doc's "It's Hill Valley, although I can't imagine Hell being much worse" response.
"Hell is certainly an apt term to describe this hellish version of Hill Valley," George thought.
"This world is most definitely Hell," Lorraine mused. "The love of my life has been murdered, I'm married to Biff Tannen, my children's lives and those of everyone in Hill Valley have been ruined, and the town is in absolute chaos!"
As Doc comforted the whimpering Einstein, George and Lorraine suddenly felt sympathy for the dog, momentarily forgetting about their own fates in the terrible reality.
"Obviously, the time continuum has been disrupted, creating this new temporal event sequence, resulting in this alternate reality," Doc explained.
"Disrupted doesn't even begin to describe this entire situation," George thought.
As a puzzled Marty responded with "English, Doc", Doc picked up a chalkboard and drew a line, representing time, on it with a piece of chalk. At the center of the line, Doc wrote '1985', then added 'Past' and 'Future' respectively at the left and right ends of the line.
If anyone could make sense out of all the madness and give Marty a proper explanation, it was Doc Brown, George and Lorraine knew. The McFly couple was curious to see how their son and the scientist were going to put everything back to the way it was supposed to be.
"Prior to this point in time, somewhere in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent, creating an alternate 1985," Doc explained, while drawing a partially diagonal, partially horizontal line that he labeled '1985A'. "Alternate to you, me, and Einstein, but reality to everyone else."
"Wait, what about Jennifer? She was with them as well," Lorraine suddenly recalled. "The last we saw of her, she was left on the porch. I really hope nothing terrible happens to her."
Doc showed Marty the silver bag that the sports almanac had been in and the broken off piece of Old Biff's cane with the fist ornament. The scientist explained to the teenage that, while they were in in the future, Old Biff got the almanac, stole the time machine, went back in time, and gave the almanac to his younger self at some point in the past.
"November 12th 1955, apparently," George recalled.
Doc showed Marty the 'Hill Valley Man Wins Big At Races' newspaper article that George and Lorraine recognized from Biff's documentary video. Using a magnifying glass on Doc's instruction, Marty took a closer look at the image of Biff in the newspaper and spotted the almanac sticking out of his pocket.
"It's the sports book," Lorraine noted in recognition. She had missed it when the newspaper was first shown.
"I knew that was the almanac," George thought, unsurprised.
"The almanac," Marty in the video said with realization. "Son of a bitch stole my idea! He must've been listening when I... it's my fault. The whole thing is my fault. If I hadn't bought that damn book, none of this would've ever happened."
"Oh, Marty, Biff is responsible, not you, honey," Lorraine mentally assured her son.
"It's not your fault, son. Biff's actions are not on you," George thought as well.
"It demonstrates precisely how time travel can be misused and why the time machine must be destroyed after we straighten all of this out," Doc pointed out to Marty.
Having observed the consequences of Biff's use of the time machine and, quite honestly, considering all the times that Marty's life had been danger throughout the video, George and Lorraine felt the urge to agree with Doc's decision, unlike when he had first mentioned it.
As Marty suggested they go back to the future and stop Old Biff from stealing the time machine, Doc pointed out it would be the future of the current reality if they went there now.
"That makes sense," Lorraine acknowledged.
"They would have to return to the past in order to fix all of this," George noted.
"In which Biff is corrupt and powerful, and married to your mother... and in which this has happened to me!" Doc stated angrily, before showing Marty another newspaper. The headline read 'EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED – Crackpot Inventor Declared Legally Insane'.
George and Lorraine felt a pang of sympathy for Doc Brown's fate in the alternate reality. Their son's scientist friend was many things, but they didn't view him as someone who deserved imprisonment in a mental asylum.
George then noticed the newspaper's secondary topic: 'Nixon to Seek Fifth Term – Vows End to Vietnam War by 1985'. Fifth term? Nixon was still president of the United States in the eighties? And the Vietnam War was still ongoing, even though it had, in reality, ended a decade ago? It appeared that Biff's actions with his wealth and powerful hadn't just affected Hill Valley, but other parts of the country as well. George had a feeling that Biff somehow had a hand in Nixon's extended Presidency.
"Our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the timeline skewed into this tangent," Doc stated. "In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and the specific circumstances of how, where, and when young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac."
As Marty bold declared "I'll ask him", great concern washed over George and Lorraine. First of all, the McFly couple highly doubted that Biff would willingly disclose the secret of his winnings to Marty, even if their son appealed to Biff as his stepson. Secondly, considering that the Biff in the alternate reality clearly disliked Marty and had no problems physically assaulting him, as shown earlier when the wealthy bully had punched the teenager in the stomach, George and Lorraine feared what Biff may do if Marty were to reveal his knowledge of the sports almanac, the source of Biff's immense wealth. Even if Biff wouldn't exactly resort to killing Marty out of some twisted respect for Lorraine, he would more than likely have no qualms locking the teenager up somewhere and throwing away the key.
The video shifted to Biff sitting in a hot tub with two young ladies, watching what George and Lorraine recognized was a scene from the Clint Eastwood film A Fistful of Dollars. Although not surprised by Biff's behavior, the McFly couple felt another surge of disgust towards him as Lorraine felt sick to her stomach by the fact that she was married to the blatantly unfaithful and disrespectful pig while George felt like jumping in the video, confronting Biff directly, and reducing him back to the coward he truly was.
George and Lorraine felt a bit of satisfaction when Marty startled Biff by turning off the television and tossing the remote in the hot tub. Biff wondered how Marty had gotten past his security downstairs and the teenager responded there was a little matter they needed to talk about: Grays Sports Almanac.
As Biff regarded Marty very intently and told the two ladies that the party was over, George and Lorraine were tense, knowing that the corrupt and powerful version of their adversary wasn't going to take kindly to their son having that kind of information and would use his power to make Marty face consequences for it.
"Start talking, kid. What else do you know about that book?" Biff demanded as he and Marty entered the former's private office. Marty requested to know how, where, and when Biff had gotten the book.
"All right, take a seat," Biff scoffed. When Marty remained standing, Biff yelled, "Sit down!"
"That was very unnecessary," Lorraine thought as she mentally glared at Biff.
To Marty's surprise, Biff revealed that he'd received the book on November 12th 1955. George and Lorraine, having seen the date on the 'Last Time Departed' readout shortly after Old Biff's return to the future, weren't surprised.
"So he did go back to that date," George mused. "Makes sense, considering what happened to him that night."
"November 12th 1955? That was the date I went back... that... was the date of the famous Hill Valley lightning storm," Marty corrected himself, while Biff complimented the teenager for knowing his history.
George and Lorraine were glad their son had realized what he almost said. Although it was very unlikely that Biff would've believed Marty's mention of having been in 1955, the last thing that needed to happen was Biff managing to figure out that Marty had been the mysterious 'Calvin Klein' who humiliated him back in high school.
"I'll never forget that Saturday," Biff stated as he began to unlock the safe that was hidden behind a portrait of himself.
That was one thing George and Lorraine had in common with Biff. All three of them would vividly remember November 12th 1955 for the rest of their lives, albeit for different reasons between the McFly couple and Biff.
"I'd just picked my car up from the shop 'cause I'd rolled it in a drag race a few days earlier," Biff claimed, while George and Lorraine knew firsthand that the former was lying through his teeth.
"I thought you crashed into a manure truck," Marty said to Biff, and the former's parents could tell their son enjoyed bringing that incident up, not that they blamed him.
As Biff was stunned that Marty knew about the 'manure' incident, the teenager claimed that his father had told him before he died.
Lorraine felt a pang of grief at the reminder of her husband being deceased in the alternate reality, while George admired Marty's quick thinking with his words.
"So there I was, minding my own business. This crazy old codger with a cane shows up. He says he's my distant relative. I don't see any resemblance," Biff continued with his story, while setting a black container on the table.
George and Lorraine felt some amusement from the irony of Biff's words about his own future self.
"So he says, 'how would you like to be rich'. So I said 'sure'," Biff opened the container, revealing the plastic-covered sports almanac as George and Lorraine noticed the book was yellowed, stained, and worn-out due to thirty years of age.
"So he lays this book on me," Biff went on. "He says this book will tell me the outcome of every sporting event 'til the end of the century. All I have to do is bet on the winner and I'll never lose. So I say 'what's the catch'. He says 'no catch, just keep it a secret'." He placed the almanac back in its container and put them back in the safe. "After that, he disappeared. I never saw him again."
"He disappeared literally," George recalled Old Biff's eventual fate after returning to 2015.
"Oh, and he told me one more thing," Biff said to Marty, while George and Lorraine were worried about whatever Biff may try to do to their son. "He said 'someday a crazy, wild-eyed scientist or a kid may show up asking about that book. And if that even happens..."
Pure terror flooded through George and Lorraine as Biff picked up a revolver with a chuckle and pointed it at Marty.
"No! No! No!" Lorraine mentally cried out before her feelings of horror suddenly shifted to pure anger. "How dare him! That bastard! Don't you dare shoot my son, Biff!"
"Biff, you despicable son of a bitch!" George mentally fumed as his white-hot rage towards Biff returned in an instant. No... it wasn't just rage that George felt... it was borderline hatred!
The McFly couple had genuinely believed that Biff wouldn't resort to an action as drastic as killing any of his own stepchildren, at least for Lorraine's sake. That the man retained at least a small glimmer of a conscience. But it was clear that Biff had every intention of shooting Marty, making George and Lorraine realize the version of Biff in the video had become devoid of any sort of humanity and was a monster who only cared about maintaining his position of power above all else.
Thankfully, Marty gave himself a chance to escape when he shouted "what the hell was that!", making Biff look back as Marty threw a matchbook tray at him. Unfortunately, the tray missed Biff's head. George and Lorraine, with pure, unadulterated anxiety flowing through them, were immensely relieved that Biff missed all five of the shots he fired at a fleeing Marty. The sight of Biff attempting to kill Marty simply to maintain a secret made the McFly couple wonder if they would be able to view their Biff, the auto-detailing one, the same again. After all, it was the future version of that auto-detailer who had brought the alternate reality into existence in the first place. At the very least, the McFly couple would keep a much stronger eye on Biff once they returned to their own lives.
After managing to outmaneuver Biff's gang members, Marty ended up on the Pleasure Paradise's rooftop, only to find there was no escape. "Go ahead, kid. Jump! A suicide'll be nice and neat!" Biff menacingly taunted Marty, while George and Lorraine, just when they thought he couldn't possibly stoop any lower, began to utterly despise the bully with every fiber of their being.
As Marty pointed out that the police would match up the bullet with Biff's gun if he shot the teenager, Biff, in the same menacing tone, responded with "Kid, I own the police!".
Lorraine shuddered at the thought of someone like Biff being in charge of law enforcement (if the 'law' part even applied in that case), while George realized that explained the crime-ridden, war-like state of Hill Valley. One thing was for sure – Biff wasn't merely bluffing.
"Besides, they couldn't match up the bullet that killed your old man," Biff sneered evilly at Marty, whose fear for his life suddenly turned into pure hatred for the corrupt bully.
At that moment, Lorraine was stunned and appalled beyond words. Biff was the one who killed George?! That murderer! 'Evil' couldn't even begin to describe how cruel and heartless the Biff Tannen in the video was! He was a complete monster! And he had been terrible enough back in their high school days! But wait! If Biff had killed George, why on Earth would Lorraine's counterpart marry him? Unless... unless the other Lorraine had never found out the truth.
Despite having suspected Biff's involvement in his murder, George was taken aback by the bully's admission. Obviously, Biff had murdered George to get him out of the way in his pursuit of Lorraine, who, in the alternate reality, was most likely unaware that Biff was her husband's murderer.
"I suppose it's poetic justice. Two McFlys with the same gun!" Biff sneered with malevolent glee.
Suddenly, George and Lorraine hated the Biff in the video so much that neither of them would mind the idea of him burning in the deepest pits of Hell for all of eternity. In fact, George was extremely tempted to confront and give the Biff he knew a brutal beatdown, along with a very harsh verbal warning for him to "Stay the hell away from my family!", once all of this was over.
The McFly couple's feelings of ultra-disgust for Biff suddenly transformed into absolute horror and disbelief for their son's life as Marty jumped off the rooftop. George and Lorraine felt as though their hearts had stopped. Why on Earth would Marty do that?! Their sun-hot anger towards Biff returned as the bully chuckled and had the nerve to call their son an 'idiot'.
To the McFly couple's utter amazement, Marty suddenly rose up with his arms folded, looking like he was flying! For a moment, George and Lorraine wondered how that was possible, until it was revealed that their son was actually standing on the hood of the flying DeLorean!
"What the hell?!" a shocked Biff exclaimed right before Doc threw open the DeLorean's gull-wing door, cracking Biff in the face with it.
George and Lorraine felt a mix of satisfaction and overwhelming relief as Biff went down, out cold, while Marty climbed into the DeLorean, informing Doc that they had to go back to 1955.
"Thank you so much for saving my son, Dr. Brown," Lorraine thought with great appreciation. "For a moment, I was so worried that Marty actually..."
"I should've known," George mused. "Of course Marty wouldn't kill himself. Thanks to Doc Brown, Marty is safe, Biff is out of it, and they're about to go back in time and fix all of this crap."
As Doc and Marty flew off in the DeLorean, the scientist inputted the 'Destination Time' NOV 12 1955 06:00AM. "Unbelievable that Old Biff could've chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance, almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence."
That specific date was indeed significant, George and Lorraine couldn't agree more. It was significant for them. For Marty. For Doc Brown. Even Biff. In fact, November 12th 1955 was a significant date for all of Hill Valley.
As the 'Destination Time' flashed JAN 01 1885 12:00AM, Doc tapped the time circuits with his hand, making it read November 12th 1955 again.
"January 1885? God forbid Marty ever goes that far into the past," Lorraine thought uncomfortably.
"It wouldn't be good if they ended up accidentally traveling to 1885 when their plan is to go to 1955 and prevent Biff from becoming rich with that book," George mused.
As Doc prepared to travel through time, an alarmed Marty reminded him of Jennifer and Einstein, not comfortable with the idea of leaving them in the alternate reality.
George and Lorraine agreed with their son. It didn't feel like a good idea to leave Jennifer and Einstein in that Biff-ruled version of Hill Valley, while Marty and Doc went off to 1955.
"Don't worry, Marty, assuming we succeed in our mission, this alternate 1985 will be changed back into the real 1985, instantaneously transforming around Jennifer and Einie," Doc assured Marty. "Jennifer and Einie will be fine, and they will have absolutely no memory of this horrible place."
"I guess that'd be a relief," George thought.
"Does Doc know that for sure?" Lorraine wondered. She still wasn't comfortable with the idea of leaving her son's girlfriend and Doc's poor dog in a world ruled by a monstrous version of Biff.
"Doc, what if we don't succeed?" Marty asked worriedly, while Doc, with unwavering determination, declared, "We must succeed."
The McFly couple certainly agreed with the 'must' part of Doc's declaration given their unpleasant fates in Biff's hellish reality, which they hoped would be erased from existence as soon as possible.
As the DeLorean arrived in 1955 and descended behind the Lyon Estates billboard, George and Lorraine were suddenly filled with nostalgia at the idea of yet again revisiting the time of their youth. They hoped Marty and Doc's mission to retrieve the almanac from Biff wouldn't be too much of a challenge. But, as the McFly couple would see, the time-traveling teenager and scientist duo had a long and intense day ahead of them.
