Back to the Future Part II (1989) - Quotes

Taglines: Welcome Back Marty McFly. He's smart. He's handsome. He's got a great future behind him.

Taglines: This time Marty McFly doesn't know if he's coming or going...and his future is really up in the air.

Taglines: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!

Taglines: Synchronize your watches. The future's coming back…

Taglines: Getting back was only the beginning.

Marty: [grabs Doc, who shouts in shock] Doc, Doc! Okay. Okay! Relax, Doc! It's me! It's Marty!

Doc: No! It can't be! I just sent you back to the future.

Marty: I know. You did send me back to the future, but I'm back. I'm back from the future.

Doc: [faints] Great Scott!

Marty: [scoffs] Doc? Doc? Doc? Doc! Fantastic.

Marty: [reads the letter; looks at the date in excitement and relief] Dear Marty, if my calculations are correct, you will receive this letter immediately after you saw the DeLorean struck by lightning. First, let me assure you that I am alive and well. I've been living happily these past eight months in the year 1885. The lightning bolt that--" 1885! September 1885!

Western Union Man: Whoa! Wait, kid! What's this all about?!

Marty: He's alive! The Doc's alive! He's in the Old West, but he's alive!

Western Union Man: Kid, you alright?! You need any help?!

Marty: [remembers] There's only one man who can help me!

1955 Doc: [1985 Doc turns and catch a glimpse of his younger self, gasps, and looks away] Excuse me, sir? Yes, you with the hat.

1985 Doc: Who? Me?

1955 Doc: Yeah. Be a pal, and hand me a 5/8-inch wrench out of that toolbox.

1985 Doc: [backs up slowly without turning; looks to the toolbox] 5/8? Uh...don't you mean... ...3/4?

1955 Doc: [looks again at the bolt measurement] Why, you're right.

1985 Doc: [hands the wrench to his younger self] I presume...you're conducting some sort of weather experiment.

1955 Doc: That's right. How did you know that?

1985 Doc: [checks the cable] Oh, I happened to have had a little experience in this area.

1955 Doc: [looks up at the sky] Yes. Well, I'm hoping to see some lightning tonight, although the weatherman says there's not gonna be any rain.

1985 Doc: [looks to the sky as well] Oh, there’ll be plenty of rain, alright. Wind, thunder, lightning. And it's gonna be one hell of a storm.

1955 Doc: [goes to tighten the bolts] Yeah, well, thanks. Nice talking to you. Maybe we'll bump into each other again sometime in the future.

1985 Doc: [to himself; leaves] Or in the past.

Old Biff: [shows his younger self "Grays Sports Almanac"; passes his younger self the book] Ya see this book? This book tells the future. Tells the results of every major sports event til the end of the century. Football, Baseball, Horseraces, Boxing. The information in here is worth millions. And I'm givin it to you.

Young Biff: [sarcastically; skims through the pages] That's very nice. Thank you very much. Now, why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here?

Old Biff: [smacks his younger self] It's "leave", you idiot! "Make like a tree, and leave"! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong!

Young Biff: [tosses the Almanac aside] All right, then! Leave! And take your book with ya!

Doc: Obviously, the time continuum has been disrupted, creating this new...temporal event sequence resulting in this alternate reality.

Marty: English, Doc.

Doc: [brings over a chalkboard; draws a straight line across the board; writes "Past" on left side, "1985" in the middle, and "F" for Future on the right; points at the area before 1985; draws another line; writes 1985A on chalkboard; pulls a small, silver plastic bag out of the DeLorean; shows Marty a small-fisted object] Here, here, here. Let me, uh, let me illustrate. Imagine that this line represents time. Here's the present, 1985, the future and the past. Prior to this point in time, somewhere in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent creating an alternate 1985. Alternate to you, me and Einstein, but reality for everyone else. Recognize this? It's the bag the sports book came in. I know, because the receipt was still inside. I found them in the time machine...along with this.

Marty: It's the top of Biff's cane. I mean, Old Biff from the future.

Doc: Correct. It was in the time machine because Biff was in the time machine, with the Sports Almanac!

Marty: Holy shit.

Doc: [draws an overarching line across the chalkboard; brings over a large newspaper; scoffs] You see, while we were in the future, Biff got the sports book, stole the time machine, went back in time, and gave the book to himself at some point in the past. Look. It says right here that Biff made his first million betting on a horse race in 1958. He wasn't just lucky. He knew because he had all the race results in the Sports Almanac. That's how he made his entire fortune! Look at his pocket with a magnifying glass.

Marty: [angrily; realizes; shocked] The Almanac. Son-of-a-bitch stole my idea! He must have 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 have ever happened.

Doc: That's all in the past.

Marty: You mean the future.

Doc: Whatever! It demonstrates precisely how time travel can be misused, and why the time machine must be destroyed, after we straighten all of this out.

Marty: Right. So, we go back to the future, and we stop Biff from stealing the time machine.

Doc: [indicates 1985A on the blackboard; holds up a newspaper; the headline reads: "EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED"; Einstein moans, and Marty takes the newspaper from Doc] We can't, because if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of this... reality, in which Biff is corrupt, and powerful, and married to your mother, and in which... ...this has happened to me! No. Our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the timeline skewed into this tangent. 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 specific circumstances of how, where, and when young Biff got his hands on that Sports Almanac.

Marty: [determined] I'll ask him.

1985 Jennifer: I'm old!

2015 Jennifer: I'm young!

Doc: Marty! Marty! Marty, come quick. Quick.

Doc: That's it! They're taking her home, to your future home! We'll arrive shortly thereafter, get her out of there, and go back to 1985.

Marty: You mean, I'm gonna see where I live? I'm gonna see myself as an old man?

Doc: [gasps in shock] No, no, no, Marty. That could result in a-- Great Scott! Jennifer could conceivably encounter her future self! The consequences of that could be disastrous!

Marty: Doc, what do you mean?

Doc: [[spacetime continuum] I foresee two possibilities. 1: Coming face to face with herself 30 years older would put her into shock and she'd simply pass out. Or 2: The encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the ] and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.

Marty: [alarmed and sarcastically] Well, that's a relief.

Doc: [to Marty; notices Skyway condition sign says, "Skewed on Skyway C25"; to Marty; about the Grays Sports Almanac; [gambling; [w:Time Travel|travel through time] Let's go. I sure hope we find Jennifer before she finds herself. The Skyway's jammed. It's gonna take us forever to get there. And this stays here. I didn't invent the time machine to win at ]; I invented the time machine to ].

Marty: [annoyed; Doc throws the Almanac in the trash] I know. I know. I know, Doc.

2015 Biff: [walks out through door and picks up the Grays Sports Almanac] So...Doc Brown invented a Time Machine.

Doc Brown: [about Biff having gone back to November 12, 1955; [spacetime|space-time continuum; [coincidence] 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 of the entire ]. On the other hand, it would just be an amazing ].

Doc Brown: [[study; [Women] My only regret is that I'll never get a chance to visit my favorite historical era, the Old West. But time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to ] the other great mystery of the universe: ].

Doc Brown: [about to throw out the almanac; [gambling; [time] The Skyway's jammed. It's gonna take us forever to get there. And this stays here. I didn't invent the time machine to win at ]; I invented the time machine to travel through ].