Marty: BUT DAD!! Jennifer and I were supposed to go to the Huey
Lewis concert this Friday.
George: Son, I know that you're a Kid and that your generation loves this heavy
metal and what not. But now that we are richer, we have to develop some culture.
We are all going to "The Magic Flute" this Saturday.
Marty: Give me a break...4 hours listening to people singing in German? You
don't even know German!!
George: But you listen to ...what is that? "99 Luftballons" and
"Rock me Amadeus"?
Marty: Well that's different...(sigh) I might as well call Jennifer...(walks to
the phone and dials)
(ring)
Jennifer: Hello?
Marty: Hey Jen, it's Marty...look about the Huey Lewis concert...
Jennifer: This is the fourth time you've broken our date!!! What's up with your
parents and their "culture" bull? Don't you even have the guts to
stand up to them?
Marty: I tried, but...
Jennifer: I think we should stop seeing each other. Enjoy your newfound
"culture."
Marty: But Jennifer...(phone clicks, to George) Thanks a lot dad. How do you
expect me to find another girlfriend? How do you expect me to even get married?
George: Don't worry about it son, your mom did not like me at first, but then we
got together and look at us now.
Marty: (muttering under his breath) yeah if it wasn't for me, you two would not
have even married each other. I am going to go out for a while. (grabs hover
board and leaves)
Scene 2: Doc's Garage.
(knocking on door)
Doc: Who is it?
Marty: It's me Marty.
Doc: Come on in. (Marty enters.) Great Scott, you look pissed.
Marty: I have to go to another opera this Saturday. Jennifer broke up with me. I
wish my parents were cooler.
Doc: Come on Marty, you parents love you. This inferiority complex will blow
over.
Marty: Not in my lifetime.
Doc: Don't be so sure on that. Say, I've invented a new device. You can
transpose your mind into the body of another person without ever seeing the
person. Just push the name of the person, and his/her phone, and you become that
person.
Marty: Looks interesting, but I don't know.
Doc: Give it a shot. Go through the phone directory and pick out a person...I've
also got phone directory for places outside California.
Marty: (sigh) OK whatever...(goes to phone directory pile and randomly picks out
an Ohio phone directory.) hmm...Alex P. Keaton...sounds like an interesting name
little better than Marty McFly...Let me try this guy...here it goes (327)
748-9278. (he disappears)
Scene 3: Family Ties Kitchen, Columbus, Ohio.
Marty: (in khakis, dress shirt, and thin necktie) Wow! That was fast...where am
I? Oh my god where are my clothes? Why am I dressed like a preppie??? I'm only
19!!! (looks in the mirror) well, at least this Alex Keaton fellow looks like
me.
(Enter Mallory with two dresses)
Mallory: Alex, where's Jennifer or Mom?
Marty: Who's Jennifer? And why do you need either of them so badly?
Mallory: I need to decide which dress I should wear for my date with Nick
tonight. And Jennifer is your other sister, duh! Where have you been? Detroit?
Marty: No, California (gasps and covers his mouth) hehe, anyway I like the blue
gown on the right.
Mallory: DAD!!!!!
(enter Steve)
Steve: Mal, what's wrong?
Mallory: I think Alex is sick. He did not know who Jennifer was, and he gave his
opinion on which I should wear on my date with Nick tonight. I bet he does not
know who we are.
Steve: Alex, what's my name?
Alex: duh, ummm.....well you are my Dad.
Steve: I think you've been overworking yourself and have developed some amnesia.
I suggest you get some rest. We'll talk more about it in the morning.
Alex: OK...Dad.
(Scene 4: Lauren's apartment):
Knocking on door:
Lauren opens door: Enter Steve, Elyse, and Alex (Marty is wearing some old Levis
and a Leland T-shirt)
Lauren: Hey Mr. and Mrs. Keaton. Hey sweetie pie. (kisses Marty on the lips)
Marty: (spitting) Whoa! MOM! DAD! Why'd she kiss me?
Elyse: Alex don't you remember? This is your psychologist girlfriend, Lauren
Miller. We brought you here so she can help understand and straighten out your
odd behavior last night.
Marty: (thinking) She's hot! Either Alex has emotional problems, or his tastes
for women are high.
Lauren: Go sit down in the living room, make you selves comfortable. What's
wrong with Alex.
Steve: He did not recognize us, and he helped Mallory pick out a dress for her
date Last night with ...(sigh) Nick.
Lauren: I definitely know what's going on...Alex is going through stress.
Definitely he should take some time off for school and relax at home. And I come
around every now and then to check on him. Alex, can I see you in the kitchen?
Marty: Sure shnookums.
Both Marty and Lauren go into the kitchen.
Marty: So Lauren, what's up?
Lauren slaps Marty.
Lauren: Don't ever rejects my kisses like that again!!! And why the hell did you
lose your preppie fashion? I find men in neckties and khakis to be very sexy. I
believe in the saying "dress for success" and the Alex Keaton I know
believes in that saying too.
Marty: heehee. How sexy?
Lauren: (In a seductive tone) Very, very sexy. (kisses him) I'm sorry I hit you
and I want you to recover quickly.
They go back to living room.
Marty: (thinking) Ms. Sigmund Freud is vicious, but hey she's better than
Jennifer Parker.And hallelujah! She wants my body, and NO SCHOOL FOR
ME!!!!
Scene 5: Keaton living room. Marty is sitting in front of the TV watching MTV.
Marty: "Oh we're half way there...Whoa oh! Livin' on a prayer...
Enter Andy.
Andy: Alex, it's time for "Wall Street Week."
Marty: (chuckling) Wall Street Week. Who do you think you are? Little
Rockefeller? Since when did you become interested in Wall Street Week?
Andy: We always watch "Wall Street Week" together.
Marty: We do? Maybe we do. Can we skip Wall Street Week, and watch MTV instead?
Andy: (moping) No. And Bon Jovi is boring.
Marty: OK. (sighs)
Andy: Yeah! (jumps onto Marty's lap)
(clicking sounds)
TV: IBM has done up 20 points, Ford has dropped down by 20% ....
(Marty fall asleep and snores, Andy watched enthusiastically)
THIRTY MINUTES LATER.
Andy: Alex wake up. You missed "Wall Street Week"
Marty: I did? Ouch what a shame. Well back to MTV. (clicks on remote)
Andy: Alex, read me a story.
Marty: Albright, how about "Little Red Riding Hood?"
Andy: No, I want to listen to "All the President's Men"
Marty: (mouthing) "All the President's Men"? (talking) Aren't you too
young for that?
Andy: But you always read that to me. That's our favorite book.
Marty: I hate Nixon. He broke into Democratic headquarters. He lied to the
nation. I can't believe Ford pardoned him. (Andy pouts and a tear runs down his
cheek) Oh all right, I'll read you a chapter...
Scene 6: Kitchen. Marty is fixing himself a sandwich. He's dressed in jeans and
an Indians T-shirt. Enter Nick.
Nick: Yo Alex, where's Mallory? I've got a date with her tonight.
Marty: She's upstairs getting dressed, who are you?
Nick: I'm her boyfriend Nick! Don't you remember.
Marty: Well, no.
Nick: Oh wait a minute. Mal told me about your amnesia. Yo what happened to your
necktie?
Marty: I find them very uncomfortable. Hey, that's a nice leather jacket. Where
can I find one like that?
Nick: You really are sick. Let me try this. Want to see my Harley?
Marty: Your Harley? Where is it? (jumps excitedly)
Nick: Ay, it's right on the driveway.
AT THE DRIVEWAY
Marty: WOW!!! THIS IS THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!!!! Oh, I'd kill for a
ride on this thing. Mallory's lucky to have a boyfriend like you. I really envy
her.
Nick: Yo Alex. I can always teach you how to drive a motorcycle. You want to
learn?
Marty: Sure...as soon as possible.
Nick: I can already imagine...Alex "The Roadster" Keaton. Imagine your
next date...you and Lauren on a Harley.
Marty: Cool.
Nick: This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
Mallory: Nick, let's go.
Nick: Sure sweetheart. I was just showing Alex my bike. He seemed to like it. I
could get used to his amnesia.
Mallory: Me too, if he approves of you now.
Nick and Mal get on the bike and drive away.
Scene 7: Living room. Few weeks later. Marty is in classes. Mallory and Jennifer
K. are chatting.
Mallory: I hate this. I can't get a date with Nick these days. All he's doing is
giving Alex bike lessons. He even bought Alex a leather jacket and a George
Michael earring.
Jennifer K: Either Alex is ill, or Nick is ill.
Mallory: Nick likes that Alex is sick, since he's won Alex's approval.
Enter Marty.
Marty: Hey girls, bye girls. Nick is helping me start a band.
Jennifer K: Alex you've got an economics midterm in a few days.
Marty: Who cares about economics? I want to switch my major to music?
Jennifer K: I know you think yourself a genius and me a bookworm, but you've got
to study.
Marty: Ah, whatever. Gotta go. (exits)
Jennifer K: I'm worried about him. I somehow miss that Republican bigot genius
of a brother I once knew.
Scene 9: Living room. Two days after economics exam. Jennifer is watching a WWII
documentary.
Marty: Hey Jennifer.
Jennifer K: Hey Alex, how did your exam go.
Marty: I passed. (drops bag at foot of steps running upstairs) I'm gonna take a
shower, I've a date with Lauren tonight.
Jennifer: Alex, don't forget your bag. (but Marty has run upstairs) Oh good god.
(walks over to pick up bag, and notices Marty's exam, it has a big red D on it.)
(gasps) oh my God. I should tell Mom and Dad.
Scene 10: Alex's bedroom.
Marty: I can't believe that Jennifer would snitch like that.
Elyse: Jennifer is not a snitch. She loves you big time.
Steve: Despite your Republicanesque bigotry. Also you have no excuses for that D
you got in economics, especially since that is your major.
Marty: I want to switch my major. I want to study music, and be a rock star like
Eddie Van Halen.
Elyse: What has gotten into you? You've talked about nothing but money since you
were a kid. Your first word was money. I was trying to get you to say mommy, but
your dad showed me that you were really saying "money."
Steve: Your professor called, and you are lucky that you are getting another
chance at that exam. Now I want you to cancel your date with Lauren, and hit the
books.
Marty: But Dad, I'm telling you, I don't like economics anymore.
Steve: I know, things are tough. Now may belittle us with your IQ and criticize
us for our hippy attitudes, but remember that your mom and I have degrees from
Berkeley. You're in Leland U., a camouflage school hiding your bitterness about
the Stanford rejection.
Marty: But Mom, Dad, I'm an adult.
Elyse: Steve, he's right. If he wants to learn his lesson. He should learn it
the hard way.
Steve: Fine go on your date with Lauren. Throw your future away. What is wrong
with you? What happened to the old Alex P. Keaton? (I can't believe I said that)
Scene 11: Concert Arena
Lauren: Alex I thought we were going to a concert.
Marty: We are. A rock concert. Can't you see?
Lauren: Alex, this music is too loud!!!
Marty: But it's Van Halen.
Lauren: You idiot. I wanted to go to the concert given by the Columbus Symphony
Orchestra. I want to hear Mozart, not Van Halen!!!
Marty: Lighten up, Lauren. You are acting like the old me.
Lauren: The old Alex Keaton may have been sexist, but he had a deep heart and he
cared for me. I want to go home now!!! Plus, I hate motorcycles.
Scene 12: Alex's Bedroom.
Marty: Women! I just don't understand them! The one in California hates
classical music, and the other one here in Ohio loves it. GOD!! What music
tastes does Alex have?
k
(sorts through Alex self of tapes and records. Find a record of "At This
Moment" by Billy Vera and the Beater)
Marty: Wonder what this sounds like. (turns on the record player, and starts
record.
Music: "what did you think, I would say at this moment, when I'm faced with
the knowledge, that you just don't love me..."
Marty: Wow. When I get back to Hill Valley, I should sing this to Jennifer. I
really miss her. I need to get back. (turns on Doc's device, but it short
circuits. He goes to the phone and dials)
Dial tone
Doc: Hello.
Marty: Doc, it's Marty. Your device short-circuited I need you to get me back to
Hilly Valley soon.
(enter Steve)
Steve: Alex, who were you calling?
Marty: Ah no one.
Steve: Alex, how come you're playing that song that is significant to you and
Ellen?
Marty: Who's Ellen? My ex-girlfriend?
Steve: Oh my god, I thought your amnesia was gone.
(phone rings)
Marty: Hello, Doc? OOPS!!
Skippy: Alex, this is Skippy. How could you stab me in the back like that?
Marty: Stab you in the back?
Skippy: You're supporting Nick! You know I always had the hots for Mal. And now
you've ruined my chances.
Marty: Well, Nick is much cooler than you. Why don't you look for someone else?
There are plenty of fish in the sea.
Skippy: I've had enough of you Alex Pighead Keaton. Our friendship is over.
(phone clicks)
Steve: Alex, I'm beginning to think you're not sick. What is going on? You're
against Skippy, against Lauren, against Andy, against Nixon ...well that
actually is a plus, and (making a face of disgust) you're taken with Nick.
Marty: Okay. I am not Alex Keaton although I apparently look like him. My name
is Marty McFly and I'm from Hill Valley, CA. My friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, who is
a scientist, invented this machine that swaps minds. (showing him device) See?
Steve: Okay...Marty (if that's your real name.) Why did you pick our son?
Marty: It was just a random pick.
Steve: If you're not Alex, where is he?
Marty: I don't know. Maybe in California in my body.
Steve: Marty, stay right here, I have to talk with Elyse.
Marty: Okay Mr. Keaton.
Scene 13: Steve and Elyse's Bedroom.
Steve: (whispering) Elyse, wake up! We've got to call the cops.
Elyse: What's the matter darling?
Steve: I think Alex has been kidnapped.
Elyse: What do you mean? I can hear him on the phone chatting with some doctor.
Steve: Elyse, that doctor is a scientist who has kidnapped Alex. That guy in the
bedroom is not Alex but some impostor, who must have gone through extensive
surgery.
Elyse: That's why he's against Andy, Lauren, Skip, and Nixon...well that's a
plus. That's why he (ugh) likes Nick. (loudly) Steve we've got to call the cops.
Enter Mallory and Jennifer K.
Jennifer: Mom what's the matter?
Elyse: Alex has been kidnapped.
Jennifer: No he hasn't. We just saw him in his bedroom.
Steve: That's someone who just looks like Alex.
Mallory: (smiling) So that's why he liked Nick.
Steve: I'm calling the police. (pick up phone)
Marty's voice: Okay Doc, it's all set? And is Alex with you?
Doc's voice: Yep. Boy is he a nuisance. He was estimating the net worth of all
my inventions. And he kept asking to visit Yorba Linda because Nixon lived
there. Oh even worse news...Jennifer came to apologize and he made some sexist
comment ending your relationship with Jennifer.
Marty's voice: Oh my God!! Meet me at the corner of Jefferson and Elm in
Columbus, Ohio. Bring Alex with you, we better make a clean switch before any
damage is done. (phone clicks)
Steve: Elyse, Mallory we're going to the corner of Jefferson and Elm. Jennifer,
call the cops and look after Andy. Plus, call up Lauren, Skippy, and anyone else
you can think of. We'll need all the help possible.
Scene 14: Nick's Apartment.
(knock on door; Nick opens)
Nick: Yo Alex, what's up.
Marty: Get dressed, and take me to the corner of Jefferson and Elm.
Nick: What for?
Marty: I'll explain to you on the way.
Scene 15: Nick and Alex motorcycling through the streets of Columbus.
Nick: So let me get this straight. You are not Alex, but some aspiring Rock star
from California?
Marty: Yep. I'm so glad you understand.
Nick: Hey what are friends for? Have you told Mr. and Mrs. Keaton?
Marty: Uh huh.
Nick: boy are you screwed they've probably called the cops.
Marty: Oh my God, I did not think about that.
(sirens wailing)
Marty: Nick faster!!!
Nick: Sure thing.
Scene 16: Corner of Elm and Jefferson
Marty: Thanks Nick. We lost the cops. Doc, where are you?? Encounters and punch
in the back.
Skippy: You jerk. (Marty turns around. Skippy kicks his leg.) Alex would have up
for me and not that Rambo over there.
Nick: Hey, who are you calling Rambo?
(Marty walks away, trying to steer clear of a fight)
Skip: Come back here and fight, you chicken. (Marty's eyes widen up and he turns
around)
Marty: Nobody, nobody calls me a chicken. Doc where are you?
(Sirens wailing. Police cars arrive)
Police: All right McFly. Hands up! (Marty puts his hands up)
Arrives a station wagon. Lauren, Elyse, Steve, and Mal come out.
Lauren: Marty, where's Alex?
Marty: I don't know Lauren. Mr. and Mrs. Keaton. Mallory. I did not mean to
cause any harm to your family and friends. I just want to go home.
Arrives a DeLorean in the sky.
Marty: Doc!!! I'm coming. Land over there.
Mal and Nick: Oh my god, a UFO.
The DeLorean make a landing 30 meters from the crowd of police cars. Marty runs
toward it. They release a police dog to chase him.
Marty: Doc, I'm coming. Whoa! Down boy! Sit UBU sit! Good dog!
Doc opens the door. Marty jumps in and the door closes.
Marty: Hey Doc. Hey, is this Alex?
Alex: Oh my god, am I looking in a mirror?
Marty: That's what I was thinking. So, Doc, How are we going to return him.
Doc: We can't return him just yet. Although you two look alike, your DNA makeups
are different. We have to get to Alex's bedroom and fix that machine.
Scene 17: Alex's Bedroom.
Alex: (looking at Nixon's poster) God, did I miss you.
Marty: I could just throw up right now. Doc is it all set?
Doc: Almost. Jumping jigowatts!!! Alex! You're parents are back...with the
cops!!!
Alex: Doc, hurry up! They're entering the house!!!
(sound of climbing up the steps is heard; Alex's door open.)
Cop: Freeze!!! (faints)
Marty: Never seen twins before?
Alex: Don't ever say that again. There's one, and only one Alex P. Keaton.
Enter Lauren (she faints at the sight of two "Alexes"; Alex and Marty
thrown her on Alex's bed.
Alex: Let's hold the door, and stop anyone else from entering.
Doc: Guys I'm all set.
Alex: Thank God. Marty when you leave, take that record of Billy Vera and the
Beaters. Learn the song and sing it to your girlfriend. She'll come back to you.
I don't need the song anymore, since I've got Lauren.
Marty: Sure thing. And Alex, don't ever take Lauren to a rock concert in a
motorcycle. Plus, You have to take a makeup exam in economics. I sort of got a D
on it.
Alex: Cool. I'll have no problem.
(Doc activates the machine Sparks fly and the two MJFs disappear and reappear
again.)
Marty: Oh god, not a preppie again!
Alex: What are you doing in my clothes?
Doc: It worked!!!
Marty grabs the record. Doc and Marty escape jumping out of the window. and into
the DeLorean floating near Alex's window. The DeLorean then disappears leaving a
streak of fires.
Lauren wakes up.
Lauren: Oh god what happened?
Alex: Nothing, Lauren. You must have had a bad dream. Look, Lauren, I haven't
been myself, and I'm sorry. And I do love you. (They start to kiss)
Enter Elyse and Steve.
Steve: clears throat. Uh...Marty?
Alex: No Dad, it's me.
Enter Andy.
Alex: Oh Andy, I missed you. I can't wait till the next Wall Street Week.
Enter Nick.
Nick: Yo, Marty. Where's Alex?
Alex: (curtly) Nick. Don't ever call me Marty. And take back the Leather Jacket
and George Michael Earring.
Nick: But Alex, I...
Alex: No buts, Nick, if you ever want to see Mal again.
Skip: Oh Alex, don't that mean I have a chance with Mal again.
Alex: Hey that's what friends are for.
Nick: (moaning) Oh no...he's cured.
Scene 18: Jennifer Parker's Bedroom.
(Phone rings)
Jennifer: Hello.
Marty: "What do you think...I would give at this moment. If you stay, I'd
subtract twenty years from my life...I'd fall down on my knees, kiss the ground
you walk on, if I could just hold you again..."
(tear rolls down Jennifer's cheek.)
Jennifer, I've learned a lot...and one thing is true. You are more important to
me than anything Else. And we're going to see Huey Lewis and the News. No buts
about it.
Jennifer: I Love you Marty, more that anyone else in the world. Only one
promise, don't dress like a Wall Street executive.
Marty: I'm going straight to the top, Leather Jacket, George Michael Earring.
Hey I just got my motorcycle license...!
Ending Scenes:
Alex and Lauren kissing at an opera balcony. The opera is "The Marriage of
Figaro.
Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Jennifer and Marty are kissing while Huey sings "Power
of Love."
Last Updated (MM-DD-YYYY): 07-15-2002