WITCHCRAFT

Written by Mary Jo Ludin
Directed by John Hays
Original Airdate: October 12th 1991
Transcribed by Shandy McShand

Animated scenes are in black, live action scenes with Doc Brown are in red.




Doc's Lab, a black board in the center, chalked, unreadable math equations written on it.

Computer Voice: (v.o) Begin transmission Doctor Brown.

Doc runs into shot chasing a red balloon.

Doc: Darn. Sorry about that. Doctor Emmett L Brown here. It is my hope to chronicle through audio, visual means my research involving air pressure and water pressure. Why is pressure so important you ask? Because it is a basic, scientific principal. It wasn't too long ago that even the simplest scientific principals were seen as magic, not science. Why, in Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1600's many innocent people were accused of practising black magic! If I had been carrying on these sorts of experiments back then, I might have been accused of being a witch! And been burnt at the stake!

Doc accidentally touches a hot beaker full of hot blue liquid, a burning sound is heard. Doc jumps back.

Doc: Arrrhhh!!!

He pops his hand into a cold beaker full of water.

Doc: That's not how I want to end up - well done. But in the Salem Witch trials, anything could happen. Marty and I found out the hard way.

We now go animated as we head to Hill Valley College.

Doc: (v.o) It all started when Marty was having a bad day at school . . .

Marty and a young, red haired girl (not Jennifer!) walk out of a class room. She is holding a book and Marty is holding a piece of paper.

Marty: A C- on my music appreciation test. Can you believe that Liz?

Liz: And you even did an extra credit report on the social significance of the Bone Daddys.

Marty scrunches up the test results and throws the paper ball towards a trash can, it however hits the head of a passing student with a Mohawk, bounces off his head and drops into the trash can.

Marty: Yes!

Marty then spots Jennifer with a tall, handsome (by cartoon standards), football player.

Marty: No! What's Jennifer doing with that dinball Kelp?

Liz: I hear they have a date this Saturday.

Marty: That muscle bound moron?

Liz: Of course this means you are free to take me out.

Marty bolts towards Jennifer and Kelp, a zoom sound follows him.

Liz: Should I consider that a yes?

Kelp is showing off his muscular arms to Jennifer.

Kelp: And then maybe afterwards you can watch me lift my car.

Marty zooms into shot, right up to Kelp.

Marty: Hey, layoff her Kelp, or I'll cut you down to size.

Kelp: Whose size McFly? Yours or a normal persons? Ha, ha, ha! I'll see ya Saturday Jennifer.

Kelp walks away proudly.

Jennifer: Martin Seamus McFly!

Note: Marty's middle name is revealed! It is of course the name of his great, great grandfather Seamus McFly whom we meet in Back to the Future Part III.

Marty: Jen, I can't believe you would sneak out behind my back.

It seems Marty has bigger problems then his C- now.

Jennifer: Just listen a minute...

Marty: No excuses, I don't ever want you to see that Jock again.

Jennifer: This isn't fair; you've found me guilty without hearing my side of the story.

Marty: Ok fine, tell me your side of the story. And then I'll find you guilty.

Jennifer: Marty, dry up!

Jennifer pushes Marty into the water fountain, she then storms away. Marty struggles and then stands up, dripping wet.

Marty: Very mature Jennifer.

Back to (live action) Doc Brown in his lab, he runs to the camera.

Doc: Hold it! Hold it! I inadvertently neglected to mention, what was transpiring with the Brown family unit. Meanwhile, about 3000 years earlier...



Panning high across a city of Pyramids on an obviously warm Egyptian day. Doc and Verne are running along the sandy ground, dressed in classic Egyptian clothes.

Verne: Gee Dad, what did those guys get so mad about?

Doc: Vernie, I suspect the ancient Egyptians don't have much of a sense of humor.

Pan up to see a sphinx with Groucho Marx glasses, eyebrows, nose and moustache stuck on the face.

Doc: Especially with their national monuments.

2 Egyptian guards chase Doc and Verne around a pyramid.

Doc: How did you get that much blasto plasto anyway?

Verne and Doc head towards the time train, parked among palm trees.

Doc: There's the train!

Back to the Future fanfare plays.

Clara: Hurry Emmett!!

Clara helps Doc and Verne onto the train.

Clara: Ready for departure, Jules.

Jules is standing in front of the time circuits.

Jules: Destination Hill Valley.

He pulls down on a lever and the flux capacitor lights up.

Doc: Prepare for temporal displacement!

Fire pours out of the train chimney and the time train takes off just as the Egyptian guards reach it. They throw their spears up at it, in a seemingly vain attempt to stop them.

Guard: Throw the spear!

One spear enters the window and darts straight into the flux capacitor as if it was a dart board. It flashes with static.

Doc: Great Scott! The flux capacitor!

The train plummets upwards into the sky as electricity wraps itself around it. Sonic booms are heard and the train vanishes in an explosion.




The smoke clears to reveal (live action) Doc Brown back in his lab, with a big grin.

Doc: Exciting isn't it? Now to get back to Marty...

Marty is flying down the street on his pink hoverboard. The air is blowing through his hair.

Marty: First old buzzed Babcock gives me a C- in music appreciation, which brings my average to a... C-.

He randomly takes out a harmonica and starts playing it.

Marty: Then Jennifer makes a date with some patoratary case.

Marty avoids a closed road barrier and flies over a grass hedge, and into a backyard. There is a girl lying on a float in her swimming pool

Marty: Hi Julie.

Julie: (without looking up) Hi Marty.

Marty continues flying off on the board.

Marty: Sigh. Maybe Doc can give some advice before things get any worse.

At that point he hits a tree branch and is flung up into the air. He flies uncontrollably towards a barn.
Einstein, the dog, is inside about to step into a very high tech bubble bath. Marty smashes through the door and you guessed it- lands right in Einstein's bath tub, splashing water every where. Electronic scrubbing brushes start doing their work on Marty. Marty pops his head out of the water.

Marty: Hey, hey, I just had a bath last month!

He is forced back under the water again by the brushes. Marty surfaces again, this time playing his harmonica again. He gets out of the bath and has dried off remarkably quickly for a person, but not for a cartoon.

Marty: Doc and the gang aren't back yet?

A small, toy mail track appears out of thin air and three sonic booms in front of Marty, causing him to step back.
The truck then screeches after Marty, drives into him and knocks him up into the air and back into the bath tub. Robotic hands then grab him and fling him into a shower, with several shower hoses, which then proceed to wet him.

Marty: Good thing we skipped the flee dip.

He is then dried off by air pressure from the bottom of the shower. Einstein is studying (sniffing) the little mail truck. A postcard then pops out of the lid and Marty grabs it.

Marty: (reading) "Greetings from Massachusetts?" Hey, it's one of Doc's scratch and listen postcards.

Marty turns the card over and scratches a panel.

Doc: (v.o) Marty, we have crash landed in Salem. Bring DeLorean and spare flux capacitor to September 23rd, 1692 at once!

Einstein looks worried.

Marty: OK, Einie, we will take off after I comb my hair.

Doc: (v.o) I said at once!

Wind from the postcard combs Marty's hair down to it's usual state.

Cut to the DeLorean. Marty and Einstein are inside. Marty types on the DeLorean's time circuits.

Marty: September 23rd 1692.

The barn doors then open (without the hole that Marty made when he flew into them earlier) revealing the DeLorean. The Car speeds out and onto a spring catapult which launches the mobile into the air. The DeLorean's jets then take over. The car reaches 88 miles per hour and vanishes into the sky leaving a pair of fire trails behind. Back to the Future fanfare plays again.




Through the magic of time, the car appears in the sky 300 years ago. Marty and Einstein are studying a map.

Marty: According to this map there should be a large body of water right about...

The two look up and yell with fear. The DeLorean is zooming straight down towards a lake. It splashes into the water at high speed, and sinks down to the murky deeps below. Marty looks out the wind screen.

Marty: We're trapped like rats. The air is getting thin. I can't breathe, I tell ya.

The DeLorean lands on the ocean's floor.

Marty: We're doooooomed!

Einstein then opens a panel and pulls a lever, causing the car's tires to become inflated, yellow life rafts. The DeLorean is pushed upwards and surfaces and then speeds across the lake like a motor boat.

Marty: Thanks Einie. Not that I was ever really worried.

The car comes to a stop on the shore.

Marty: I feel safer on dry land.

Suddenly the accelerator panel flattens to the floor, and the car takes off into the woods. Marty tries hopelessly to use the brakes but to no avail. The DeLorean glides in and out of the tall autumn trees, leaving a trail of spun up leaves in it's wake. The car then goes up on two side wheels and crosses a log over a ragging river.

Marty: This thing is driving itself!

The DeLorean plows through a fence and almost hits a herd of pigs. Mud flies up into Marty's face. The day keeps getting better for Marty. And now the car smashes through a field of pumpkins and into a cave where it slows down and stops right in front of the Doc, who is holding a remote control.

Doc: Welcome to Salem, Massachusetts. I had you on auto remote.

Note: Just like at Twin Pines Mall on October 26th 1985!

They are in a huge, dark cavern with the time train.

Doc: How was the ride?

Marty and Einstein get out of the car.

Marty: Great, if you wanna see what I had for lunch.

Marty hands Doc the flux capacitor.

Doc: Ah, thanks for bringing the spare flux capacitor. Triple A doesn't cover this.

Doc gets into the train.

Doc: OK, first I need to wire in the new flux, adjust the tolerances, oh yes, can't forget to recalibrate the search protector. I think the whole process will take approximately, now this is just an estimate, 27.35 hours. Not including the 46.82 minutes travel time to our house in town, where you can freshen up.

Pan down from the sky to a nice, old fashioned village. Marty, Doc and Einstein walk past the locals. Everyone is wearing pilgrim clothes, including Doc and Marty.

Marty: Doc, what's everyone staring at? I know I'm dressed like a geek but...

Doc: Marty, in this society everyone dresses like a geek. The people are suspicious of strangers, that's all. But once they get to know you...

The three come to a prisoner in the gallows. There is a man smoking next to him.

Marty: They treat you even worse. What's he in for?

Man 1: He assaulted my ears with vial speech when I run over his hog.

Marty: Boy, that's strict.

Doc: They just have high standards of behaviour, that's all.

Einstein spots a dog in the gallows as well. He is shocked. An old lady walks past, she is wearing a piece of paper with the letter S around her neck.

Marty: What's she wearing that S for?

Doc: She was caught stealing at the general store.

A man walks past with the letter G around his neck.

Doc: That guy made a gluten of himself at the town festival.

Another man walks past with the letter Z around his neck.

Marty: What about him?

Doc: He fell asleep in Church!

Doc, Marty and Einstein continue on their way. They come to a man giving a speech on a wooden platform.

Man 2: Brothers and sisters, you should know them by their speaking from strange tongues. And by their convulsive fits. With instruments of Hades do they make Satan's music. And with dogs and other dumb beasts they do their converse.

Marty: And don't forget they use broom sticks too.

Marty giggles as the town people gasp in shock. Doc pulls Marty away from the confused crowd.

Marty: Doc did you hear that? They actually believe in witches.

Doc: Inform me of something that I am not already contrasent. After all, we've been here a month.

Marty: A month?!

Doc: Analyzing the damaged flux capacitor, and constructing a time travelling mail truck took a bit of doing.

A horse and cart pulls over to Doc and Marty, and a familiar voice is heard

Goodman Tannen: Goodman Brown!

Doc: Yes, Goodman Tannen?

Marty: Oh, not another Biffster?

Goodman Tannen: Once again you have neglected to retrieve and dispose of my refuge barrels.

Tannen points at the barrels he has in the back of his cart.

Note: Just like Buford Tannen in Part III, Goodman Tannen is complaining about the job Doc is doing.

Doc: My apologies. I'll collect them now with the help of Martin my...er...nephew.

Note: Doc says Marty is his nephew, just as in the original film, Marty tells Lorraine that Doc is his uncle!

Marty: Doc! You're a garbage man!?

Doc: A fascinating way to explore the puritan culture. In addition I have started a recycling program.

Marty slips on the garbage slim in the back of the truck and throws the garbage barrel up into the air and it falls all over Goodman Tannen, which spooks his horse and sends the horse and cart speeding away. Marty falls off the back, Doc catches him in his arms.

Goodman Tannen: By heavens above I'll get ye for this! Rechard and despicable stranger!

Tannen's horse and cart rockets away down the old fashioned street. Marty and Doc lay in a pile on the dirty ground.

Marty: Well at least he didn't call me a butthead.

In an old wooden cottage, Clara's voice can be heard.

Clara: (v.o) Where is your father? We are going to be late to the Town Social.

Inside, Clara and Verne are peering out the window.

Verne: I hope there is something fun to do this time. Last week all we did was play stake the Hymnals.

Jules is stacking many books.

Jules: And thanks to simple logic, I won.

Doc walks in the front door.

Doc: Golden fluid produced by the apis mellifera. I'm home.

Clara: Oh Emmett, I love it when you call me Honey. Hi Marty.

Jules has almost finished stacking the books in a pile.

Jules: Welcome to the 17th century Martin. The puritan work ethic is fascinating to contemplate.

Verne: Yeah, a real blast.

Verne then pulls a book out from underneath the pile and it collapses.

Verne: Hey Marty, are you coming to the party tonight?

Marty: What party?

Doc: A weekly ritualised occasion amongst Puritans. Personally, I have to repair the locomotive. But you all attend and have fun.

That night - Marty finds himself in a meeting with the locals sitting around talking. Marty is sitting next to Clara and Einstein.

Marty: You call this fun? Who died?

Clara: Now Marty, people around here just like their fun on the quiet side.

Marty: Maybe I'll go see what Jules and Verne are up to.

Marty stands and walks out of the building. He spots Jules and Verne standing with a boy and a girl.

Girl: I know, let's play 'Seen and not heard'.

Verne: How do you play it?

Girl: We see who can stand still and be quiet the longest.

Jules: With my knowledge of the laws of inertia, I'm a sure win.

Jules, the girl and boy place their hands over their mouths.

Verne: I'd rather stack books.

Verne walks inside.

Marty: (shaking his head) Drag.

Mercy: Hello stranger, my name is Mercy.

The voice is revealed to be coming from a young lady, Mercy, who resembles Marty's friend 'Liz' from the future.

Marty: Oh baby have Mercy, Wow!

Marty jumps up with frightful excitement. Two passes by see Marty's strange (even by our standards) actions.

Passer By 1: Notice the stranger? I've not seen anyone jump about in such fits since Gritty McGoo. And you know what we did to her.

Passer By 2: And her cat!

Marty "dances" inside to the beautiful (by cartoon standards) 'Mercy'.

Mercy: Are you alright?

Marty: Now that you're here I'm sooooo fine. Just call me Marty.

Mercy: Would you care to take a stroll in the moon light, Marty?

Marty: Get out of town? Are you kidding? You bet!

Mercy: Is that a yes or a no? and let me warn you, I don't take kindly to man who says 'no'.

Marty: Well it's a...

Marty gasps when he sees Goodman Tannen staring yellow eyed at him.

Mercy: What's the matter?

Marty: That big goon over there is mad at me. He's such a chump.

Mercy: Oh that's no chump, that's my father.

Marty is shocked.

Marty: (giggles) In that case my answer is no. I better go walk my dog, bye.

Marty steps backwards away.

Mercy: Walk out on me, woulds thou?

Mercy's newly discovered father walks over to her.

Goodman Tannen: What did that young stranger want with you, daughter?

Mercy: He... he made improper advances towards me, father!

Now it is Tannen who is shocked.

Goodman Tannen: What!!?

He jumps several feet into the air, then returns.

Mercy: Not only that, but he spoke in strange tongues and is subject to fits!

Goodman Tannen: I knew there was something odd about that boy!

Marty joins Einstein outside in the night air.

Marty: Einie, this just hasn't been my day, girl wise.

Einstein: Woof, woof.

Marty: Yeah, I know that one. Timely request considering I've got the right to play the blues.

He takes out his harmonica, sits down on the step and starts playing. Einstein lies down and listens peacefully. An old lady covers her ears in pain.

Old Lady: Why, it's like the wallowing of lost souls in Hades itself!

Tannen whispers into her ear.

Goodman Tannen: Is he a witch?

She then proceeds to whisper into a man's ear. He then continues to whisper into someone else's, and before long a good old game of Chinese whispers is taking place, until it finally stops at Mercy Tannen. Mercy then whispers back down the line, her whisper is carried right back to her father. Who proceeds to direct the crowd outside to confront the harmonica playing Marty, and his sleepy dog, Einstein. Marty notices Tannen standing behind him.

Marty: Oh, hi big guy. How'd ya like it?

Goodman Tannen: Throw him in the stockade

Marty: Let's not get carried away! OK, OK, I could use some lessons.

Jules and Verne look on in helpless shock as the town folk descend onto Marty.

Crowd: Witch! Witch! Witch!

Marty is dragged away by two guards. Could they be the descendants of the Egyptian guards who chased Doc and Verne? Only time would tell.

Jules/Verne: Great Scott!!

Crowd: Witch! Witch! Witch!

A Jail cottage sits on a hill in the bright full moon light. A dark figure sneaks towards the barred window. It is Doc.

Doc: Pssst, Marty.

Marty looks out from behind the bars.

Marty: Doc?

Doc: I have come to liberate you from your current state of carsiration.

Marty: Shoot, I thought you were going to bust me out of here.

Doc: The Salem witch trials were infamous for railroading innocent people. If you are found guilty, things could get very messy.

Doc searches through his pockets and eventually pulls out a chainsaw. He starts it up.

Marty: But Doc, I'm not a witch. What could they possibly say about me?

A guard appears behind Doc, with a large riffle.

Guard: You'll find out at tomorrow's trial.




The next day. Outside view of courthouse. The bell tolls. Goodman Tannen holds Marty in the witness box, tied in gold chains.

Man: The nephew Martin, a poor and miserable object, has been known to carry himself in an unwanted manner and burst forth in sudden shrieks and fits.

Goodman Tannen: With his black magic this scoundrel levitated a barrel of refuge and dumped it's contents on my head, and then bewitched my horse.

An old lady speaks up from the crowd.

Old Lady: He communicates with beasts of the field with a musical, satanic mouth box!

Marty: I object! It's called a harmonica, lady.

Mercy stands to speak.

Mercy: The nephew Martin made brazen overtures and attempted to enchant me by speaking in a strange and evil tongue and doing the devil's dance!

Marty: Hey! That was one of James Brown's best moves!

Mercy: Seeing that I was immune to his evil schemes he began having discourse with his dog!

She points violently at Einstein, who has an un-characteristic understanding for what is going on.

Marty: Discourse? I was just talking with him! Isn't that right, Einstein?

Einstein: Woof.

Marty: Discourse means talking? Oh. I didn't know that.

The ugly people sitting in the crowd murmur among themselves. An ugly lady from same group stands.

Ugly Lady: That dog is his familiar! He signed the book of Hades I tell you! He's a witch!

Marty: (giggling) Look who's talking!

The lady stands back as if she was a vampire exposed to sunlight. Tannen taps on Marty's head.

Goodman Tannen: This intruder is an evil element in our community, we must put an end to his demonic behaviour at once!

The crowd shows they agree by yelling at Marty. The judges huddle together, deliberating.

Judge: We find Nephew Martin guilty on all counts of witchery.

Clara, Verne and Einstein are in terrible shock.

Marty: But you found me guilty with out hearing my side of the story! Whoa, where have I heard that before?

Marty thinks back to Jennifer and the future he left behind.

Judge: Nephew Martin, you're here by sentenced to the final test.

Marty: Just as long as there's no math involved.

Goodman Tannen: Oh no, no math. We merely drop you in the bay. If you float you are indeed a witch and must be burnt at the stake! However, if you sink...

Marty: I'm dead!

Goodman Tannen: That's your problem fenny face.

Einstein is apprehensive to say the least from his expression.

Back at Doc's cave, Einstein has just told his owner the terrible news.

Doc: The Water Test! I was hopping to have the locomotive repaired before the trial was over.

Jules jumps out of the train.

Jules: Final adjustments are complete, father.

Doc: What would Thomas Elmer Edison say in a predicament such as this?

Jules: How about, 'give me some large milk cans, a belodge...'

Doc/Jules: '...and a length of rubber tubing!'.

The crowd from the court house are now situated near the docks of the town. Marty is standing on the wharf with guards.

Clara: You people are making a serious mistake. Don't you see how you have all been caught up in the fibre of rumors and vicious gossip?

Goodman Tannen: He may survive the water test. Of course, if he does...

Tannen throws a log on a pile of wood that is mounted around a stake in the ground. The Judge stands next to it with a flame in hand.

Marty: They're planning a weenie roast and I'm the guest weenie!

Einstein bolts up to Clara, knocking into her.

Einstein: Woof, woof, woof.

Clara and Verne smile and look out onto the lake and see the DeLorean floating on the water with Doc and Jules. Jules holds two white flags, as if he was directing an airplane to land.

Clara: Well Marty, I suppose they won't be happy until they do their little test. Come along Verne.

Clara, Verne and Einstein then leave Marty alone on the wharf.

Marty: Clara! Verne! Einie!!

Goodman Tannen has a catapult-like device. When he swings it, Marty will be knocked into the cold, moonlight lake.

Goodman Tannen: Prepare to reveal your true self, Nephew Martin, if that is your real name.

He swings the beam around, it knocks Marty off his feet and sends him yelling into the murky waters below, splashing Tannen in the face. This makes how many times Marty has been wet this episode?
The crowd watches eagerly as Marty, tied by the gold chain, plummets into the watery depths.
Marty lands on the sea bed and is almost bitten by a hungry Turtle. Suddenly the DeLorean floats in and a claw is extended and it cuts Marty's chains. Doc waves at Marty and Jules extends and oxygen tank to Marty. Marty then gets in the car and they speed away. Meanwhile, the town's people watch as Marty fails to surface. They witness his last air bubbles disappear.

Judge: Yep, the lad was innocent.

Mercy looks saddened.

Mercy: I only wanted to teach him a lesson for spurning my affections.

Judge: Then we must see that a travesty like this never happens again.

They all walk away, all but Tannen, who angrily kicks the catapult-like beam, which in turn hits him, throwing him onto a pig's sty. Tannen and the pigs then look up into the night sky and gasp as they see a flying time locomotive vanish, leaving fire trails behind.




The Time Train then appears over the sunny Hill Valley sky, the Clocktower can be seen in the distance. Marty jumps out of the train on his hoverboard and surfs down through the clouds.

Marty: Got to patch things up with Jennifer!

He pulls a parasuit and glides to ground.

Cut to Jennifer's house. Jennifer and Marty are now sitting on her swing outside her barless windows.

Jennifer: I can't believe you got so mad about a little tutoring session.

Marty: Believe me, I know now that I should've given you a chance to explain.

Jennifer: Well, you're forgiven.

She hugs him, pulling his head so it touches hers. Marty hugs back.

Jennifer: Marty, you know I'd never go out with you behind your back. What kind of witch do you think I am?

Marty is shocked, then he looks at the camera and smiles.

Doc Brown back in his lab, doing some boring water pressure experiment. Not worth transcribing.

Spotted any mistakes? E-mail me at hillvalley@lycos.co.uk with the corrections.

Last Revised: June 4th 2004

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