List of Back to the Future: Back in Time episodes

Back to the Future: Back in Time is a science-fiction adventure comedy miniseries that airs on NBC on November 22 to December 27, 2019, on the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future Part II. The miniseries is based on the 2010 video game, Back to the Future: The Game, by Telltale Games.
The series also features Michael J. Fox reprising his role as Marty McFly, alongside Crispin Glover as George McFly and Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines McFly. All three member provides new dialogue for the characters, while archival recordings from the game series are used for the other characters, even Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown. Despite Fox, Glover and Thompson reprising the McFlys, James Arnold Taylor, Claudia Wells and Rebecca Schweitzer come back as well for extra scenes.
== Plot ==
=== It's About Time ===
Seven months after Doc left, the bank forecloses on his home. Marty arrives and is too late
 to stop the estate sale. There, he finds Doc's notebook in the model 
courthouse from the 1955 model, but was taken by Biff. In order to get 
the notebook, he turns on the once-broken speaker and tricks Biff to let
 him play his guitar. He successfully gets the notebook after Biff turns
 up the capacity of the speaker blowing him away.
When going through 
the pages, the DeLorean, that had been smashed by a train, appears. He 
finds Einstein in the car and tape recorder with a message of Doc's 
voice explaining his predicament in the unknown recalled timeline he is 
stuck in. Set off to save him, the readout of Doc's last departed 
destination is malfunctioned, so Marty's only solution is a shoe he 
found in the DeLorean before the tape recorder. He uses Einstein to 
track the sent where the shoe was last seen.
He leads him to an 
apartment, where he meets Edna Strickland, former reporter and brother 
of S.S. Strickland. He returns her shoe and reveals she lost it on the 
day a speakeasy burnt down, but doesn't remember the year. Marty gets 
clues about the speakeasy by discovering the video store replaced the 
spot it was at, and a newspaper that shows Doc on it, including finding 
out the date: June 14, 1931. Marty takes the newspaper, including 
accidentally causing the boxes to topple to the floor in the process.
Marty wears clothes 
he had gotten from Jennifer in order to look like a person from the 
1930s. He takes Einstein with him and they depart a day before Doc was 
murdered. Upon arrival, he meets a young Edna, who asks him about the 
speakeasy's destruction, which Marty concludes the conversation as to 
mark him as a supporter under the identity: Sonny Crockett. He then gets
 the police station to save Doc. Asking how the DeLorean arrived, Doc 
reveals that it was duplicated by the lightning after their situation 
with the almanac back in 1955. Marty then reveals Doc's death tomorrow, 
which shocks Doc and has them come up with plans to dissolve the date. 
Doc then remembers his rocket-powered drill which needs to be finished 
by the aid of his teenage self. Doc gives him a phone number to his 
previous home to call call at the soup kitchen.
There, He finds his 
grandfather Arthur, but doesn't interact with him, including Irving 
"Kid" Tannen, Biff's father. After he calls the Brown residence, he 
discovers that he is a law clerk. He heads to the courthouse, where he 
bumps into the young Doc, and he tries to convince him about finishing 
his rocket drill, but refuses to admit his scientific pursuits, so he 
records his muttering in order to get his help. With the help of Doc, 
his young self was muttering Ivanov's Conundrum, where he gives him the 
equation, which Emmett thanks Marty for helping him with it, and decides
 to help him with his Doc's situation. However has to deliver a subpoena
 to Marty's grandfather.
They then spot Kid 
and one of his goons, Matches, at the barber shop, where Marty notices 
Arthur's hat, which was taken by Kid on his way out of the soup kitchen.
 He pretends to be a shoe shiner in order to take the hat, in which 
does. Both he and Emmett hide in the Attorney office, and the two then 
lose them. With the help of Einstein, he tracks the scent down to the 
same apartment back in 1986, which they find Arthur, but refuses to come
 down until Kid says so. Marty and Emmett return to the Town Square, 
where Kid and Matches find Marty and chase him down the Gazebo, in which
 Marty climbs up the top and records Kid's ranting. With Edna then 
stalling Kid for an interview, Marty escapes, and Kid and Matches leave.
 Marty and Emmett return to the apartment and coax Arthur outside, then 
serve him the subpoena.
After serving Arthur
 the subpoena, the boys resume the rocket drill situation. Its fuel 
system only runs on 190-proof alcohol, which is hidden in the soup 
kitchen. Marty notices the barrels holding it on a dumbwaiter. In order 
to get one of the barrels, Marty gets Emmett to create something to hold
 the door that is blocked by tables to prop up. Marty stalls Cueball by 
giving the soup flavor. Noticing the pipes that lead to the basement, 
Marty taps them, which tips the tray, rolling the barrels to the tables.
 Edna then comes in and orders one of the barrels that hold the hooch. 
Marty then convinces Edna to bring the barrel to the Brown house for her
 Stay Sober Society, in order to get the fuel for the drill.
At the residence, 
Emmett goes through the many important components to go through the 
reaction to make the fuel, but is called out of the lab my his father 
noticing the society at their doorstep. Marty tends to the reaction with
 Emmet's help by emphasizing the words to the device when said. After 
the argument and finishing the fuel, Marty tells the truth after Emmett 
asked to get his response back from him. He takes the drill with him and
 heads to the jail. Upon arrival, Edna tells him that Doc is being sent 
to another jail. Marty checks the newspaper and shows Doc to be killed 
in a car accident. Marty uses Edna's bike to chase down the patty wagon 
holding Doc, with the rocket part from the rocket drill that was 
destroyed in the process.
Marty catches up to 
the wagon that is going out of town and starts to rescue Doc. He 
discovers that Kid is at the wheel and finds the keys to open the lock 
of the back doors on the dashboard. In order to get them, he takes an 
antenna from the top and gets Doc to distract Kid to get them. After 
getting the keys, he unlocks the door and rescues Doc. As the duo escape
 on the bike, Marty tells Doc to pull the throttle on the rockets, 
rocketing them to the DeLorean. Before their departure, Marty discovers 
his hand fading.
=== Get Tannen ===
Discovering Arthur's
 murder on the newspaper, Marty goes back without Doc, as he is caught 
be Officer Parker. Arriving six hours earlier, he gets to him in time, 
after dealing with Einstein and Emmett. Unfortunately, Kid's gang finds 
Arthur, leading Marty to make him flee, then being knocked out by 
Cueball. Regaining his consciousness, he spots them going in the alley 
by the soup kitchen. He hides in one of the boxes outside, in order to 
get inside.
Upon entrance, he 
hides underneath the counter, finding Arthur tied to a chair and was 
chloroformed before being brought inside. He finds the bottle on the 
counter, but is almost empty, and puts it in the ink bottle, knocking 
out one with a cold, painting a poster. Marty then coaxes Cueball out by
 turning on their sign for their second speakeasy, blowing its fuse. 
Noticing a panic button switch underneath, he flicks it, and drops the 
curtains down and turns the roulette table into a regular table with a 
gold bust. Noticing, As Matches goes to the counter to flick the switch,
 Marty hits him with the chloroform bottle, knocking him out. He frees 
Arthur, and hauls him to the DeLorean.
He drives to the 
scene where Doc was found by Parker and where the Marty from before he 
goes back in time. As his other self departs, he brings Doc along, much 
to Parker's dismay. As Arthur regains his consciousness, the duo tells 
him that he needs to keep out of town until Kid is sent to prison.
Arriving back to 
1986, Marty discovers that Biff is back to being abusive to the McFlys, 
and his family (including his brothers in the altered timeline) is now 
the most feared crime family throughout Hill Valley. After knocking out 
the Tannen brothers (by dodging Biff's bat, hitting the bug zapper, 
electrocuting Biff, along with with his brothers), Kid appears in a 
limousine, who is about to shoot Marty, until Doc drives up bumping the 
limo, giving Marty time to enter the DeLorean. The duo travel to August 
25, 1931 to prevent Kid's escape from the law.
Upon arrival, Doc 
explains that sometime tonight, Kid is to be betrayed by his mole, 
Trixie Trotter. When so, he will be arrested by rookie cop Danny Parker.
 Marty puts on a disguise to make sure Kid doesn't know he was the same 
person who thwarted him. Doc, unfortunately has to lay low after his 
rescue from Kid, so he hides the DeLorean in a lot and hides in the 
Majestic Arms Inn if Marty needs him. Edna has set up a booth in the 
Town Square where she notices the disguised Marty heading to the 
speakeasy, and wants him listen to a song she wrote, which gets 
interrupted by Young Emmett's latest invention. He notices Marty, much 
to Edna's surprise. Marty explains his situation to them and resumes his
 objective.
Marty goes back to
 the alley and finds that the basement of the soup kitchen has been 
decorated into El Kid, the new speakeasy, where Trixie is performing. At
 the bar, he finds Danny, who was the same cop who held up Doc two 
months ago. Asking about his troubles, Danny has been demoted, sent to a
 psychiatrist, and his girlfriend Betty left him, from thinking of him 
as a bad provider. As a result, he has fallen into an alcoholic 
depression and is now a corrupt officer, working for Kid in an attempt 
to get some money to get Betty back. Danny discovers his mistake and 
becomes ashamed of what he has done. Marty goes to the flophouse to 
conform Doc about Danny, which he responds to get him back on track, in 
order to arrest Kid and save Jennifer's existence.
After exiting, 
Emmett calls over Marty to the Gazebo. He conforms him that he quit his 
job and is now pursuing a full-time science career, and has been 
continuing his work on his invention for the Hill Valley Expo: a rocket 
propulsion car, as seen earlier, using Einstein as his test subject. He 
performs the experiment, but the car flies out of control, dropping 
Einstein drops out and onto the the Courthouse roof, along with the car 
crashing into a billboard in the process. Marty enlists Doc to rescue 
Einstein off the roof, while he distracts his younger self, by informing
 Edna of the incident. During the argument, Doc gets the DeLorean, flies
 to the roof, picks up Einstein, and descends him below. Emmett spots 
him and believes he has somehow found a way down. He then goes to get 
his crashed rocket car down from the billboard on top of the soup 
kitchen.
Marty asks Edna 
for a copy of her song entitled "You Should Care" after hearing it, as 
he heard Trixie's version "I Don't Care". Returning back to the 
speakeasy, he replaces Trixie's lyrics for Edna's, convincing Danny to 
stand up and arrest Kid, much to Marty's relief. After dealing with 
Danny, he goes to Trixie about Kid, who is said to be a crummy boyfriend
 by her, but will not leave him until her "insurance policy" checks out.
 Revealing that she has some dirt on him, but she refuses to use it 
unless she checks it out with Arthur, who is the only one she trusts 
with her secrets. However, due to Marty telling Arthur to stay away 
until Kid's arrest, Trixie has not seen him in two months, which 
explains why she hadn't betray Kid in the original timeline. She shows 
him Artie's pipe, which Marty borrows to track down Arthur.
With the help of 
Einstein, he finds him in the Town theater. Doc takes him to the 
flophouse, so no one can see him. Marty informs Arthur that Trixie has 
something to send Kid to jail and he is the only one who she trusts. 
Having been talked into it, the duo brings him into the alley and to 
hide until then. Marty then tells Trixie about Arthur's presence, which 
also attracts suspicion to Kid. Before he could go outside to intercept 
him, a man in the speakeasy picks a fight with him for apparently eyeing
 his wife. As Marty attempts explain to Cueball, two gunshots were 
heard. An upset Trixie returns. Trixie refuses to tell Marty what 
happened and says that she is going to burn her evidence. Heading 
outside, Marty finds blood on the ground. Kid appears and he explains 
that he had to use the lavatory, then found Arthur whispering to Trixie.
 Kid pulled out his gun and threatened Arthur, causing his nose to bleed
 from scare, thus explaining the blood on the ground, then Trixie begged
 for Kid to spare his life, which Kid then fired two shots and told 
Arthur to leave. Marty informs Doc about the situation, much to Doc's 
shock.
Marty's only 
option to stop Trixie from burning the evidence is to make her think 
that Kid went back on his promise. Going back into the speakeasy, he 
notices caricatures on the wall at the bar. Zane says that the 
caricatures on the "Wall of Honor" are of people that Kid has killed. 
Marty gets him to draw a caricature of George, who resembles his father.
 Matches informs Kid that the arsonist is striking again. Kid leaves 
through a secret entrance. Marty shows Trixie the caricature on the 
"Wall of Honor", that makes her believe that Arthur was killed. She 
reveals that the dirt she had on Kid was "Felony Tax Evasion" and that 
he wasn't paying taxes on his speakeasy. Trixie then pulls out a book 
containing the evidence and hands it to Parker. Parker then clears 
everyone out after noticing Kid's absence. Matches persuades Marty to 
get the Valenti gang to help, and says they will in the next meeting. He
 was just hoping J.J. Valenti would want in now that Kid has caught the 
arsonist. As Marty thinks it is Doc, Danny takes Matches out.
After clearing the
 speakeasy, the police starts searching for Kid. Unfortunately, Marty is
 worried that Kid has captured Doc. Finding Kid's flask, he enlists 
Einstein to track down Kid and Doc. Einstein finds a button behind a 
poster, which reveals a hidden garage door with Kid and a tied-up Edna 
who was revealed as the actual arsonist. As Danny enters, Kid wants 
Marty to seize him, but Marty refuses. Kid pulls out a tommy-gun and to 
two escape his shots, leading to a shootout. Edna manages to make her 
way out, thanks to Marty distracting him. Marty finds a barrel of 
alcohol with a hole in it, which he rolls it into the garage. Marty 
lights the trail with the gun lighter. Kid escapes from it.
He climbs up the 
roof of the soup kitchen, where he finds Emmett fixing his car that 
crashed into the billboard. He threatens to kill him if he gets a car 
off to Nevada. Marty hides and notices, then Doc interacts with him via 
ratio in the rocket car, and tells him to get Kid in the car and he will
 do the rest when given the signal. Kid spots Marty and pushes Emmett 
off, after he tried to disarm him when he wasn't looking. Kid draws a 
knife at Marty. Fortunately for Marty, he dodges his lunges and gets 
chased around the car. Finally, dodging another lunge, he closes the 
car's hood, trapping Kid inside, then gets sent into the air, followed 
by landing in a manure truck upon landing. Kid is then arrested, 
including with Arthur returning, followed by kissing Trixie. Emmett, who
 survived his fall from hanging onto the building's ledge, is then 
thanked by Edna for being responsible for Kid's arrest. He and Edna go 
the the theater. As Marty, Doc and Einstein depart back to 1986, Marty 
confirms that everything is as it should be, except the fact that Edna 
and Emmett are seeing a film together. Doc, confused, takes out his 
ticket stub for Frankenstein, which fades from existence. He alarms Marty to stop the DeLorean, but has already reached temporal displacement.
=== Citizen Brown ===
Marty arrives back
 in 1986, then crashes into a billboard, knocking him unconscious. Marty
 awakens to find Doc and Einstein gone. He finds an alternate Jennifer, 
who is now a punk vandal who has broken up with Marty. Asking for rope, 
Jennifer only has a tire iron with her and decides to give it to him for
 a trade, in which Marty trades Kid's flask (which he had found during 
Kid's search fiasco) for it. Wanting a ride to town, the alternate 
Jennifer strands him outside the city gates. Hoping nothing else could 
get worse, the DeLorean falls out of the billboard, followed by crashing
 to the ground in the process. Marty tries to get inside by using the 
intercom, but needs to enter through the north gate. Instead, he uses 
one of the remaining hover-converted wheels and a car battery to hover 
through the south gate.
Marty enters the 
second altered 1986 to find everyone wearing Polo shirts and referred to
 as citizens. He finds Biff, a now calm and friendly citizen, thanks to 
the Citizen Plus Program. He then goes to reconcile with Jennifer, which
 admits he was a good boyfriend until he had become an honor student. He
 explains his plan to convince the alternate Doc, known as Citizen Brown
 in the altered timeline, to repair 1986 back to the way it was. 
Jennifer almost feels sorry for him. He then meets the altered Lorraine,
 who gives him a time-sheet to give to George. Marty takes her golf-cart
 and arrives at the house.
He finds the 
alternate George as a security monitor, who believes that Lorraine has 
become an alcoholic again. He gets Marty to convince her to stop her 
habit, as he is less a threat to her than him. Marty dismisses his 
demand and asks about something he was hiding from him when he first 
came. George explains to him that Hill Valley is not the town he was 
meant to believe it was, and half of the town resents the Browns' 
takeover. Marty goes to Biff to talk about his sordid past: Biff once 
smuggled alcohol into town, had several dogs, and wasn't discreet on his
 affections. His actions are now rules in the altered timeline.
He then explains 
to Marty that in order to become a Citizen Plus, one needs to sign 
contracts, followed by getting an interview with Citizen Brown in two 
years, which is a surprise to Marty. However, Brown deviates from his 
schedule if someone breaks the rules, which gives Marty the solution in 
seeing him. He goes to the SoupMo for lunch, in which he finds Jennifer 
with Leech, which angers him. He goes to Jennifer about Leech, in which 
he is a better guitar player than him. Marty challenges to outplaying 
him, which he wins by making Leech imitate his moves. Marty and Jennifer
 reconcile and make out in the inside of the SoupMo. Edna catches the 
two, leading Jennifer's father to put her on the program and Marty 
getting demerited.
Marty then goes to
 Lorraine to ask about her drinking problem like George mentioned, which
 leads to her trying to avoid giving away her secret with George still 
watching over her. Marty covers the Town Square's camera, so to prevent 
him from seeing her. Marty then takes her flask, then gets caught by 
Jennifer's father. Parker confiscates it and throws it away in the 
"de-cycling" bin, followed by giving him another demerit. Marty finds 
the alternate and unnamed Einstein going after the free soy-dog samples 
and running into the alley. Marty asks Jennifer if she saw Einstein came
 through, but unfortunately hasn't.
Marty "borrows" a 
can a spray paint and uses it on a wooden plank leading to the trash, 
followed by spraying his band name on the wall leading to Jennifer 
taking back her spray can in the process. As Marty leaves, he waits 
until the right moment to catch him in the act. He gives the un-musseled
 dog a soy-dog sample and becomes won over. Walking out of the alley, 
Einstein chases Edna down the town square, where he is taken back to his
 kennel by her and with Marty getting a demerit as being responsible for
 his presence. Jennifer finds Marty and almost share a kiss when the 
officers take him to Citizen Brown for his shenanigans.
He enters his 
office and tries to convince him he was from a different timeline, but 
doesn't believe him as he is delusional. Marty shows him various things 
from his trips, including the things he saw back in 1931 to make him 
remember, which pushes Brown to his limit that he is what he thinks he 
is and shows him a picture of the incident back on August 25, 1931, 
where Marty finds him and the original Doc at the gazebo. Surprised and 
confused, Marty explains his timeline different from Brown's, where he 
concludes as Marty mentioned the citizen's misery as he doesn't believe 
they are. Marty says they do not complain as they are afraid to. Citizen
 Brown gets Marty to prove him wrong. If not, he will brand his 
explanation as nonsense.
Returning home, 
Marty finds George on the ground and his tapes gone. He then finds an 
aluminum baseball bat on the ground and has it as evidence for whoever 
knocked out George and took his tape. George is in shock and hopes they 
do not put him in trouble. Marty refuses to give up until he gets the 
tapes back, where he explains that he needs to show them to Citizen 
Brown to prove everyone's misery. However, George wants no part of his 
plan. Marty gets him to to it for his dad, Arthur. George goes through 
the monitors and finds the severance camera in the yard. They find Biff 
with the aforementioned bat knocking George out and breaking the 
monitors. Marty sees his wristwatch flashing and displays X:11.
Marty then goes to
 confront Biff for beating up George. However, Biff has no memory of 
that, but remembers Edna running a "diagnostic check" on his watch. 
Marty uses the mode and it hypnotizes Biff, which makes him reveal that 
the tapes are in the de-cycling bin. Marty gets him to get the tapes. 
The hypnotized Biff shoves Parker out of the way and dives head first 
into the bin. Parker goes to tell Brown about it while Marty goes after 
him.
He lands inside 
the former El Kid speakeasy to find Edna who had re-hypnotized Biff to 
capture Marty. Fortunately, Marty breaks Biff out of his trance by 
several contraband items in Biff's interests, followed by him passing 
out. Marty finds his father's tapes erased by Edna while he was dealing 
with Biff. Citizen Brown comes down and discovers about Edna's 
intentions. He tells her to go back home to discuss herself. Discovered 
he was manipulated by her, he finds it was all his fault. Marty gives 
him his notebook and convinces him to repair the DeLorean so he and 
Brown can fix the timeline to its former self. Brown finds several empty
 pages but with the flux capacitor still there. He realizes it could 
work and goes repair to the DeLorean.
After asking to 
bringing Einstein along, Marty goes to free him from his cage, but is 
interrupted by the un-brainwashed Biff, who, plans to get revenge on 
Edna for her scheme, and starts to pummel Marty, as he only remembered 
him telling him to get George's tapes from the de-cycling bin. During 
the confrontation, Marty frees Einstein, who attacks him. Marty then 
knocks Biff out cold with the old roulette table. He and Einstein leave 
to get to Citizen Brown. Marty arrives on his own without Einstein to 
meet up with Brown, only to find Edna inside his office. The officers 
take Marty after Edna had shown Citizen Brown on cameras about to 
proceed the Citizen Plus program.
=== Double Visions ===
Marty wakes up from in a room in the Citizen Plus ward, where he overhears Edna's plan to reprogram Brown's memory over the intercom, as well as finding his stuff locked in a locker. He gets a guard to let him take a look at his stuff so he can discover the combination on the locks, but fails to peek over his shoulder.
After taking a look at his stuff, he finds Jennifer in the waiting room, then encounters George via camera. He gets his help to speak to Jennifer to help him get out of his room, but unfortunately, she had gone through her treatment, much to his dismay. Marty resumes talking to George about what happened on his part, where he explains that he had a big argument with Lorraine and she has decided to sign up for the Citizen Plus Program after Marty disposed her flask, and he is on the verge of looking for her to convince her to reconsider. He gets his help on the locker's combination from earlier, and succeeds. He uses the guitar to break Jennifer from her trance, followed by her knocking out a guard who came in.
Jennifer gives Marty the guard's uniform, so they can leave. After putting the uniform on, he explains to her that he is a Marty McFly from a different timeline and explains the events that happened that caused the reality they are in to exist, and has to rescue Citizen Brown to restore the timeline. Jennifer believes him this time and they walk out of the room. Unfortunately, the guard expected to escort Jennifer out comes, so Marty ventures on his mission alone.
He finds a tray of food that is expected for Biff who is not allowed to have it until he swallows his pill. Marty talks to Biff, whose intercom is busted, to convince him to swallow his pill, only for him to spit it out due to it having an acquired taste. Marty gets his pill
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