Plot:This is the follow-up to Return to Hell Valley
Synopsis:On his
way to an awards banquet for his mother, Marty is suddenly
kidnapped by his girlfriend Jennifer who demands that he takes
her to Doc's house. Upon arriving, she demands the DeLorean
threating to kill Clara and the boys if Doc doesn't comply.
Forcing both him and Marty into the trunk, she takes off in the
car. After awhile, she springs the two who learn that the
Jennifer who has been doing this is not really their Jennifer but
a Jennifer from the Biff-altered reality. She explains that she
and a few friends have been heading an underground group of
dissedents dedicated to the overthrow of the Tannen regime and
that some of these dissedents have been infiltrating Biff's
operations and all government offices that has been in his pocket
for a few years now and putting listening and veiwing devices in
all buildings known to Biff and the Pleasure Paradise hotel. It
was during one of these veiwings that the alternate Jennifer saw
herself and Marty in Biff's office apartment talking to Biff who
showed them the Sports Almanac. A close newspaper study of a
photograph of Biff winning a horse race in 1958 and the book on
the screen told them what Doc and Marty knew all along: That Biff
wasn't lucky, he knew because he had all the results in that
book. Learning that the Doc Brown of their reality had been
designing a time machine before he was committed, some of the
dissidents embarked to his abandoned lab to pick up the
blueprints so they could build one themselves. In using it to go
back in time to take away one Almanac from Biff and burn it and
then going to the future to buy him another, they were able to
bridge the gap between realities. Learning that the Jennifer from
our reality has been Marty's girlfriend and was to go with Marty
to the awards banquet that night, the alternate Jennifer had
volunteered to go there to fetch him and Doc. Then, she gives
them the reason why she did this: Biff Tannen was dead. Murdered
by his wife and Marty's mother Lorraine. Meanwhile, with Biff's
son Jiff in charge now, the alternate Marty has been hiding out
in Argentina hence the reason for the alternate Jennifer's need
to have Marty. Apparently, the surviving McFly's have now become
a threat to the Tannen regime now that Biff was gone. The
alternate Jennifer also tells Marty that the alternate Lorraine
has been sentenced to die by lethal injection for the murder of
her husband and it was up to him to spring her. After a visit to
his mother in prison, Marty agrees.
Background:
A little tidbit of triviality here. I picked September 19, 1987
as the "Present Date" for this story because it was the
day a friend of mine got married. (No, I wasn't invited.:-() Her
name was Jackie (pictured here with me.). She was an usherette at
Candlestick Park during baseball season way back in the '80's. I
first saw her in 1982 when I read the "Ben Davis" logo
on the seat of her pants. (I was a little tipsy in those days.
Thank God I don't drink anymore.) After the 1987 season she quit
and for the next twelve years I didn't see her until last year
(Hometown Days 2000) in my hometown San Carlos. For some time
now, she, her husband and two kids have been living in my city.
This also marks the first time that I used a picture that wasn't taken from the internet now that I've got a scanner:-). So nobody please get mad at me for stealing pictures from their webpages on this one. That pic of me and Jackie has been in my possession for the last 15 years and wasn't scanned until the other day.
Up till now, the speculation was that the alternate Biff was shot by Lorraine sometime during the 1990's. (I even had Doc mentioned it happening during the '90's in "Back to the Ides of Marchs") Then, I wrote "Return to Hell Valley" and Biff was murdered in 1986 just and Doc, Marty and Jennifer left for 1955.
