THE DeLorean appeared out of the night sky in two flashes of light. In it Marty tried to looked down at Doc Brown's house, but it looked spooky and deserted, and the roof was closed. Marty pushed the "open" button on the dashboard but nothing happened. So Marty lowered the car to the ground nearest the house. And got out. He looked around. It looked like it had been deserted for years. There were no lights on inside. He knocked on the door. "Doc." he said. Then, the door creaked open. "What the hell." he said. Then, right behind him, some headlights came on and a voice said "Freeze, Martian!" Marty turned his slightly and noticed a mob of men with rifles trained at him. That wasn't all. The cars from whence the headlights were coming from were antique looking. The only time he saw cars like that were in antique car shows or old photographs. "Well what d'ya know." said one of the men, "They look just like us." "Who do?" asked Marty. "Don't play stupid, Martian." said another man. "Hey." said yet another man, "They speak English." Another man said "This gonna make the Hill Valley Telegraph headlines tommorow: 'Hill Valley Citizens Captures Live Martian. And they look and talk just like us.'" "Live Martian?" said Marty. Then he remembered that this was night of the great radio broadcast of War of the Worlds and said "Holy geez." "Stand perfectly still." said the first one. "Hey guys," said Marty, "Look I'm not an Martian." "Then what's this?" asked the first man again, indicating the DeLorean. "Be careful." said Marty, "That has weather sensing...There's another Martian." Marty pointed towards an open space and the group looked. Marty picked up a handful of dirt and flung it into crowd. Then, he jumped back into the DeLorean and sped off. The one of the men standing there asked "Is it some kind of car?" Then, they got into their cars and followed. In the DeLorean, Marty said "Get ahold of yourself, McFly. Just set the time circuits back to the future." Marty looked at the time circuits and set the time circuits for the return trip by copying the LAST TIME DEPARTED readout which read NOV 16, 1985 1:33 pm. "Time circuits activated." said Marty throwing a switch, "Flux capacitor fluxing." He pushed down hard on the accelerator with his feet and the car kicked up to 88 miles per hour. Then-nothing! Marty read the fusion generator readout. It read EMPTY. "Great." said Marty, "Just great." He looked in his rear view mirror. The cars were gaining on him. So Marty activated the hover device and the car lifted off the ground and into the sky.
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The men in the cars looked up amazed at what they were seeing. Then, a crashing sound was heard. It was one of the cars. It crashed into a patrol car. A policeman got out and said "Well, well, well." "Officer." said one of the men pursuing Marty, "That Martian is getting away." "What Martian." said the officer. "Didn't you hear the report?" asked another man. "You mean that radio broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds'?" asked the policeman. "What?" asked another man. "You heard me." said the policeman, "And I though you'd like the Charlie McCarthy Hour over Mercury Theatre." The men looked at each other embarressed.
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Marty set the car down on a deserted field and search the compartments for another jar of poison. There was none. Then he got out and opened the trunk. None there either. Then, Marty remembered Doc's story. This was the night that Doc took advantage of the guard's paranoia and broke into the office and got the poison. All Marty would have to do is to drive over there and tell the young version of Doc who he is and help him use on of the jars to load the fusion generator. Marty got back in and turned the ignition. Nothing. Marty picked up a flashlight and looked at the fuel indicator. It read EMPTY. Out of gas. Marty got out, took the old newspaper about Billsif Tannen's involvement with the Nazis with him, hid the DeLorean in a bush and covered it with brushes. Then, realizing he would miss Doc by the time he woudl get to the factory, he went down the road into town.
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Hill Valley was a lot smaller than it was even in 1955. But the street was deserted. Thanks to that damn broadcast of Orson Welles a lot of people panicked. Going into the nearest phone booth, Marty looked for "Brown" in the phone book. "Great." he said "1640 Riverside Dr. On my way." Marty followed the same path he followed in 1955. He was in the same neigborhood as his grandparents, the Baines were. It strange to go past the house of the same grandmother that his family buried earlier this week. Or, in his case, 47 years from now. Yet he couldn't help thinking that the funeral would keep Marty away long enough to keep him from babysitting Jules and Verne, and not Jennifer. He was so wrapped up in what he was thinking that he didn't know that a car was coming up the street. Nor did he know that he was standing in the middle of the street. The car came at him and hit him knocking him uncounscience. The driver got out, looked at the unconscience lad and said "Stella, one of these damn kids stepped out in front of my car. Help me get him in."
The next thing Marty knew that he found himself in bed in a strange room. But somewhere near him a strange but familiar-looking figure was hovering nearby. "Mom." he said, "Is that you?" "There, there." said the figure, "You've been asleep for almost nine hours now." "I had the worse nightmare." said Marty, "I dreamt that I was accused of being a Martian, and a mob was chasing me. It was terrible." "Well." said the figure, "You're safe and sound now, right in the good old Baines household." "Baines household?" exclaimed Marty as his eyes popped open. He sat up as a light went on. Marty looked at the figure now shown in full light. It was his grandmother alive again. She was younger, much younger than he saw her in 1955. And she had his own mother's looks. "Why", said Marty, "you're my gra..., my gra..." "My name is Stella." said the woman, "Stella Baines. I'm the wife of the man who hit you with his car last night. Are you alright?" "Y-yeah." said Marty. "Do you have a name?" asked Stella. "My name?" he asked, "Why it's, why it's..." Then, he recalled seeing a mini series on TV in 1977 called The Amazing Howard Hughes in which Tommy Lee Jones played the lead role. So he said "Jones, Tommy Lee Jones." "It's a good thing he had me helping him get you in here, Mr Jones." said Stella, "With that crazy broadcast last night, there was word that a group of men ran across one of those 'Martians' saying that they looked like us. It was a good thing that it was only a dramatization." "It sure was." said Marty. "Stella." said a voice. "Is breakfast ready?" "Oh my God." said Stella, "It's my husband." She left. Marty got up out of bed and followed.
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At breakfast, Sam, Marty's future grandfather asked "What's kid like you doing out there in the middle of the street in the middle of the night." "Now Sam." said Stella. She turned to Marty saying "He's in one of his moods." Then a baby could be heard crying. "Lorraine." said Stella. Lorraine? asked Marty to himself. Stella got up and went into another room. Sam turned on a radio. It had a report about the radio hoax that caused all the panic last night. "Some idiot thinks because it's Halloween he could scare people off by impersonating a news reporter telling people about a Martian invasion." he said, "All the screaming out there kept Lorraine up all night." "Lorraine?" asked Marty. "Lorraine's our first baby." said Stella coming back in with a baby in her arms, "Here look." She showed Marty the baby. Mom. said Marty to himself. The baby reached out to Marty's face. "I think she's taking a liking to you." said Stella, "Why don't you know her?" Marty hesitated, then said "Why sure." Marty held Lorraine in his lap. As he did, Stella asked "You know Tommy, you look familiar. Do I know your mother?" Marty paused, then he looked at the baby, then back at Stella, saying "Yeah. I think so." "Well, I'd better give her a call." said Stella. "You can't." said Marty, "There's nobody home..." "Oh?" asked Stella. "...yet." said Marty as he looked back at the baby. Then Marty went on to say "Listen, I'd like where I could find where Mr. Hughes factory is." "Howard Hughes?" asked Sam. "Yeah." said Marty, "I have a friend there." "It's on my way to work." said Sam. "Good." said Marty. "Stella." said Sam, "Can I talk to you for a minute?" Stella got up and followed Sam in to another room. There Sam asked "Are crazy, Stella? Letting someone I dont' know hold Lorraine?" "I can't help it, Sam." said Stella, "There's something about him..." "I know, Stella." said Sam, "Something tells us that we should know him." They looked at Marty holding the baby. Out in the kitchen, Marty was holding the baby saying "So you're going my mom. Yeah, you're going to be my mom." Then, Sam and Stella emerged from the door and Stella said "Tommy, we've got to change Lorraine's diapers." "Oh." said Marty, "Okay." "Had you ever changed diapers before?" asked Stella. Realizing that he was the youngest in the George McFly family, Marty said "No." "Well", said Stella, "This is your first time." Marty froze. Holy Geez, he said to himself, I'm gonna change my mom's diapers. Stella removed the diapers and gave Marty a fresh pair of diapers to put on Lorraine. As Stella was telling Marty how to put diapers on Lorraine, Marty stood there embarrassed.