THE DeLorean appeared atop the CBS building out of flash of light. After the car set down on top of the roof, Doc got out and produced his walkie-talkie.
"Marty", he said "Come in, Marty."
"Doc", said Marty's voice, "Where have you been?"
"Time traveling." said Doc, "Do you have the jar?"
"No." said Marty's voice, "I blew it. Biff and his boys jumped me, and threw me in the trunk of the Beatles' car. When I got out, I could only find room in the balcony. I can't get close to dad now. Doc, you've got to get in here with the hoverboard so I can get down there before Biff can get his food poisoned."
"I can't let you use the hoverboard in front of a crowd in 1964, so you've got to use your imagination. And remember, you've got 5 minutes left. Doc out."
As Doc put away his walkie-talkie, he spied a couple, a man and a woman, a few feet away. The man was on an antenna with an axe and the woman was beckoning him to come down. As the man was ready to chop off a tiny dish from the antenna, a bolt of lightening struck the axe and knock the man off the antenna. Miraculously, the man survived.
And he was saying "Alright, you win."
The two left.
Doc looked up at the dish, thinking of the circumstances of how it was spared he said "What a nightmarish reminder."
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Inside the theater Marty kept talking into the walkie-talkie.
"Doc", he said, "Doc, wait. Doc."
"Excuse me, young man." said a voice down below calling up to the balcony, it was Ed Sullivan's, "You in the hat."
"Me?" asked Marty.
"Yes you." said Sullivan, "What are you doing?"
"Making a phone call." said Marty.
"With that?" asked Sullivan.
Marty studied the walkie-talkie and said "It's a cellular phone."
"Never heard of it." said Sullivan.
All of the sudden Marty found himself surrounded by uniformed security men.
"Escort him out." said Sullivan.
Marty was escorted to security where he was relieved of his walkie-talkie.
One of the men told Marty "Do you know any broadcast out of this theatre without a written consent of the network is not permitted?"
"I wasn't broadcasting anything." insisted Marty, "Listen, there's a guy in there ready to poison one of the reporters here."
"Oh sure." said another security man.
Marty looked up at the clock. It read 8:54. Then Marty could hear the startup of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." There was not much time.
Then Marty hit on an idea.
"He's out there." said Marty pointing past the men's shoulder.
They turned to look and Marty jumped up and grabbed the walkie-talkie, knocked down some of the men and took off. He fought his way throught the crowd on the ground floor. Producing his binoculars, Marty looked around. Zeroing on his dad, he could see Biff standing behind him producing the jar and pouring onto the food of the unsuspecting George McFly.
"George", said Marty, "Don't eat it."
But it was no good. He was drowned out by the screams of girls. George picked up a hot dog on which Biff poured the poison. Marty was terrified. Then he spied a loose shoe from one of the girls.
As he yanked it off the foot the girl said "Hey."
"No time to explain", said Marty, "I need it."
He turned to his dad who was ready to eat the hotdog. As he did, Marty heaved the shoe and hurled it at George's hand like a javelin. Bulls-eye! It struck the hand that dropped the hotdog to the ground. Marty lounged at the hotdog and picked it up.
"Hey, what's the big idea?" demanded George. "
George", said Marty, "Don't eat it. Biff's poisoned it."
George was shocked and turned to Biff. "I don't know what he's talking about, George." said Biff.
"Yes you do." said Marty shoving the hotdog in his face, "Taste it."
"No thanks", said Biff, "I don't eat things that landed on the floor."
At that, Marty picked up a soda of George's and shoved that in Biff's face.
"This isn't." said Marty. Biff retreated slightly.
As he did, the security guards that were following Marty came down the aisle. Marty shoved Biff into the way of the guards, and as that happened a jar fell out. The label read "POISON". Marty picked it up, produced the "Blast From the Past" bag and bagged the poison. Then he bagged the hot dog, soda and any food that George bought and got out.
Marty went through the lobby and through a doorway to a stairway leading upstairs to the rooftop. Up there, Marty opened the door and went out to the ledge. He looked down, but Doc wasn't there. Then the door opened and there stood Biff.
"Okay punk", he said, "Give me back my jar."
"No." said Marty dangling that bag over the edge.
Biff approached.
Marty said "Take one more step and I'll drop this."
"Okay punk." said Biff, "You drop that and I'll push you over the ledge." "
You just try, Biff." said Marty.
Then he lost his footing and went over.
"The poison." said Biff, and he went for it.
As he got to the ledge, he saw Marty crouching on the hood of the DeLorean.
"What the hell?" exclaimed Biff.
Then Doc produced his sleep-inducer and used it on Biff.
"Nice going, Doc" said Marty as he got in on the passenger side, "The poison. I've got it."
"Good work, Marty." said Doc as he set the time circuits for 1955.
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The two security guards opened the door only to see a man sprawled to the ground. The kid they were chasing was no where to be see.
Then a flash of light appeared. The two men turned to see a strange looking car disappear in a flash of light.
"Charlie" said one of the man. "Don't report this to the boss. He'll think we were drinking"
Charlie could not disagree.
End of Chapter 6