A lesser movie that tackles such a complex subject may leave fans scratching their heads as to how the science works, but Back to the Future is packed with so many memorable characters and moments that the science behind it all quickly fades away. At the end of day, in-universe explanations for the 88mph number are fun to dissect, but there's another more practical reason why the number was chosen.
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Marty ran into the DeLorean to try to escape the Libyans. Marty accidentally turned the time circuits still set to on while shifting, and as he avoided being destroyed by a rocket-propelled grenade , he sped up to 88 and entered temporal displacement.
Suddenly, Marty went from a mall parking lot in , to a field in , and the DeLorean crashed into a scarecrow and then the Peabodys' barn. A radiation suit -clad Marty trips as he leaves the DeLorean. For a moment, Marty was stunned, and the Peabody family ran from their house to the barn to investigate. Believing that the vehicle was from another world, they screamed in horror as Marty lifted the gullwing door and stepped out, dressed in a radiation suit.
Marty was almost shot from the buckshot of Otis Peabody's shotgun , and ran back to the safety of the time machine, floored the accelerator, and smashed through the doors of the barn.
After escaping from Peabody's shotgun, the car ran over one of the two pines that Peabody had been growing. This was the first effect of Marty's trip into the past that would alter the future the "Twin Pines Mall" would become the "Lone Pine Mall". Marty pulled the DeLorean onto a highway that ran by the future site of Lyon Estates. He immediately stopped and viewed the undeveloped land stretch far out into the distance, questioning whether or not it was a dream. A meter in the DeLorean indicated that it was out of plutonium , and the car shut down.
Marty failed to get it running again and decided to hide the DeLorean behind the Lyon Estates sign, covered by a few shrubs, and walked the two miles to town. After convincing the Doc that he was indeed from the future, Marty and Doc went back to the site to recover the time machine.
Doc opened the door and turned on the flux capacitor which he had envisioned after his fall earlier that day.
The DeLorean was driven back to Doc's garage where it was hidden under a tarpaulin until the night of the thunderstorm, November On the 12th, Doc brought the time machine to Courthouse Square in downtown Hill Valley, and started working on the cable assembly that would harness the impending lightning strike.
Arriving late, Marty was briefed by Doc, just as the storm moved in and took down a tree. Marty drove the DeLorean to the starting line at the Bluebird Motel , and inserted a tall connecting hook into the flux capacitor. He then waited for the alarm to go off while Doc reconnected the cable, and decided to reset the controls to arrive 11 minutes earlier than scheduled. With that, the engine suddenly died, and left Marty trying to restart it.
Marty finally and unexpectedly succeeded in restarting the engine after head-butting the horn in frustration, and took off. The DeLorean reached the cable just as the lightning struck, and Doc made the connection, sending the time machine back to In , Red the Bum was awoken by the sonic boom of the DeLorean, followed by the sound of a crash at the Town Theater.
Marty jumped out of the icy time machine to check out downtown and to verify that he had gotten back to the future, and back to his normal year of Returning to the car to save Doc, Marty tried to drive off and the engine died once again. This was the last time in the trilogy that it had done so. The Libyans passed him on the street, and Marty ran back to the mall. There, he saw the first DeLorean make the jump to , with the terrorists' van crashing into a photo booth.
Originally believing he was too late, Marty was in grief, then surprise. Doc recovered, and revealed that he was wearing a bulletproof vest , having read the warning letter that Marty had written 30 years earlier.
Doc told Marty he would go roughly 30 years into the future, "a nice round number". Doc backed the DeLorean up with enough room to reach 88 mph on the street and vanished in three sonic booms. While in the future, Doc decided to give the DeLorean a now standard hover conversion.
To afford this, he traveled back to , and bought several copies of Action Comics 1. At some point, he discovered that Marty's children were destined to accidentally go to prison, which would eventually destroy the McFly family. Doc returned to the McFly residence, the morning after he left. Marty had discovered that his life had changed for the better.
His visiting girlfriend Jennifer Parker , and he, were interrupted by the sonic boom and wind blast. The newly upgraded DeLorean knocked over some trashcans, and a futuristic clothed Doc emerged from the vehicle.
Doc made use of his upgraded time machine by adding garbage to the Mr. Fusion as fuel.
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