Back to the Future Part IV, Time After Time 2

IMDb ^ | August 29, 2005 | J. Neil Schulman

[J. Neil Schulman]

Back to the Future Part IV /
Time After Time 2
By J. Neil Schulman

A movie I would love to see but am never going to be allowed to write.--JNS

While traveling through the American southwest, Sherlock Holmes¹ is hired by the railroad to investigate the hijacking and destruction of a locomotive that was deliberately crashed, apparently senselessly, off an unfinished railroad bridge into Shonash Ravine ², Hill County, Texas. During his investigation Holmes sees a flying locomotive engineered by a white-haired man and a dark-haired woman², which Holmes initially attributes to a cocaine-induced hallucination³. However, further investigation of forensic evidence leads Holmes to the inescapable conclusion that his UFO sighting was real, and that the flying locomotive could be nothing other than a machine that had traveled from the future².

From his hotel in Hill Valley², Holmes cables London to his friend, writer H.G. Wells⁴, to tell Wells what he's discovered.

Several weeks later, H.G. Wells and his wife, Amy⁵, arrive in Hill Valley, along with several large crates of belongings.

Holmes is surprised when he discovers that Wells' wife, Amy Robbins, is a twin⁶ of the woman he saw in the flying locomotive … and even more surprised when Wells tells the great detective that Amy was born in the next century, traveled back in time with Wells in a time machine of Wells' invention⁷, and that Amy's great-great grandmother, Clara Clayton Brown², lived briefly in Hill Valley, where she married Amy's great grandfather, a white-haired blacksmith named Emmet L. "Doc" Brown².

Amy's grandfather, Dr. Verne Brown², had told Amy fantastic bedtime stories when she was a little girl about how when he was a boy he had traveled through time with his brother, Jules², and his father, "Doc" Brown, who was secretly a scientist. It wasn't until she had made her own time journey that she realized these forgotten bedtime stories could be true.

The townspeople of Hill Valley assume from her appearance that Amy must be Clara Clayton Brown, and the saloon keeper gives her the keys to Emmet Brown's blacksmith shop, where Holmes, H.G. Wells, and Amy find evidence of Doc Brown's time experiments.

When H.G. unpacks his crates in the same barn where Doc Brown had once housed his first time machine, Holmes sees the contraption that, when Wells reconstructs it, is the time machine that Wells had used to chase Jack the Ripper into the 1970's⁷, where Wells had met his wife, Amy.

Given operating instructions by H.G. Wells, Sherlock Holmes takes Wells' time machine⁷ back to the future in search of Amy's time-travelling great- grandfather, Emmet L. "Doc" Brown, with the intent of arresting Doc Brown for the hijacking and destruction of the crashed locomotive².

Footnotes:

¹ Character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

² Back to the Future Part III

³ The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, written by Nicholas Meyer

⁴ Author of The Time Machine

⁵ H.G. Wells first wife, Amy Catherine Robbins (1895 - 1927)

⁶ A time-travelling Amy Robbins is played in Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time by Mary Steenburgen, who also plays a time-travelling Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part III

⁷ Time After Time, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer

[Mr. K]

hey~! thats pretty darn good~!!

I mean it~!!!!

[Swordmaker]

Great idea... Would like to see it on the silver screen... 3D perhaps??

[Blind Eye Jones]

Cool! But perhaps Professor Moriarty was involved in trying to steal H. G. Wells time machine as a sub plot for Holmes. Moriarty's line could be traced to Biff through an accident that makes him stupid but still a bully.

[J. Neil Schulman]

Much thanks for these great replies!

Now if only studio execs read this board!

Neil

[Sloth]

That is really clever.

[RockinRight]

I've always wanted to see a fourth BTTF movie!!