In 1955, Doc Brown reads a letter sent from his future self living in the Old West of 1885. The scene reveals Doc's childhood inspirations and culminates in an emotional moment as he reads his own heartfelt farewell to Marty, while discovering the location of the hidden DeLorean.
'55 DOC: Stuck? No, Marty, this sounds like a wonderful way to spend my retirement years! Why, ever since I was a boy, I wanted to be a cowboy! I used to spend summers at my Uncle’s ranch. Uncle Abraham taught me how to ride and shoot and rope.
MARTY: So how’d you end up as a scientist?
'55 DOC: Wel
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