Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Mary Steenburgen: Clara Clayton
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Quotes
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Clara Clayton : I don't dance very well when my partner has a gun in his hand.
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Clara Clayton : Emmett, do you think we'll ever be able to travel to the moon like we travel across the country on trains?
Doc : Definitely, although not for another eighty-four years and not on trains. We'll have space vehicles, capsules to sail off in rockets, devices that create giant explosions, explosions that are so powerful that they...
Clara Clayton : [finishes Doc's sentence] "They break the pull of the earth's gravity and send their projectile through outer space."
[Doc stares at her in shock. Clara laughs]
Clara Clayton : Emmett, I read that book too. You're quoting Jules Verne, "From the Earth to the Moon".
Doc : You've read Jules Verne?
Clara Clayton : I *adore* Jules Verne.
Doc : So do I. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", my absolute favorite. The first time I read that when I was a little boy I wanted to meet Captain Nemo and...
Clara Clayton : [laughs] Don't tease, Emmett. You couldn't have read that when you were a little boy, it was only first published ten years ago.
Doc : Oh, yes, well... I meant it made me *feel* like a boy. I never met a woman who liked Jules Verne before.
Clara Clayton : I never ever met a man like *you* before.
[Doc and Clara kiss as a shooting star falls from the sky]
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Barbed-Wire Salesman : I've never seen a man so broken up over a woman. What did he say her name was, Cara, Sara?
Older Man on Train 2 : Clara.
Barbed-Wire Salesman : Clara!
Clara Clayton : [Clara's eyes light up and she spins around in her seat] Excuse me.
Barbed-Wire Salesman : Ma'am.
Clara Clayton : But was this man tall, with great big brown puppy dog eyes and long silvery flowing hair?
Barbed-Wire Salesman : You know him?
Clara Clayton : [Clara lets out a happy sigh and spins back in her seat] Emmett!
[she reaches up and pulls on an emergency stop cord]
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[Clara is crawling on the train car filled with wooden fire logs]
Marty McFly : [into walkie talkie] You better hold on to somethin' Doc, the yellow log's about to blow!
[a large explosion occurs, sending a wave of sparks at Clara, knocking her over]
Clara Clayton : [sits up] Golly!
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[Clara has pulled the train's whistle, causing Doc to look back towards the cab]
Clara Clayton : [Waves] Emmett!
Doc : Clara!
Clara Clayton : I love you!
Marty McFly : [Into walkie talkie] Doc! Doc, what's happening?
Doc : [Into walkie talkie] It's Clara, she's on the train!
Marty McFly : [to himself] Clara? Perfect.
Doc : [Into walkie talkie] She's in the cab; I'm gonna go back for her!
Marty McFly : [Into walkie talkie] The windmill! Doc! The windwill, we're goin' past fifty, you'll never make it!
Doc : [Into walkie talkie] Then we'll have to take her back with us, but keep calling out the speed!
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Doc : Clara! Climb out here to me!
Clara Clayton : I don't know if i can!
Doc : You can do it; just don't look down!
[Clara looks down at the churning wheels and starts leaning out]
Doc : That's it!
[Clara climbs over the cab and steps her high-heeled boots onto the train's thin, precarious ledge]
Marty McFly : [Into walkie talkie] 60 miles an hour, Doc!
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Doc : [Doc has just arrived in a time traveling train]
[to Marty]
Doc : Meet the family. Clara you know.
Clara Clayton : Hi, Marty.
Marty McFly : Ma'am!
Doc : These are our boys: Jules, and Verne!
[they walk out as Doc introduces them]
Doc : Boys, this is Marty and Jennifer.
[they wave at them and Marty and Jennifer wave back]
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Clara Clayton : What's wrong?
Doc : I've come to say goodbye.
Clara Clayton : Goodbye? Well, where are you going?
Doc : I'm going away and, well, I'm afraid I'll never see you again.
Clara Clayton : Emmett.
Doc : Clara, I want you to know that I care about you deeply, but I realize that I don't belong here, and I have to go back to where I came from.
Clara Clayton : And where might that be?
Doc : I can't tell you.
Clara Clayton : Well, then wherever you're going, take me with you.
Doc : I can't, Clara. I wish it didn't have to be this way, but just believe me when I tell you that I'll never forget you and that I love you.
Clara Clayton : I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Doc : Clara, I don't think there's any way that you *can* understand it.
Clara Clayton : Please, Emmett, please. I-I have to know. If-If you sincerely do love me, then tell me the truth.
Doc : All right, then. I'm from the future. I came here in a time machine that I invented, and tomorrow I have to go back to the year 1985.
Clara Clayton : Yes, Emmett. I do understand. I understand that, because you know I'm partial to the writings of Jules Verne, you concocted those mendacities in order to take advantage of me!
[slapping him]
Clara Clayton : Oh, I've heard some whoppers in my day, but the fact that you'd expect me to entertain a notion like that is so insulting and degrading! All you had to say is "I don't love you and and I don't want to see you anymore". That, at least, would have been respectful!
Doc : But that's not the truth.
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Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen : I told you to watch your back, Smithy.
Doc : Tannen. But you're early.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen : It's a Derringer, Smithy. Small, but effective. Last time I used it, fella took two whole days to die. Bled to death inside. It was real, real painful. That means you'll be dead by about suppertime Monday.
Clara Clayton : Excuse me. I don't know who you think you are, but we're dancing.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen : Well, looky what we have here. Ain't you gonna introduce me to the lady? I'd like a dance.
Doc : I wouldn't give you the pleasure. You'll just have to go ahead and shoot.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen : [putting his gun to Doc's throat] All right.
Clara Clayton : No, no. Emmett, I'll dance with him.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen : Boys, keep the blacksmith company while I get acquainted with the filly.
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[Clara is running over to Doc's barn]
Clara Clayton : Emmett!
[Enters barn]
Clara Clayton : Emmett! Emmett!
[She stops to catch her breath and looks down]
Clara Clayton : [Whispers] Time machine...
[Clara's slowly picks up the model time machine with her gloved hands and examines it]