Back at Clara's house, she and Doc are watching the stars, when their conversation turns to Jules Verne, an author whom both of them love.
Doc and Clara realize they have each met someone very special.
The next morning, Marty goes out walking and encounters Doc, having come back from Clara's, with a big smile on his face.
As they walk through town, they notice one of the stores has finished making new tombstones...one of them just like the one seen at the Boot Hill Cemetery in 1955.
Doc checks the photograph, and notices the tombstone and the date are still apparent, but there's no inscription on who is buried there.
As they continue to talk, the town undertaker comes by, measuring Marty for a coffin.
When Marty asks why, the undertaker explains that there are betting odds in town that he will lose...and Doc explains that the tombstone could now be meant for Marty.
"Great scott," says Marty, realizing he could soon end up dead. "I know, this is heavy," says Doc.
Doc then notices the Colt Peacemaker that Marty is carrying, and Marty explains that he intends to get back at Tannen for calling him 'yellow.'
Doc chastises Marty for going through with this, and explains how this causes the Rolls-Royce incident affecting his 2015 life.
Marty is now curious about this unmentioned information about his future, but Doc refuses to say more.
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