Charlie Sheen "Maverick" is a teenager living with a bleak family in Hill Valley, California. His father, "Goose" McFly, is constantly bullied by his supervisor, Biff “Iceman” Tannen, and his unhappy mother, Lorraine Baines McFly, could be considered a mil f if you were drunk. "Maverick" and his band audition to perform at the high school dance, but are rejected. "Maverick's" girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, encourages him to pursue the dream of being a rock musician. At dinner that night, Lorraine recounts how she and "Goose" first fell in love when her father hit him with his car.
On the morning of October 25, 1985,"Maverick"; meets his friend, scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 am at Doc's request. Doc reveals a
F-14A Tomcat aboard
USS Enterprise which he has modified into a time machine; the vehicle's time displacement is powered by plutonium which generates
1.21 gigawatts 
of power into a device he calls the "
flux capacitor
". Doc also explains that the car travels to a programmed date upon reaching 88 miles per hour. However, before Doc can make his first trip, the Libyan terrorists from whom he stole the plutonium show up and intercept
MiG-28s over the
Indian Ocean. "Maverick" attempts to escape in the DeLorean, but, in the process, reaches the speed of 88 miles per hour and is transported back to November 5, 1955, a date Doc programmed into the
DeLorean as an example destination. "Maverick" finds himself without the plutonium needed for the trip back, and the car shuts down, leaving him stuck in 1955.