At the start of Back to the Future we see that George and Lorraine are in a passionless marriage, possibly only living together out of habit, more so than love. George is still his timid, nerdy self that Marty sees when he travels back to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine. George is also bullied by his supervisor Biff Tannen and, despite Biff crashing the McFly family car, George is persuaded by Biff to accept responsibility, owing to his fear of confrontation. Marty awakes after returning from 1955, to see Dave and Linda at the breakfast table. This scene will be explained shortly.