Meanwhile, Dent forced compromised Officer Ramirez to call Gordon's wife/family and lure them to the building where Rachel died - holding them as hostages at gunpoint.The boom awakens young George and he begins bawling - Jerry is amused: "Heavenly day, Nellie, he's cryin' with a brogue!" - he places the stick of the flag in his son's fist.Dr.Seward diagnoses that he and his colleagues are unable to save her because of "an unnatural loss of blood hat we've been powerless to change.[Cohan's real birthday was July 3rd.](Voice-Over)It was in Providence, Rhode Island, on the Fourth of July.There weren't so many stars then in the flag or on the stage.But folks knew that more were coming.They were optimistic, happy, and expectant.The beginning of the Horatio Alger Age...The flashback slowly dissolves into the image of a billowing American flag in the late 1870s, and then the camera pans down to a Main Street in a typical American town where everyone is celebrating the Fourth of July.Older (78 year-old) eavesdropping father Biff Tannen (also Wilson) heard about the possibility of acquiring the almanac to use for gambling, and the fact that "Doc" had invented a time machine - and retrieved Marty's discarded copy.