[Music]
[G] Men of your stamp, Samuel Kemp,
don't know what real rage is.
Nothing is going to stop me now.
Nothing.
If you betray me,
I shall kill you.
[K] I shall not be long.
[Door opens, closes]
[Music]
Sir?
[K] One moment.
Now, listen carefully,
I have no time to repeat myself.
I want you both to leave this house at once.
What? Dismissed?
[K] Of course not.
I hope you'll be able to return sometime tomorrow.
I want you to leave-
[L] But leave- (Voices overlapping)
[K] Just listen to what I'm saying.
Don't interrupt.
Have you any money?
[L] No, sir!
[K] Damnation. My wallet's upstairs.
Well, where's [-]
[K] Take it with you.
You can sleep at the Swan tonight.
Do you know Col. Aaday's house?
[L] Well, yes, sir.
I want you to take this note to him,
before you go to the Swan.
Do exactly what he says.
This note will explain everything.
On no account are you and Cook to return to this house tonight.
Do you understand?
[L] I think so, sir.
Yes, sir.
[K] Very well. Off you go.
[Music]
[Ringing, Music]
[K] It's me.
[G] Where have you been?
It hasn't taken you all this time to find that food!
[K] Speaking with the servants.
Perhaps you heard.
[G] I heard voices, yes.
[K] Don't worry.
I said nothing about you.
I simply said I was working late and didn't wish to be disturbed.
I often fetch food for myself late at night.
[G] Where are they now?
[K] We won't be disturbed until morning.
Eat. Before you drop.
[Eating sounds]
[K] How's the arm?
[G] The bleeding stopped.
[K] You should let me attend to it, you know.
[G] (Mumbling)
[K] When you feel able to continue-
[G] Continue..
[K] Well, to understand how you come to be like this.
After you made the piece of cloth invisible,
what then?
[G] I had a visitor to my attic room.
[Cat meow]
[G] Come here, yes.
Everything is ready for you.
The essential phase was to place the object to
lose refractive index was to be lowered,
between the two radiating centers.
[K] Like [-]?
[G] No, not like [-], he discharges electricity through gases.
[K] How long did it take?
[G] Hours. Three or four.
The bones and sinews and the fat are the last to go,
except for the eyes.
[Clattering]
Mister Griffin!
[G] A living creature, Kemp.
In that moment, I saw no drawbacks.
I had a magnificent vision of what this all might mean to a man.
A mystery.
Power.
Freedom.
[Knocking] Mr. Griffin!
[G] Yes?
I'm sorry to interrupt your work, mister-
[G] You are interrupting, what do you want?
Ms. Hood, you see-
[G] Ugh, again?
The noise!
[G] Can't you move into another room?
I'm sick to death of her constant complaining!
I'm afraid the vibrations from your gas engine
can be felt all over the house.
The vibration from a sneeze can be felt
all over this disgrace of a house.
Really, Mr. Griffin, this has always
been a respectable house!
[G] It's a slum!
The neighborhood is rather disreputable,
but I do my best.
[Meow]
The cat!
[G] Cat?
Ms. Hood has lost her cat, you see.
[G] There's no cat here.
I dislike cats intensely.
But I heard it, quite distinctly!
[G] You're mistaken!
I heard nothing.
It's all she has left to care for, poor soul.
If I might just take a look,
it may have slipped into the room while your back was turned.
[Calling out]
[Meow]
There! You heard it?
[G] I heard nothing.
Will you please LEAVE?
As you are a tenant of long standing, Mr. Griffin,
I feel it only fair to tell you, to warn you,
for your own good-
[G] What is it, man, get to the point!
Ms. Hood has spoken quite often lately about the police!
The noise, you see, and now her cat.
I really do believe if she should fail to find it-
[G] Please.
As you know, the laws against vivisection are very severe!
[G] Vivisection? Gah!
Damn cat.
She believes you have something to do with its disappearance.
[G] You can reassure Ms. Hood I have not been tormenting her cat.
My experiments do not involve vivisection.
What exactly are your experiments, Mr. Griffin
Are they dangerous?
[G] No.
Are they legal?
[G] Night!
Mr. Griffin!!
This is my house, Mr. Griffin!
I have a right of entry!
Mr. Griffin!
[G] I put the animal out onto the roof as soon as he came to.
[K] You mean there's an invisible cat at large in the world?
[G] If it hasn't been killed.
That wretched creature broke my [-]
I had no idea what the landlord might do,
but I knew very well what he had the capacity to.
The thought of my work being exposed and interrupted
made me very angry and very active.
[G] Damn!
Damn them all to hell!
[G] There was only one thing for it.
And the desire was irresistible.
What I had done to the cat,
I'd do to myself.
[G] There'd be an inquiry, of course.
I knew my rooms would be searched.
I had to take precautions.
I posted my notebooks to a house in Court [-]
[G] It was all done that night, Kemp.
It was terrible.
A night of wracking anguish,
sickness and fainting.
I had not expected the suffering.
[Clanging]
[Banging on door] [Clanging]
Mr. Griffin! I must insist!
Mr. Griffin! [Shouting]
[Gasps]
[G] What is it?
I have a notice of ejectment.
[G] Leave me alone.
All of you!
Go away!
What has he done to himself?
[Shouting]
[Music]
[Knocking]
Mr. Griffin! Mr. Griffin! Can you hear me?
[G] Still under the sickly influence of the drugs
that decolorized blood,
I began to dismantle [-]
I could not allow it to fall into the wrong hands.
Nobody must know what I had done.
[Overlapping noises]
What is he doing?
What are you waiting for? Break it down!
Stand back!
[Banging]
[Screaming]
Save him! Save him!
He's gone.
Impossible! He must be on the roof!
Mr. Griffin! Are you here?
[Commotion]
[G] [-] I had burned my [-]
The upper floor was blazing before I had reached the street.
Stuck, naked, I tried to dodge out of the confusion I'd caused
Fearing I might be trapped and discovered.
But once free, I experienced a wild impulse to jest.
[G] The devil's in your basket! [Laughs]
Hey, what's going on?
[Screaming]
[Laughs]
[G] Foolish as it seems now,
I'd not reckoned with the weather.
When it began to rain,
my only euphoria soon vanished,
I became inexplicably wretched.
I had no refuge,
no human being in the whole world in whom I could confide.
The one thought that possessed me was to find shelter and food,
to get myself covered and warm,
Only then might I hope to plan the new life
to which I was committed.
Is anyone there?
Hello?
Don't be afraid!
Here, take my coat!
[G] You begin to realize the full
disadvantage of my position.
[K] Indeed I do.
Why run away from an offer of help?
What harm could a blind man do?
[G] To get clothing would to forgo my advantage.
Surely you can see it now.
[K] 'Cause you had to have covering.
[G] And food.
I was starving hungry.
But to fill myself with unassimilated matter
would be to become grotesquely visible again.
[K] I hadn't thought of that.
[G] (Laughs) Not [-]
And the rain had warned me of other dangers.
When the rain touched me,
it made a watery outline,
a sort of glistening surface of a man.
[-]
[K] What did you do?
Cheeky little devils.
Scallywags, that's what they are.
[Noise]
Who's there?
Alright, come on.
Who's there?
[Shouts]
[Music]
[G] In less than 15 minutes,
I was ready to go forth into the world again,
equipped.
[Music]