The Invisible Man, Episode 5 (1984)

[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]