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You want to leave your country?

Yes, I have permission.

Let me see your papers.

So you are Tanya Rostov.

We have been waiting for you.

What's the matter? My papers are in order.

Your papers.

You on your way to receive this foreign prize?

This is an international prize for literature, and I'm proud that I have

been chosen.

It's a disguised payment made by the West to encourage people like you to

write slanderous things about her own people.

Get out.

Now, don't make it worse for yourself, and don't give me any trouble.

But my papers are stamped. I have an exit permit.

It's cancelled.

Oh, we have had special orders about you.

You're not to leave the country.

I don't believe it. We just wanted to know if you would really go.

Guard!

This is Tanya Roscoff, the literary genius who reviles her comrades.

Get her out and put her in that box.

I've got to make quite sure you look smart.

It's not every day my brother's an international prize winner.

It's a very minor prize, Dee.

It's a very great honor.

Contributions to science.

You know what contribution it was.

The scientist who made himself invisible.

Accidentally. The human guinea pig.

It's time we left for the reception.

Peter Brady here.

What's that?

Well, are you sure?

Right.

The president of the prize committee is on his way up.

The president?

Surely he should be at the reception by now.

There's something wrong.

Oh, Mrs. Wilson.

I apologize for bursting in like this, but I had to see your brother.

Mr. Brady.

This is most urgent. Tanya Roscoff, the chief prize winner, our guest of honor.

She has been arrested.

Arrested? Where?

At the frontier. They wouldn't let her cross.

But that's terrible. What has she done?

Nothing.

I don't need excuses. These people, they just arrest you and that is the end.

We had hoped to bring honor and fortune to a very gifted young writer.

And what have we done?

Given our enemies a chance to ill-treat and imprison her.

It is very tragic.

As a mark of our disapproval.

We have decided to postpone the entire price giving.

Professor, perhaps we ought to do more than that.

What do you mean?

Show me where she is.

The arresterat brought her here, here on the frontier.

Well, it's only a few miles away.

But it is guarded by armed frontier posts, by minefields and by patrols.

Honey, Roscoff is someone I've admired for a long time.

I don't intend to stand by without doing something to help her.

Mr. Brady, thank you. It is more than I had dared to hope.

I should have thought, Tanya Roscoff, that you of all people understood the

risks here am, deviating from the instructions laid down by the Writers'

Party Congress.

Some people might even call you a traitor.

And, according to your book, my own copy.

Page 78.

We brainwashed them.

Whatever that may mean.

I have written nothing but the truth.

I should have enjoyed the time to discuss what is truth with you, Miss

Roscoff. In this boring frontier village, I have so few cultural

contacts.

But I'm afraid this is not quite the moment.

It is my unpleasant task to get a few written statements from you.

First, that your book gives a false picture of our country.

And second, that you denounce this international prize as worthless

propaganda.

I refuse to do either.

It is only a matter of time before you do both.

Well, if you insist on being heroic.

Guard.

We have specialists here who achieve results.

Their own way.

We are very glad you're going to make this attempt, Mr. Brady.

But it's going to be dangerous, even for an invisible man.

I have to take the risk.

If I have trouble with the wire on the far side, I'll blow a hole in it.

The minefield lies over there between our two countries.

Our man will cut the wire.

After that, we cannot help you.

I've got this little instrument to help me. Even with mine detector, you must

take great care.

Look, in front of you is the minefield.

Ah, that'll be the sentry post over there.

They are guarded always with orders to shoot.

No one has ever managed to cross, though some poor retis have tried to escape.

This time it's different.

I'm trying to get in. You're right. But we brought you to this particular part

because you may be able to get a little help from the other side.

That's the first cheerful thing you've said.

Through those woods over there, you'll find a party of women working on the

roads. Women laborers are common over there.

One of this party is a middle-aged woman called Agasha.

She's, in fact, put there by us.

Her uniform is clearly marked number 11.

She already has information you are coming.

Nice to know I've got one friend on the other side.

Well, he's cut the wire.

I'll get started.

Give me a hand with the pack, will you?

Well, goodbye.

I'll be seeing you.

Best of luck, Mr. Brady.

Hello, patrol.

Hello, patrol.

Sentry post 172 calling Central Patrol.

Report strange object sighted on minefield.

Bearing 220.

Crossing towards us.

Hello, 172.

Captain Bearer here. What do you mean, strange object?

Is it a man or an animal or what?

No, Captain. It's a stick. At least it looks like a stick.

It keeps changing direction.

I can't think how it hasn't blown up.

Are you sure, sentry?

There's a stick out there all by itself, dodging between the mines. It's coming

towards us.

Let's have a look.

He's right.

It is a mine detector.

And it's nearly across.

Quick, open fire.

You must have touched off one of the mines.

There it is.

It's a detector, all right.

But how did it move?

You're getting jumpy.

Hello there.

So it's true.

There is a man you cannot see.

You know what I've come for?

Tanya Roskov has been taken to military headquarters.

How do I get there?

That truck is leaving almost at once for Brat. You must go with it.

Thanks. I hope that if I... Believe me, I'm being watched.

Goodbye.

so funny

My dear Miss Roscoff, you look distressed.

Please. Please don't concern yourself about me.

I'm all right.

I didn't want this to happen, you know.

Much better you sign these statements.

I have already refused.

What makes you think that I should change my mind?

I don't think I have every sympathy with you.

I like writers who are people of principle.

Great intellects.

Fascinating.

Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.

And now you, my dear Miss Roscoe, another very gifted artist.

But you do exaggerate our faults a little, you know.

After what has happened to me, I know that what I wrote is more true than

ever. I shall stand by it.

Hello? Is that you, Captain Berra?

What did you say?

A mine detector by itself?

Impossible. But I have the pieces with me.

One of my men hit it and it reached the fence.

But how could it cross by itself?

It is my opinion it was operated by some form of remote control.

Thank you, Captain Berra.

Very wise of you to contact me so quickly.

Tell me, are you expecting help?

From any friends abroad?

I have no friends abroad. I'm a loyal... There has been an attempt to cross the

frontier, only a few miles away.

Let us put two and two together, shall we?

Yes, exactly as I thought.

Brady, Peter Brady, receiving awards for science.

Do you know who is trying to help you, Miss Roscoe?

Brady, the invisible man.

That's not true.

Have it posted immediately that Tanya Roscoff is detained here.

Yes, yes, I want people to know.

Yes, I want them to speak about it.

Oh, and be sure that the prison notices include Tanya's name and cell number.

Tanya Raskoff?

Tanya Raskoff?

I know you don't.

You're a welcome visitor, Mr. Brady.

You mustn't take any chances, Sergeant.

I want him alive.

Turn on the gas sufficiently to render him unconscious.

Not more than half pressure.

I imagine the invisible man has that all he can take.

Respirator.

What's that?

Open the door.

Money's in the air.

Pull him down.

Stop the door!

Yes, comrade. We are locked in.

Catch the master key.

Tanya Raskoff?

Tanya Raskoff?

What's that?

It's Peter Brady.

We've no time to spare.

Here we go.

Hello? What?

In the truck?

What direction?

The forest road. Right.

Faster. That's the alarm.

So nice to meet you, Miss Buscott.

I've always enjoyed your books.

Jump out and hide in the trees.

It's all right.

You must get out at once. The patrols have been warned. The way to cross the

minefield is directly ahead through those trees the way you came over.

But this time there's one difference.

I don't have a mine detector.

I have a plan. In each of the sentry towers, there is a chart showing the

mined area.

You must carry a walkie-talkie radio.

I will speak to you from the tower and give you directions.

But we have no radio.

It won't be difficult for me to get one. All the patrols carry them. Good.

The sooner you get started... But there's one thing I don't like about

your plan.

You can't stand on the tower and give us directions. You'd be seen. There is no

other way.

I'll give the directions to Tanya.

When she's across, I can easily look after myself.

Oh, but that is... There's no time to argue.

Thanks for all you've done.

Get back before they miss you.

Come on.

I'll show you where you can get through the wire.

What now? Don't worry.

This is where we get our walkie-talkie.

Here's your radio.

You'll have to wait here.

Keep well down.

Don't start across until you hear me.

If you want to talk to me, press this button.

I understand.

Good luck.

I know you're dumb.

Yes, start moving the ground is clear for about ten yards

Slowly now

Stop mines

That's not the sentry's voice.

There is a voice over the radio, Commissar. It must be Brady. Where is

he? He must be in the tower.

He's directing her across the minefield.

Now take one of your men to the tower.

Get rid of him.

Come on.

Keep going.

Over there.

It's a wound.

Tanya, get down.

Tanya Roscoe, I'll open fire.

Fire at the ground around her.

If you can't hit her, we'll blow her up.

Peter, what can I do?

They're blowing up the mines.

Stay there.

I'll see to these boys.

The sentry box!

He's up there!

Start crawling, Tanya.

Turn right.

Let go.

She's nearly there.

Never mind me. Let her go.

Drop your arms.

Get over there.

Go on, move.

Drop your gun.

Get in that toilet.

Hey, you too.

Nice work, Tommy. You've done it.

I'll be seeing you.

Good evening, Mrs. Wilson.

We are so sorry that your brother was not back for the reception.

Oh, yes.

Have you any news of him? I'm still terribly worried.

Don't worry, Miss Roscoff. Pete will be all right.

He can come back any way he likes.

In all probability, he'll take the train.

You're dead right, Dee.

First classman brought on the Trans-Siberian branch line.

Pete! Mr. Brady!

Oh, I'm so glad that you are back.

Professor Koenig collected your prize.

Do you mind, Professor?

Oh.

This is a price that I should be honored to give.

It's not merely for science, Mr. Brady.

As far as I'm concerned, it is for everything.

Thank you, Miss Ratka.