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My name is Peter Brady.

For some time now, I've been engaged in highly secret experiments designed to

bring about a great step forward in man's conquest of space and matter.

Here in my lab, working night and day, I've been prying into the mysteries of

the future.

Only a few hours ago, I felt that there were secrets that would never be known

to us here on Earth.

And then, suddenly, in the midst of routine experiments, a strange and

unpredictable event took place.

Whether a mistake or the natural conclusion of the experiment, I cannot

say.

I can say that what happened is one of the most fantastic experiences in our

modern day.

Miss Howard, come quickly.

Look, it's fading.

We're going to get total refraction.

Complete invisibility.

Please ask Mr. Manning to come here right away.

Hurry now.

Emergency. Emergency.

A dangerous leak has been detected.

Will all personnel check and report?

Repeat. Will all personnel check for leak and report?

Emergency.

Emergency. Give me control right away. This is Dr. Brady.

You can relax. I've traced the leak. Everything is now under control.

Are you all right, Dr. Brady?

Of course I'm all right.

Very good of you to come in person, Sir Charles.

Walked out in the middle of a cabinet meeting. Couldn't believe it when they

told me. Still don't. It's true, sir.

You mean Manning, this man's actually made himself invisible?

That's right, sir.

Let's go in.

The name is Peter Brady, one of our bright young men, working on optical

density. That's refraction, you see. No, I do not.

Oh, well, let me try to explain.

You see, if you take a jellyfish and put it in water, you can't see it because

the refractive index of the fish and the water are the same.

Now, Brady was working on the theory that all matter can be reduced to

invisibility once the refractive quotient is known, just like the

jellyfish. I might say it's not exactly a new idea.

Is to me.

Well, now, with the advent of nuclear power, science for the first time is

able to explore the possibilities of total refraction, that is, complete

invisibility.

It opens up a whole new field of research.

That's not all it does.

What do you mean?

It could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.

Of course, we realize that. What have you done about security?

We've got Brady under lock and key.

Security chief has posted guards.

Very well. I'd like to have a word with him.

Yes, of course.

Ask Kemp to bring in Dr Brady, will you please?

Hope he'll listen to reason, cooperate with us.

I'm sure he will.

What sort of a fellow is he?

Well, he's got an excellent background.

As a matter of fact, I've got his card here.

Um, good sportsman as well as a good scholar.

Road number two in the Varsity Eight.

Good all-round man.

Any family?

No, he's a bachelor.

Lives with his sister. She's a widow with a small child.

Hello, Diane?

I'm calling from the crossroads.

Has anyone been looking for me?

No.

Is there anything wrong?

You sound strange.

I'll explain when I see you. I'll be home soon. Are you all right, Peter?

Look, Dee, I might as well prepare you for it.

What do you mean, Pete?

Something is wrong. Are you hurt?

No, but I'm covered in bandages.

Bandages? Yes, but it's only camouflage.

I'm not hurt.

There was some trouble at the lab today. A leakage.

Sir, he's gone.

Dr. Brady, sir.

He's disappeared.

What's that?

We had him in the hospital, sir. Locked in a room. Two of my men standing guard

outside on the door. I never thought to put anybody in the window. It's two

stories up, sir. He must have climbed down the drainpipe.

I'll put out a general alarm.

No, put down that fan.

Mr. Charles. The fewer people who know about this, the better.

First thing to do is to find him.

How do you find an invisible man?

It's all right, Diane. It's me, Peter. Don't be afraid.

What's happened to you?

Come on, let's go inside.

Pete, your arm.

You know what I've been working on.

Well, there was an accident in the lab this morning.

An accident?

Yes, something went wrong with one of the conductors. I cut the full blast.

Pete!

Now, take it easy, Dee.

See? Good, solid hand.

How... how long are you gonna stay like that?

I don't know.

You mean, you don't know how to get back?

Not yet.

That's what I gotta start working on right away.

Oh, Peter!

Now, Dee.

You might never find a way back. You might stay like this for the rest of

your life.

You don't know your brother.

All I need is a little help.

There's the laboratory.

Some of the finest scientific minds in the world there. You said so yourself.

Surely they can help you. I wouldn't count on them.

Why not?

They try to lock me up.

Why should they want to lock you up?

It seems I've become a top secret.

There must be someone who can help you.

As a matter of fact, there is. And I know just the man.

Uncle Peter, I heard Uncle Peter.

Uncle Peter, what's happened to your face?

I'll tell you, darling.

You remember our old story about the king and the magic hat?

And you remember what happened when he put on his magic hat?

Nobody could see him.

Right. Well, your Uncle Peter's invented a magic hat and you can't see him.

You mean you've made yourself invisible?

Yes. Then what... What are you wearing all those bandages and things for? If

you're really invisible, take them off and show me.

No, Peter.

We've got to live with it, Dee.

Sally's all right.

And now, for my first trick.

Hey, presto!

Nothing to be afraid of.

It's still me.

Listen.

Go on, Uncle Peter. More.

More?

Certainly.

There, look.

Take them all off, Uncle Peter.

Now remember, darling, I'm here all the time, really.

Can I touch?

Come on.

See? Same old Uncle Peter.

Oh, you need a shave.

Yes, but I don't think anyone's going to notice, do you?

Listen, Sally.

You're not to go around telling anyone about what happened to me.

This is our secret, just between us, right?

Don't worry. I'll keep it a secret. Well, goodbye.

Hey, where are you going?

I'm late. I'm doing Jane's house right now.

Well, have fun.

Goodbye, Mommy. See you later, Uncle Peter.

Perhaps you'll have some more new tricks to show me.

I told you she'd be all right.

Now come along, Dee. Where are we going?

You'll see.

Well, you can't go driving around like that. You'll scare people half out of

their wits. Look what you did to me.

Don't worry. They won't see me. Won't see you?

I'm wearing my lab clothes under this. They're wool.

Animal fiber.

They've become invisible, too.

Now turn the car around, Dee.

I've just got to take off my overcoat and no one can see me.

John Crompton's the one man who can help me.

He's been working on this refraction problem for years.

You mean he's been trying to make things invisible, too?

Yes, but I seem to have beaten him to it.

Here we are. Here's the house.

No, it's better if I speak to him alone.

All right.

I'll pick you up in a little while.

Thank you.

May I offer you a light?

What are you? Who's there?

Don't you know your old friend Brady?

Brady? I don't understand.

It's no longer a theory, Crompton. Our work's been proven.

It's wonderful.

You actually induced a condition of invisibility.

You're looking at me, Crompton, face to face.

Do you see me?

It's amazing.

Congratulations.

This happened to me an hour ago. I had to get to you as soon as possible.

I'm glad you came.

Now, is there anything in your experience that will help me to get back

to visibility again? At the moment, I don't know.

But look here, Brady, I don't understand.

Why was it necessary to perform such a dangerous experiment on yourself?

It was an accident. A control device went wrong.

Ah, I see.

Leakage.

I need you, Crompton.

You must help me to come back.

What's the lab doing about it?

Nothing. I've become an official secret. I'm to be filed away, locked and

guarded. Well, I'm not buying it, thank you.

No, of course not. But I can understand their viewpoint.

It would cause panic and confusion all over this earth if it ever got out that

it was an invisible man at large. It would mean absolute chaos.

No, I appreciate the need for security.

So do I. But, Crompton, we have to make them understand that they can't lock me

up if our experiments are to continue.

I want to become a normal, visible man again.

Now, you must help me, Crompton. I must get back.

Must you?

What do you mean?

You haven't had a chance as yet to appreciate fully the position you're in,

have you, Brady?

To explore to the fullest all the interesting possibilities.

Or should I say opportunities that are open to you.

Come to the point, Crompton.

Very well.

It's simply this.

This morning, Dr. Brady, thanks to a fantastic accident, you inherited the

Earth. I don't get it.

I'll give it to you in a word.

Power.

So long as you remain invisible, no door can ever be closed to you.

Neither the vaults of the Bank of England nor the Prime Minister's private

office. All you have to do is take, Dr. Brady.

Money, power.

It's all yours for the taking.

Now do you understand?

You're joking.

Think about it anyway.

Turn your imagination loose for a moment. Then tell me whether I'm joking.

Just tell me.

Crompton. Yes?

I came here for just one reason, to ask you to help me to come visible again.

But instead I helped you in another way, huh?

I opened your eyes.

That's right. Enough to know how much I want to be Dr. Peter Brady again.

Exactly as before. Look, a normal citizen enjoying a normal life. Now

that's worth more to me than all the money and all the banks and all the

power in the universe.

Good for you.

I'm glad to hear you say that. What's that?

Oh, it was just a test, Brady. An exercise in psychology.

I was curious to see how you'd react to the thought, that's all.

You had me worried. Did I?

You'll forgive me, won't you? Yes, of course.

Oh, look, Croton, what's your answer? Will you help me?

Gladly. As a matter of fact, I have come across something that might be the clue

to your whole problem. You have? What?

Let me show you.

Thank you.

Oh, I see.

Well, yes, it's it's clear This is interesting, but I don't see how it

affects my problem.

This has nothing to do with Rebecca Hello

lab, this

is Thompson Brady's been here.

Yes invisible and dangerous. He attacked me.

All right, I'll come right over

Well, nothing appears to have been disturbed.

Still, we'd better get Brady's notes under lock and key. He's sure to come

back, and we don't know what he may do.

Yes.

Excuse me.

Kemp here.

Oh, yes, sir.

Yes.

That one, sir.

That was the chief.

We had to seal Brady's experiment file and take it to him at once. This is the

most important part. You'd better take it, Ken.

Anything else?

That's all.

All right.

I'll seal it myself.

Thanks for your help.

Where are you?

Here I am.

Oh, I see.

Are you all right? I think so.

I was hit in the head and knocked unconscious.

Crompton did that to you?

Yes, it was Crompton.

Come on, let's go.

But what happened?

I'll explain it all in the car.

The moment I'm more concerned with what's going to happen.

Now, let's see. I left them right there on top of the desk.

I can't see them. They're not here.

Crompton must have been here already.

No sign of them.

They're gone, all right.

Is that you, Manning? This is Brady.

Now, listen.

Crompton's stolen the most important notes of my experiment.

I'm afraid this affair has upset you, Peter, more than you realize.

You see, I've got your papers right here on my desk.

Why don't you come around and see for yourself?

I certainly will. That man's dangerous.

Manning says he's got my notes.

They're in his office.

Then Crompton didn't take them after all. I just don't understand.

Well, then why did he attack me?

That man must be a raving maniac.

Peter? Yes, it's me, all right.

Good heavens, the fellow really is invisible.

Now look here, Manning, this is serious.

Those notes of mine, you say you've got them? They're absolutely vital.

They're right here in this envelope.

May I see them?

How hard do you think that's necessary?

Dr. Crompton and the security police have sealed it.

I see no good reason to open it.

Oh, don't you?

Surely my brother has a right to look at his own notes.

Of course I have.

I agree with her, Dr. Manning.

Open it.

Well, come on.

Open it up.

Here. You won't understand them. Give them to me.

Blank paper.

Crompton's fooled you.

I've got to find them.

Peter, wait!

Excuse me.

Come along. After him.

That gun won't do you any good.

Those notes are no use to you. I became invisible by mistake.

I don't know how it happened myself.

Oh, I've had enough of this.

You asked for it.

I'm coming after you, Croton.

Where are those nukes?

Come on.

Now, let's have them.

Croton.

Give me those.

No!

Come on!

What's happening?

Come on! Give me those noobs!

Crompton, come back here!

You won't get away from me!

It's no use, Crompton!

You see, you can't get away from an invisible man.

I won't help you.

Come here.

Here you are, Kemp. He's all yours now.

I think you'll find my papers in his pocket.

Yes, Sally, nothing's missing. My notes are all here.

And now if people will leave me alone, I can get back to work.

It was a very bad thing someone did to Uncle Peter, locking him up like that.

Now, Sal, you're not to speak that way. The child's quite right.

It's a bad thing someone did.

Those men ought to be punished.

What are you going to do about it?

Nothing, I'm afraid.

Nothing? Sal?

On second thoughts, there is something we can do. What's that?

Promise your Uncle Peter that nothing of the sort will ever happen again.

Well, that's something anyway.

Good night. Good night. Good night, Uncle Peter.

Good night, dear.

Well, Brady, what about it?

What do you mean, sir?

Well, you heard what the child said to your niece.

It won't happen again.

I'm happy to hear it.

Then you'll come back to the laboratory?

Yes.

Fine.

Then we'll see you at work in the morning.

No chief But you said I'll be there but

you won't see me