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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.

I shan't be long.

(DOOR LOCKING)

- Sir? - One moment.

Now, Listen carefully. I have no time to repeat myself.

I want you both to leave at once.

- What? Dismissed? - Of course not.

I hope you'll be able to return some time tomorrow.

- Leave the house, sir? - Just Listen to what I'm saying.

Don't interrupt.

- Have you any money? - No, sir!

Damnation! My wallet's upstairs.

- Well, there's the housekeeping. - Take it. You can sleep at the Swan.

- Do you know Colonel Adye's house? - Why, yes, sir.

Take this note to him before you go to the Swan. Do exactly what he says.

On no account are you and Cook to return to this house tonight.

- Do you understand? - I think so, sir.

- Yes, sir. - Very well.

Off you go.

(CLOCK STRIKING)

It's me.

It hasn't taken you all this time to find that food.

- I spoke to the servants. Perhaps you heard. - I heard voices, yes.

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 at night.

- Where are they now? - We won't be disturbed until morning.

Eat before you drop.

(GRIFFIN EATING NOISILY)

(DRINK POURING)

- How's the arm? - The bleeding's stopped.

- You should let me attend to it. - Later, later.

When you feel able to continue...

Continue?

If I'm to understand how you come to be like this.

After you made the piece of cloth invisible, what then?

I had a visitor to my attic room.

(MIAOWING)

(MAN SHOUTING IN STREET)

(KISSING NOISE)

Come in, puss.

Come in.

Yes!

(CAT YOWLS ANXIOUSLY)

Everything is ready for you.

Come on, then. Yes!

Do you like milk? Come on, then.

Yes!

There we are, Look.

There we are.

Come on, then.

(KISSING) Here we are. Come on, then.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

There we are, then.

- Come on, then. - (YOWLING)

Come on, then, yes.

There. Come on, then.

- Come on, then. Yes! - (MACHINERY HAMMERING)

The essential phase was to place the object whose refractive index was to be lowered

between the two radiating centres.

- (KEMP) Like Réntgen? - No, he discharges electricity through gases.

- How Long did it take? - Hours. Three or four.

(GAS ENGINE CONTINUES HAMMERING)

The bones and sinews and fat were the last to go,

except for the eyes.

- (MACHINERY HAMMERING) - (MUTTERING)

Mr Griffin!

A living creature, Kemp.

From that moment, I saw no drawbacks.

I beheld a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man.

The mystery, power, freedom.

- (KNOCKING) - Mr Griffin!

(MACHINE STOPS)

- Yes? - I'm sorry to interrupt your work...

- You are interrupting. What do you want? - Miss Hood, you see...

- What, again? - The noise!

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 vibrations from a sneeze could be felt all over this building.

This has always been a respectable house.

It's a slum!

The neighbourhood is rather disreputable, but I do my best.

- (MIAOWING) - The cat!

- Cat? - Miss Hood has lost her cat, you see.

There's no cat here. I dislike cats intensely.

- But I heard it quite distinctly. - You are mistaken. I heard nothing.

It's all she has Left in the world, poor soul

If I might just take a Look. It may have slipped into the room while your back was turned.

Puss! Puss, puss! (KISSING)

Puss, puss, puss, puss.

Puss, puss, puss.

Puss! Puss!

- (MIAOWING) - There! You heard it!

I heard nothing.

Will you please leave?

Erm... 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...

- What is it, man? Get to the point. - Miss Hood has spoken quite often Lately

about the police!

The noise, you see, and now her cat.

- I believe if she should fail to find it... - Police.

As you know, the Laws against vivisection are very severe.

Vivisection? Ach!

Damn cat!

She believes you are involved in its disappearance.

Reassure Miss Hood that I have not been tormenting her cat.

- My experiments do not involve vivisection. - What exactly are your experiments?

- Are they dangerous? - No.

- Are they legal? - Good night.

- Mr Griffin! - (KNOCKING)

This is my house, Mr Griffin. I have a right of entry.

Mr Griffin!

L put the animal onto the roof when it came to.

(KEMP) You mean, there's an invisible cat at large in the world?

(GRIFFIN) If it hasn't been killed.

That wretched creature brought matters to a crisis.

I'd no idea what the landlord might do, but I knew what he had the power to do.

(MIAOWING)

The thought that my work might be exposed

made me very angry and very active.

Damn them!

Damn them all to hell.

There was only one thing for it,

and the desire was irresistible.

What I had done to the cat

I would do to myself.

Thruppence ha'penny, please.

L knew my rooms would be searched. I had to take precautions.

I posted my notebooks to a house of call for letters and parcels in Great Portland Street.

It was all done that night, Kemp.

It was terrible.

A night of wracking anguish, of sickness and fainting.

I had not expected the suffering.

(GASPS)

(GAS ENGINE HAMMERING)

(GASPING AND CHOKING)

(BIRDSONG)

- (KNOCKING) - Mr Griffin!

(WOMAN YELLING)

(MAN) Why doesn't he answer?

Mr Griffin! I must insist!

- Mr Griffin! - Here, let me. I'll open the door.

It shouldn't be allowed, ill-treating Little creatures!

Stand back. Calm down.

(ENGINE STOPS)

(BOLTS SLIDING BACK)

(GASPING)

What is it?

I have a notice of ejectment.

Leave me alone!

All of you!

GO away!

What has he done to himself?

- Get rid of him! - He's Satan!

- Get rid of him from this house. - He's the devil.

- (ALL SHOUTING) - What is the matter with you people?

(MUTTERING)

Mr Griffin! Mr Griffin!

Can you hear me? Mr Griffin!

Still under the influence of the drugs that decolourise blood,

I began to destroy my apparatus.

It must not fall into the wrong hands. Nobody must know what I had done.

- (GLASS SMASHING) - Mr Griffin!

Can you hear me, Mr Griffin?

Come on out!

Mr Griffin!

What are you doing in there?

He's breaking things! I can hear!

He's smashing the place up.

Mr Griffin, stop that at once!

Mr Griffin! What is he doing?

What are you waiting for? Break it down!

- Are you afraid? - Miss Hood, stand back.

(GAS HISSING)

Fire! Fire!

Save him! Save him!

(MISS HOOD SCREAMING)

(COUGHING)

- He's gone! - Impossible. He must be on the roof.

Mr Griffin, are you here?

It's hot! Fire did deliberately, you ask me.

- Water, water! - It's a bit late for that! Come on!

Fire! Fire!

If ever a man had, I had burnt my boats.

The upper floor was blazing as I reached the street.

Stark naked, I tried to dodge away, fearing that I might be trapped in the crowd.

- Fire'. fire'. - But once free,

- I experienced a wild impulse to jest! - Fire!

The devil's in your basket.

(LAUGHS)

Here, what's going on?

(SCREAMS)

(GRIFFIN LAUGHING)

(WHINING)

(THUNDER)

Foolish as it seems now, I'd not reckoned with the weather.

When it began to rain, my euphoria vanished and I became inexpressibly wretched.

I had no refuge, no one in the whole world in whom I could confide.

The one thought that possessed me was to find shelter and food.

Only then might I plan the new Life to which I was committed.

Is... is anyone there?

Er... (CHUCKLES)

I hope there's no objection to my sharing your shelter.

Hello?

Don't be afraid!

Here, take my coat.

Poor soul

You begin to realise the full disadvantage of my position.

Indeed I do.

Why run away from an offer of help?

What harm could a blind man do?

To get clothing would be to forgo all my advantage. Surely you can see that?

- But you had to have covering. - And food.

I was starving hungry,

but to fill myself with unassimilated matter would be to become grotesquely visible again.

- I hadn't thought of that. - (LAUGHS)

Nor had I.

And the rain had warned me of other dangers.

- The rain made a watery outline... - (BELL TINKLES)

“a sort of glistening surface of a man.

The dirt from the street gave shape to my feet.

(KEMP) What did you do?

Cheeky Little devils. Scallywags, that's what they are.

(SNEEZE)

Who's there?

All right, come on.

Who's there?

(cows CHINK)

In less than fifteen minutes, I was ready to go forth into the world again, equipped.