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(Multicom Jingle)

(ominous music)

(light music)

(man with gun shouting in foreign language)

(fists smashing)

(screaming)

- You think we are fools, Mrs. Vasa.

We knew your husband would try to get to you

when we got to London.

We planned it this way.

(somber music)

- I'm sure your refugee organization

does a wonderful job, Mr. Bratski.

But I have my own work to do.

If I go flying off at every tangent, I'll never-

- But a man's freedom is at stake.

Perhaps his life.

- If this man's held a prisoner on the ship,

why don't you go to the police?

- They can do nothing.

Vasa is one of their own nationals.

Serving as a member of the crew.

A month ago he tried to get away in New York.

You must have seen it in the papers.

Escape bid from Iron Curtain ship.

Prisoner dragged back.

State department protests.

- Oh yes, I do remember something about it.

- Even if the police search the ship,

they have no right to take him off.

There's nothing we can do legally.

- And you think I'm ready to act illegally?

- In a case like this, I can only hope so.

- Listen, Mr. Bratsky.

Week after week, refugees escape from the tyranny

of eastern Europe.

They jump ship, smuggle on the trains,

cut their way through barbed wire frontier.

Each step calls for human courage and suffering.

If I would've helped everyone who needed it,

I'd never get around to my own work.

- Mr. Brady, this is not what I expected

from the invisible man.

- Exactly.

I have the special quality and everyone wants

to use it for their own ends.

- And because I want to make use of it

for the freedom of an unknown and unimportant seaman?

- No one is unimportant.

But I believe science has more to offer humanity

than one man's freedom.

- So, in other words you are prepared to abandon this man?

Good day, Mr. Brady.

- All this, Peter.

Who are you abandoning?

- No one.

- Who is he anyhow?

- He is head of a refugee protection committee.

A seaman jumped ship at six o'clock this morning.

He was dragged back by the crew half dead.

At least that's what he said.

Hello, Sir Charles?

Brady here.

I wanna check with you security people

on a visitor I just had.

- Oh?

Bratsky, the refugee man?

Why of course he's absolutely first class.

Hundred percent.

A wonderful war record.

And he's been getting his people out

from behind the curtain ever since.

If you can do anything to help him.

What?

He wants you to do something illegal?

Well don't tell me the sordid details.

Better I shouldn't know.

Goodbye.

- Well, what about this lunch you're gonna give me?

- Sorry, Dee.

But I got a bit of research to do.

But first I'll do my disappearing trick.

- Well where do we go?

- [Brady] Straight to the London docks.

(ominous music)

Do your stuff now, Dee.

- Is there anything I can do for you, miss?

- Yes Sergeant.

I'm from the morning Star.

I wanted to check on the facts about the trouble last night.

- Trouble, miss?

- You know, the Cvoboda affair.

The seaman who tried to make a getaway.

- Cvoboda, that's the ship over there.

I don't know about any trouble.

What time is this?

- Oh, about six o'clock?

- Nothing was reported to us.

Hey, bud, you were here.

You hear anything about a seaman jumping ship

from the Cvoboda?

- No.

- But his wife was waiting for him in a black car.

He was dragged back to the ship.

- Yes now, come to think of it.

There was a woman sitting in a car just over there.

She left about 6:30.

- And she didn't report anything?

- No, not a thing.

- Thank you, Sergeant.

- [Brady] So nobody knows anything about this

except Mrs. Vasa herself

at the Strathmore Hotel, Tower Street.

- You she made it up?

- We're going to find out.

(tires screeching)

- Oh we seem to be seeing an awful lot

of that car behind us.

I think we're being followed.

- [Brady] I know we're being followed.

Have been ever since we left Castle Hill.

- Did you see who it was?

- Slovanic gentlemen.

Heavily disguised in a clean car.

Right, here we are.

Tower street.

Nip around the next corner, let me out,

and then drive on.

- Fine.

I'll give them a run around Buckingham Palace

and the House of Lords.

Do them good to see the sights.

- [Brady] See you later, Dee.

Have a good time, comrades.

(footsteps clicking)

(ominous music)

- Hey, just a minute, wait for me.

Stop it.

Foxy, stop it.

Sixth floor please.

Foxy, stop it, naughty girl.

Mommy won't tell you again.

Lovely weather we're having, aren't,

Oh dear.

Where's the man?

- Poor Stephan.

If only Mr. Brady had agreed to help.

- I did my best to persuade him.

- Three times now he has tried to escape.

But it's no hope, I will never see him again.

- [Brady] Perhaps you will, Mrs. Vasa.

Don't worry.

It's me, the invisible man.

- Mr. Brady, I-

- [Brady] I'll do all I can to help your husband.

If I can locate him on the ship, I'll get him ashore.

- Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

- Thank you indeed, Mr. Brady.

Can I give you a lift?

- [Brady] Thank you.

(rotary phone dialing)

- Hello?

It is me, Sonia Vasa.

Yes.

Yes, he's on his way now.

- You're a very wise woman, Mrs. Vasa.

A very wise woman.

- And my husband?

Will you let him go?

- All in good time, dear lady.

We must wait until we have the invisible man aboard.

- But you promised.

(phone clicking)

- Is he coming, Comrade Commissar?

- Naturally, he's on his way.

He should be arriving on board in the next few minutes.

See that you handle your end as efficiently

as I have mine.

- Have no fears comrade Commissar.

Do you want to see him arrive?

- See him?

- Of course, see him.

See the invisible man.

You are talking to a clever man, comrade.

I know how to deal with the enemies of our country.

- But he's not exactly an enemy, Captain.

He's unique.

We need him for our experiments.

- All the same to me.

You will get him in a neat parcel.

You wish to see it happen?

- That would be a pleasure.

- Come on.

Tell him what you got there.

- A development from radar, Comrade Commissar.

Far in advance of anything in the west.

- He's a clever young fellow.

He adapted it for this purpose.

With my help of course.

- From Radar, huh?

- Take a look at the screen.

- What are these moving marks on the screen?

- [Young Man] We are beamed outside on the gate.

And those are people coming in and out.

- Three of them, that's right.

The screen tells the truth.

- Every shadow represents something out there.

The mechanism reacts whenever anything crosses the beam.

- Well?

- We're expecting the mechanism to react

when there is no one at the gate.

For then we have recorded the invisible man.

- But I still don't understand.

- He's solid, though we can't see him.

But the radar beams can strike his body

like they strike everything else.

And they bounce back like an echo

and we get his radar shadow.

- Very clever, Captain.

- Let's hope he'll come quickly.

Or we will be too late for this tide.

We will have to wait another eight hours.

- It won't come to that.

As soon as he comes aboard, we must sail.

- I may sail, Comrade Commissar.

But the ship will remain on the mud.

- [Brady] Okay, Mr. Bratski.

From now on, I'd rather be alone.

And I am pleased to go nowhere near the ship, Mr. Brady.

My fellow countrymen would like to settle many scores

with me.

Good luck and thank you.

- Captain!

There's something on the screen.

- Keep us in focus.

- What's the excitement?

There's only a man at the gate.

- Comrade Commissar, look.

There is one man at the gate,

there are two men on the screen.

- You're right, look.

One has stopped, the other is coming on.

- It's the invisible man.

Keep him in focus.

- He's coming this way.

Ah, he's going to the stern.

- He must come up the gangplank, it's our only chance.

We've got only about five minutes left, Comrade Commissar.

(ringing)

Clear the gangplank.

Keep the ship working normally.

- He's coming back.

- [Captain] He's alongside the gangplank.

- Walk, my friend.

- This is it.

Stand by.

Let her go!

- [Brady] What the?

Help! Help! Police, over here!

It's Brady.

I'm on the ship, help, help!

Help!

Help, help, help!

- Safe in the net.

Well done, Captain.

- [Brady] Hey, up here! Help!

Help, they're cover me into the hull.

Help!

- Keep that noise up or they will hear him.

Get the gangplank inboard.

- [Brady] Hi! Hi! Help!

Hey, get me out of this.

It's Brady.

Help!

Help! In the net!

- Somebody's going to hear him.

- All right.

Lower him into the hold.

- Yes, Madam.

- I must speak to the Captain of the Cbovoda.

- Afraid you're too late, madam, she's just sailing.

- But my husband, he's on board.

- Got your passport, madam?

- Yes, of course I have.

- Bring it on.

Three.

- All right.

All right madam, you better hurry.

- Stop! Stop!

I must speak to the Captain.

- You are too late.

- But my husband, he's on board.

- Get her on board or she'll make trouble for all of us.

- All right.

- But I must speak to him.

- Mrs. Vasa.

Just in time.

You must help Stephan ashore.

He is not feeling so good since our little quarrel

last night.

Take her to Vasa.

- This way please.

- Vasa?

It's the wife of the man who jumped his ship in New York.

I better go and check.

You stand by.

- Get the gangplank on board.

- Leave it to me.

- Bosun, we sail immediately.

Get down to the hold and take care of the invisible man.

And take all the men you can spare.

(bell ringing)

- Where is he?

- Inside.

- Stephan!

- [Stephan] Sonia, what are you doing here?

- What have they done to you?

- I'm all right.

- You must come quickly.

- No, Mrs. Vasa.

You will both stay aboard.

- But you promised!

- I'm afraid that I will have to disappoint you.

Directly you got your husband ashore,

you will tell the police

that we have the invisible man aboard.

- No, no, no, I swear I won't.

- You betrayed him.

You would also betray us.

- Don't move through the door.

Stand by!

Lower way!

Move in.

Don't give him any room.

Lower the first rope.

Grab him!

- Ugh!

- He jumped!

There he is!

Keep him away from the door.

He can't get out.

Get him!

- Half a head.

(ringing)

- Half a head.

- Where is he?

- [Brady] Over here, comrade.

(gun firing)

(banging)

- Come in.

- Sorry to disturb you sir, but this could be urgent.

- Yes Sergeant?

- It's about the Cvoboda, she's on her way out.

- That's right Sergeant, just caught the tide.

What's the trouble?

- Well there's a woman onboard, a Mrs. Vasa.

Her husband's one of the crew.

She came to the dock gate a few minutes ago.

She seemed very upset.

She was shouting for them to stop the ship.

She wanted her husband.

- What happened?

- Well she went on board, she didn't come off.

- You think she's being held against her will?

- I don't know sir, it could be.

Is there any way of stopping the ship?

- I don't see how we can.

Their papers are in order.

Still, we'll make a few inquiries before she gets

out of the river.

Give me contact with the Cvoboda immediately.

Thank you Sergeant.

(buzzing)

- Yes?

- This is the Port Authority.

- This is the Captain of Svoboda speaking.

- Captain, you have a Mrs. Vasa aboard.

She is a British subject and is not on your crew list.

- That's quite correct.

Mrs. Vasa is married to a member of our crew.

And she's sailing home with him.

- Is that Mrs. Vasa's wish?

- [Captain] Why, of course.

- Then we'd like to speak to her.

- They want to speak to her.

- Say that you are fetching her right away.

I don't want them to get suspicious.

- We are fetching her right away.

- Now tell them that you wish to sail with us

or it will be too bad for your husband.

- Mrs. Vasa is here now.

- Hello?

- [Port Authority] Mrs. Vasa?

- Yes?

- First Mrs. Vasa, we'd like to identify you.

The color of your hair?

- Blonde.

- [Port Authority] Eyes?

- Blue.

- [Port] Your address in London?

- Srathmore Hotel, Tower Street.

- [Port Authority] Number of your room?

- 36.

- Thank you, Mrs. Vasa.

Now we want to ask you one more question.

Are you traveling on the Svoboda of your own free will?

- Yes, I wish to go home.

- [Port Authority] Are you sure?

- Quite sure.

- Well thank you, Mrs. Vasa.

Bon Voyage.

- Take her back.

(knocking)

- [Brady] Vasa.

Vasa.

- I'm in here.

- [Brady] Keep quiet, somebody's coming.

- Brady.

- [Brady] Quick, the door.

Quickly Vasa, this way.

We'll have to swim for it.

- She can't, it's too far.

- [Brady] All right, we'll do it another way.

Get him on deck.

Stay out of sight, I'll be back.

- Up 100.

- Up 100.

- We must take her out of this river fast.

(ringing)

- Stop engines.

- What are you doing?

- I have done nothing, sir.

(ringing)

- Full speed ahead.

- You fool!

- It's the invisible man, he's here, sir.

(ringing)

- Hello, bridge, bridge.

What is wrong up there?

- Whatever happens, keep full speed ahead!

Go to the wheel!

Keep on course!

(boat horn blaring)

(tense music)

- [Brady] Wait for it!

Now!

(horn sounding)

Go on, I'll be with you.

Right, Sir Charles.

I'll leave the details to you.

It's okay.

Your husband has permission to stay.

And now I'll say goodbye.

- How could I ever thank you?

- [Brady] Oh, forget it.

- I feel so ashamed.

- [Brady] You didn't have much choice, Mrs. Vasa.

- You will forgive me?

- [Brady] Of course, Mrs. Vasa.

Good luck to you both.

(buzzing)

- Thank you Mr. Brady.

We shall not forget.

- (mumbling) with her mummy?

You see, you see?

Yes.

Looks like rain.

- [Brady] Just a shower, I hope.

- Oh I do hope it is,

No! (screaming hysterically)

Let me out!

(laughing)

(light music)