Fear the Invisible Man (2023) Movie Script
1
[low mysterious music]
[dramatic mysterious music]
[crickets chirping]
[Marvel snoring]
- [Griffin] Marvel.
[Marvel gasps]
[dark suspenseful music]
It's a beast of a country
and pigs for people.
Relax.
I see you as an outcast,
like myself.
Help me, and I will do
great things for you.
[Marvel gurgling]
[tense sinister music]
- What are you?
- [Griffin] An invisible man.
And an invisible man
is a man of power,
but if you betray
me or disobey me,
[Marvel gasping]
[Marvel screaming]
[dramatic suspenseful music]
[pen scratching]
[book thuds]
[horses galloping]
[door knocking]
- Griffin!
Griffin!
I know you're in there.
[door knocking]
Griffin! You open this door now!
[door banging]
Griffin!
Where's my rent?
[vials clinking]
[dramatic suspenseful music]
I know you're in
there, I can hear you!
[door banging]
Griffin!
Griffin!
[intense dramatic music]
[Griffin groans]
[Griffin cries out]
[electricity crackling]
[Griffin groaning]
[glass shatters]
What's going on?
[Griffin screaming]
[door crashes]
[Griffin laughs]
[glass shatters]
[fire roars]
[gentle sweeping music]
[birds squawking]
[ax thwacks]
[soft pensive music]
[bell rings]
[clock ticking]
[Adeline sighs]
- Look, Margaret,
an invisible man plagues
the town of Iping.
They claim to have a clergyman
and a doctor as witnesses.
Supposedly, this invisible
man inflicted serious injuries
on our Constable Jaffers.
[Adeline chuckles]
- Clearly, the folk of
Iping have lost the ability
to hear the words coming
out of their own mouths.
[chuckles] What rot.
Honestly, Miss Adeline,
you have better
things to be spending
both your time and money on.
Lord knows this place could
use more of the latter.
And not from pawning
your belongings.
Begging your pardon.
Oh, you think we haven't
noticed the steady disappearance
of all of this household's
valuable works of art?
Never thought I'd see the day.
And letting poor Arthur go.
The best footman you're
ever likely to see.
[clock ticking softly]
You'll be selling the
master's chess set next.
- Not that, Margaret.
Never that.
[Margaret sighs]
He seems to be in
rather a hurry.
Though he doesn't seem
to be getting very far.
- Aye, if his pockets
were full of lead,
he couldn't run heavier.
[footsteps tapping]
[Marvel panting]
[birds squawking distantly]
[coins rattling]
[dog barking]
[birds chirping]
[patrons chattering quietly]
[door thuds]
[Marvel panting]
[chair creaks]
- Oi, stranger,
what can I get you?
- Your finest,
food and drink.
- [Bartender] Get some chicken.
[patrons laughing quietly]
[upbeat folk music]
[Marvel munching noisily]
- [Thomas] Books?
- Yeah.
Yeah, they're books.
- Just seems strange is all,
seeing a man such as
yourself carrying books,
and into a pub of all places.
Some extraordinary
things in books.
- Indeed.
[wind rushing]
[door slams]
[low eerie music]
[blow thuds]
[Marvel exclaims]
- [Griffin] You think
you can hide from me?
- Oi! What's going
on over there?
[blow thuds]
[Marvel groans]
[table thuds]
He's gone mad, grab him!
- Steady, steady.
[Marvel groaning]
Steady.
[glass shatters]
[tense dramatic music]
[porridge splats]
[steam sizzles]
[Griffin screams]
[Griffin groaning]
[glass shatters]
[bottle shatters]
- [Griffin] Marvel!
[Griffin panting]
[Griffin groans]
[gunshot blasts]
[bottle shatters]
[gunshots blasting]
[Griffin screams]
[officer thuds]
[Griffin panting]
[clock ticking]
[pen scratching]
[deep pensive music]
[soft apprehensive music]
[brisk curious music]
[drawer scrapes]
[barrel clicks]
[low tense music]
[stairs creak]
[deep apprehensive music]
[latch clunks]
[door creaks]
Adeline.
Is that you?
Help me, Adeline.
[Adeline gasps]
It's me, Griffin.
- Griffin?
Well, what in the
world? Show yourself!
[Griffin chuckles ruefully]
[Griffin gasps painfully]
[Adeline breathes heavily]
[Griffin grunts]
[Adeline gasps]
- [Griffin] Steady
yourself, Adeline!
For God's sake!
I want help badly.
I've been shot!
I'm nauseous and ill.
Just stop!
[Adeline whimpering]
Please, just help me!
[Griffin groans painfully]
- Griffin?
How can this be?
Are you a ghost?
- [Griffin] [chuckles] Ghost.
Here I thought you were
a woman of science.
You recall our
days at university?
My experiments on
matter and light,
on vision and visibility.
- The invisible man.
[Griffin groans]
[Adeline gasps]
Oh my God, you've done it.
- [Griffin] Look, Adeline,
I'm starving and freezing.
Have you got a dressing gown?
- You can find some
of Reginald's clothes
in the wardrobe.
Use one of his
shirts as a bandage.
Where were you shot?
- [Griffin] The bullet
passed through my arm.
[Griffin groans]
[Griffin sighs]
I could use your help with this.
[fabric ripping]
- Hold your arm up
where I need to wrap it.
- [Griffin] It's
right in front of you.
[Adeline chuckles]
[Griffin winces]
I'd forgotten how
tender was your touch.
How terribly it pained me.
My blood, it,
it turns visible
when it coagulates.
Reginald,
where is the old chap?
- He passed away.
- [Griffin] What?
Oh, I am so sorry to hear that.
Truly, I am.
Look, you must
forgive me, Adeline.
Coming here without
an invitation
after so many years.
I had nowhere else to go.
- You may stay in
here for tonight.
- [Griffin] And food?
- I'll fetch you something
from the kitchen.
[door thuds]
[rain pattering softly]
[thunder crashes]
[Adeline gasps softly]
[door creaks]
[thunder rumbling]
[Adeline exhales]
[doorknob rattling]
[birds chirping softly]
[soft pensive music]
[metal clanking]
[Adeline chuckles softly]
Oh, Griffin,
what have you done?
[stairs creaking]
- Morning, ma'am.
Oh, please, let me
carry that for you.
- No, I'm perfectly capable
of preparing my
own breakfast tray.
Thank you.
- Mrs. Kemp,
I couldn't enter your
room to clean it.
- I don't want it cleaned.
In fact, just stay out of my
room until further notice.
- Yes, ma'am.
Apologies, ma'am.
[Adeline exhales heavily]
- Griffin?
[door creaks]
- [Griffin] Are we alone?
- Yes, I sent the girl away.
What happened to you, Griffin?
How did you end up at my house
in this condition and bleeding?
- [Griffin] I recalled you
and Reginald had settled
in Port Burdock.
I hoped for shelter,
perhaps for Reginald to help
with aspects of my experiments.
[chuckles] Even with his
childish understanding.
- Childish?
He was a brilliant man!
- [Griffin] He was
closed-minded and small.
Still,
he may have had some use
with the right instruction.
- Your jealousy was
always beneath you.
Reginald was the best of us.
Have you turned your
clothes invisible?
- [Griffin] No.
My formula only works
on living matter.
- Then you're wearing nothing.
[breeze whooshes]
I must ask you to
make yourself decent.
[Griffin scoffs]
- [Griffin] Always so proper.
Though, one summer
night, I seem to recall-
- Griffin, please.
[latch clicks]
[door creaks]
- [Griffin] Ah, this is better.
Warmer.
I always admired
Reginald's taste in attire.
- He looked well in it.
- [Griffin] What do you think?
[soft pensive music]
Perhaps I could even
venture outside like this,
if I kept people from
approaching too closely.
My wound appears to
be healing quickly.
Perhaps a side effect.
[Griffin coughs]
- I can see from the newspapers
and from the gunfire last night
that others are aware of you.
How did you get shot?
- [Griffin] There was
a real fool of a man,
a sort of confederate of mine,
curse him,
who stole my money.
He created quite
a ruckus in a pub
when I tried to catch him.
- Is he invisible too?
- [Griffin] No.
I alone possess this power.
- Are you a danger to me
and the good people
of this household?
- [Griffin] Peace, Adeline,
and patience.
I'll tell you my story,
but first, I need rest.
[birds calling]
[hooves clopping]
[low serious music]
[gravel rattles]
- Good morning, Mrs. Kemp.
[deep tense music]
[gravel crunching]
Always a pleasure.
- Patrolling the neighborhood?
You seem rather overstaffed.
- I wish it were a patrol.
This is a manhunt.
- Oh dear.
- I've sent men with tracking
dogs to sweep the forest
on both sides of the road,
so if you hear their
racket, don't be alarmed.
- I heard a vagrant
caused a brawl last night
at the Jolly Cricketers.
You are pursuing him?
- News travels surprisingly
quick here in the outskirts.
No said vagrant, quite
a twitchy fellow.
- Then whom are you hunting?
- Well,
our friendly drifter claimed
that an invisible
man tried to kill him
and caused the
disturbance at the pub.
He begged to be locked
in our most secure cell.
- [laughs] Surely you
didn't indulge him.
- Oh, I had a good mind to.
Poor PC Collins got
shot on his account.
Oh, he'll be all right.
That crazed man wasn't the
one who pulled the trigger.
We're here because,
invisible man or not,
we did find a trail
of blood in the street
leading out of town towards
this general direction.
Whoever he is,
the man seems smart enough
to staunch his own bleeding
and avoid the road.
We lost his trail a
good distance back.
Have you experienced any
suspicious occurrences
since last night?
Strange noises,
broken window,
missing any food or supplies?
- No.
No.
Nothing like that.
- Thank heaven.
Keeping you safe
is my sacred duty.
Please, continue to
take all precautions.
- What happened to the vagrant?
- I locked him up for the
night for instigating the brawl
then released him
earlier this morning.
- You sent a mentally disturbed
man out into the street?
- I run the police
station, Mrs. Kemp,
not an asylum.
- If you'd support me in
my letters to the mayor
and to the city council,
Port Burdock would build one.
A more humane one.
The people here
respect you enough.
- Supporting the view
in your letters means
supporting new taxes,
which I don't.
- I heard the vagrant was
carrying a large sum of money.
- What exactly is your
interest in this man?
- You know I work
with the unfortunate.
- Your interest seems
rather more specific.
- [chuckles] Can't
a lady indulge
in some idle
neighborhood gossip?
- Perhaps I could
visit you again.
We'll talk about this gossip.
It seems here the
grapevine is more efficient
than the telegram.
[horse whinnying]
[deep uneasy music]
Good day.
- Ma'am.
- How do you do, William?
As always, thank you
for your service.
Can you tell me, has anyone
died because of this drifter
or anything at all
related to him?
- Not so far.
Thank the good Lord.
Look, Mrs. Kemp,
we attend the same meetings,
I support your politics.
You like to help people in need,
and I'm happy to feed you
information from time to time,
but please,
don't go looking
to help this one.
I've not seen him before,
and I know all the pikers
around these parts.
Let the bloke move on, eh?
He's bad news for Port Burdock.
- PC William?
[carriage wheels rattling]
[soft curious music]
[door thuds]
[latch clicks]
[door creaks]
[deep foreboding music]
[door squeaks]
[door squeaks]
[steps clopping]
- Griffin?
[Evie humming faintly]
Who told you
so, dilly, dilly
Who told you so
Twas my own heart,
dilly, dilly
That told me so
Call up your
men, dilly, dilly
Set them to work
[deep uneasy music]
Some to the plow,
dilly, dilly
Some to the fork
Lavender's blue,
dilly, dilly
Lavender's green
When I am king, dilly, dilly
You shall be queen
- [gasps] Oh, forgive me, ma'am.
Did I leave the door open?
- Are you all right
in here by yourself?
- Begging your pardon, ma'am,
why wouldn't I be?
If you don't mind, ma'am.
- Of course.
[fire crackling]
[Adeline sighs]
Well, at least you have the
good sense not to openly move
around the house
until nightfall.
Where did you disappear
to all day long?
[Griffin chuckles]
- [Griffin] If I
didn't know you better,
I would suspect you of
having just made a joke.
- Did you wander into town,
or were you inside
my house lurking?
- [Griffin] I was out,
gathering useful knowledge.
I saw you speaking
to the police.
Learn anything interesting?
- I learnt that
you came off worse
in the scuffle you instigated.
You don't appear to have
caused any deliberate harm.
You were always
rather a scoundrel,
but I'm relieved to know
you're not irredeemable.
You haven't changed since
our days at university.
Once again, I find you rummaging
through my private
correspondence.
- [Griffin] [sighs] Oh, your
precious propriety again.
- Had you more
respect for propriety
and more regard for
the feelings of others,
things might have
ended differently.
[Griffin sighs]
No!
Don't.
Please.
It was our last game together.
I still somehow expect
him to make his next move.
You were always a snoop,
always disdainful of
others' boundaries.
It seems you found a way
to make that illicit
behavior nigh undetectable.
- [Griffin] I can do many
things while invisible, Adeline.
Things that ordinary men cannot,
things that Reginald
could never do.
For example,
I could save you.
I could save your home.
I thought your household
staff looked a bit sparse.
A girl and an old woman.
[coins rattle]
[table thuds]
Take it.
It's a gift.
- I thought you said all
your money had been taken.
- [Griffin] Come now, Adeline,
who do you intend
to ask for help?
You don't come from
a prosperous family.
They can't shoulder the burden
of your husband's
failed research.
- He said he was closer
to a breakthrough.
It would have paid
for everything.
- [Griffin] Yes,
I'm familiar with the sweet
siren song of futile hopes.
But with my success,
there's more where
that came from,
if we can come to terms.
You don't have
much time, my dear.
The bank's letter's a week old.
They are coming for you.
[brisk dramatic music]
[carriage rattling]
[hooves clopping]
- Good day, Mrs. Kemp.
[door slams]
- Mr. Wicksteed, how are you?
How's things with
the city council?
- Port Burdock is
developing remarkably well,
I'm happy to say.
In fact, I've just come from
a meeting with His Lordship.
With a little bit of luck,
our prosperous town may soon
be enjoying the benefits
of a new electricity
power station,
and before the turn
of the century.
- Oh, I'm so delighted to hear
we're making such
heroic strides forward.
Perhaps Port Burdock might
share some of it's prosperities
with the less fortunate.
[Wicksteed chuckles]
- My dear lady,
I'm not unaware of your
gallant letter-writing campaign
to men of influence
around the town,
but I have to give
you a piece of advice.
It's an old Chinese
proverb, I believe.
Give a man a fish, you
feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish,
you feed him for life.
[chuckles] Your intentions
were honorable but misguided.
As long as I sit on the council,
your charitable schemes will
never see the light of day.
And if I may be so
bold, Mrs. Kemp,
if I was in your situation,
I'd concentrate on getting my
own financial house in order
before I start telling other
people how to manage theirs.
[Wicksteed chuckles]
[pen taps]
[pen scratching]
- I am relieved we can avoid
the heartbreaking business
of the bank throwing a
widow out onto the street.
- So I have more time?
- Uh, making this large payment
means I have the flexibility
to grant you an extension
to repay the balance,
but, um, not long, I'm afraid.
30 days.
[coins rattle]
Ah, the, uh,
the colonel's arrived.
Um...
Um, a thief broke into
the bank last night
and stole an enormous
sum of money.
If you'll excuse
me, I have some, um,
some unpleasant
business to attend to.
Good morning.
Morning, sir.
Uh, please, come this way.
[deep tense music]
[singer vocalizing]
[upbeat determined music]
[soft serious music]
- Like you, Reginald
continued to study the strange
and bizarre aspects of science.
He hoped his research
would earn an admittance
into the Royal Society.
Nothing as impressive
as your discovery, but-
- [Griffin] This will do.
- Are you confident you can
find a cure for your condition?
- [Griffin] It was to be the
focus of my work in Iping.
But I can do nothing without
my research journals.
The fool who stole my
money took them too.
Without them,
discovering an antidote
involves
trial-and-error mixtures
for over 300,000, maybe
400,000, chemical combinations.
It would take my whole lifetime.
- You must tell me how you
achieved this, Griffin.
It's a miracle of science.
[Griffin scoffs]
- [Griffin] If only you had
cared this much about me
during my time at university.
[quick dramatic music]
I devoted every shilling I
possessed to my research.
- [Adeline] Why invisibility?
- [Griffin] Oh, dear Adeline,
I wasn't researching
how to be unseen.
I was researching
how to be free.
My experiments met with
unparalleled success,
but my landlord grew impatient,
- I know you're in there!
- [Griffin] and I had little
time to conclude my research.
- [Landlord] Griffin!
- [Griffin] When he came
to collect his rent,
I had no choice.
I put on an act that would
have made any magician proud.
[electricity crackling]
[Griffin groans painfully]
[Griffin screaming]
[deep tense music]
[Griffin chuckles]
My head was already
teeming with plans
of all the wild and
wonderful things
I now had the freedom
to do with impunity.
But my triumph was short-lived.
I had been a naive fool.
[bottle shatters]
What helpless absurdity
an invisible man is
in the cold climate
and a dirty, crowded city.
Every crossing was a danger,
[carriage rattling]
every pedestrian a
thing to watch alertly.
I had no shelter, no covering
in the coming winter,
and to get clothing was to
forego all my advantage.
Snow was settling upon me,
rain would make me
a watery outline,
a glistening surface of a man.
London fog would turn me
into a ghostly bubble,
more visible than any
ordinary man blurred
and obscured by it.
[glass shatters]
[Griffin groans]
[Griffin shivering]
[carriage rattling]
I stumbled across a
humble costuming shop.
That night after the
store owner had gone home,
I rummaged out a costume
and robbed him of any
available money I could find.
Finally, I went
out into the world,
a grotesque but still
credible figure.
I realized invisibility
made it possible
for me to gain wealth and power
but also made it
impossible to enjoy them.
[deep intense music]
I eventually made
my way to Iping.
It was supposed to
be quiet and safe.
I went there to find a
way of restoring myself.
Then,
I was betrayed by the one
man who was supposed to help.
- It's remarkable, Griffin.
Remarkable.
They'll have to rewrite
every textbook in the world.
Think of the fortune
you might raise
and the good you
might do with it.
- [Griffin] We must think
bigger than that, my dear.
[footsteps clomping]
[doorbell rings]
- [Adeline] Colonel Adye.
[teacup clinking]
- Such a relief
you were able to delay
the bank's foreclosure.
However did you pull
off such a miracle?
- My brother in America
sent me the necessary funds.
He's doing quite
well for himself.
- Indeed.
- Railroads.
- Hmm.
Some men have such a
good head for business.
Others,
like your late
husband, for science,
but science hardly
ever pays the bill, eh?
- If only the good deeds
paid as well as the bad.
- [chuckles] They never do,
do they, Mrs. Kemp?
You brought your husband's
favorite coat out of retirement.
[Adye chuckles]
It's been years
since I last saw him walking
through town in this coat.
- [Adeline] I was reminiscing.
[coin clatters]
- It seems, perhaps, your
fortunes have changed.
Strange how the world
always gets on just fine,
don't you think?
No matter what tragedies
befall us mere mortals.
The bank's available
cash is stolen.
Fortunately for them,
you were able to pay
them a sizeable fraction
of what you owe,
in cash.
- Why exactly are
you here, Colonel?
- Did you know
the bank was robbed of twice
the amount you paid them?
I wonder where that
money disappeared to.
- Well, perhaps that mysterious
drifter might have answers
for you.
- I agree.
That's why I'm
tracking his movements.
Perhaps he can lead my police
to the bank's stolen money.
But apparently,
I'm not the only one
interested in him.
[low uneasy music]
You appear to be
messengering letters
to poor houses all
over the region
in search of the vagrant,
Mr. Thomas Marvel.
How did you come by
his name, Adeline?
- How did you get these?
- I always alert authorities
around the regions
about persons of interest.
They forwarded me the letters.
They appear little
like your handwriting.
[metal clinks]
[deep unsettling music]
- [Adeline] They're mine.
- And Mr. Marvel?
[Adeline inhales sharply]
- Colonel Adye, I
must ask you to leave.
Immediately.
[low serious music]
- I came as a courtesy to
give you the opportunity
to be frank with me.
I do suspect you're
withholding information.
Please believe me,
these kinds of secrets
never get better with time.
[deep dramatic music]
- How dare you write
letters in my name,
and how dare you
threaten Colonel Adye!
[carriage rattling]
Thomas Marvel.
[Adeline sighs]
[low pensive music]
- Mrs. Kemp.
If Dr. Kemp could see you,
he'd be sick with worry.
I'll be going home now, ma'am.
This letter came in the
afternoon post for you.
It seems urgent, ma'am.
- "Dear Mrs. Kemp,
I've received your
letter requesting my aid
to help you locate
an unfortunate man
named Thomas Marvel.
Alas, I feel obliged
to inform you
that the local police have
made the same request.
They keep the miserable
man under surveillance.
For what reason,
I cannot divine.
Sadly, I must report to them
the arrival of your letter,
but in honor of our
past works together
helping the laboring classes,
I can report to you that Thomas
Marvel is sheltering here
in our annex.
Your true friend
and devoted servant,
Bishop Oliver White,
East Cliff Abbey."
Mrs. Kemp.
You are too sensible to
venture to this part of town
so close to nightfall.
- I must find that man.
- You place me in a
difficult position,
especially if you are involved
with anything dishonest.
I do not want to know
about anything that-
- Have you informed
Colonel Adye yet?
- You know I must.
Port Burdock is
not a large city.
Sooner rather than later,
word will get back to the
police about his presence,
including word about
your inquiries here.
This is the one and only time
I can help you in this manner.
He avoids the other homeless,
find him in the pews.
[birds cawing]
- [Adeline] We have a
mutual acquaintance.
- I don't know you.
And I doubt we'd be moving
in the same society.
- I'm here alone.
- I'm curious to learn why you
think I need that assurance.
- For a man of means, you
choose poor accommodations.
- A man who spends his money
is one to draw attention.
I ain't making
that mistake again.
You being here is case in point.
If you're his friend,
what do you want?
- The truth is, I am his friend.
I just don't know
whether he is mine.
- He's a sick man.
Always yammering on
about his plans to bring
the entire country to heel.
- The entire country?
- Yeah.
But Thomas Marvel showed him.
Queen Victoria should
give me a medal.
I took the wind right
out of his sails, I did.
[Marvel laughs]
- Could you see
your way to parting
with that journal in your hands?
[deep ominous music]
- I knew it.
You just want the power
for yourself, don't you?
Well, it's mine!
You're in league with
the invisible man!
She's in league with
the invisible man!
He's with her now.
[door slams]
- Marvel, wait!
[doorknob clunks]
[door creaks]
Griffin?
[blanket flaps]
[soft pensive music]
[deep mysterious music]
[doorknob squeaks]
[door creaks]
[footsteps clomping]
[gasps] Griffin.
Where have you been?
Why did you follow
Colonel Adye into town?
What did you do to him?
- [Griffin] Do you actually
care for that insufferable man?
I wanted to see what he
actually knew about us.
No doubt my
confederate had talked
the police chief's ears off
with wild tales of
the invisible man.
I wanted to know
if good, old Colonel Adye
believed the stories.
- And?
- [Griffin] Well, of
course he doesn't.
[Adeline sighs softly]
Sit down.
Life must go on, my girl.
[soft pensive music]
There is so much for us to do.
- Reginald would've never
made so bold a move.
- [Griffin] That
was him all over.
And yet, he won what mattered.
Imagine what we could
do together, Adeline.
I know you wish to
do great things.
I can ferret out the hidden
information you need,
secure the funds
that you require.
[deep uneasy music]
I can remove the obstacles
that stand in your way.
From this day forward,
[chess pieces clatter]
life will be so much easier
for you, Adeline Kemp.
But I must have my journals.
Only when I master invisibility
will the world bend
to my will.
Only then can you make
it a better place.
I must have my journals,
[Adeline gasps]
Adeline,
and you will help me find them!
[footsteps clomping]
- Marvel?
Have you seen him?
- He didn't make the queue to
shelter in the annex tonight,
but I've seen where he goes
when he wants to
make himself scarce.
I can show you,
but what's in it for me?
[coins rattle]
[gravel crunching]
Go on.
The entrance to the
tunnel's around there.
[deep uneasy music]
[Michael chuckles]
[Michael whistling]
[hooves clopping]
[wheels rattling]
- Are you lost, love?
[low tense music]
[match strikes]
[flame whooshes]
[deep uneasy music]
Maybe we can light your away.
Michael did a fine
job luring you.
If you've come for your
money, it isn't here!
[deep ominous music]
- Mr. Marvel, I'm not
looking for the money.
I only seek the journals.
- If you want your books
so bad, come and get 'em!
[journal thuds]
Don't hide behind
this pretty thing.
- He's not here.
I'm willing to pay for it.
[Marvel laughs]
- I'll wager you'd be
willing to do a lot more
before my boys let you
out of this chamber.
[lantern clanks]
- What did he tell
you gentlemen?
That an invisible man would
be coming here tonight?
Surely you didn't believe
such a ludicrous claim.
- Marvel here's paying us
quite well to babysit him
and take out his
invisible tormentor.
We believe him daft,
but money's money, right, boys?
[Marvel chuckles]
- Marvel also told us that
a pretty little morsel
would be wandering down
here by her lonesome.
We didn't believe that neither,
but wonder of wonders,
here you are,
[sniffs] ready for the taking.
[Frank grunts]
Takes a bit of effort
to pull the trigger.
I guess your, uh, fingers
aren't in the practice.
You should have cocked
the hammer back first.
I can teach you things.
[neck snaps]
[thug grunts]
[quick dramatic music]
[ruffian gasps]
[blow thuds]
[ruffian grunts]
- Look out, you idiots!
[blows thudding]
[goons grunting]
[blow thuds]
[goon grunting]
[ruffian panting]
- Where the hell are you?
[ruffian grunts]
- [Griffin] Everywhere.
[gunshot blasts]
Run, Adeline. Run!
[footsteps stomping]
- Where are you, you blighter?
Show yourself, you blighter!
[Griffin grunts]
[Frank yells]
[blow thuds]
[Griffin panting]
[deep mysterious music]
[Griffin groans]
[ground thuds]
[carriage rattling]
[hooves clopping]
[Marvel groaning]
[Marvel laughs]
- Congratulations, Mr. Marvel.
You will get your wish.
You will be locked up
for God knows how long.
All you had to do was
be part of a brawl
that saw two men killed.
- It weren't me.
It were the invisible man.
[thunder rumbling]
You don't believe me, do you?
You should ask your
pretty lady friend.
[thunder rumbles]
[Marvel grunts]
[Marvel laughs]
Make sure you give your pretty
little friend her toy back.
[rain rushing]
[fire crackling softly]
[thunder rumbles faintly]
- Who killed those two men
we found on the ground?
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
- Tell me the truth, Adeline,
[pistol thunks]
or as much of it
as you can manage.
Let me help you.
- I was trying to
recover that journal.
Marvel stole it,
and someone saved me.
- Hmm.
Must be quite a book for
you to risk your life
in such a foolish manner,
and then,
a miraculous savior.
I would love to shake his hand.
What does he look like?
- I don't know.
[Adye chuckles softly]
- Height?
Weight?
Hair and eye color?
- I don't know.
- Mrs. Kemp,
the sole reason that I don't
drag you behind bars yourself
is that both you and
Mr. Marvel seem to agree
that someone else created
this night's mayhem.
So please,
be more forthcoming.
Does this journal
truly belong to you?
Does it belong to Mr. Marvel?
Does it belong
to an invisible man?
- [scoffs softly]
Don't be absurd,
the journal's mine.
[Adye chuckles]
- Well, I see.
Ominous headings in English,
clearly written by someone
obsessed with the morbid.
And the rest?
Gibberish.
- It's a cipher,
I can't read it.
- Neither can I.
There's a fellow down at the
station good with puzzles
who says there's a key.
It seems a seven letter keyword
will unlock this cipher,
but I'd be blowed if I can
think of what it might be.
[thunder rumbles]
Mr. Marvel doesn't know the
contents in this journal either,
yet you both claim ownership.
- The journal belongs
to my late husband.
As you know, he was a scientist.
His dream was to become a
member of the Royal Society.
It was all he ever wanted.
- The Reginald we
know sought to conduct
[Adye scoffs]
human experimentation?
This journal
is lunacy.
Yet I'm inclined to believe you.
Seeing how fervently
you've been seeking it,
even to the point of
endangering yourself.
What other reason could
you possibly have?
Of course,
I can't return this
gun, officially.
It's a murder weapon.
Whatever you're caught up in,
try to stay safe.
[soft pensive music]
[door clunks]
[delicate pensive music]
[footsteps tapping]
[lock rattling]
[door creaks]
[low mysterious music]
[Margaret gasps]
[deep ominous music]
[Margaret choking]
[footsteps clomping]
[tea trickling]
[hooves clopping]
[wheels rattling]
[pen scratching]
- Good day, Lord Mayor.
- Ah, Mrs. Kemp.
Exciting day for you.
- Is it true?
The city council will
vote on my proposal
for a more humane asylum?
- Well, uh,
not to be impolite about it,
but since Councilor
Wicksteed's unfortunate
and, uh, untimely demise,
the committee work he had
stalled has been voted
to move forward.
That does not mean
that your proposal has the
necessary votes to pass.
- Who still opposes?
Surely I can make
them see reason.
My proposal pays for
itself over the long term.
- You should attempt
to discuss the matter
with Councilor Hammond.
He leads the opposition
against you now.
Hmm.
But, act with haste.
The city council votes tomorrow.
[door thuds]
- [Griffin] Congratulations
on the vote.
[Adeline gasps softly]
- Oh my God, where
have you been?
I didn't know if you
were dead or alive.
Are you hurt?
- [Griffin] I'm no
worse off than usual.
- How long have you
been following me?
Secretly,
silently.
- [Griffin] I'm a
scientist, Adeline,
an observer by profession.
And what good would
my observations be
if my subjects were
aware of my presence?
- Some would call that
a violation of privacy.
- [Griffin] Others
would call it necessary.
That letter the
mayor was writing,
it was addressed to
Councilor Hammond.
He was warning the
gentleman about you.
- Lies.
- I beg your pardon!
- Must have been the wind.
- The wind? Indoors?
How daft.
- You hotheaded fool,
you never did learn to
control that temper, did you?
- [Griffin] They aim to
vote down your proposal
after a so-called heroic
effort to pass it.
How many precious years of
your life have you wasted
on this rotting town?
You know the measure of these
men more than I do, I wager.
- I'm a woman
in a world of small men.
It was the same at university,
allowed to sit in lectures
but barred from examinations.
I'm only permitted to
act through a limited
set of channels.
- [Griffin] Then
make me your channel,
and in turn, you
will become mine.
- What exactly
are you proposing?
- [Griffin] I need the
other two journals.
Help me reach the
police station,
and I'll get your
humble proposal passed
by the city council.
- Give me your word
you'll not hurt him.
There'll be no more bloodshed.
- [Griffin] Anything
for you, Adeline.
Anything.
The whole world for you.
[hooves clopping]
[bell tolling]
[people chattering]
[bell rings]
- Mrs. Kemp.
Is there something
I can help you with?
- I'd like to talk
to Thomas Marvel.
- I fail to see how that
would be productive.
- He stole three
journals, not one.
Journals that belong to
my dear late husband,
his final legacy to me.
[footsteps plodding]
- I'll ask him the questions.
You stay silent.
You understand?
[prisoners heckling]
- [Albert] Can't
keep me here, Adye,
it's not safe!
- Quiet, Albert!
[door creaks]
If he admits to having
two more stolen journals,
I'll try to convince
him to surrender them.
[lock clanks]
[door creaks]
- What's she doing here?
- The lady claims you have
two more of her journals
in your hidden stash
somewhere around town.
- Those journals belong to me.
[Adye chuckles]
- Mr. Marvel,
how shall I put this?
It doesn't take a
detective to know
that the journals are beyond
a man of your education.
Hmm?
A supposition
bolstered by the fact
you cannot tell me the contents.
- Oh, and she can read 'em?
- Mrs. Kemp claims
her late husband,
a scientist, wrote them.
You'll have to forgive me
if I find her version of
events slightly more plausible.
- You've killed me, Adye.
You've led the invisible
man right to me.
She's in league with him.
Ask her!
You can tell it, it's written
all over her lying face!
- Mrs. Kemp,
would you please try to
explain to Mr. Marvel
that you do not have
an invisible man
following you around?
- Just give me the journals,
and this can all be over.
- If you're so terrified
of this invisible man,
why not give up the journals?
- You don't know him like I do!
And I'd wager that
you don't know him
as well as you think
you do either, missy!
Giving him the books back
won't be the end of it.
No, it'll just be the beginning,
for all of us.
- Are my ears deceiving me
or did I actually
hear a note of concern
for your fellow man?
- It ain't your ears
that be deceiving you.
[Adye sighs]
- He won't give them up.
- Hey!
[door clunks]
Don't leave me here with him!
- With whom?
The invisible man?
Oh, invisible man,
please stop harassing
this poor, unfortunate.
- Blast you, you fool!
You don't know
what you're doing!
- Perhaps I should support
your asylum after all.
- This is blood on
your hands, Adye!
It's blood on your hands, Adye!
It's blood on your hands!
[deep ominous music]
[door clangs]
[Griffin exhales heavily]
[door creaks]
[Griffin exhales]
[Adeline gasps softly]
- You're undressed.
I asked you to make
yourself decent.
- [Griffin] I'd forgotten
how very lovely you are.
I have them, Adeline,
my precious journals,
and I have you to thank for it.
- What about Marvel?
- [Griffin] He's fine.
- Now you'll find a cure.
- [Griffin] The cure?
There is no affliction, Adeline.
As you said, my achievements
were remarkable,
that I would rewrite
science as we know it.
- You've done a
very great thing,
a great and terrible thing,
but it scares me.
- [Griffin] I'm only
just beginning to realize
the extraordinary advantages
invisibility gives me.
But until I find a cure,
I must have a partner.
- A partner?
- [Griffin] I must have you.
Are you not wary of
being invisible yourself?
Alone in this house,
in your public causes?
Are you not tired of
being a woman unseen,
a voice unheard?
The world will hear both
our voices before too long.
[sharp uneasy music]
[door clunks softly]
[Griffin whistling]
[bust shatters]
[bold serious music]
[bell rings]
- Margaret?
Have you seen Margaret?
- No, ma'am,
but I found a note from
her in the kitchen.
She's gone to her
sister's in town there,
she thinks she's coming
down with the flu.
- A note?
Thank you, Evie.
- Good luck today, Mrs. Kemp.
- I'm sorry?
- The city council?
I heard they're voting
on your asylum today.
- Yes, thank you
for reminding me.
[liquid trickling]
You seem to be in
high spirits today.
It could almost be like we
were at university again,
you and Reginald fussing over
all the beakers and tubes,
every breakthrough a
triumph. [chuckles]
- [Griffin] I have every
reason to be happy.
I have my journals back,
and I was finally
able to test a cure.
It had flaws.
Right now, it's more
like a slow poison.
But sooner or later,
a full cure will be mine.
Then my invisibility shall
truly become a tool of power.
- I don't understand,
Surely when you
formulate a cure,
you'll just become
visible again, correct?
- [Griffin] My invisibility
gives me advantages
too valuable to
simply toss aside.
But with a cure,
both of us can be visible
and invisible at will.
- Me invisible?
- [Griffin] Perhaps I will share
with you the secrets of my work,
the key word that
unlocks the cipher.
- Griffin, I don't want-
- [Griffin] But this is,
this is day one of year
one of the new epoch,
the epoch of the invisible man!
[quick dramatic music]
We'll begin with Port Burdock
and your humble proposal
to the city council.
I almost forgot!
Today, it passes the vote
because I say it passes!
- Griffin, wait!
[sweeping dramatic music]
[carriage rattling]
[hooves clopping]
[hooves clopping]
- Ah, Mrs. Kemp.
- Mayor Edeson, I
must talk to you.
- The vote will be held
this afternoon, my dear,
don't fret.
But first, a spot of
luncheon at my club.
- No, I, uh-
- We're still a little
behind, of course,
but then, I did have the
devil's luck trying to get
into the city this morning.
And then there are, well,
just so many important
votes to get through.
But rest assured, we
will consider your ideas
with the utmost deliberation
and care that they deserve.
Whether the vote goes
in your favor, I-
- Perhaps it might
be safer to delay.
- Delay?
My dear girl,
you've spent months
hounding the councilors
and now you wish to delay?
- You must understand,
the bank and the
money and Wicksteed...
Oh my God, Wicksteed.
- [Griffin] Time to clean house.
[tense dramatic music]
[Edeson exclaims]
[Adeline gasps]
[hooves clopping]
[blow thuds]
[horses neighing]
[bell rings]
[door slams]
[footsteps clapping]
- Two men
who opposed your charitable
proposals have been killed,
including the mayor
of Port Burdock.
I find it
too convenient to
be coincidence.
[low tense music]
The bank theft and the dead men,
the men in the tunnels.
[singer vocalizing]
Marshal Wicksteed, Mayor Edeson.
And last night,
Thomas Marvel.
- Marvel?
[Adeline gasps sharply]
- We found him like that
just hours after your visit.
What part did you play in this?
Did you
steal a key when you were here?
- No, it's worse.
I let him inside.
- Does the culprit have a name?
- Griffin. His name
is Cade Griffin.
- Where is he? What
does he look like?
- That's the problem.
- The idea is ludicrous.
I want to hear you say it.
Look me in the eye!
Tell me with a straight face
that an invisible man
committed these crimes.
- An invisible man-
- Robbed the bank?
- Yes.
- Murdered Mr. Wicksteed.
- Yes!
- Killed the mayor,
tortured Thomas Marvel to death!
My God, Adeline.
- I don't know what I've
done or what I was doing.
It was just such a miracle
scientific endeavor.
Think of what could be
done with such an advance.
I never thought he would.
In his younger days, he was...
Marvel's right.
He's crazed, and he's dangerous.
- But not invincible.
It's time you chose a side.
[latch clunks]
[deep dramatic music]
[door creaks]
- Oh, dear God.
[deep ominous music]
[Adeline breathes heavily]
[drawer scrapes]
[paper rustles]
[intense menacing music]
Margaret.
[low uneasy music]
[latch clicks]
[Adeline gasps]
[dramatic ominous music]
- [Griffin] I was finally
able to test a cure.
It has flaws.
Right now, it's more
like a slow poison.
[Adeline breathing shakily]
- Help.
He's a madman! [cries]
- Oh my God!
[Adeline panting]
[Margaret breathing raggedly]
[Adeline gasps]
[Adeline crying]
[door knocks]
[Adeline gasps]
[Adeline panting]
[tense frantic music]
[Adeline panting]
[Evie singing faintly]
[footsteps clomping]
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all
glittering gold
There is nothing
can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
Upon one summer's morning
I carelessly did stray
- Mrs. Kemp?
- I'm so sorry, Evie.
[intense dramatic music]
[Evie screams]
- What's going on?
[Evie panting]
[footsteps stomping]
I don't understand, ma'am!
- Run, Evie, go!
[intense dramatic music]
[deep dramatic music]
[latch clunks]
[door thuds]
- [Griffin] Your final
obstacle removed.
Your proposal will pass.
- Yes, I'll get what I want,
at the cost of our souls.
- [Griffin] Oh, we are above
man's small, petty morality.
- As Evie knows to her cost.
- [Griffin] [chuckles] A
little fun, nothing more.
You remain the true
object to my desire.
- And Margaret?
[soft tense music]
- [Griffin] So you
found Margaret.
- What was left of her.
[deep tense music]
- [Griffin] She was
nothing, a lab rat.
You must think bigger, my love.
The cure draws
closer day by day,
and with it, our power.
- Griffin, what you
could have been.
[footsteps tapping]
[deep foreboding music]
- [Griffin] Is that the girl?
- It's just the house settling.
- [Griffin] I want to see.
- Colonel Adye, seize him!
- [Griffin] Adeline.
You bitch!
[blow thuds]
[intense dramatic music]
[officer gasps]
[blow thuds]
You want her for yourself, Adye.
I can see right through you.
[gunshot blasts]
[blows thud]
[Adeline panting]
[stairs pounding]
- [Adye] Don't let him get away!
[deep eerie music]
[wood cracks]
[Adeline panting]
- [Adeline] Colonel Adye!
- Stay here.
- He could be anywhere.
[blow thuds]
[officer grunts]
[Adeline screams]
[lock rattles]
[tense ominous music]
- Adye!
- [Griffin] You'll get me
back in that house, Adye.
You'll get me my journals.
- You're a fool
if you think she'll
open the door to me now.
And a bigger fool if you
think I'd put her at risk.
[Griffin laughs]
- [Griffin] You think
you could win her heart?
When she could have me,
a god among men?
- You may have
blown your chance.
It seems she
disapproves of murder!
[Adye groans]
[blow thuds]
[gunshots blast]
[Adeline gasps]
- [Griffin] I want
my journals, Adeline!
I must have them!
[Adeline breathing heavily]
[tense frantic music]
With my journals, with the cure,
[gunshot blasts]
[Adeline gasps]
the reign of the
invisible man will begin!
[bell rings]
[glass shatters]
[Adeline panting]
[low intense music]
- I don't want to
hurt you, Griffin.
Even now, I don't
want to shoot you.
If you take one single
step inside this room,
if you don't leave
now and forever,
I'll burn your damn journals.
- [Griffin] I will
not be stopped.
- Neither will I, not in this.
- [Griffin] If you
destroy my work,
you'll die here
tonight, Adeline.
You'll die!
- I don't think it matters.
I haven't lived
in years! [pants]
- [Griffin] No!
[fire roars]
You'll burn, Adeline!
You'll burn!
[glass shatters]
[fire whooshes]
[Adeline gasps]
[glass shatters]
[intense dramatic music]
- You're mad!
You'll kill us both!
- [Griffin] I would have
been a king, Adeline,
and you my queen!
[Adeline gasps]
[glass shatters]
You could have tasted greatness.
Greatness!
Instead of the mediocrity
you settled for.
For Reginald!
Reginald with his small
thinking and his cowardice.
- With his decency
and his gentleness!
- [Griffin] He was half
the scientist I was!
- But twice the man!
[gunshot blasting]
[window shatters]
- [Griffin] Adeline!
[glass shatters]
[deep dramatic music]
[flames roaring]
[Adeline gasps]
[Adeline grunts]
[Adeline panting]
Adeline!
[tense ominous music]
What we could have
done together.
- Terrible things.
- [Griffin] Wonderful things!
Every door open to us,
every luxury ours
for the taking,
every enemy crushed.
- Theft and murder.
- [Griffin] There
is no murder in war.
War, Adeline.
An army of invisible
men at my command.
The world on its knees.
It's what we wanted.
- No.
Never that.
I was in awe of your power,
Griffin, your discovery,
but it's made you a monster.
- [Griffin] It's made me a king.
A king!
[gunshot blasts]
[Griffin groans]
[ground thuds]
[Griffin groaning]
[electricity tinkling]
[soft dramatic music]
- Griffin.
[Griffin groans]
There you are.
- Adeline.
What a waste it would've been
for such beauty to be invisible.
Adeline.
Always Adeline.
My love.
My muse.
[Griffin groans]
My codeword.
My key.
Adeline.
[Adye groans]
- Is it over?
- It's over.
- I should have left
it to you all along.
[Adye groans]
It was all for you, you know.
He did it all for you.
- In the beginning, perhaps,
before power corrupted.
- It was in the wrong
hands, I suppose.
Can't say I blame him.
Well, not entirely.
I suppose, in a way,
we were both after
the same thing.
[bold dramatic music]
[flames roaring]
[glass shatters]
Adeline?
- [Griffin] Adeline.
[intense dramatic music]
[dramatic mysterious music]
[singer vocalizing]
[low mysterious music]
[dramatic mysterious music]
[crickets chirping]
[Marvel snoring]
- [Griffin] Marvel.
[Marvel gasps]
[dark suspenseful music]
It's a beast of a country
and pigs for people.
Relax.
I see you as an outcast,
like myself.
Help me, and I will do
great things for you.
[Marvel gurgling]
[tense sinister music]
- What are you?
- [Griffin] An invisible man.
And an invisible man
is a man of power,
but if you betray
me or disobey me,
[Marvel gasping]
[Marvel screaming]
[dramatic suspenseful music]
[pen scratching]
[book thuds]
[horses galloping]
[door knocking]
- Griffin!
Griffin!
I know you're in there.
[door knocking]
Griffin! You open this door now!
[door banging]
Griffin!
Where's my rent?
[vials clinking]
[dramatic suspenseful music]
I know you're in
there, I can hear you!
[door banging]
Griffin!
Griffin!
[intense dramatic music]
[Griffin groans]
[Griffin cries out]
[electricity crackling]
[Griffin groaning]
[glass shatters]
What's going on?
[Griffin screaming]
[door crashes]
[Griffin laughs]
[glass shatters]
[fire roars]
[gentle sweeping music]
[birds squawking]
[ax thwacks]
[soft pensive music]
[bell rings]
[clock ticking]
[Adeline sighs]
- Look, Margaret,
an invisible man plagues
the town of Iping.
They claim to have a clergyman
and a doctor as witnesses.
Supposedly, this invisible
man inflicted serious injuries
on our Constable Jaffers.
[Adeline chuckles]
- Clearly, the folk of
Iping have lost the ability
to hear the words coming
out of their own mouths.
[chuckles] What rot.
Honestly, Miss Adeline,
you have better
things to be spending
both your time and money on.
Lord knows this place could
use more of the latter.
And not from pawning
your belongings.
Begging your pardon.
Oh, you think we haven't
noticed the steady disappearance
of all of this household's
valuable works of art?
Never thought I'd see the day.
And letting poor Arthur go.
The best footman you're
ever likely to see.
[clock ticking softly]
You'll be selling the
master's chess set next.
- Not that, Margaret.
Never that.
[Margaret sighs]
He seems to be in
rather a hurry.
Though he doesn't seem
to be getting very far.
- Aye, if his pockets
were full of lead,
he couldn't run heavier.
[footsteps tapping]
[Marvel panting]
[birds squawking distantly]
[coins rattling]
[dog barking]
[birds chirping]
[patrons chattering quietly]
[door thuds]
[Marvel panting]
[chair creaks]
- Oi, stranger,
what can I get you?
- Your finest,
food and drink.
- [Bartender] Get some chicken.
[patrons laughing quietly]
[upbeat folk music]
[Marvel munching noisily]
- [Thomas] Books?
- Yeah.
Yeah, they're books.
- Just seems strange is all,
seeing a man such as
yourself carrying books,
and into a pub of all places.
Some extraordinary
things in books.
- Indeed.
[wind rushing]
[door slams]
[low eerie music]
[blow thuds]
[Marvel exclaims]
- [Griffin] You think
you can hide from me?
- Oi! What's going
on over there?
[blow thuds]
[Marvel groans]
[table thuds]
He's gone mad, grab him!
- Steady, steady.
[Marvel groaning]
Steady.
[glass shatters]
[tense dramatic music]
[porridge splats]
[steam sizzles]
[Griffin screams]
[Griffin groaning]
[glass shatters]
[bottle shatters]
- [Griffin] Marvel!
[Griffin panting]
[Griffin groans]
[gunshot blasts]
[bottle shatters]
[gunshots blasting]
[Griffin screams]
[officer thuds]
[Griffin panting]
[clock ticking]
[pen scratching]
[deep pensive music]
[soft apprehensive music]
[brisk curious music]
[drawer scrapes]
[barrel clicks]
[low tense music]
[stairs creak]
[deep apprehensive music]
[latch clunks]
[door creaks]
Adeline.
Is that you?
Help me, Adeline.
[Adeline gasps]
It's me, Griffin.
- Griffin?
Well, what in the
world? Show yourself!
[Griffin chuckles ruefully]
[Griffin gasps painfully]
[Adeline breathes heavily]
[Griffin grunts]
[Adeline gasps]
- [Griffin] Steady
yourself, Adeline!
For God's sake!
I want help badly.
I've been shot!
I'm nauseous and ill.
Just stop!
[Adeline whimpering]
Please, just help me!
[Griffin groans painfully]
- Griffin?
How can this be?
Are you a ghost?
- [Griffin] [chuckles] Ghost.
Here I thought you were
a woman of science.
You recall our
days at university?
My experiments on
matter and light,
on vision and visibility.
- The invisible man.
[Griffin groans]
[Adeline gasps]
Oh my God, you've done it.
- [Griffin] Look, Adeline,
I'm starving and freezing.
Have you got a dressing gown?
- You can find some
of Reginald's clothes
in the wardrobe.
Use one of his
shirts as a bandage.
Where were you shot?
- [Griffin] The bullet
passed through my arm.
[Griffin groans]
[Griffin sighs]
I could use your help with this.
[fabric ripping]
- Hold your arm up
where I need to wrap it.
- [Griffin] It's
right in front of you.
[Adeline chuckles]
[Griffin winces]
I'd forgotten how
tender was your touch.
How terribly it pained me.
My blood, it,
it turns visible
when it coagulates.
Reginald,
where is the old chap?
- He passed away.
- [Griffin] What?
Oh, I am so sorry to hear that.
Truly, I am.
Look, you must
forgive me, Adeline.
Coming here without
an invitation
after so many years.
I had nowhere else to go.
- You may stay in
here for tonight.
- [Griffin] And food?
- I'll fetch you something
from the kitchen.
[door thuds]
[rain pattering softly]
[thunder crashes]
[Adeline gasps softly]
[door creaks]
[thunder rumbling]
[Adeline exhales]
[doorknob rattling]
[birds chirping softly]
[soft pensive music]
[metal clanking]
[Adeline chuckles softly]
Oh, Griffin,
what have you done?
[stairs creaking]
- Morning, ma'am.
Oh, please, let me
carry that for you.
- No, I'm perfectly capable
of preparing my
own breakfast tray.
Thank you.
- Mrs. Kemp,
I couldn't enter your
room to clean it.
- I don't want it cleaned.
In fact, just stay out of my
room until further notice.
- Yes, ma'am.
Apologies, ma'am.
[Adeline exhales heavily]
- Griffin?
[door creaks]
- [Griffin] Are we alone?
- Yes, I sent the girl away.
What happened to you, Griffin?
How did you end up at my house
in this condition and bleeding?
- [Griffin] I recalled you
and Reginald had settled
in Port Burdock.
I hoped for shelter,
perhaps for Reginald to help
with aspects of my experiments.
[chuckles] Even with his
childish understanding.
- Childish?
He was a brilliant man!
- [Griffin] He was
closed-minded and small.
Still,
he may have had some use
with the right instruction.
- Your jealousy was
always beneath you.
Reginald was the best of us.
Have you turned your
clothes invisible?
- [Griffin] No.
My formula only works
on living matter.
- Then you're wearing nothing.
[breeze whooshes]
I must ask you to
make yourself decent.
[Griffin scoffs]
- [Griffin] Always so proper.
Though, one summer
night, I seem to recall-
- Griffin, please.
[latch clicks]
[door creaks]
- [Griffin] Ah, this is better.
Warmer.
I always admired
Reginald's taste in attire.
- He looked well in it.
- [Griffin] What do you think?
[soft pensive music]
Perhaps I could even
venture outside like this,
if I kept people from
approaching too closely.
My wound appears to
be healing quickly.
Perhaps a side effect.
[Griffin coughs]
- I can see from the newspapers
and from the gunfire last night
that others are aware of you.
How did you get shot?
- [Griffin] There was
a real fool of a man,
a sort of confederate of mine,
curse him,
who stole my money.
He created quite
a ruckus in a pub
when I tried to catch him.
- Is he invisible too?
- [Griffin] No.
I alone possess this power.
- Are you a danger to me
and the good people
of this household?
- [Griffin] Peace, Adeline,
and patience.
I'll tell you my story,
but first, I need rest.
[birds calling]
[hooves clopping]
[low serious music]
[gravel rattles]
- Good morning, Mrs. Kemp.
[deep tense music]
[gravel crunching]
Always a pleasure.
- Patrolling the neighborhood?
You seem rather overstaffed.
- I wish it were a patrol.
This is a manhunt.
- Oh dear.
- I've sent men with tracking
dogs to sweep the forest
on both sides of the road,
so if you hear their
racket, don't be alarmed.
- I heard a vagrant
caused a brawl last night
at the Jolly Cricketers.
You are pursuing him?
- News travels surprisingly
quick here in the outskirts.
No said vagrant, quite
a twitchy fellow.
- Then whom are you hunting?
- Well,
our friendly drifter claimed
that an invisible
man tried to kill him
and caused the
disturbance at the pub.
He begged to be locked
in our most secure cell.
- [laughs] Surely you
didn't indulge him.
- Oh, I had a good mind to.
Poor PC Collins got
shot on his account.
Oh, he'll be all right.
That crazed man wasn't the
one who pulled the trigger.
We're here because,
invisible man or not,
we did find a trail
of blood in the street
leading out of town towards
this general direction.
Whoever he is,
the man seems smart enough
to staunch his own bleeding
and avoid the road.
We lost his trail a
good distance back.
Have you experienced any
suspicious occurrences
since last night?
Strange noises,
broken window,
missing any food or supplies?
- No.
No.
Nothing like that.
- Thank heaven.
Keeping you safe
is my sacred duty.
Please, continue to
take all precautions.
- What happened to the vagrant?
- I locked him up for the
night for instigating the brawl
then released him
earlier this morning.
- You sent a mentally disturbed
man out into the street?
- I run the police
station, Mrs. Kemp,
not an asylum.
- If you'd support me in
my letters to the mayor
and to the city council,
Port Burdock would build one.
A more humane one.
The people here
respect you enough.
- Supporting the view
in your letters means
supporting new taxes,
which I don't.
- I heard the vagrant was
carrying a large sum of money.
- What exactly is your
interest in this man?
- You know I work
with the unfortunate.
- Your interest seems
rather more specific.
- [chuckles] Can't
a lady indulge
in some idle
neighborhood gossip?
- Perhaps I could
visit you again.
We'll talk about this gossip.
It seems here the
grapevine is more efficient
than the telegram.
[horse whinnying]
[deep uneasy music]
Good day.
- Ma'am.
- How do you do, William?
As always, thank you
for your service.
Can you tell me, has anyone
died because of this drifter
or anything at all
related to him?
- Not so far.
Thank the good Lord.
Look, Mrs. Kemp,
we attend the same meetings,
I support your politics.
You like to help people in need,
and I'm happy to feed you
information from time to time,
but please,
don't go looking
to help this one.
I've not seen him before,
and I know all the pikers
around these parts.
Let the bloke move on, eh?
He's bad news for Port Burdock.
- PC William?
[carriage wheels rattling]
[soft curious music]
[door thuds]
[latch clicks]
[door creaks]
[deep foreboding music]
[door squeaks]
[door squeaks]
[steps clopping]
- Griffin?
[Evie humming faintly]
Who told you
so, dilly, dilly
Who told you so
Twas my own heart,
dilly, dilly
That told me so
Call up your
men, dilly, dilly
Set them to work
[deep uneasy music]
Some to the plow,
dilly, dilly
Some to the fork
Lavender's blue,
dilly, dilly
Lavender's green
When I am king, dilly, dilly
You shall be queen
- [gasps] Oh, forgive me, ma'am.
Did I leave the door open?
- Are you all right
in here by yourself?
- Begging your pardon, ma'am,
why wouldn't I be?
If you don't mind, ma'am.
- Of course.
[fire crackling]
[Adeline sighs]
Well, at least you have the
good sense not to openly move
around the house
until nightfall.
Where did you disappear
to all day long?
[Griffin chuckles]
- [Griffin] If I
didn't know you better,
I would suspect you of
having just made a joke.
- Did you wander into town,
or were you inside
my house lurking?
- [Griffin] I was out,
gathering useful knowledge.
I saw you speaking
to the police.
Learn anything interesting?
- I learnt that
you came off worse
in the scuffle you instigated.
You don't appear to have
caused any deliberate harm.
You were always
rather a scoundrel,
but I'm relieved to know
you're not irredeemable.
You haven't changed since
our days at university.
Once again, I find you rummaging
through my private
correspondence.
- [Griffin] [sighs] Oh, your
precious propriety again.
- Had you more
respect for propriety
and more regard for
the feelings of others,
things might have
ended differently.
[Griffin sighs]
No!
Don't.
Please.
It was our last game together.
I still somehow expect
him to make his next move.
You were always a snoop,
always disdainful of
others' boundaries.
It seems you found a way
to make that illicit
behavior nigh undetectable.
- [Griffin] I can do many
things while invisible, Adeline.
Things that ordinary men cannot,
things that Reginald
could never do.
For example,
I could save you.
I could save your home.
I thought your household
staff looked a bit sparse.
A girl and an old woman.
[coins rattle]
[table thuds]
Take it.
It's a gift.
- I thought you said all
your money had been taken.
- [Griffin] Come now, Adeline,
who do you intend
to ask for help?
You don't come from
a prosperous family.
They can't shoulder the burden
of your husband's
failed research.
- He said he was closer
to a breakthrough.
It would have paid
for everything.
- [Griffin] Yes,
I'm familiar with the sweet
siren song of futile hopes.
But with my success,
there's more where
that came from,
if we can come to terms.
You don't have
much time, my dear.
The bank's letter's a week old.
They are coming for you.
[brisk dramatic music]
[carriage rattling]
[hooves clopping]
- Good day, Mrs. Kemp.
[door slams]
- Mr. Wicksteed, how are you?
How's things with
the city council?
- Port Burdock is
developing remarkably well,
I'm happy to say.
In fact, I've just come from
a meeting with His Lordship.
With a little bit of luck,
our prosperous town may soon
be enjoying the benefits
of a new electricity
power station,
and before the turn
of the century.
- Oh, I'm so delighted to hear
we're making such
heroic strides forward.
Perhaps Port Burdock might
share some of it's prosperities
with the less fortunate.
[Wicksteed chuckles]
- My dear lady,
I'm not unaware of your
gallant letter-writing campaign
to men of influence
around the town,
but I have to give
you a piece of advice.
It's an old Chinese
proverb, I believe.
Give a man a fish, you
feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish,
you feed him for life.
[chuckles] Your intentions
were honorable but misguided.
As long as I sit on the council,
your charitable schemes will
never see the light of day.
And if I may be so
bold, Mrs. Kemp,
if I was in your situation,
I'd concentrate on getting my
own financial house in order
before I start telling other
people how to manage theirs.
[Wicksteed chuckles]
[pen taps]
[pen scratching]
- I am relieved we can avoid
the heartbreaking business
of the bank throwing a
widow out onto the street.
- So I have more time?
- Uh, making this large payment
means I have the flexibility
to grant you an extension
to repay the balance,
but, um, not long, I'm afraid.
30 days.
[coins rattle]
Ah, the, uh,
the colonel's arrived.
Um...
Um, a thief broke into
the bank last night
and stole an enormous
sum of money.
If you'll excuse
me, I have some, um,
some unpleasant
business to attend to.
Good morning.
Morning, sir.
Uh, please, come this way.
[deep tense music]
[singer vocalizing]
[upbeat determined music]
[soft serious music]
- Like you, Reginald
continued to study the strange
and bizarre aspects of science.
He hoped his research
would earn an admittance
into the Royal Society.
Nothing as impressive
as your discovery, but-
- [Griffin] This will do.
- Are you confident you can
find a cure for your condition?
- [Griffin] It was to be the
focus of my work in Iping.
But I can do nothing without
my research journals.
The fool who stole my
money took them too.
Without them,
discovering an antidote
involves
trial-and-error mixtures
for over 300,000, maybe
400,000, chemical combinations.
It would take my whole lifetime.
- You must tell me how you
achieved this, Griffin.
It's a miracle of science.
[Griffin scoffs]
- [Griffin] If only you had
cared this much about me
during my time at university.
[quick dramatic music]
I devoted every shilling I
possessed to my research.
- [Adeline] Why invisibility?
- [Griffin] Oh, dear Adeline,
I wasn't researching
how to be unseen.
I was researching
how to be free.
My experiments met with
unparalleled success,
but my landlord grew impatient,
- I know you're in there!
- [Griffin] and I had little
time to conclude my research.
- [Landlord] Griffin!
- [Griffin] When he came
to collect his rent,
I had no choice.
I put on an act that would
have made any magician proud.
[electricity crackling]
[Griffin groans painfully]
[Griffin screaming]
[deep tense music]
[Griffin chuckles]
My head was already
teeming with plans
of all the wild and
wonderful things
I now had the freedom
to do with impunity.
But my triumph was short-lived.
I had been a naive fool.
[bottle shatters]
What helpless absurdity
an invisible man is
in the cold climate
and a dirty, crowded city.
Every crossing was a danger,
[carriage rattling]
every pedestrian a
thing to watch alertly.
I had no shelter, no covering
in the coming winter,
and to get clothing was to
forego all my advantage.
Snow was settling upon me,
rain would make me
a watery outline,
a glistening surface of a man.
London fog would turn me
into a ghostly bubble,
more visible than any
ordinary man blurred
and obscured by it.
[glass shatters]
[Griffin groans]
[Griffin shivering]
[carriage rattling]
I stumbled across a
humble costuming shop.
That night after the
store owner had gone home,
I rummaged out a costume
and robbed him of any
available money I could find.
Finally, I went
out into the world,
a grotesque but still
credible figure.
I realized invisibility
made it possible
for me to gain wealth and power
but also made it
impossible to enjoy them.
[deep intense music]
I eventually made
my way to Iping.
It was supposed to
be quiet and safe.
I went there to find a
way of restoring myself.
Then,
I was betrayed by the one
man who was supposed to help.
- It's remarkable, Griffin.
Remarkable.
They'll have to rewrite
every textbook in the world.
Think of the fortune
you might raise
and the good you
might do with it.
- [Griffin] We must think
bigger than that, my dear.
[footsteps clomping]
[doorbell rings]
- [Adeline] Colonel Adye.
[teacup clinking]
- Such a relief
you were able to delay
the bank's foreclosure.
However did you pull
off such a miracle?
- My brother in America
sent me the necessary funds.
He's doing quite
well for himself.
- Indeed.
- Railroads.
- Hmm.
Some men have such a
good head for business.
Others,
like your late
husband, for science,
but science hardly
ever pays the bill, eh?
- If only the good deeds
paid as well as the bad.
- [chuckles] They never do,
do they, Mrs. Kemp?
You brought your husband's
favorite coat out of retirement.
[Adye chuckles]
It's been years
since I last saw him walking
through town in this coat.
- [Adeline] I was reminiscing.
[coin clatters]
- It seems, perhaps, your
fortunes have changed.
Strange how the world
always gets on just fine,
don't you think?
No matter what tragedies
befall us mere mortals.
The bank's available
cash is stolen.
Fortunately for them,
you were able to pay
them a sizeable fraction
of what you owe,
in cash.
- Why exactly are
you here, Colonel?
- Did you know
the bank was robbed of twice
the amount you paid them?
I wonder where that
money disappeared to.
- Well, perhaps that mysterious
drifter might have answers
for you.
- I agree.
That's why I'm
tracking his movements.
Perhaps he can lead my police
to the bank's stolen money.
But apparently,
I'm not the only one
interested in him.
[low uneasy music]
You appear to be
messengering letters
to poor houses all
over the region
in search of the vagrant,
Mr. Thomas Marvel.
How did you come by
his name, Adeline?
- How did you get these?
- I always alert authorities
around the regions
about persons of interest.
They forwarded me the letters.
They appear little
like your handwriting.
[metal clinks]
[deep unsettling music]
- [Adeline] They're mine.
- And Mr. Marvel?
[Adeline inhales sharply]
- Colonel Adye, I
must ask you to leave.
Immediately.
[low serious music]
- I came as a courtesy to
give you the opportunity
to be frank with me.
I do suspect you're
withholding information.
Please believe me,
these kinds of secrets
never get better with time.
[deep dramatic music]
- How dare you write
letters in my name,
and how dare you
threaten Colonel Adye!
[carriage rattling]
Thomas Marvel.
[Adeline sighs]
[low pensive music]
- Mrs. Kemp.
If Dr. Kemp could see you,
he'd be sick with worry.
I'll be going home now, ma'am.
This letter came in the
afternoon post for you.
It seems urgent, ma'am.
- "Dear Mrs. Kemp,
I've received your
letter requesting my aid
to help you locate
an unfortunate man
named Thomas Marvel.
Alas, I feel obliged
to inform you
that the local police have
made the same request.
They keep the miserable
man under surveillance.
For what reason,
I cannot divine.
Sadly, I must report to them
the arrival of your letter,
but in honor of our
past works together
helping the laboring classes,
I can report to you that Thomas
Marvel is sheltering here
in our annex.
Your true friend
and devoted servant,
Bishop Oliver White,
East Cliff Abbey."
Mrs. Kemp.
You are too sensible to
venture to this part of town
so close to nightfall.
- I must find that man.
- You place me in a
difficult position,
especially if you are involved
with anything dishonest.
I do not want to know
about anything that-
- Have you informed
Colonel Adye yet?
- You know I must.
Port Burdock is
not a large city.
Sooner rather than later,
word will get back to the
police about his presence,
including word about
your inquiries here.
This is the one and only time
I can help you in this manner.
He avoids the other homeless,
find him in the pews.
[birds cawing]
- [Adeline] We have a
mutual acquaintance.
- I don't know you.
And I doubt we'd be moving
in the same society.
- I'm here alone.
- I'm curious to learn why you
think I need that assurance.
- For a man of means, you
choose poor accommodations.
- A man who spends his money
is one to draw attention.
I ain't making
that mistake again.
You being here is case in point.
If you're his friend,
what do you want?
- The truth is, I am his friend.
I just don't know
whether he is mine.
- He's a sick man.
Always yammering on
about his plans to bring
the entire country to heel.
- The entire country?
- Yeah.
But Thomas Marvel showed him.
Queen Victoria should
give me a medal.
I took the wind right
out of his sails, I did.
[Marvel laughs]
- Could you see
your way to parting
with that journal in your hands?
[deep ominous music]
- I knew it.
You just want the power
for yourself, don't you?
Well, it's mine!
You're in league with
the invisible man!
She's in league with
the invisible man!
He's with her now.
[door slams]
- Marvel, wait!
[doorknob clunks]
[door creaks]
Griffin?
[blanket flaps]
[soft pensive music]
[deep mysterious music]
[doorknob squeaks]
[door creaks]
[footsteps clomping]
[gasps] Griffin.
Where have you been?
Why did you follow
Colonel Adye into town?
What did you do to him?
- [Griffin] Do you actually
care for that insufferable man?
I wanted to see what he
actually knew about us.
No doubt my
confederate had talked
the police chief's ears off
with wild tales of
the invisible man.
I wanted to know
if good, old Colonel Adye
believed the stories.
- And?
- [Griffin] Well, of
course he doesn't.
[Adeline sighs softly]
Sit down.
Life must go on, my girl.
[soft pensive music]
There is so much for us to do.
- Reginald would've never
made so bold a move.
- [Griffin] That
was him all over.
And yet, he won what mattered.
Imagine what we could
do together, Adeline.
I know you wish to
do great things.
I can ferret out the hidden
information you need,
secure the funds
that you require.
[deep uneasy music]
I can remove the obstacles
that stand in your way.
From this day forward,
[chess pieces clatter]
life will be so much easier
for you, Adeline Kemp.
But I must have my journals.
Only when I master invisibility
will the world bend
to my will.
Only then can you make
it a better place.
I must have my journals,
[Adeline gasps]
Adeline,
and you will help me find them!
[footsteps clomping]
- Marvel?
Have you seen him?
- He didn't make the queue to
shelter in the annex tonight,
but I've seen where he goes
when he wants to
make himself scarce.
I can show you,
but what's in it for me?
[coins rattle]
[gravel crunching]
Go on.
The entrance to the
tunnel's around there.
[deep uneasy music]
[Michael chuckles]
[Michael whistling]
[hooves clopping]
[wheels rattling]
- Are you lost, love?
[low tense music]
[match strikes]
[flame whooshes]
[deep uneasy music]
Maybe we can light your away.
Michael did a fine
job luring you.
If you've come for your
money, it isn't here!
[deep ominous music]
- Mr. Marvel, I'm not
looking for the money.
I only seek the journals.
- If you want your books
so bad, come and get 'em!
[journal thuds]
Don't hide behind
this pretty thing.
- He's not here.
I'm willing to pay for it.
[Marvel laughs]
- I'll wager you'd be
willing to do a lot more
before my boys let you
out of this chamber.
[lantern clanks]
- What did he tell
you gentlemen?
That an invisible man would
be coming here tonight?
Surely you didn't believe
such a ludicrous claim.
- Marvel here's paying us
quite well to babysit him
and take out his
invisible tormentor.
We believe him daft,
but money's money, right, boys?
[Marvel chuckles]
- Marvel also told us that
a pretty little morsel
would be wandering down
here by her lonesome.
We didn't believe that neither,
but wonder of wonders,
here you are,
[sniffs] ready for the taking.
[Frank grunts]
Takes a bit of effort
to pull the trigger.
I guess your, uh, fingers
aren't in the practice.
You should have cocked
the hammer back first.
I can teach you things.
[neck snaps]
[thug grunts]
[quick dramatic music]
[ruffian gasps]
[blow thuds]
[ruffian grunts]
- Look out, you idiots!
[blows thudding]
[goons grunting]
[blow thuds]
[goon grunting]
[ruffian panting]
- Where the hell are you?
[ruffian grunts]
- [Griffin] Everywhere.
[gunshot blasts]
Run, Adeline. Run!
[footsteps stomping]
- Where are you, you blighter?
Show yourself, you blighter!
[Griffin grunts]
[Frank yells]
[blow thuds]
[Griffin panting]
[deep mysterious music]
[Griffin groans]
[ground thuds]
[carriage rattling]
[hooves clopping]
[Marvel groaning]
[Marvel laughs]
- Congratulations, Mr. Marvel.
You will get your wish.
You will be locked up
for God knows how long.
All you had to do was
be part of a brawl
that saw two men killed.
- It weren't me.
It were the invisible man.
[thunder rumbling]
You don't believe me, do you?
You should ask your
pretty lady friend.
[thunder rumbles]
[Marvel grunts]
[Marvel laughs]
Make sure you give your pretty
little friend her toy back.
[rain rushing]
[fire crackling softly]
[thunder rumbles faintly]
- Who killed those two men
we found on the ground?
- I don't know what
you're talking about.
- Tell me the truth, Adeline,
[pistol thunks]
or as much of it
as you can manage.
Let me help you.
- I was trying to
recover that journal.
Marvel stole it,
and someone saved me.
- Hmm.
Must be quite a book for
you to risk your life
in such a foolish manner,
and then,
a miraculous savior.
I would love to shake his hand.
What does he look like?
- I don't know.
[Adye chuckles softly]
- Height?
Weight?
Hair and eye color?
- I don't know.
- Mrs. Kemp,
the sole reason that I don't
drag you behind bars yourself
is that both you and
Mr. Marvel seem to agree
that someone else created
this night's mayhem.
So please,
be more forthcoming.
Does this journal
truly belong to you?
Does it belong to Mr. Marvel?
Does it belong
to an invisible man?
- [scoffs softly]
Don't be absurd,
the journal's mine.
[Adye chuckles]
- Well, I see.
Ominous headings in English,
clearly written by someone
obsessed with the morbid.
And the rest?
Gibberish.
- It's a cipher,
I can't read it.
- Neither can I.
There's a fellow down at the
station good with puzzles
who says there's a key.
It seems a seven letter keyword
will unlock this cipher,
but I'd be blowed if I can
think of what it might be.
[thunder rumbles]
Mr. Marvel doesn't know the
contents in this journal either,
yet you both claim ownership.
- The journal belongs
to my late husband.
As you know, he was a scientist.
His dream was to become a
member of the Royal Society.
It was all he ever wanted.
- The Reginald we
know sought to conduct
[Adye scoffs]
human experimentation?
This journal
is lunacy.
Yet I'm inclined to believe you.
Seeing how fervently
you've been seeking it,
even to the point of
endangering yourself.
What other reason could
you possibly have?
Of course,
I can't return this
gun, officially.
It's a murder weapon.
Whatever you're caught up in,
try to stay safe.
[soft pensive music]
[door clunks]
[delicate pensive music]
[footsteps tapping]
[lock rattling]
[door creaks]
[low mysterious music]
[Margaret gasps]
[deep ominous music]
[Margaret choking]
[footsteps clomping]
[tea trickling]
[hooves clopping]
[wheels rattling]
[pen scratching]
- Good day, Lord Mayor.
- Ah, Mrs. Kemp.
Exciting day for you.
- Is it true?
The city council will
vote on my proposal
for a more humane asylum?
- Well, uh,
not to be impolite about it,
but since Councilor
Wicksteed's unfortunate
and, uh, untimely demise,
the committee work he had
stalled has been voted
to move forward.
That does not mean
that your proposal has the
necessary votes to pass.
- Who still opposes?
Surely I can make
them see reason.
My proposal pays for
itself over the long term.
- You should attempt
to discuss the matter
with Councilor Hammond.
He leads the opposition
against you now.
Hmm.
But, act with haste.
The city council votes tomorrow.
[door thuds]
- [Griffin] Congratulations
on the vote.
[Adeline gasps softly]
- Oh my God, where
have you been?
I didn't know if you
were dead or alive.
Are you hurt?
- [Griffin] I'm no
worse off than usual.
- How long have you
been following me?
Secretly,
silently.
- [Griffin] I'm a
scientist, Adeline,
an observer by profession.
And what good would
my observations be
if my subjects were
aware of my presence?
- Some would call that
a violation of privacy.
- [Griffin] Others
would call it necessary.
That letter the
mayor was writing,
it was addressed to
Councilor Hammond.
He was warning the
gentleman about you.
- Lies.
- I beg your pardon!
- Must have been the wind.
- The wind? Indoors?
How daft.
- You hotheaded fool,
you never did learn to
control that temper, did you?
- [Griffin] They aim to
vote down your proposal
after a so-called heroic
effort to pass it.
How many precious years of
your life have you wasted
on this rotting town?
You know the measure of these
men more than I do, I wager.
- I'm a woman
in a world of small men.
It was the same at university,
allowed to sit in lectures
but barred from examinations.
I'm only permitted to
act through a limited
set of channels.
- [Griffin] Then
make me your channel,
and in turn, you
will become mine.
- What exactly
are you proposing?
- [Griffin] I need the
other two journals.
Help me reach the
police station,
and I'll get your
humble proposal passed
by the city council.
- Give me your word
you'll not hurt him.
There'll be no more bloodshed.
- [Griffin] Anything
for you, Adeline.
Anything.
The whole world for you.
[hooves clopping]
[bell tolling]
[people chattering]
[bell rings]
- Mrs. Kemp.
Is there something
I can help you with?
- I'd like to talk
to Thomas Marvel.
- I fail to see how that
would be productive.
- He stole three
journals, not one.
Journals that belong to
my dear late husband,
his final legacy to me.
[footsteps plodding]
- I'll ask him the questions.
You stay silent.
You understand?
[prisoners heckling]
- [Albert] Can't
keep me here, Adye,
it's not safe!
- Quiet, Albert!
[door creaks]
If he admits to having
two more stolen journals,
I'll try to convince
him to surrender them.
[lock clanks]
[door creaks]
- What's she doing here?
- The lady claims you have
two more of her journals
in your hidden stash
somewhere around town.
- Those journals belong to me.
[Adye chuckles]
- Mr. Marvel,
how shall I put this?
It doesn't take a
detective to know
that the journals are beyond
a man of your education.
Hmm?
A supposition
bolstered by the fact
you cannot tell me the contents.
- Oh, and she can read 'em?
- Mrs. Kemp claims
her late husband,
a scientist, wrote them.
You'll have to forgive me
if I find her version of
events slightly more plausible.
- You've killed me, Adye.
You've led the invisible
man right to me.
She's in league with him.
Ask her!
You can tell it, it's written
all over her lying face!
- Mrs. Kemp,
would you please try to
explain to Mr. Marvel
that you do not have
an invisible man
following you around?
- Just give me the journals,
and this can all be over.
- If you're so terrified
of this invisible man,
why not give up the journals?
- You don't know him like I do!
And I'd wager that
you don't know him
as well as you think
you do either, missy!
Giving him the books back
won't be the end of it.
No, it'll just be the beginning,
for all of us.
- Are my ears deceiving me
or did I actually
hear a note of concern
for your fellow man?
- It ain't your ears
that be deceiving you.
[Adye sighs]
- He won't give them up.
- Hey!
[door clunks]
Don't leave me here with him!
- With whom?
The invisible man?
Oh, invisible man,
please stop harassing
this poor, unfortunate.
- Blast you, you fool!
You don't know
what you're doing!
- Perhaps I should support
your asylum after all.
- This is blood on
your hands, Adye!
It's blood on your hands, Adye!
It's blood on your hands!
[deep ominous music]
[door clangs]
[Griffin exhales heavily]
[door creaks]
[Griffin exhales]
[Adeline gasps softly]
- You're undressed.
I asked you to make
yourself decent.
- [Griffin] I'd forgotten
how very lovely you are.
I have them, Adeline,
my precious journals,
and I have you to thank for it.
- What about Marvel?
- [Griffin] He's fine.
- Now you'll find a cure.
- [Griffin] The cure?
There is no affliction, Adeline.
As you said, my achievements
were remarkable,
that I would rewrite
science as we know it.
- You've done a
very great thing,
a great and terrible thing,
but it scares me.
- [Griffin] I'm only
just beginning to realize
the extraordinary advantages
invisibility gives me.
But until I find a cure,
I must have a partner.
- A partner?
- [Griffin] I must have you.
Are you not wary of
being invisible yourself?
Alone in this house,
in your public causes?
Are you not tired of
being a woman unseen,
a voice unheard?
The world will hear both
our voices before too long.
[sharp uneasy music]
[door clunks softly]
[Griffin whistling]
[bust shatters]
[bold serious music]
[bell rings]
- Margaret?
Have you seen Margaret?
- No, ma'am,
but I found a note from
her in the kitchen.
She's gone to her
sister's in town there,
she thinks she's coming
down with the flu.
- A note?
Thank you, Evie.
- Good luck today, Mrs. Kemp.
- I'm sorry?
- The city council?
I heard they're voting
on your asylum today.
- Yes, thank you
for reminding me.
[liquid trickling]
You seem to be in
high spirits today.
It could almost be like we
were at university again,
you and Reginald fussing over
all the beakers and tubes,
every breakthrough a
triumph. [chuckles]
- [Griffin] I have every
reason to be happy.
I have my journals back,
and I was finally
able to test a cure.
It had flaws.
Right now, it's more
like a slow poison.
But sooner or later,
a full cure will be mine.
Then my invisibility shall
truly become a tool of power.
- I don't understand,
Surely when you
formulate a cure,
you'll just become
visible again, correct?
- [Griffin] My invisibility
gives me advantages
too valuable to
simply toss aside.
But with a cure,
both of us can be visible
and invisible at will.
- Me invisible?
- [Griffin] Perhaps I will share
with you the secrets of my work,
the key word that
unlocks the cipher.
- Griffin, I don't want-
- [Griffin] But this is,
this is day one of year
one of the new epoch,
the epoch of the invisible man!
[quick dramatic music]
We'll begin with Port Burdock
and your humble proposal
to the city council.
I almost forgot!
Today, it passes the vote
because I say it passes!
- Griffin, wait!
[sweeping dramatic music]
[carriage rattling]
[hooves clopping]
[hooves clopping]
- Ah, Mrs. Kemp.
- Mayor Edeson, I
must talk to you.
- The vote will be held
this afternoon, my dear,
don't fret.
But first, a spot of
luncheon at my club.
- No, I, uh-
- We're still a little
behind, of course,
but then, I did have the
devil's luck trying to get
into the city this morning.
And then there are, well,
just so many important
votes to get through.
But rest assured, we
will consider your ideas
with the utmost deliberation
and care that they deserve.
Whether the vote goes
in your favor, I-
- Perhaps it might
be safer to delay.
- Delay?
My dear girl,
you've spent months
hounding the councilors
and now you wish to delay?
- You must understand,
the bank and the
money and Wicksteed...
Oh my God, Wicksteed.
- [Griffin] Time to clean house.
[tense dramatic music]
[Edeson exclaims]
[Adeline gasps]
[hooves clopping]
[blow thuds]
[horses neighing]
[bell rings]
[door slams]
[footsteps clapping]
- Two men
who opposed your charitable
proposals have been killed,
including the mayor
of Port Burdock.
I find it
too convenient to
be coincidence.
[low tense music]
The bank theft and the dead men,
the men in the tunnels.
[singer vocalizing]
Marshal Wicksteed, Mayor Edeson.
And last night,
Thomas Marvel.
- Marvel?
[Adeline gasps sharply]
- We found him like that
just hours after your visit.
What part did you play in this?
Did you
steal a key when you were here?
- No, it's worse.
I let him inside.
- Does the culprit have a name?
- Griffin. His name
is Cade Griffin.
- Where is he? What
does he look like?
- That's the problem.
- The idea is ludicrous.
I want to hear you say it.
Look me in the eye!
Tell me with a straight face
that an invisible man
committed these crimes.
- An invisible man-
- Robbed the bank?
- Yes.
- Murdered Mr. Wicksteed.
- Yes!
- Killed the mayor,
tortured Thomas Marvel to death!
My God, Adeline.
- I don't know what I've
done or what I was doing.
It was just such a miracle
scientific endeavor.
Think of what could be
done with such an advance.
I never thought he would.
In his younger days, he was...
Marvel's right.
He's crazed, and he's dangerous.
- But not invincible.
It's time you chose a side.
[latch clunks]
[deep dramatic music]
[door creaks]
- Oh, dear God.
[deep ominous music]
[Adeline breathes heavily]
[drawer scrapes]
[paper rustles]
[intense menacing music]
Margaret.
[low uneasy music]
[latch clicks]
[Adeline gasps]
[dramatic ominous music]
- [Griffin] I was finally
able to test a cure.
It has flaws.
Right now, it's more
like a slow poison.
[Adeline breathing shakily]
- Help.
He's a madman! [cries]
- Oh my God!
[Adeline panting]
[Margaret breathing raggedly]
[Adeline gasps]
[Adeline crying]
[door knocks]
[Adeline gasps]
[Adeline panting]
[tense frantic music]
[Adeline panting]
[Evie singing faintly]
[footsteps clomping]
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all
glittering gold
There is nothing
can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
Upon one summer's morning
I carelessly did stray
- Mrs. Kemp?
- I'm so sorry, Evie.
[intense dramatic music]
[Evie screams]
- What's going on?
[Evie panting]
[footsteps stomping]
I don't understand, ma'am!
- Run, Evie, go!
[intense dramatic music]
[deep dramatic music]
[latch clunks]
[door thuds]
- [Griffin] Your final
obstacle removed.
Your proposal will pass.
- Yes, I'll get what I want,
at the cost of our souls.
- [Griffin] Oh, we are above
man's small, petty morality.
- As Evie knows to her cost.
- [Griffin] [chuckles] A
little fun, nothing more.
You remain the true
object to my desire.
- And Margaret?
[soft tense music]
- [Griffin] So you
found Margaret.
- What was left of her.
[deep tense music]
- [Griffin] She was
nothing, a lab rat.
You must think bigger, my love.
The cure draws
closer day by day,
and with it, our power.
- Griffin, what you
could have been.
[footsteps tapping]
[deep foreboding music]
- [Griffin] Is that the girl?
- It's just the house settling.
- [Griffin] I want to see.
- Colonel Adye, seize him!
- [Griffin] Adeline.
You bitch!
[blow thuds]
[intense dramatic music]
[officer gasps]
[blow thuds]
You want her for yourself, Adye.
I can see right through you.
[gunshot blasts]
[blows thud]
[Adeline panting]
[stairs pounding]
- [Adye] Don't let him get away!
[deep eerie music]
[wood cracks]
[Adeline panting]
- [Adeline] Colonel Adye!
- Stay here.
- He could be anywhere.
[blow thuds]
[officer grunts]
[Adeline screams]
[lock rattles]
[tense ominous music]
- Adye!
- [Griffin] You'll get me
back in that house, Adye.
You'll get me my journals.
- You're a fool
if you think she'll
open the door to me now.
And a bigger fool if you
think I'd put her at risk.
[Griffin laughs]
- [Griffin] You think
you could win her heart?
When she could have me,
a god among men?
- You may have
blown your chance.
It seems she
disapproves of murder!
[Adye groans]
[blow thuds]
[gunshots blast]
[Adeline gasps]
- [Griffin] I want
my journals, Adeline!
I must have them!
[Adeline breathing heavily]
[tense frantic music]
With my journals, with the cure,
[gunshot blasts]
[Adeline gasps]
the reign of the
invisible man will begin!
[bell rings]
[glass shatters]
[Adeline panting]
[low intense music]
- I don't want to
hurt you, Griffin.
Even now, I don't
want to shoot you.
If you take one single
step inside this room,
if you don't leave
now and forever,
I'll burn your damn journals.
- [Griffin] I will
not be stopped.
- Neither will I, not in this.
- [Griffin] If you
destroy my work,
you'll die here
tonight, Adeline.
You'll die!
- I don't think it matters.
I haven't lived
in years! [pants]
- [Griffin] No!
[fire roars]
You'll burn, Adeline!
You'll burn!
[glass shatters]
[fire whooshes]
[Adeline gasps]
[glass shatters]
[intense dramatic music]
- You're mad!
You'll kill us both!
- [Griffin] I would have
been a king, Adeline,
and you my queen!
[Adeline gasps]
[glass shatters]
You could have tasted greatness.
Greatness!
Instead of the mediocrity
you settled for.
For Reginald!
Reginald with his small
thinking and his cowardice.
- With his decency
and his gentleness!
- [Griffin] He was half
the scientist I was!
- But twice the man!
[gunshot blasting]
[window shatters]
- [Griffin] Adeline!
[glass shatters]
[deep dramatic music]
[flames roaring]
[Adeline gasps]
[Adeline grunts]
[Adeline panting]
Adeline!
[tense ominous music]
What we could have
done together.
- Terrible things.
- [Griffin] Wonderful things!
Every door open to us,
every luxury ours
for the taking,
every enemy crushed.
- Theft and murder.
- [Griffin] There
is no murder in war.
War, Adeline.
An army of invisible
men at my command.
The world on its knees.
It's what we wanted.
- No.
Never that.
I was in awe of your power,
Griffin, your discovery,
but it's made you a monster.
- [Griffin] It's made me a king.
A king!
[gunshot blasts]
[Griffin groans]
[ground thuds]
[Griffin groaning]
[electricity tinkling]
[soft dramatic music]
- Griffin.
[Griffin groans]
There you are.
- Adeline.
What a waste it would've been
for such beauty to be invisible.
Adeline.
Always Adeline.
My love.
My muse.
[Griffin groans]
My codeword.
My key.
Adeline.
[Adye groans]
- Is it over?
- It's over.
- I should have left
it to you all along.
[Adye groans]
It was all for you, you know.
He did it all for you.
- In the beginning, perhaps,
before power corrupted.
- It was in the wrong
hands, I suppose.
Can't say I blame him.
Well, not entirely.
I suppose, in a way,
we were both after
the same thing.
[bold dramatic music]
[flames roaring]
[glass shatters]
Adeline?
- [Griffin] Adeline.
[intense dramatic music]
[dramatic mysterious music]
[singer vocalizing]