"(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)" "(DISTANT TRAFFIC ROARS, SIREN WAILS)" "(CLICK, CLICK!" ")" "(ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT HUMS)" "(EQUIPMENT WHINES)" "(ALERT TONE BEEPS)" "Shit!" "(CAT YOWLS)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)" "Night mode." "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)" "(THUD!" ")" "(KEYS JANGLE)" "BANDAGED MAN:" "Ugh!" "(DOOR SLAMS)" "(TENSE MUSIC)" "(FUNKY MUSIC)" "Yah!" "(ASSAILANTS GROWL)" "(METAL CLANGS)" "(WHEEZES)" "Get out of my neighbourhood." "(WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY NEARBY)" "WOMAN:" "Hello, I need to speak to the police, please." "(CAT MIAOWS)" "(LIFT BELL RINGS)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Shipping." "Griff speaking." "Whoa. (LAUGHS)" "Griff." "There you go." "How's lunch?" "Oh, sorry." "Sorry." "What did you have?" "A sandwich." "What was in the sandwich?" "Cheese." "Egg." "Mayonnaise." "Aw." "Love mayonnaise." "Was it whole-egg?" "Um, yeah." "I think so." "I don't know." "It's for Gary." "Tax time!" "He wants them sorted into categories, dates and then added up." "(CAJOLINGLY) I know." "Sorry!" "The short straw." "GRIFF:" "Uh!" "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Hey..." "Don't fight it, Griff." "Just wanna..." "S-Stop it!" "(SILENCE FALLS)" "(SQUEAKS) "Just stop it!" Hm-hm!" "(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC)" "Griff." "How'd you go?" "All done." "Great." "Just..." "They weren't really for Gary, were they?" "Uh, no." "(GENERAL OFFICE HUBBUB)" "(BATS SQUEAL)" "(CAR ALARM WHOOPS NEARBY)" "(HIGH-PITCHED YELPING)" "(HEROIC MUSIC)" "WOMAN:" "Help!" "Stay out of my neighbourhood." "(CAR DOOR SLAMS)" "(ENGINE STARTS, STALLS)" "It's OK." "You're safe." "Go away." "I got Mace!" ""It's OK." "You're safe."" ""You're safe now."" "(HUSKILY) "Never fear."" ""Griff, the Protector, is here."" "(SCOFFS)" "(NORMAL VOICE) Griff the..." "Hidden!" "Hup!" "(THUD!" ")" "(DOORBELL BUZZES)" "(ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT POWERS DOWN)" "(PRESSES BUTTON)" "Who is it?" "(OVER INTERCOM) It's Tim, Griff." "(GRIFF BUZZES STREET DOOR LOCK)" "TIM:" "For a minute, I thought it was you." "It better not be, Griff." "Because I moved back here for you and you promised me that you'd stopped." "It's not." "I promise." "It better not be." "It's not." "Better not be." "How's work, anyway?" "It's...really good." "Good." "It's good you have that job." "Yep." "Keeps you out of trouble." "It does." "Good." "Well." "Oh, um, you know how before I said I was in the neighbourhood?" "Well, the reason is because I was on a date." "Her name is Melody." "Melody." "Like music." "Yes, it is like..." "It's like music." "Anyway, I think she could be it." "(REPETITIVE, SERENE MUSIC)" "(THUD!" ")" "(SIGHS)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "Melly?" "Are you back already?" "Mm-hm." "Did you bump your head again?" "Mm-hm." "Clumsy. (CHUCKLES)" "So!" "How was the date?" "He is adorable!" "Yeah, he's lovely." "Oh, he's very right for you, Mel!" "(WHISPERS) Well done!" "Tim and Melody." "Mel and..." "OK, Mum, look, we've been on one date, OK?" "Just figuring out if I like him." "MOTHER:" "Hmm!" "Have there been any, um...you know... ..intimacies?" "Goodnight, Mum." "(SIGHS) Goodnight, darling." "(MOTHER SIGHS)" "(SIREN WAILS)" "(GENERAL CITY HUBBUB IN DISTANCE)" "Sorry, Tim." "I made a promise... (PEOPLE SHOUT IN STREET)" "..to rid this city of evil... ..in the name of justice." "It's not a choice." "It's a responsibility." "(CRUMPLES SHEET OF PAPER)" "('TROUBLE IS A FRIEND' BY LENKA PLAYS)" "No problem, sir." "Call again if it hasn't turned up." "Bye-bye." "(MAN OVER EARPIECE) ..twice your age." "WOMAN:" "Oh, like you can talk." "(MAN YAWNS DELIBERATELY, LAUGHS)" "So, Tammy's out of town tonight." "Do you want to come over?" "WOMAN:" "I don't know, Tony." "(BING!" ")" "How are you, Cecilia?" "Settling in OK?" "Everything's great." "I really love it." "Don't enjoy it too much." "It's still work!" "(LAUGHS)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Ahem." "Shipping." "Griff speaking." "It's Tony." "GRIFF:" "Oh." "Hi, Tony." "Just wondering what you're doing for lunch." "Why?" "I'm going to this little Chinese restaurant and they do great pork balls." "I know that you love balls." "No." "Thanks." "Hey!" "Here it is." "I really...really like you." "A lot." "And I love balls too." "We're two ball lovers." "(ALL LAUGH)" "State championships." "I got three perfect 1Os." "But even then," "Heather 'Twinkletoes' won." "Well, you look like a champ to me." "TIM:" "We met at a Chinese restaurant." "I was paying for the bill for my table and it was $19." "And we'd all had a banquet!" "$19?" "!" "What?" "!" "MOTHER:" "Oh, dear." "And I said to myself, "Mmm, that's pretty good value!"" "(MELODY GASPS)" "Melody!" "Aw!" "It's not so bad." "(TIM LAUGHS)" "MELODY:" "I'm OK." "(THUD!" ")" "Ugh!" "TIM:" "Oh, anyway, uh... (CHATTERS INDISTINCTLY)" "And she was looking at HER bill." "And..." "How much was it, Mel?" "Mel?" "TIM: $218!" "(GIGGLES)" "MOTHER:" "Why were you eating alone, Melly?" "She does funny things!" "Oh, she's fine though." "Ha ha!" "(DINERS LAUGH, CHATTER)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Yes, sir." "There definitely seems to be more activity in recent weeks." "(MAN OVER PHONE) The press are calling it a crime wave." "What do you think?" "Crime wave?" "I'm not sure, sir." "(DOORBELL BUZZES)" "..running out of men." "Uh, yes, Commissioner." "Promise me you will help." "Yes, sir, I will." "Thank you, sir." "(DOORBELL BUZZES)" "(SIGHS)" "(MEEKLY) Who is it?" "It's Tim, Griff." "Who else?" "(GRIFF WHISPERS) No, no!" "No!" "TIM:" "Griff." "This is, uh, Melody." "Hello." "My new girlfriend." "I didn't say that would be OK, Tim." "No, I know." "But..." "I'm sorry." "She really wanted to meet you." "WANTS to meet you." "Don't you?" "(THUDDING ON FLOORBOARDS)" "Should we go?" "No, no, no." "Ha." "(THUDDING, STATIC)" "(DEEP CREAKING)" "(SIGHS)" "OK!" "Thought I'd bring Melody over so you could actually meet her instead of me just talking about her all the time. (LAUGHS)" "I got Griff his new job." "Uh-huh." "Through a friend." "Platonic." "Female platonic friend." "(WHISPERS) Good." "TIM:" "Yeah, got bullied at the last job." "Didn't ya?" "Just like at school." "Always bullied at school." "Lucky I was there." "Won't happen anymore, though." "(CROCKERY THUDS) Right, Griff?" "Is that your cat downstairs, Griff?" "I don't have time for a cat." "Or a dog." "TIM:" "You know they reckon cats can see spirits?" "Did you know that?" "I don't think they're spirits." "I don't think that ghosts exist." "I think they are real people but in parallel places." "And...and maybe there are nine parallel universes" "and cats live in all of them at once." "That's why they can see everyone." "But we only live in one at a time and then when we die, we branch off into this other parallel existence where we DIDN'T die." "And meanwhile, where we DID die, everyone is sad and going," ""Oh, no." "She died."" "From, you know, whatever happened to you - accident or cancer." "(SILENCE)" "So, they're here now?" "TIM:" "I..." "DON'T think so!" "MELODY:" "What's under the sheet, Griff?" "It's just a mannequin, I think, babe." "(CHAIR SCRAPES HEAVILY)" "Oh!" "(CROCKERY CLATTERS)" "TIM:" "Are you OK, love?" "Are you OK?" "GRIFF:" "It's OK." "I got it." "Didn't hurt yourself?" "No." "I'm fine." "TIM:" "Oh, good!" "Stupid chair!" "Anyhoo!" "We better goo!" "Hey, we should all have dinner next week." "Get you out of the house." "Shame Melody doesn't have a sister." "DO you have a sister?" "No." "('UNDONE' BY KIDS AT RISK PLAYS)" "OLDER BOY:" "Sorry, mate." "Oops!" "Sorry!" "YOUNGER BOY:" "Freddy." "(OLDER BOY MOCKS YOUNGER)" "TONY:" "Oh, there he is!" "Gary!" "Griff's here." "Call off the search party, everyone." "Where have you BEEN?" "We've been worried SICK." "Yarrr!" "No!" "Aargh!" "(BYSTANDERS GASP)" "(BYSTANDERS LAUGH, CHEER)" "Sorry, Gary." "Hi, Griff." "(CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY)" "How's your brother?" "S-same." "That's good." "Has, um...has he got a girlfriend?" "Yep." "Ah!" "GARY:" "Griff." "Hmm?" "Can you pop in for a word?" "Do you want to tell me what's going on?" "It's nothing, Gary." "Sorry." "Doesn't look like nothing." "Are you on drugs?" "What?" "No." "Girl trouble?" "Do you owe someone money?" "No, it's nothing like that, Gary." "Sorry." "What happened, Griff?" "You started out so strong." "I know." "You've dropped the ball." "Have you dropped the ball?" "No, I haven't." "Know what I think?" "You're making yourself a target." "I think you're making yourself MORE visible when you should be trying to be invisible." "How?" "How do you mean?" "Well, Griff." "I see how people look at you." "And..." "Well, this is hard to say." "But when you hide and you don't interact, well, you come across a bit odd." "GRIFF:" "Invisible." "People notice you even more, ironically." "You gotta chat to people." "Like I do." "I mean, I'm a bit odd too." "But I just go around..." "I'm chatting to people all the time." "And the amazing thing is after a while of acting normal, you BECOME normal." "It's like an accent." "I mean... (AMERICAN ACCENT) If I was to start talking in an American accent all the time," "I'd become an American - right?" "Just don't give that goose...fuel." "The only way to make him back off is to beat him at his own game." "Act normal!" "And then you can get on with becoming the best client liaison we've got." "And you could be." "Yes!" "Invisible Man." "(BELL CHIMES)" "Hello, Griff." "Doing some painting?" "Of course." "Sorry." "So, that it?" "(GRIFF INHALES)" "Do you know anything about...invisible ink?" "No." "Nup." "I..." "I think you can use baking soda, though." "Do you have any?" "(GRIFF WHISTLES)" "Put it on the tab." "Can I have that receipt, please?" "You didn't see me." "Mmm!" "This is nice, Mel." "What is it?" "Um, shark." "Flake." "Which is shark." "FATHER:" "Uh, so, Tim...uh, Melody tells me you have a brother." "Griff." "That's right." "Griff?" "Mmm." "I know a Griff." "Comes into the shop." "Came in today, actually." "Odd chap." "MOTHER:" "Darling." "Um, that's probably him." "Always leaves with "You didn't see me."" "TIM:" "That's definitely him." "Hope he's no trouble?" "No, no, not at all." "(DISTORTED RUMBLING)" "('SOUS LE DOME EPAIS' FROM 'LAKME' BY DELIBES PLAYS)" "Is he older or younger?" "Huh!" "Younger." "In every sense." "Ugh!" "Oop!" "TIM:" "Actually, um, he's the reason Melody and I met." "Well, indirectly, I suppose." "Um, I was living in Adelaide." "And I had to come back because Griff lost his job and was in need of a big brother again." "So, um, I got a transfer." "And now he's OK again." "(GRIFF PANTS IN TRIUMPH)" "And then I went to that Chinese restaurant. (LAUGHS)" "You know what happened there." "(FIZZING)" "You're not going back to Adelaide, are you?" "Um, maybe." "We'll see." "(LIQUID GURGLES IN GLASS)" "You'd want to stay here, though, if, say..." "Oop!" "Ha." "..you and Melody got married." "(TIM COUGHS) Um..." "Uh, who knows?" "!" "Yeah." "(GIGGLES NERVOUSLY)" "Melody!" "(GURGLING IN BATH)" "(SIGHS HAPPILY)" "Did you know that 40% of people don't believe statistics when they read them?" "No!" "No, I didn't." "So that means that 40% of responses should be ignored because the people giving them, they don't believe them anyway." "So they can't be trusted." "Dunno." "Well..." "Thanks for another lovely evening." "Thanks, Tim." "You're really lovely." "Right-ee-oh!" "(OPENS CAR DOOR)" "(SMILINGLY) Hey, Melody!" "$218?" "What?" "!" "(LAUGHS)" "(STARTS IGNITION)" "(TRUCK AIR HORN BLARES DISTORTEDLY)" "(TYRES SQUEAL, BANG!" ")" "(TIM SCREAMS)" "(HORN TOOTS JAUNTILY)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "(CURTAIN RINGS JINGLE)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "MELODY:" "Oh, hi." "What are you doing?" "Uh, dunno." "What are YOU doing?" "I'm at home." "MELODY:" "Are you OK?" "Yeah." "Is Tim with you?" "Uh, no." "Um..." "Maybe I should come in or something." "Well, I'm kind of in the middle of some things." "And...sleeping." "Oh." "Sorry." "Sorry." "I was just, you know, in the neighbourhood." "But I'll go." "Do you... ..want some water, before you leave?" "Isn't it funny to think that I just poured hydrogen and oxygen into this hole in my face and now it's merging with all the other atoms in my body" "to become part of me?" "That is, until my body decides to use it to flush out toxic waste." "Could I use your toilet?" "Um...no." "Well..." "Hang on." "(RUNS)" "Oh!" "Um..." "It's just through there." "Thanks." "(PASSES DRINKING GLASS)" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "(GRIFF BREATHES ANXIOUSLY)" "(DOOR OPENS)" "(GRIFF GASPS)" "(MELODY APPROACHES)" "So I should go." "Yeah." "Thanks for the water." "Oh!" "It's alright." "It's just tap water." "So..." "I just wanted to say that I think you're really nice." "Not nice, but, um..." "OK." "(SHYLY) 'Bye." "('HEY MISTER' BY KIDS AT RISK PLAYS)" "Invisible Man." "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "FATHER:" "You in there, Melly?" "Yep." "You working?" "What's the drawing?" "A dot painting?" "No, it's just an idea." "Uh-huh." "MELODY:" "Hmm..." "Here." "OK, so say these are the atoms that make up the wall." "And these are the atoms that make up me." "Look at all the space between those atoms." "I mean, we don't know what it is." "It could be vacuum, dead space, dark matter, but it's definitely space." "In fact, the whole world is 99% space." "Right." "Right, so it's just a matter of probability." "If I happen to hit the wall at exactly the right moment, when all the spaces are aligned, then theoretically I should pass right through the wall." "Well, that's great, hon." "Mmm!" "Yeah." "Anyway..." "You know, we just want you to be happy, Melly." "Find love and happiness." "You know." "I will." "Love you." "I love you." "(GRIFF LATCHES BRIEFCASE CLOSED)" "Hi, Tony!" "Well!" "Hi..." "Griff." "Maestro." "(SWEEPS ITEMS ASIDE)" "What do you keep in that case?" "I don't know." "Stuff." "You don't know stuff." "Give it back, Tony." "Is it comic books?" "Seriously." "Give it back." "(MIMICS) "Seriously." "Give it back."" "No!" "TONY:" "Chill, Griff." "Chill." "Just wanted to borrow your stapler." "('BE INVISIBLE' BY KIDS AT RISK PLAYS)" "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "2300 hours." "Operation Boobytrap underway." "Hey!" "(VACUUM WHINES TO A HALT)" "(GASPS)" "(ALARM RINGS)" "GARY:" "Can't see the face." "No." "(MOUTHS SILENTLY)" "Earth to Griff." "Not even listening to me." "Do you want a raffle ticket or not?" "Win a trip to Magnetic Island." "Freaky." "(ECHOES) Win a trip to Magnetic Island." "Magnetic Island." "(HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRR)" "Oh." "Hi, Griff." "What are you doing?" "Uh, just waiting for you." "What do you do?" "I can't say." "Secret." "Please." "I'm an experimentalist." "I test things." "Theories and facts." "Can't tell you about them, though." "They're secret too." "Sometimes I do street surveys about surveys." "And I go up to people on the street and I say, "Excuse me."" ""What do you think about street surveys?"" ""And what is your favourite street survey subject?"" "Once I went to a protest and I protested the protest." "I had a placard that said, "Stop protests now"" "and I yelled, "What do we want?" "No more protests."" ""When do we want it?" "Now."" "(CHUCKLES)" "You ever googled the word 'Google'?" "(LAUGHS) No." "Where's Tim?" "I don't know." "Did he send you?" "No." "No, I came by myself." "Why?" "I'm not good with relationships." "Sorry." "Shouldn't have said that." "I don't think you should be here." "Yeah, I actually have to go." "(BUZZER RINGS)" "Shit." "Oh, shit." "Shit!" "Shit!" "Who is it?" "TIM:" "Griff." "It's Tim." "Shit!" "I knew it." "Shit!" "Why did you come here?" "Do you want me to hide?" "I can hide!" "Uh...don't go in the wardrobe!" "(TIM KNOCKS ON DOOR)" "Hi." "Hi, Tim." "Beer?" "Yep." "Um..." "Nuts?" "Sure." "How are you?" "Great." "Good." "Not great, actually." "Shit." "I haven't heard from her for two days." "Who?" "Melody, Griff!" "(WHISPERS) Oh." "Yeah." "(GRIFF AND TIM TALK OUTSIDE)" "How's work?" "Oh, great." "No mischief?" "(SHOUTS) No mischief!" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Where are you going?" "Toilet." "Wait!" "It's blocked." "The toilet." "I won't flush." "Wait!" "I really need to go." "Well, go after me." "(CALLS) Code nine, code nine." "We have a serious situation." "MAN:" "Hey!" "(SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)" "(DRIVER SNORES, SNORTS)" "(RUNS)" "(REFLECTIVE MUSIC)" "(READS) "I know who you are."" ""You are me, and the opposite of me."" ""You are the question, I am the answer."" ""You are the proton, I am the neutron."" ""You are a magnetic field and I am light,"" ""forever drawn to you."" "MAN:" "And over the fence." "And down the alleyway." "The alleyway around the back?" "Yeah, around the back." "Did you get a look at him?" "OK." "Have you got metal sheets and some... ..pipes?" "Hi, Griff." "Benson's my dad." "Who's Benson?" "The guy who owns here." "Oh." "Tim didn't see me last night." "I hid in the wardrobe." "And he only waited half an hour and then he left." "What did you see?" "Um..." "You're making an invisibility suit." "If you tell anyone..." "I won't, I won't tell anyone." "I promise." "Do you need my help?" "No." "I know what I'm doing, OK?" "Just forget anything you saw." "Hmm!" "It's for your own..." "(SHOP BUZZER CHIMES)" "..s-safety." "So you'll find the pipes in the third row and metal sheets at the back." "(CALLS) Can I help you with anything, sir?" "Uh, just this, thanks." "Sure." "Do you need anything else?" "Wire?" "I HAVE wire." "Good." "Contact me when you need my help." "(WHISPERS) I'm not who you think I am." "What?" "I'm not who you think I am." "Oh." "('MELODIES AND DESIRES' BY LYKKE LI PLAYS)" "(POW!" ")" "(BUZZING)" "(BUZZING CONTINUES)" "(BUZZING)" "('WATCHING YOU' BY KIDS AT RISK PLAYS)" "Thank you." "Glad we could help." "TONY:" "Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai." "Is anyone else's...things got..." "Whoa!" "Hey." "(TAPS KEYBOARD)" "What?" "!" "Um... (SCOFFS)" "Ai-ai-ai-ai-ai..." "Is anyone..." "Is your key..." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Um, no!" "(STRIKES KEYBOARD)" "TONY:" "Oh, fuck off!" "(COMPUTER BEEPS)" "Fuck!" "My thing is..." "Is Steve around?" "My computer's complete..." "Wha-a-a-at?" "!" "What the fuck?" "WHAT the fuck?" "No, no, no, no, no, no." "Well, that's not true." "I'm not typing anything." "It's some virus or something." "FUCK!" "Tony." "See me now." "Gary, I've just got to send..." "I'll be there..." "Now." "Yeah." "(PEOPLE SNIGGER)" "Yeah." "Shit." "(PEOPLE LAUGH)" "I think it's over with her." "Who?" "Melody, Griff!" "Jesus." "And I really tried." "I sent funny texts and silly ones." "And serious ones." "Yeah." "She said she needed time, but it doesn't mean she has to not call me at all, does it?" "I dunno." "Um..." "At all?" "Should call him." "He's pretty upset." "We've been on three dates." "Sorry." "I'll call him." "What were you like as a kid?" "Small." "I bet you were popular." "I was." "Really...popular." "We're not the same person as we were when we were kids, you know." "No, obviously." "I mean literally." "I mean every cell that made you up when you were a kid doesn't exist anymore." "They're long dead." "So that all the cells that make you up as you are now are new." "It's this complete reinvention." "Uh..." "Let's walk." "OK." "Before I tell you this, you have to commit to a vow of secrecy unlike any other." "You won't believe it at first." "You'll probably laugh." "I won't laugh." "And I'm only telling you because you saw things you shouldn't." "I'm not who I seem to be." "I have powers." "And with these powers comes a responsibility... ..to fight... ..to protect... ..to uphold justice and defend the innocent... ..alone." "My life is too dangerous to have...friends..." "..or more than." "Sorry." "I don't hate you." "I like you." "I like you too, Griff." "But nothing can happen between us." "It's not just because of Tim." "It's for your own safety." "It's because..." "You should call Tim." "'Bye, Griff." "('DERAILED A CAPELLA' BY SAM PETTY AND KIDS AT RISK)" "Pause there." "Just because you're fired doesn't mean you're safe." "Oh, shit!" "Shit, shit, shit!" "(LIFT BELL RINGS)" "Griff." "Griff, can I have a word?" "Where are you going?" "Oh." "Hi, Gary." "Listen, Griff." "We're going to have to let you go." "Mm-hm." "You're late all the time, you don't fit into the work environment." "And... ..have you been sneaking into the office at night?" "Because that's not generally on, Griff." "And now Tony's talking charges." "Anyway, that's the..." "I'll pay you till the end of the week." "I'm sorry, Griff." "WOMAN:" "Hi, Griff." "Hi." "There's someone..." "I know." "I'm sorry." "Ugh!" "So, Griff." "I don't like weird, fucked-up freaks making me look like a dick in front of my friends." "You wouldn't understand that because you don't have any friends." "But to me it's important." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "I don't enjoy hurting people." "But if it happens again... ..man." "Do you comprendo?" "Huh?" "('WE'LL TAKE THEM ALL' BY KIDS AT RISK PLAYS)" "(BEEPING)" "(BEEPING CONTINUES)" "(ALERT TONES WHOOP)" "GRIFF:" "Identity compromised." "Abort!" "(CAR DOOR OPENS)" "Come on, get down." "Gotcha." "DETECTIVE:" "Don't be stupid." "You won't make it." "(THUD!" ")" "(MOBILE PHONE CHIMES)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "Guess who's here." "MELODY:" "Thank you for coming over." "That's OK." "Did you want to talk?" "Yeah." "About us?" "Yeah, sort of." "Tim, the thing is that Griff seems to think that you and I had something really serious going on." "But, I mean, we..." "You know, we only, uh, really..." "You know." "And so he doesn't want...to, or he, uh..." "He doesn't want me to hurt you." "Sorry." "Sorry, what, sorry?" "Tim, I think you'll be really good to go out with..." "Right?" "..with someone who is right." "Right." "But I'm..." "Not." "Not." "Not right." "Right." "So hang on." "So, Griff, where does he..." "You and Griff?" "!" "Yeah, I think so." "He's like me." "Uh, I don't need to know details." "I'm fine." "That's good." "I'm glad." "Really glad." "Why did you run?" "Did you think we were there to arrest you?" "What have you done that warrants arrest?" "We've had reports of someone stalking residents in your neighbourhood." "You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?" "Stalking is an offence, Griff." "As is prowling." "And voyeurism." "Were we to inspect your home, do you think we'd find anything that might incriminate you?" "No, you got the wrong man, sir." "OK?" "I've seen what you're looking for." "I have." "And it's out there." "And, well, no-one's doing anything about it." "So..." "Taking the law into your own hands is also an offence, Griff." "Is that what you are?" "A vigilante?" "No, I'm not a vigilante." "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "Come." "(WHISPERS)" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "Right, Griff." "Having seen you, we've decided not to press charges." "Lucky for you." "Lucky I'm in a good mood." "I don't want to hear any more reports of stalking." "Understood?" "I'll do my best to help, Commissioner." "Don't push me, freak." "(WALKS AWAY)" "(TIM SIGHS)" "I've had it, Griff." "I'm going back to Adelaide." "You need help." "Professional." "(REFLECTIVE MUSIC)" "(MOTOR RUMBLES)" "(WOMEN LAUGH)" "Oh!" "CECILIA:" "Griff." "Did Tony do that to you, Griff?" "(THUNDER RUMBLES, METAL JINGLES)" "(RAIN PATTERS)" "Griff." "Something's happened." "What are you doing?" "What's happened to your face?" "Do you have antiseptic?" "What the hell are you doing here?" "Oh, just..." "I didn't know how to say I'm here." "Argh!" "Who did this?" "How did you get in?" "You got your key cut at the hardware store." "Dad keeps a copy." "What?" "Griff, I have to show you something." "Melody, stop." "Look, we can't see each other anymore." "I don't WANT to see you." "(SLAMS DOOR)" "(WHISPERS) Griff." "Griff, something has come for you." "A package." "Melody, I can't." "Look, I don't know what it is, but it is marked 'top secret'." "Top secret?" "Yeah." "GRIFF:" "You didn't see who brought it?" "No." "Be careful." "(MOUTHS)" "I think there's a note." ""Dear Griff,"" ""I work for a government agency that no-one has heard of."" "OK." ""Let's just leave it at that."" ""We have been watching you, Griff."" ""We suspected you were the one"" ""when we first became aware of your activities"?" "!" ""This is the universe suit."" ""And it's for you."" ""By studying the lens of a cat's eye"" ""we have harnessed the ability to enter the other dimensions."" ""This suit allows you to hide in a fourth dimension,"" ""to become unseen to the human eye, to become..."" ""..invisible."" "Oh..." "We need you, Griff." "The city needs you." "(SPARKS FIZZ)" "You're different." "It's what I've been trying to tell you." "Do you want to put the suit on?" "MELODY:" "Are you stuck?" "Do you want a hand?" "GRIFF:" "I'm IN it." "You're in it." "Yeah." "Well, come out." "I can't see you." "I AM out." "I'm standing right here." "What?" "!" "GRIFF:" "Are you lying?" "No." "You can't see me?" "I cannot see you." "GRIFF:" "Ahem." "(DOOR SLAMS)" "Hi, Dad." "You working today?" "Is that Griff down there?" "Where?" "There." "Um, there's no-one there, Dad." "BENSON:" "Oh." "Right." "Silly me." "('THE SWEETEST THING' BY CAMERA OBSCURA PLAYS)" "MELODY:" "This is me." "'Bye." "When are you leaving?" "TIM:" "End of the month." "Does it have to keep happening, Griff?" "I know you're normal underneath." "I'll be OK, Tim." "(STAMMERS)" "You don't have to leave." "You're not good for my health." "And maybe I'm not good for you." "Maybe if I just let you do what you want, YOU'LL sort it out." "I just worry." "OK." "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH ON STAIRS)" "(BANG!" ")" "(MELODY GASPS)" "Griff!" "Griff, did you see it..." "Oh, hi, Tim." "..up in the sky?" "!" "Look, right there." "A 'G'." "Oh, yeah!" "MELODY:" "For 'Griff'." "GRIFF:" "Shit!" "Listen." "You're being called." "The chief!" "They have taken the police chief hostage." "GRIFF:" "The Commissioner?" "The Commissioner." "They need you to save him." "I better put on the suit." "Whoa." "What are we talking about?" "What's going on?" "There's an emergency." "There's nothing there." "Griff!" "Griff." "You just got arrested and lost your job." "We just talked about this." "OK, can we just stop for a minute?" "Tim, we have to go." "(CALLS) Can you hurry up, Griff?" "I'm ready." "Oh, God!" "Stop doing that." "Look - here, so I know where you are." "MELODY:" "Let's go, Let's go, let's go." "(VEHICLE ENGINE PURRS)" "(ENGINE STOPS)" "TIM:" "A disused warehouse." "How original." "(THROUGH DEVICE) Can you hear me?" "Over." "Copy that." "Over." "(STATIC HISSES)" "Roger that." "Over." "We're on." "Oh, wait." "Hat." "What are you doing?" "I'm just keeping watch." "I mean, WHAT are you DOING?" "(GRIFF OVER DEVICE) I'm going in." "Keep watch." "I'll report on the situation." "Over." "Copy that." "Be careful." "Over." "(POLICE SHOUT, SIRENS WAIL)" "Look, it really isn't a good idea to, you know, play along with his delusions like this." "They're not delusions." "Well, he's not a superhero, Melody." "And he's obviously not invisible." "Well, maybe he is." "He says he is." "So...he is." "But I can SEE him." "GRIFF:" "Targets identified." "MELODY:" "Roger that." "Over." "He's a 28-year-old man and he's living in a fantasy world." "He's always lived in a fantasy world." "(SMACK!" ")" "TIM:" "I got him out of it." "Now you've put him back." "OK, firstly, I don't think you ever got him out of it." "And secondly, this may be fake or delusional to you, but it is real to him and it is real to me..." "GRIFF:" "Targets engaged." "Do you read?" "Over." "How is it real?" "He's a customer liaison officer who thinks he's an invisible superhero." "(METALLIC CLANGING IN DISTANCE)" "If you want to be his friend, or more, or whatever, then you need to help him to stop, not tell him it's real." "He's not hurting anyone." "He may even be saving them." "Who?" "Invisible people?" "Yes, maybe." "(MOUTHS)" "(ALL SHOUT)" "OK, so in the real world, where the rest of us live, what do you do with a boyfriend who's a superhero?" "(STATIC CRACKLES)" "What if you're having dinner with your parents and he suddenly stands up and starts talking about saving the planet" "and having to leave on a secret mission?" "You know what, he's not coming over to dinner, Tim." "I would never ask him over because he's Griff, and he needs to grow up." "He would not fit in with them or anyone else in the real world because he's a freak." "(STATIC CRACKLES)" "(MELODY'S VOICE CUTS OUT)" "MELODY:" "And so am I and that is exactly why I love him." "Becau... (FRAGMENTS OF MELODY'S VOICE BETWEEN STATIC)" "We see the world one way and you see it this other way and because you don't understand, you want to change it." "But I don't want to change it." "Maybe the rest of you need to grow up instead." "Turn the lights on." "Griff?" "('IAMUNDERNODISGUISE' BY SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS PLAYS)" "(DOORBELL BUZZES URGENTLY)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "ANSWERING MACHINE:" "You've called Griff." "Leave a message, or if it's an emergency..." "WOMAN:" "It's like we're living in the country!" "But we're still within the metro area." "It's perfect for us." "Thank you." "Come in." "(CAR ENGINE STARTS)" "(KNOCK AT DOOR)" "Melly, dinner's on." "Mum." "Hmm?" "Do you think that this..." "life, our existence..." "Do you think it's an accident?" "Or do you think it's planned for a reason?" "Oh." "Um..." "Oh, I think..." "And try and ignore religion." "Ignore religion." "Um..." "Well, I think it's like gymnastics." "I think that life was inevitable." "I mean, however it was created, whatever happened, you know, whoever did it..." "I mean, you look at the stars and you see infinity and you look into a microscope and you see infinity." "And...smack bang in the middle of those two extremities... ..perched on a balance beam...is us." "(WHISPERS) Life!" "In the middle." "Inevitable." "(MEN LAUGH NEARBY)" "(SIGHS) Hi." "Where have you been?" "When?" "Oh, yeah." "A bit busy." "Just had some stuff to...had to fix." "Some things." "Sorry." "BENSON:" "Well!" "Yum, yum, chook's bum." "GRIFF:" "Thank you, sir." "BENSON:" "Oh!" "Benson - please!" "Uh, Griff just got a new job, darl." "Oh!" "What is it?" "I'm a customer liaison officer at DHL Transport." "Oh!" "Not really sure what that is. (LAUGHS)" "(BENSON CHUCKLES)" "(GRIFF FAKES A POLITE LAUGH)" "(OPERA MUSIC IN BACKGROUND)" "Mmm!" "Melody and I, we met through Tim." "And Tim and Melody met at a Chinese restaurant." "And now Tim and I are taking cooking classes." "And guess what we cooked last week." "Sweet-and-sour pork." "Hmm!" "Which is Chinese." "(GRIFF AND MOTHER CHUCKLE WITH RELIEF)" "GRIFF:" "So funny!" "MOTHER:" "Well, that's a good idea!" "Cooking classes for men." "Oh, whoever's responsible for this meal is in no need of cooking classes!" "Well, I don't know about THAT." "GRIFF:" "I must have the recipe." "MOTHER:" "Oh, of course!" "I've always had a flair with food." "Are you sure you won't stay?" "I should get back." "Oh!" "Early start at the office." "But, um..." "But thank you." "I had a lovely evening." "Well!" "We'll let you two say goodbye." "Oh." "Goodnight." "Well, um..." "Goodnight...my love." "Mwah." "He's nice." "Griff." "Griff!" "Open up." "What's happening?" "What's happening?" "What's happening..." "Uh, let me see." "I can't do this." "Do what?" "This." "Us." "I cannot do this us, Griff." "You're ending it already?" "But I thought this was..." "Griff, please." "You are either punishing me, Laughing at me, or you are seriously convinced that this is what I want." "I don't understand, Melody." "What about the missions?" "What about your duty to defend the innocent and uphold..." "It's not real, Melody!" "I'm not a superhero." "Yes." "Yes you are." "What do you miss?" "Did you enjoy laughing at me?" "Was I a dancing monkey or something?" "It's not real, Melody." "This is real." "No!" "Yeah." "Everything you see here is real." "No!" "This pantry..." "Griff, please don't do this." "..is real." "Rice." "You WERE real." "Griff!" "Real." "Stop it." "Listen." "Griff." "(PANTS)" "I live in a bubble that no-one - no-one - gets into." "I feel like an alien." "I live in a completely different world to the one everyone else is in." "I can't communicate with anyone." "I can talk to them, but I cannot communicate." "But you..." "Griff... ..you get into my bubble." "Everybody has to grow up." "(TENDER MUSIC)" "No, they don't." "I would have loved you... ..forever." "(OPENS DOOR)" "(CLOSES DOOR)" "(GRIFF CONTINUES WEEPING)" "(DISTANT DEEP RUMBLING)" "(DEEP RUMBLING CONTINUES)" "(DEEP RUMBLING INTENSIFIES)" "Oh!" "Oh, my God!" "My God!" "You just...you just went through a door." "Yeah!" "Oop." "How did you...how did..." "You just..." "Aargh!" "How did you..." "I don't believe it." "I don't believe it." "You can believe it." "You can." "(FOOTSTEPS NEARBY)" "MELODY:" "What is it?" "It's a package." "For you." "What were you doing?" "Um..." "I can't say." "I'm going to put the suit on." "GRIFF:" "There's probably a note with it." "(MELODY READS) "Use these to be the only one"" ""who can see Griff when he's invisible."" ""So he doesn't have to wear the hat."" "Tell me when you're in it." "GRIFF:" "I'm in it." "Does it work?" "Can you see me?" "Yeah!" "Yeah, I can see you." "I can see you." "('TAKE ME AS I AM' BY AU REVOIR SIMONE PLAYS)" "('DOING THE BEST THAT WE CAN' BY KIDS AT RISK PLAYS)"