Now You See Him, Now You Don't

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- Did I miss anything?

- No, he's doing the same old thing.

[Higgins] Lufkin, why is it that every time

we have a budget meeting,

- you stir up trouble?

- [Lufkin] I'm not trying to stir up trouble.

I'm just trying to get what I need,

so we can have a decent lab.

[Higgins] I think you've got what you need.

Need I remind you, it was just last year

that we bought 10 new

Bunsen burners for that lab.

We've got to draw the line somewhere.

This can't go on forever.

But our students have to experiment.

Be creative.

That's what science is all about.

Creative, my foot.

You're talking about this bunch out there

being creative. That's impossible.

[Lufkin] You're being unfair, Dean Higgins.

Suppose people had taken

that attitude about Thomas Edison?

We're not talking about people like Edison.

We're talking about people

like Dexter Riley.

Believe me, Dexter Riley

is no Thomas Edison.

[Dexter] Nobody ever said he was!

Of course, nobody said he was.

That would be a ridiculous thing to say...

No, Lufkin, I think you better forget

about your course in creative lab.

Just stick with the old

conventional systems.

Burn the sulfur, make clouds,

smell up the place, like you do.

[Lufkin] Now, really, Dean Higgins.

That was good enough for the '40s,

but today, science...

Why is it that every time we have

a meeting, they're out there?

Listening to something?

[Buzzer]

- They're just having a little gathering.

- I don't like little gatherings.

They make me nervous. I don't even like...

Yes, Winifred?

Who? Yes, I'll talk to him, Winifred.

That'll be all today, gentlemen.

That was even duller than usual.

But you gotta listen.

You never know what might come up.

Yes, Helwig, did you find out anything?

Yes, I've been watching them.

They've been bugging your office.

[Higgins] They've been bugging

my office?

- What?

- [Higgins] Are you sure?

What'd he say?

We'll find out! Wait a minute.

I should've known.

I wonder where they hid that thing.

- He's on to us.

- What are we gonna do?

- We gotta do something in a hurry.

- Let's get moving.

Behind the books,

that's where they'd hide it.

They're worried about the establishment.

Hello? I'll show them what

the establishment really is.

Soon as I find the evidence,

I'll expel them all.

Tuition or no tuition, I'll get

a federal grant. I don't need them.

Nothing under here.

No! My homework!

Anything wrong, Dean Higgins?

No, nothing's wrong.

You need an electrician or anything?

No, I don't need an electrician.

You don't have to snap my head off.

If I wanted an electrician,

I'd have called one in the first place.

Don't they ever clean this thing? I don't

know what I pay that janitor for anyway.

Excuse me, could you show me

my attendance file in history?

Mr. Baines says I missed half

my classes and I don't believe it.

I don't think I missed any.

- The name?

- Schuylar, Richard Schuylar.

Says here you've been absent

every Thursday.

You mean it's on Thursdays, too?

I only thought it was on Tuesdays.

No wonder all those epics

seemed to roll along so fast.

I think I got the answer.

If I flunk it this semester,

I'll go on Thursdays next semester

and pick up the stuff I missed.

Thanks, Mrs. Kesley, you'll never

know how much you helped me!

Dean Higgins, do you mind

if I change your flowers?

No, I don't. I've got more

important things on my mind.

[Higgins] Wait!

I knew it. It's those flowers.

All right, Dexter Riley,

I know you're in there.

Imagine it, sir. If one of our own students

could actually win the Forsythe Award!

- With this bunch, that's impossible.

- Good morning, Dean Higgins.

- But Dean, it's $50,000 this year.

- Really? $50,000?

Morning, Dean Higgins.

Young Druffle seems to have come up

with something very promising.

He's one of our honor students. What's

he doing here with a crowd like this?

Good morning, Dean.

There's another beaut, that Schuylar.

Right this way, sir.

Well, Druffle...

I thought we might give Dean Higgins

a progress report on your experiment.

Certainly. Good morning.

Morning.

Actually, my work with bumble bees

is based on a very simple theory.

See, when you consider

the mass of the body of the bee,

the drag quotient far outmeasures

the foil efficiency and the lift field.

- Ergo, it's fairly safe to say...

- Thank you, Druffle.

Morning, Dean.

Howdy ho, Dean.

- Tell them not to touch me.

- Please.

I know what Tinkertoys are when

I see them, but what is this monstrosity?

- What is this?

- It's an invention of my own.

I can imagine.

People have been trying to figure out

the problem of invisibility.

- I didn't know that was a problem.

- Things have changed.

A lot has happened

since Einstein split the atom.

This looks like one of them.

It looks complicated, but actually

it's very simple once you understand it.

I'm not sure I care to understand it.

First of all, you have to read

Bersokoff's book on quantum mechanics.

- I do. And who was Bersokoff?

- You don't know him?

That's funny, he was a very famous

18th century Russian scientist.

He was the man who developed the theory,

"If we could prevent reflection..."

Let me show you.

If we could prevent reflection by...

bending light waves around objects

with a non-reflectable liquid,

we could make those objects invisible.

That was his theory?

Making objects invisible?

- Yes, sir.

- That's idiotic.

No, sir, it's a very sound theory.

If it's so sound,

how come he could never make it work?

- Who?

- The Russian! Whoever...

You mean Bersokoff.

Unfortunately, his career was cut short.

I didn't know that. His career...

What happened?

- What happened to him?

- They threw him into an insane asylum.

They threw him into an insane asylum?

And you're working on his theory?

Yeah.

Don't you exercise

any control whatsoever around here?

You come to me and ask me for money

to buy expensive equipment,

so that nitwit kid can work on a theory

that some Russian proposed,

- over 200 years ago?

- Wait a minute, sir!

We may not agree

with the Russians politically,

we may not even like them,

but as scientists,

don't you think we ought to raise

ourselves above these petty prejudices?

Scientists? I'm talking about a nut

they had to lock up over 200 years ago!

Dean, I'm sorry!

Dean, I'm sorry.

I don't how it happened.

These lunatics are trying to kill me.

Wait a minute.

- I've had enough.

- What about...

[students] You don't understand.

[Thunder]

[Thunder]

[Glass shattering]

I must be going crazy, but the guy

in that car looked like A.J. Arno.

It couldn't be him.

He's in jail.

All right, move away from the car.

Come on, move.

What's the matter with you?

Leave them alone.

They're not doing any harm.

Boys, don't pay any attention to him.

- Hi, kids. Nice to see you.

- Hi, Mr. Arno.

What's the matter?

You seem surprised to see me.

- We thought you were in jail.

- Oh, that. That was a mistake.

You know, the police, judges,

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