Cecilia Kass

*"He was a sociopath; completely in control of everything. He said that wherever I went, he would find me, walk right up to me, and I wouldn't be able to see him."*
―Cecilia Kass[src]
**Cecilia Kass** is an architect former girlfriend of billionaire sociopath Adrian Griffin. Following Griffin's assumed suicide, Cecilia received $5 million of his wealth on the condition that she be ruled mentally competent. Soon afterwards, Cecilia was stalked by Adrian, who had found a way to turn himself invisible.

## Biography

Cecilia was born to unborn parents and has a sister named Emily. During her childhood, Cecilia and Emily befriended James Lanier, who would later become a detective. She met a wealthy optics engineer named adrian in December 14 during the year 2017 at a party and began dating. She moves into his large modern mansion but becomes trapped in a violent, emotionally and physically abusive relationship where she came to discover Adrian’s true nature as a homicidal and abusive control freak. Adrian would control everything around the house including her, from what she said to what she wore, ate, thought and ever exited the house. This control would go at the cost of her own personal and individual liberty as a human being. To make matters even worse, whenever he assumed he thought something he didn’t like, he would hit her and do “other things” to her, whatever they were. One time he told her that he would always be with her no matter where she went. Her boyfriend was also such a paranoid control freak that he would install cameras to keep tabs on her at all times and he would one day rape her to conceive as a means of bounding her to him forever. One day she began to think in her mind a way to leave him with Adrian sitting right in front of her, analyzing and studying her body and non-verbal language. Once he realized what was really going on in her mind, he told her with absolute certainty that she would never be able to leave him.

Cecilia had enough of Adrian’s traumatic abuse and controlling behaviour so she decided to abandon him for good, drugging her boyfriend with Diazepam and escaping with the aid of her sister. She was taken to James and hid at his home with his teenage daughter, Sydney, who she became close to. Two weeks after escaping, Adrian seemingly commits suicide, and leaves Cecilia five million in his will handled by his brother, Tom.

As Cecilia tries to move forward, she is plagued by several unexplained experiences. During a job interview, she faints after finding her portfolio's contents removed and is taken to the hospital. Later, the doctor calls and says they found high levels of Diazepam in her system. Shortly after returning home, Cecilia finds the same bottle she drugged Adrian with, which she dropped during her escape, in her bathroom.

She arranges a meeting with Tom and James, insisting that Adrian faked his death and used his optics expertise to become invisible in order to torment her, but gets rebuffed. Cecilia turns to her sister, but Emily refuses to acknowledge her after receiving an email from Cecilia's account stating she never wants to see her again. Later, she is comforted by Sydney, but Sydney is hit by an unseen force, leading her and James to assume Cecilia did it. While a furious James rushes his daughter out of the house, Cecilia tries a number of tactics to catch the figure. After finding Adrian's old phone in the attic and covering the figure with paint, she ends up in a violent struggle before escaping to Adrian's home to investigate.

In his lab, she finds a suit that confirms her suspicions. After hiding it in a closet, the invisible figure attacks again, so Cecilia flees and contacts Emily. The pair meet in a restaurant, though as Cecilia begins to tell her what she found, the invisible figure slits Emily's throat with a knife and places it in Cecilia's hand, framing her for the crime.

Remanded to a mental hospital while she awaits trial, the staff informs Cecilia that she is pregnant. Tom visits her and offers to get her charges dropped if she agrees to "return to him" and raise the child, implying that he helped his brother stage his suicide while revealing Adrian tampered with her birth control to ensure she became pregnant. Cecilia refuses to take the deal and steals a pen from his briefcase. That night, she uses the pen to pretend to commit suicide to draw the invisible figure out. When the figure tries to stop her, she stabs him repeatedly, causing the suit to malfunction. The security team arrives, but the invisible figure violently incapacitates them before fleeing the hospital, with Cecilia in pursuit. Promising not to harm her because of her pregnancy, the figure instead threatens to attack those she loves.

Cecilia races to James' house, where she finds the invisible figure attacking him and Sydney. She manages to shoot the figure after spraying him with a fire extinguisher, but when she unmasks him, she finds Tom in the suit. Police find a captive Adrian alive at his house, tied up in his basement and claiming Tom held him prisoner. Cecilia quickly disputes this, insisting the brothers must have shared the suit, with Adrian sending Tom to the house knowing what would happen.

In an attempt to get Adrian to confess, she meets him at his house to discuss her pregnancy while James listens in on a wire. She agrees to mend their relationship, but only if he confesses to being the invisible figure. Adrian insists Tom did kidnap him, claiming that the experience changed his outlook on life and how he treated her in their relationship. When she begins to cry, Adrian alludes to former abuse using similar phrasing to that of the invisible figure. Smiling, Cecilia departs to use the restroom. Moments later, the room's security camera captures Adrian seemingly committing suicide. Cecilia returns and, apparently distraught, calls the police. Out of the camera's sight however, she silently taunts Adrian; having retrieved the spare suit she hid earlier to kill him.

When James arrives and asks what happened, she confirms what the camera saw. He spots the suit in her bag, but accepts her story and allows her to leave. Relieved that she's finally free from Adrian, Cecilia leaves the house with the suit.

## Personality

During the events of the movie, Cecilia is shown to be a tortured and scarred individual, desperate to have her own life back and cut off the one man who isolated her from the world. After Adrian’s traumatic abuse and mistreatment of her, she was left paranoid and worried sick to ever see him again in her life as he would never leave her. However as she becomes more aware of his weaknesses and takes matters into her own hands, she proves to be a tough foe. She also has a good heart as she looks out for those close to her. Despite this, she is more than willing to kill and avenge her loved ones by assassinating adrian for good, thus showing a vengeful and homicidal side to her. This shows us that she is a born warrior and the battle scars that have been placed on have toughened her with time. Once she gets rid of adrian, she finally breaks free and no longer has to care about anymore dangers in her life.

## Relationships

Allies* James Lanier - Childhood Friend
* Sydney Lanier

## Appearances

* *The Invisible Man*

## Behind the Scenes

Cecilia Kass was portrayed in *The Invisible Man* by Elisabeth Moss. On playing Cecilia Kass, Moss remarked, *"I've had quite a bit of experience playing characters who are dealing with various types of abuse. Whether it's emotional, physical, sexual, it's something that I've dived into quite a bit. So I was able to bring that knowledge to the role."*

Katy Tunbridge was a picture double for Elisabeth Moss in the role of Cecilia Kass.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Week 7: Leigh Whannell's "The Invisible Man" Plot Unwrapped. Biscotti, Steven. *universalmonstersuniverse.com*. August 30, 2019.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Elisabeth Moss Officially Boards Universal-Blumhouse's 'The Invisible Man'. D'Alessandro, Anthony. *deadline.com*. April 12, 2019.
3. ↑ The Vision Behind Invisibility. Elisabeth Moss Talks "The Invisible Man". Biscotti, Steven. *universalmonstersuniverse.com*. January 22, 2020.