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Illusion, the art of tricking the brain, distorting the senses, challenging

perception. You can't trust what you see even with your own eyes. Meet the

Masters of Illusion.

Hello everybody, I'm Dean Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion. The

you're about to see will amaze you.

And maybe even make you laugh.

Either way, it's going to test your senses.

Should we get started?

I think so.

Okay, what do you see here?

The portrait of an Egyptian princess?

Look again. Now do you see the profiles of two princesses facing each other?

Well, see if our illusionist tonight can make your senses miss the obvious.

Magic challenges the senses.

But if you can't trust your own senses, who can you trust?

Probably not this young lady. Here is Billy Kidd.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's now time for a show where I like to play a little

game called Touch It, Touch It, Guess What's in the Box.

Say it with me. Say it with me.

Touch it, touch it, guess what's in the box. Brilliant. And for that, I will

need a volunteer.

If it's all right, maybe...

You, madam, right there. Would you mind helping me? Can you guys give her a big

round of applause?

Come up on stage.

Thank you very much. What's your name?

Quinn. Now, Quinn, if you could just take a look at the box. You can put your

hand through there so you know what that feels like. And on top of the box,

Quinn, there's a hole. You can put your hand through the top of the box.

Perfect. Now, Quinn, the idea of the game is this.

I've got here a bag with a few random objects that I will be placing inside of

the box.

But, Quinn, nobody...

Not even yourself will see what is going inside of the box because I will be

covering it with this here door.

Your job, Quinn, is you're going to place your hand into the box. And,

it's very important that you describe to the audience what you feel. So the

texture, is it soft, hard, big or small? All right, Quinn. Ladies and gentlemen,

it is officially round one of Touch It.

Touch it. Guess what's in the box. Brilliant. Quinn, no looking. Facing

way, Quinn.

I am going to close the door so no one can see what is going on.

Object number one is going inside of the box. Quinn, no cheating, no looking.

Quinn, in your own time, with your right hand, place it on top of the box, and I

will guide you. Hand in the box, Quinn. Very good. And have a little feel, have

a little touch.

Oh, right, no, right, right, right about there, yes.

Can you describe that texture, Quinn? What does that feel like?

It's a curvature.

Okay. Like, feels like a teaspoon.

Like a teaspoon. Okay, you seem pretty confident on that, Quinn. Quinn, you can

take your hand out of the box. Take your hand out of the box and open up the

door, Quinn.

And I want you to have a little look.

You've got big cups where you come from, yes? Yes, yes. That's how I drink tea.

Wow, all right.

Okay.

problem, Quinn.

I've got another object. We'll try one more object, Quinn.

Facing that way, Quinn, we'll try it again.

Ladies and gentlemen, round two of touch it, touch it, guess what's in that box

brilliantly said. Quinn, no looking, no cheating.

I will close the door so no one can see.

Object number two. Oh, yes, Quinn, this is going to be good.

Don't be squared, Quinn. It's not alive.

It's not dead.

Well,

I might be asleep, Quinn, but you'll be fine, Quinn.

Quinn, same thing. Hand on top of the box. No cheating, no looking. Have a

little feel, have a little touch.

Excellent. Oh, yeah, right there, Quinn. You can feel it right there, yes? What

does that feel like, Quinn?

It feels like a brush.

Like a brush, okay. Can you be a bit more specific?

What kind of a brush would you say?

Like a very, like a short toothbrush.

Like a short toothbrush. Okay, Quinn, that seems like a good guess. Hand over

the box, Quinn. And once again, you can open up the door and have a little look

at your short toothbrush.

Quinn, I'm not really sure where you're from. Yeah, you don't.

You do not want to be brushing your teeth with this.

Quinn, not a problem.

You're going to be all right, Quinn.

Okay.

I really want her to get this, so we'll try one more round.

We're facing that way. Round three.

Touch it.

Touch it.

Guess what's in the box. Brilliant, Quinn. No cheating. All right, Quinn.

I believe in you. I don't know if you've been drinking, but I've got to put the

object in.

Getting overexcited, Quinn.

No cheating, Quinn. No looking.

Here we go. Object number three is going inside of the box. Quinn, in your own

time. But as quick as possible, Quinn. Hand inside the box. Have a little feel.

Have a little touch. What does that feel like, Quinn?

It's soft.

Soft? Soft. All right.

Fungy? Kind of oval -ish.

Any idea what this could be?

Nope.

Sponge? A sponge?

Yeah, like a really flat sponge.

All right. You seem very excited by that process, Quinn. Hand inside the box,

Quinn. Go ahead. Open up the door.

Because we want to meet Mr. Quinn.

Can you just feel that, Quinn? Can you tell everyone what that feels like? It's

a rock.

It's a rock. She did it, ladies and gentlemen. She did it. Give her a big

of applause, Quinn. Thank you so much. You're absolutely brilliant. Thank you

very much. Back over there.

Thank you.

These days, chores such as house cleaning have gotten a lot easier, as if

magic. But watch as Xavier Mortimer takes it a step further.

Next, amazing is the only way to describe Jarrett and Raja when we

Through what link will a magician go to impress the object of his affection?

Hmm. The answer will appear now. Here are Jarrett and Raja.

Bye -bye.

The card trick is one of the oldest forms of magic performance.

Well, here with a high -tech, modern twist is Nathan Burton.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Now, we're going to try something very cool right now. I want everybody to

in your pocket, your purse, and bring out your cell phone. Go ahead and bring

out your phone. We're going to do a little search. Who's got good service?

do you got right there? How many bars?

What's your name?

Patrice, give Patrice a big hand. Come on over here, Patrice.

Come on over here.

Stand right there, Patrice. Now, I'm going to have you think of a famous

star, an actor or an actress or a famous singer, somebody that we all know.

Don't say it out loud. I want you to think about it inside your head.

Don't say it out loud. I want you to slowly say it over and over in your

Don't say it out loud.

Don't think about anything else. I'm going to use your phone, and I'm going

try to predict the future using your phone.

Don't think about anything else but this person. Do you have it?

Okay, very slowly. I'm going to make my prediction. I got it, sir, right here.

Can I use your hand?

Just put it up. I'm going to have you hold her phone just like Patrice's

just like that. Don't touch the screen. Just like that. Hold it up so everybody

can see it. Now, Patrice, this person you've been thinking about, I'm going to

have you write their name on this piece of paper. I'm going to show it to

everybody, so write it clear.

Spell it correctly.

Who's she thinking about?

Oh, very famous singer.

Now, I'm going to show it to you guys. Don't say it out loud. It's super

important. Here is the person she is thinking about. This is your

You could have picked anybody you wanted. I'll take the pen. Thank you

much. Now, I made a prediction. This is your phone. Sir, what's your name?

Dylan. Dylan, has anybody touched that phone since I gave it to you?

No. Now, this is your phone.

I want you to pick up your phone. I want you to take a look on the phone.

Who is... Yes.

Hold on. Turn around so we get a nice close shot. Zoom in nice and tight.

Zoom in. Let's go in. Who is that, Mr. David Bowie?

Great job.

Give it up for Chris. Yes.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Next, the always amazing Chris Horn and Leon Etienne will make you doubt your

senses when we come back.

God's illusions can be really impressive.

But when you witness something impossible right under your nose, right

of your eyes, well, you won't believe your own eyes.

Watch Chris Pan.

These are some old silver half dollars. Take a look at those if you would. From

the late 1940s. Those were my grandmother's coins.

All right, just so you know the real thing.

Here we go.

One, two, three, four. We're going to use this table. You can feel there's no

flits or tears, holes in there.

We're going to make all four of these disappear.

I'm going to do that one at a time, and I'll do it one -handed.

Like this.

Pull my sleeve back a bit.

If I rub the coins just like this, a little rub, a rub here and a rub here,

of those coins does this.

It makes this way.

This time, if you would, take your hand for me.

Like this, put it flat like that. This way, you know it doesn't just shoot

across, right?

Just the three, just the one, just a rub.

Comes two.

He's getting better. He's getting better at it.

Here we go. Let's slow it down a little bit.

You'll be like, amazing.

That guy was incredible.

For you guys, we'll do that one again. That way there's no confusion as to when

the coin goes.

Here we go. Watch. Just two.

Just two.

Watch and close.

Very close. Ready. Two and two. One rub.

Bending time and space is a common objective in magic.

Well here now bending mind and body is Leon Etienne.

Can a woman actually be sawed in half? Believe the impossible when we come

What you're about to see is one of the most dangerous magic effects of all time

and a true classic.

Here now is Greg Gleason.

This piece of wood, this piece of lumber, just sawn in half as easily as a

blade goes right through butter.

By that saw blade. That saw blade right there, a 36 -inch solid steel lumber

blade. It is made from the finest tempered steel.

That blade is connected to a motor on top of the frame. It's a 20 horsepower

motor capable of spinning that blade 2 ,000 revolutions per minute.

So anything or anyone placed underneath that saw will suffer the same

consequences as this piece of wood.

In a moment, I am going to saw a woman in half.

I am going to use that blade and I'm going to do it in full view of the

audience.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the lovely Heather.

I am going to take this wood, this piece of lumber, and place it underneath

Heather's body.

Watch what it does to the lumber.

As you can see, the wood completely gone in half.

And the lovely Heather, as good as new.

The masters of illusion. They just made the impossible happen right before our

eyes. How did they do it?

Until next time, thank you for joining us. I'm Dean Cain. Thank you very much.