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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.

I'm Dean K., and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Right now, we are about to

prove that the hand is quicker than the eye. You will not believe what you're

about to see.

Do you trust me?

Yes?

I don't even trust me, but okay.

Okay, this looks like a classic painting of the 12th century.

But once you know the title...

It makes sense. It's called summertime.

A closer look reveals the fruits and vegetables of the season. What will

tonight's illusionists reveal?

Here's something totally unexpected.

It's the wacky magic of Ed Alonzo.

People always say to me, Ed, where should we sit so we can see all the

Well, in this nice theater and at home, all of the seats are fantastic.

But I have to admit, I do have a favorite right over here.

This is what I would call the best seat in the house.

One problem, though.

It's already occupied.

And now, ladies and gentlemen.

I'd like to find a gentleman from the audience.

Woo -hoo!

Let's see. How about you? Would you help? Come on up here. Yeah.

Give him a round of applause. Here's a gentleman.

Wow, thanks for dressing up. You look awesome.

Maybe I'm overdressed. What's your name?

Jaron. Jaron.

That's a cool name. Jaron, tuck everything in so you look nice and

television. Could you? I'll block in case.

Your stomach hangs out or anything.

Ta -da!

He's like a quick -change artist, isn't he?

You look fantastic now.

I'm going to show you why, because I have something for you.

Oh, yeah.

It's right back there.

No, no, no, not her. That's Kanoe.

The plastic, the plastic wrap.

Let me show you how it works.

Kanoe's going to stand here against this wooden post, and right here...

some plastic like you might wrap packages in when you go to ship them.

to hand this to you and then bring it around the back side right over to me.

That's perfect. I'm going to hand it back to you again.

And we're going to go round and round. See the idea? There we go. We'll just

meet each other halfway.

Oh, this is fun.

All right.

Now hold it right there. Let's trim away the excess.

Perfect. Ah, and now I need you to make sure that she's really sealed in.

On the back side. Check everything.

And come on over here.

All right.

Now what you're about to see is clearly impossible.

Check this out. You ready, sir?

Here we go.

Oh, you know what? Step inside and make sure that she can't get out of there.

One, two, three. Drop the curtain.

Occasionally, magicians may scare an audience member volunteer, but rarely

they actually hurt someone.

I guess no one explained that to Barry and Stuart.

Thanks. Thanks very much.

We'd like to try something a little bit darker for you now. Yes, something

darker. You think some aluminum foil and someone from the crowd. What about the

guy in the plaid shirt there? What's your name?

CJ? CJ, have you ever been placed under a voodoo curse?

No? Then tonight is your lucky night. Come on up here. Give it up for CJ.

Is he missing Gray from the stage?

It's that guy from the crowd.

Take a seat, CJ. It's very important.

We haven't met before. We didn't prearrange anything.

Nope. Oh, good.

Thanks, CJ.

Now, in order to do a voodoo curse, it's very important that you need a voodoo

doll, one that looks exactly like the person whom you intend to affect.

Like this.

Look at that.

It's like looking into a cloth mirror, isn't it, CJ?

CJ, what we want you to do is take the doll, hold it with both hands in front

your eyes, don't move the doll from that space in space, just keep staring into

the doll's dead eyes.

Look into the eyes of the voodoo doll and listen to the sound of my voice, and

whilst I talk, Stuart will be accompanying me by playing some music on

analogue pocket synthesiser. But don't worry, guys, this music isn't sinister

and it's not being designed to influence your thought in any way.

CJ. Look into the eyes of a voodoo doll.

Begin to believe that you feel what the doll feels.

This is the power of voodoo.

We will only know that our experiment in voodoo has worked when we hear the

sound of the mystical phoenix as it flies overhead.

There it was.

Now it's time for the aluminum foil. I'm going to give a part of that aluminum

foil to CJ and Stuart will get the other bit.

We're going to take half of the foil, wrap it around the hands of this voodoo

doll. I'm going to take the cigarette lighter here. I'm going to light the

and hopefully, if the voodoo has worked, we should get some sort of effect.

Ready, CJ? We're going to do this after three. You've got the foil. Here we go.

One, two.

CJ, you all right? What was that?

I don't know.

What did it feel like?

I thought I was sitting, and then something touched me. Something touched

I tell you what, take a seat right there. You're all right.

Now, you guys are witnesses. I went nowhere near this doll's butt.

We're going to try this experiment in video once again after three. Got the

foil? Here we go.

One, two.

You all right?

Just a little bit. Is it coming from the chair?

Definitely. Definitely.

I'll tell you what, we just found this chair backstage, but we'll switch it.

very sorry about this, CJ. We're going to get you a brand new chair. This guy,

if you could stand up, he's going to switch your chair for that one. We know

there's nothing wrong with this chair. This guy's been sitting in it all night.

CJ, brand new chair. Take a seat there.

And you're going to be fine in that one, sir.

I'm going to try the voodoo once again after three. You got the foil?

Here we go.

One, two.

CJ, you all right?

Yeah.

This hasn't worked.

This is our fault, you see. What's happened here is we haven't done this

You see, sometimes in order to put someone into a very deep voodoo trance,

have to use a deep voice. So we'll do that again, only this time when I do it,

I'll do it a bit deeper than I did the first time.

CJ, look into the eyes of the voodoo doll.

Begin to believe that you feel what the doll feels.

This is the power of voodoo.

There was a phoenix. The first time must have been a pigeon or something like

that. CJ, have you still got that piece of aluminum foil? Excellent. Hold it

nice and tight in your hand and hold it there.

Perfect. Thank you. Here we go. The voodoo should work now. Here we go. One,

two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

That's it. The aluminum foil got too hot for him to even hold onto anymore. That

is the power of voodoo. Round of applause for CJ.

And he goes back to his chair and the power of voodoo.

CJ, what's wrong? Are you okay?

I can't get up.

You're stuck, what?

Just a little bit.

Okay, don't worry. We do know exactly what to do in this situation. This has

happened to us once before.

The effects do wear off in 24 hours, so he's just going to... Okay, well,

there's something else we can do, but it's not very nice.

It uses seven inches of cold, sharp steel.

Let me just bend the doll over here.

I'm sorry, CJ.

It's the only way.

Here we go.

One, two, three.

CJ and the Power of Voodoo!

Get up for CJ to get back to his seat!

Next, Joshua J.

We'll make you doubt your senses when we come back.

All matter is subject to the laws of physics.

Here, flagrantly violating those rules, is Joshua J.

These objects were all given to me by a prisoner, a guy that wrote me from

prison. And he explained that he spends 22 hours a day in solitary confinement.

And magic saved his life.

And he had to come up with original tricks because they wouldn't allow

things in.

The prison cell.

So I created this trick for him. I hope you enjoy.

A prisoner, Mark Bent, has been writing me letters for years.

Major sentence for a minor offense. This man's letters would bring you to tears.

A convict magician stealing props from the kitchen, practicing in secret

magic tricks are forbidden.

Wolf, bottle, ring.

He used props that he found.

He invented tricks with these things to amaze those around.

To keep his life on track, he developed a knack of balancing objects he found in

an impossible stack.

In prison he found the Lord and my book on playing cards.

So he would write me when he was bored, and I would teach him tricks to show the

guard.

Alone in his cell, that's every night for poor Mark.

His own living hell, doing magic tricks in the dark.

Always the liberty impossible.

Jeff McBride, next.

And now, it's the exotic, mysterious, and transcendent magic of Jeff McBride.

To our audience camera now.

Let's drop in on Murray Sawchuck.

Hiya, sweetheart.

How are you?

This is Alexa.

Thanks for helping me, sweetie. You're going to help me.

This is a magic trick. In magic, look at this. It does not get any cheesier than

this. Look at that. It's as cheesy as my hair.

Not funny. Okay, great.

So we'll do some magic. So there's a handkerchief, right? We're going to

this up. You're going to help me. I'm going to go one, two, three, okay?

And when I do that, you're going to go like this with your hands. All right,

let's practice. One, two, three.

Okay, that's a little different. That means something different. You want to

like this. Like that.

One, two, three.

Excellent. Okay, one, two, three.

Let's get the whole audience. Guys, every point of this, when I do one, two,

three, we do this. All right, everybody?

I can see all of you. It's not... Okay, all right.

Ready? You ready? Here we go. One, two, three. Go!

Yes!

That's it.

Yeah. High five.

Yeah.

The closer you walk, the faster you are fooled.

Chris Randall, now.

Can a magician mend a broken heart?

Well, that sure would be a real trick.

Here is Chris Randall.

Thank you very much. It is now time to go on a search for my future ex -wife.

How's it going, Mrs. Randall? All right. Come on, what's your name?

All right, give him a round of applause.

Awesome.

Take a seat right here.

Very easy.

Just do what I do.

Ready? You're going to break my heart.

Okay, hold out your left hand, palm up like this.

Excellent. And your right hand, make a little finger like this and place it on

top.

That's for you, Stephen Ayer.

Give it up for my future ex -wife.

There you go.

Take my hand.

Thank you very much.

Call me.

Music can make the heart soar, as can this

amazing illusionist, Jonathan Pendragon.

Eight people from the audience, stand on stage with me as I present this

illusion. Bear in mind, they're your eyes, you at home.

and they're going to see everything.

It is time to begin the music and the magic.

Well, that's our show. The hand really is quicker than the eye and the brain,

least when you're dealing with the masters of illusion.

Thank you for joining us. I'm Dean Cain. We'll see you next time. Thank you.