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Delusion, 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 Payne, and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Now, when we say Masters of

Illusion, we mean masters.

So the magicians about to perform here on this stage tonight are among the most

accomplished in the entire world.

So let's get started. Are you ready?

All right.

What have we here?

Can printed words change before your eyes?

When does a rhythm become a melody? Can tonight's illusionist change your mind

from doubt to belief?

We'll see.

Everyone knows what you see in a mirror is just a reflection and not some

alternative dimension.

Or is it?

Xavier Mortimer, he knows.

You might want to invite this magician over next time you have a party.

Here is Scott Pepper.

Thank you very much.

Well, my name is Scott Pepper, and I'd like to show you something with one of

our members of the audience. Thank you very much, Heather.

Let's pick the lady in the front row. Hi, what's your name?

Jessica. Jessica, nice to meet you, Jessica. First thing I need you to help

We've got all these different kind of wine glasses on these tarts here,

I'm going to mix these up, and in a minute I'm going to ask you to pick one

these. So let's get those good and mixed.

Jessica, I'm going to go through these one at a time. You just shout stop.

Stop. Okay, would you like the right hand or the left hand?

The right hand. I'm going to place that on top here, Jessica. I'm going to show

you what you picked.

Remember that color, okay?

Everyone remember that?

Jessica, good job.

Think of that color because I'm going to show you something really cool.

Now, this doesn't take long, Jessica, but this is going to be especially for

you. You keep thinking of that color.

All right, Jessica, for the first time, nice, loud, and clear, what was the

color you were thinking of?

Red.

I'm halfway there.

Thank you.

Well, Jessica, you picked red. This is an empty glass.

We need to fill it. Check this out.

What do you think, Jessica?

Halfway or all the way to the top?

All the way to the top. Let's feel that all the way to the top for you, Jessica.

This is just ink and paper, and this is especially for you to take home as a

little souvenir.

But of course, you don't get red wine out of nowhere. You get it out of a real

bottle, something like that.

Jessica, this is for you. You take this.

You take the wine with my thanks. Thank you very much, Jessica.

I will never be able to figure out how this next trick works.

Can you?

Watch Chris Crandall.

to me when you are lonely.

Come in closer, baby, oh, you don't know what you're doing for me.

You don't know, you don't know, you don't know.

Next, the unbelievable talent of Joshua Jay.

The magician you're about to see is really good at manipulating coins.

Or maybe he's just really magic.

It's Joshua J.

One, two, three Chinese coins. Watch the Chinese coins carefully. Before we

begin, examine them, give a tug, make sure they're on there tightly. Look

And what's your name?

Kalima. Kalima. You've looked at the coin. You see my hands are empty.

Watch the first one.

Take a look at that coin. Make sure there's no trap doors or holes.

Will you do me a favor? Pinch your fingers together.

Pinch these two.

Hold still. Look, in your hand.

That's the next one. In your hand.

You'll actually see the moment the last one comes off. Don't blink from this

spot. You'll actually see the moment that it comes off the ribbon. Now,

it off is the easy part. Getting it back on.

In midair, without touching the ribbon or the coin, this is the hard part.

In midair.

You've got one, and you've got the other one, right? Two here, one left to go.

Would you hold out your hand for me? I want you to squeeze these two. Whatever

you do, don't let this one in.

Watch the last one.

Did you feel anything go from my hand to your hand? I didn't. You didn't? No.

Then you probably won't feel it go back.

Relax, I'm kidding.

I'm going to do it for real. Watch.

Gone from my hand.

Please open up your hand. Show them what you've got.

All three.

I normally never tell people how this works. Could you hold up both hands,

up? Would you choose any one of those coins that you like? Just one.

Good.

Watch.

You feel that, yeah? Yeah. Now look, very carefully. I'm going to come this

just a little bit.

Watch the coin. Hold still.

Did you feel anything?

No. Good, because I haven't done it yet.

For real this time.

Do you feel anything?

Check under your watch.

Stop it.

Thank you.

Next. The closer you watch, the faster you are fooled.

Murray Satcha. When we come back.

If you ever meet this next magician in person, you will want to safeguard your

valuables. Here is Murray Stanchuk.

How you guys doing? You good?

I love wearing things from the audience, and I love using things, so I need two

things from the audience. I need someone that's wearing a ring, and I need

someone that's wearing a man's watch.

April's going to come out and grab those from you. If you happen to have

something, put your hand up. She will come down and grab those from you.

finger ring and a man's watch.

Excellent. How you doing, sir?

You're welcome. I'll have you stand right here.

Pleased to meet you. What's your name? Tyler.

Tyler. Thanks for coming to the show.

Excellent. Take your time. And stand right there for me. Right there.

And what is your name?

Rachel. Rachel. Thanks for coming. Big hand for Rachel, everybody.

That's what we're going to do, all right?

Have you ever helped a magician before?

Never. Big night, huh?

Here, grab your watch nice and tight. Look at the audience, all right? Big

for this lovely lady, everybody.

Oh, nice.

It's a pretty looking ring.

Very nice. A lot of memorable value.

It looks real, like it's real gold, yeah.

Oh, nice.

It's a nickel. I got it right here. It's right, it's right, it's right.

So here we go. All right, here we do you a favor.

Hold this right there. Pinch the ring. All right, look at Dion's big smile.

at this young man, everybody.

Just smile big. That's all you got to do.

Got the ring, you got the watch. You feel them, yes?

So I can't get to those. People always say the hand's quicker than the eye.

Those say magicians use their actual sleeves.

So I'm going to actually remove that. So I pretty much have no...

Now, second of all, I'm going to handcuff my hands together.

I love historical items. I actually happen to have Houdini's original

from 1915. Now, back in the day, they were worth about $2 .50.

And now they're worth about $8 ,500.

Price of a caramel macchiato.

Just comes together, locked in the side. Key goes in. There's a bar. You spin it

down, locks the bar down, all right? To get the key out.

You can't slide it out like our kids today. You have to back turn the key.

Sir, what's your name?

Jerry. Come up here for a second, Jerry. You're going to stand right there.

You're going to lock me up on these. All right. Fair enough. So there's that.

All right. Put those around. Turn the key and make sure it's tight all the way

down. And then hold it together.

And then back turn the key all the way out.

Nerve -wracking, huh? I could do this every day for a job.

Keep turning. There goes two grand.

Pull on those links and they're locked.

You're good? I'll take this back. Thank you for helping me, sir. I appreciate

it. A big hand for this gentleman, everybody.

Lefty's got the key.

I'm locked up.

Most magicians cover their hands up, and they struggle, so you can't see what

we're doing. And then 30 seconds later, we get out of these handcuffs. Most of

you think we cover our hands up, because underneath here, we had a button, and

pop out of them. And that's exactly what we do.

I'm going to use a hairpin from April, and I'm going to pick it just in front

you guys, so you can actually see, all right?

Wonderful. Thank you very much. Here we go.

Come on.

Thank you very much.

You're not going to believe this. You do that, that's gone.

That's gone. You're not going to believe this.

Your actual watch is on Lefty's hand right there.

And your actual ring is on April's finger. That's your watch. That's your

That's it.

Thank you very much.

Next, the amazing Billy Kidd.

She is amazing.

She's young, she looks great, and she's able to do the impossible. Wow.

Here is Billy Kidd.

I need the help of a lovely phone here.

You, excellent. Give a round of applause.

You can come right up here.

You can stand right here.

What's your name?

Joe. First of all, do you have anything inside your back pocket?

Absolutely nothing.

Joe, I want you to use your imagination just for a wee sec, because this is an

invisible $5 bill, all right? If I could fold this once, twice, three times,

four times, and I did this.

Joe, I want you to check your right trouser pocket and take out that $5

it in there?

No. No, but that would have been amazing, wouldn't it? You were thinking

I can't do that, obviously, but I am particularly fond of playing cards.

Joe, you can feel the cards are different.

Joe, I'm going to give you just a small stack of playing cards, and if you could

hold your left hand, palm down just like this. Perfect.

And you can hang on to these cards like this, nice and secure.

All right, thumb around.

Very good. And you're just going to do exactly as I do, Joe, all right?

With your other hand, you're going to take your top card, turn it face up, and

put it at the bottom.

That's one. All right, you're going to do it again, Joe.

That's two. And again, keep going. Three.

Continue, but count out louder so everyone can hear. We've got four. You

can count with, yes? Five. Very good. Keep going. Six.

Seven. It's riveting.

Eight.

Nine. Showing off a bit.

Ten. Okay, right there. Joe, here's what you're going to do. You're going to put

your hand behind your back, put the cards in your right hand, and put them

your right trouser pocket.

All right?

And you counted. It was...

It was 10, wasn't it? So I'm going to do the same, Jo. We got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

count with me, yes? 7, 8, 9, 10. We don't need these, but here is the idea.

I'm going to take out one card now, invisibly.

I do this.

Theoretically, how many would I have left?

Nine. Very good, very good. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, count with me, Jo, yes? 6, 7, 8, 9.

Hold the applause don't all get excited at once because I will do it again Watch

we'll take this card. Can you see this Joe? Yeah, we'll take this card. We turn

it invisible.

I Just do that. How many would I have now? Hey, very good. Very educated. Yes,

one, two, three, four five six seven eight I'm gonna do with my

leg. We'll take this card here. I give it a little rub.

We turn that invisible.

We just do this So how many here?

Seven. Seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So if there's seven

how many cards should Joe have in her right back pocket?

Three. You should have my other three. You should have?

I should have three cards.

Thirteen. I'll help you with the math. It's fine, Joe. What do I want you to

With your right hand, you're going to take out one card out, one by one.

We're going to count them like this. You can put them on my hand. Here we go. So

one by one. Here we go.

One. Very good.

Two.

Nice and quick. Yeah.

Three.

Four.

Oh, what's that, Jo? Oh, you're joking.

Can you open that up just so they can see what that is?

It's a $5 bill.

Could have been better at the end, but that worked for me. Thanks very much. Go

ahead. We got four.

Four. Five.

We've got the speed of a postman. It's amazing.

Seven.

Eight.

Nine.

Ten.

We'll see it, but you won't believe it because there's no way that this could

really happen.

None. Here is Greg G.

To look away I'm here to know

Well, that's it.

How do they do it? All I can say is very well. That is why they are known as the

masters of illusion.

Thank you for joining us, and we hope you will again next time. Until then,

Dean Cain.

Thanks for watching.