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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 everyone, I'm Dean Cain and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

You often hear people refer to magic tricks, but everything that happens on

stage will happen right before your very eyes. You decide if there's any tricks.

Should we get started?

All right, here we go.

Is there more than music in this painting?

Well, it's called Serenader. But look again. Not only is the musician here,

the subject he is serenading is smiling at him. Do you see it?

Our masters of illusion will also make your mind play with more than one image

at a time.

Our first performer has been praised for his versatility.

Tonight, he brings us a classic blend of timing and coordination.

From Paris, please welcome the talents of Xavier Mortimer.

In our audience now is a most remarkable sleight -of -hand magician.

Watch him very, very closely.

His lightning moves are untraceable. Here is Eric Jones.

Thank you so much for helping me.

What I want to do is show you something you're never going to forget.

Do you freak out easily?

No.

They're saying yes. Maybe. Yeah?

We'll see you in a second.

Could I have you do me a favor? Open both hands.

Turn them palm down.

Let's try this.

Would you close both hands into a fifth?

Can I ask for one more favor?

Would you push one of your hands towards me?

That one.

Would you mind placing that one down for just a moment?

I want you to watch this.

Guys at home, I hope you can see this little X.

permanent ink.

Watch.

Please, slowly, turn your hand palm up.

One finger at a time.

Show us what you've got.

Isn't that pretty good?

Yeah? High five!

One of this season's most popular illusionists comes to us from Canada.

He has as much fun as the audience. His card impressions defy gravity.

I really like him. Here is Chris Funk.

We have the wonderful Brian joining us from the audience. We're going to do a

card trick. Do you like card tricks? Say yes. Love them. Love the excitement.

We've got a pack of playing cards here. Brian, I'm going to have you select any

one of these playing cards. You've got a completely free choice. I want you to

go ahead and just pick out any one at all.

Excellent. Memorize that card, Brian.

In fact, what I'm also going to have you do is write your name on it. Can you

write your name, please, nice and big, and maybe show the camera as well so

they know which card you selected?

Perfect. I'll take the pen.

All right, Brian. We're going to take that card. We're going to put it

back into the pack here.

Place it back there if you don't mind.

Perfect. And we're going to just give it one of those. All right, Brian.

How many cards are there in the deck of 52?

52. Nailed it.

I want you to give me a number between 1 and 52. Brian, what's it going to be?

16. 16.

Ready for this?

16, 16, 16.

16 looks a little bit like this.

That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,

15.

Drum roll.

Brian Stein.

Next, last, and the unbelievable talent of Chipper Lower.

Never obvious when you watch the always energetic Chipper Lowe.

Yes! Yes!

Thank you so much. So nice to be here.

We're going to do something that's very cool, but we do need a volunteer. So you

don't mind helping out, do you? This would be great. If I give you a beach

would you toss it around to find someone?

Awesome. Great.

Here you go. Just blow that up for us.

And we'll wait.

No, I'm kidding, but thank you.

Actually, if you'd do me a favor, just toss it over to the other aisle.

you want. Go ahead. Free choice.

Toss it over. Yeah, wherever you'd like.

Right there. Okay, excellent. And would you do me a favor? Final throw. Talk to

someone over in this area, okay?

You got it? Right there. Right there. Hi there. What is your name?

Anya. Give Anya a nice hand. Let's hear it for Anya.

Nice to have you here, Anya.

Anya, you're going to be making a very important decision in just a few

but let me fully explain.

We have two bags here.

They are labeled A and B.

A stands for A bag.

B stands for bag. Let's go with that, okay?

So you're going to make a very important decision. As loud as you can and very

clearly, though, I need you to say the letter A. Go for it.

A. Very nice. Give it. That was beautiful. Oh, beautiful.

Wait. Say the letter B.

B. Oh, you got it. Oh, wow. Okay. You're going for an Oscar on that one.

Very nice.

All right.

Very important decision.

Here we go.

Final answer.

Anya, which bag do you want me to get rid of, A or B? Nice and loud, A or B?

B. B? B.

You sure?

B.

Holding hands.

Cottonballs!

I know, not that impressive.

That's the name of the trick, though. It's called Cottonballs.

Actually, that's not the full name of the trick. The full name of the trick is

called Cottonballs versus Needles, Bushpins, and Broken Glasses Staples.

you say?

We made a good choice. Let's hear it for her.

Our next performer always surrounds himself with danger.

Not for him, but his assistant.

Don't let his action distract you. Here is Greg Gleason.

Next, the impossible is easy for the masterful manipulations of Shoot Ogawa.

Let's go now to our audience camera for the remarkable hand movements of Tokyo's

Shoot Ogawa.

Everyone and the hello. Hi, what's your name? Rana Rona Rona. Hi, nice to meet

you. Okay. I need a hand which open hand I would like to object the American 50

cent you take them this but uh, yeah, it's 50 cents, right? Okay, keeping them

flat like on my table. Hey, don't move like I'm very precise. I'm Japanese

I use this time watch so you can see this Front view, and you can see through

the camera, okay? Watch carefully. I do like this. I drop coins here, snap

fingers, and point the hand like this.

I know, I'm pretty good, right? I know, I'm working hard. Okay, okay. You didn't

surprise that much, so let's keep doing that, okay? So I have another coin here.

I already have an extra coin, like two coins here, okay? So third one is going

to be a little bit more magical, okay? There we go. Third one is like this.

Watch my fingertip, like, just like that. I just drop like this.

Nice one, right?

Okay, last one is like this. Can you see last one? I'm trying to hide really

well. Can you see this? No?

It's not there because when there's nothing at this point, it vanishes from

and jumps to my wrist and jumps to your wrist right there.

Did you get it?

That's why I chose you.

Thank you for your help. You love me.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

show is filled with international stars.

From France, it's T2.

What you want?

Tell me.

Tell me.

What you want?

Watch the astounding skill of Rick Smith Jr. when we come back.

one -of -a -kind performer.

He began his career as a pitcher in professional baseball, and he still

pretty good fastball.

Here is Rick Smith Jr.

You guys ready?

All right, so what we're going to try to do is we're going to try to show you

how I throw these playing cards and that they're actually made out of paper. So

I have Lee. So Lee, take the card. Check it out.

Rip it in half and show everybody that it is indeed paper.

It is indeed paper. So what we're going to do is we're going to throw some cards

at some vegetables. You have a carrot.

So he's going to hold the carrot. I'm going to stand right about here. I'm

to try to cut the carrot in half with a simple flick of the wrist. You ready?

There we go.

There it is.

But that's too easy, right? That's a carrot. Let's make it a little bit more

difficult and try the cucumber.

This is going to be hard.

So I have to throw this a little bit harder and get a little bit closer.

You ready, man?

Here we go.

Hold it, hold it.

We're going to get it.

That's good enough for me.

So he's testing me to see how good I am with accuracy. This is the hardest shot

that I will do.

Olive between the fingers.

I am sorry, Lee.

There it is!

Look at that.

That is right down the middle. That is ridiculous.

And we're not done.

Guys, we're going to do the grand finale card -throwing explosion. Here it goes.

So that's it for tonight.

How did they do it? Well, really well, because they are the masters of

Until next time, I'm Dean Cain. Thank you very much and good night.