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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.

Welcome to Masters of Illusion. I'm Dean Cain. When presented with two

possibilities, it should be fairly easy to tell the difference between reality,

And illusion.

Or is it?

See for yourself. Do you think you'll be able to tell the difference?

I'm not so sure. I'm not convinced.

Well, we're going to see.

Look at this portrait of a clown. Is that what you see? Well, the artist

it with his love of birds. A closer look reveals the fine -feathered friends all

through the picture.

Well, tonight, the Masters of Illusion will demand that you take a closer look

at their efforts.

Your first impression will definitely not be the last.

Here's our very inventive duo from Las Vegas who always have a special surprise

for us. Here are Jarrett and Raja.

Roger! Back here!

There he is!

Woo!

Our next performer asks... Can the mind of a magician control someone's destiny?

Well, I'm going to say that's impossible.

Or is it?

You decide. Here is Ed Alonzo.

Well, I thought I'd do something unusual. I have a prediction, and it's

over here. I have a birdcage stand, and inside is a playing card. It's all

folded up. I'm going to leave that there for a moment, because first...

I'm going to do a trick with some trash.

There it is, a little piece of paper of trash all wadded up in a teeny tiny

trash can. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to throw paper into the

audience. If it comes near you or if you catch it, all you have to do is stand

up and we'll go from there. Sound good?

Here comes the first one.

Okay.

Woo!

Did someone get it? Where is it? Go ahead and stand up. Give them a round of

applause.

Now, I need you to decide half of a playing card. For example, you can pick

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

Jack, king, queen, ace. It's up to you. Which one?

Seven. Seven.

It's that easy. Give them a round of applause.

All right.

Let's see. Let's find someone else.

Way over in the corner. Oh, my. Give her a round of applause.

I need you to decide the next part of the card. You can pick the hearts, the

diamonds, the clubs, or the spades. Which one?

Hearts. Hearts, it is. Give her a round of applause.

And let's try over in this section.

Here we go.

Woo.

Oh, nice catch. Give him a round of applause.

Nicely done.

Now. Your part is the easiest because you're going to come up here and unfold

that playing card.

So give them a little round of applause.

Come on up.

What is your name? Javier. Javier, take a look at that.

Do you see it in there?

Now, let's carefully take it out so we don't break it.

And there's a ribbon around it. Go ahead and take the ribbon off, the ribbon on

the perch there.

Let's do that.

And now put your hand out.

Flat. There we go.

And go ahead now. Let me get rid of the empty box.

Slowly open up the card and show it to the people out there. What is that card?

That is the seven of hearts!

Wow.

Nicely done.

All right. Now, if you have paper that I threw out a moment ago, stand up.

And open up your paper. Check this out. You see, I've written a message on each

and every one.

We're going to see what it says. Let's start over here. The first, that says

seven.

Yours says, of hearts. Come on.

Thank you.

There's a little bit of a child in all of us.

Some of us never lose it, as you'll see in a moment. With his unstoppable energy

from South Korea, here is Jackie Yu.

Up next, an impossible prediction by Titu.

From Paris, France, we have a man of great enthusiasm for our language and a

great desire to enchant us with his charm. But in any language, he makes us

the question, how did he do that?

Here is Titu.

Are you guys doing good?

Yeah?

So I want to try a little experiment.

I need someone to help me out.

Hi. What's your name?

Me? Yeah.

Give her a big round of applause. Why don't you join me on stage?

Crystal, nice to meet you. You have a good imagination.

Somewhat. Can we use it? Yeah. Perfect. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath.

Relax. Crystal, I want you to imagine that standing next to you.

He's a very, very, very, very, extremely good -looking Frenchman.

Come on, guys. It's all about imagination, right?

Now, let's be serious. Crystal, I want you to imagine three things. The first

one is a deck of playing cards. The second one is a little black envelope.

the third one, a leather wallet.

Can you picture that in your head? A deck of cards, an envelope, a wallet.

Perfect. I want you, in your imagination, to spread the card in front

you can see all of them. All right?

Perfect. I want you to pick one card, one only.

Don't tell anybody.

You have one in your hand?

Yes. Perfect. Take this card, put it inside the envelope. You close the

envelope. Now you take the envelope, you put it inside the wallet. Close the

wallet. Now you take the wallet, you put it inside the inside jacket pocket of

that very, very, very, very, very, extremely good -looking Frenchman.

Crystal, have you done all this?

No. Open your eyes.

Welcome back to reality.

By the way, Crystal, just for the show today, I got a new jacket. What do you

think about it?

It's nice. Nice, right? It's so expensive, so I just bought it for the

I have to bring it back tomorrow.

But I'm glad you liked it.

For the first time ever, Crystal, can you tell us out loud what card did you

inside this envelope, inside this wallet?

It was the Queen of Hearts. The Queen of Hearts.

Crystal, like everybody here, I always carry my wallet with me.

Here, I brought it.

And inside my wallet, it's funny because I always carry...

A little black envelope.

Right? And it's funny because in these little black envelopes, I always carry

one card, one only.

Now, I told you magic is when your imagination meets my reality.

One card, one only.

I can tell you have a great imagination.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my reality.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Let's go down into the audience for some close -up conjuring. Check out the

skill of Jason Andrews.

Okay, so I wanted to do something sweet for you. So I have America's favorite

candy bar here. Hold on to that candy bar. Make sure no one touches or gets to

that candy bar, okay?

And you can see all the cards here. They're all different, all mixed up. I'm

going to shuffle through the pack here. I just want you to tell me when to stop.

That'll be your card, okay?

Right there. Okay, that's your card. I want to do something that cannot be

duplicated. Ooh, the king of spades.

That's a good card.

Something that absolutely cannot be duplicated is like ripping off the

a card. Now, you can see that corner, it's ripped. In fact, why don't you

ripping that off? Yeah, there you go. Perfect. And if you hold it up, you can

see it forms like a little receipt.

of the card. Okay. Hold on to that. We want to do some magic with your king of

spades here.

So I'm going to fold it up and I'm going to put it underneath our magical

handkerchief of death.

There's no death. Don't worry. No, no.

Okay. We're just going to put it right underneath the handkerchief here.

And Chris, you hold on to the card right there. You got it?

Okay. On the count of three, I want you to let go of it. We're going to do some

magic. Okay. On the count of three, one.

Two.

Three.

Completely.

I wonder where it could be, Chris. I wonder. I wonder.

You still have the candy bar? Yeah. Okay. Rip that candy bar open.

Rip it open. Let them all see what's in there. What's in there?

Oh, it's a card?

It's a king of spades?

With a corner missing, Chris, hold that corner up.

Field inside the candy bar, your card.

Mind reading is the unbelievable skill of the epitome.

If you've never seen the mind reading talents of this next couple, you are

to be totally amazed.

Here is the mentalist duo.

The Everson.

One of the things that I really love about my wife is she's really good with

money. That's true. I mean, really good. Who has some money? Who has a wallet

with some cash?

You got some cash? Oh, great.

Perfect. Hey, what's your first name?

Rachel. Give it up for Rachel. Come on over, Rachel.

This is great. Open up your wallet. Let's go through. Pull out any random

from your wallet. And we've never met you before, right, Rachel? Perfect.

She's going to try and remember the value of this bill. I'd like to hear

this bill test.

Okay, Rachel, think of the value for me. And I'm just going to turn away this

way so you don't think that I can see anything.

But I do get a sense that you chose a $20 bill. Yes, I did. Okay.

Okay, now try the serial number on the bill test.

I'm going to try to do that.

Ignore the letters. I can sense there's letters. Let's just focus on the numbers

together. Rachel, is the first number an eight?

Uh -huh. Good.

After the eight, I'm sensing that is a five. Yeah.

I think that's another eight.

Mm -hmm.

I'm not sure. Is that a zero?

No, it's not a zero. It's a six.

Yes. Yes. Got you now. And then a four?

Uh -huh.

Nine. Yeah.

A two.

Uh -huh. And then a zero.

Yeah. We have to get the letters. Of course.

That's it. Three letters.

Thank you.

Hold on, Tess. Three letters. I believe they are E, F, and A. How'd I

do? Is that right?

Yeah. Thanks again very much. There's no two in the world the same. Thank you,

Rachel. Thanks so much.

Time once again to go into the audience and learn whether it is better to

shuffle the cards or cut the cards.

Here is Lefty.

Tonight I'm going to show you the first trick my dad ever showed me. I was six

years old, so I was a lot smaller.

The cards were a lot bigger.

These cards are just like a regular deck of cards, except they're larger.

I'll show you all the cards are different. Are all the cards different?

Yes. Danny, what I'm going to do is I'm going to start dealing the card down on

the table one at a time.

It doesn't matter when. Whenever you'd like, just say stop.

Stop. Right there? You want to go one more?

No. No. Okay. Let's stop right there.

Now, these cards came out of this box. It's very important for you to look

inside the box, make sure there's nothing in there. You can hold the box,

examine it, make sure there's nothing inside.

Nothing? Perfect.

Hold the box just like that. We're going to take the card you stopped at.

and we're going to place it inside the box. Now, you're going to be my Vegas

showgirl. You're going to put your right hand out just like that, like a table.

Perfect. We're going to leave the box in full view.

I have a second deck here. One time my dad said to me,

Lefty, can you cut the cards? And that's what I did. I took out a pair of

scissors, and I cut the card.

He left me with two halves.

You can see this half, all the cards are different. What I'm going to do is I'm

going to have you place your finger on any cards you like and leave it there.

Right there. Perfect. We're going to move it to the top.

What's very important is I'm going to give you the card. Look at it quickly.

Hold it up against your chest.

Don't show anyone else what the card is. You got it?

Perfect. Now we have the other half of the deck. Once again, all the cards are

different. I'd like you to place your finger on any card.

Okay, leave it right there. We're going to move it to the top.

I want you to look at the card and place it up against your chest.

You got it?

Watch.

For the first time, I'm going to take your half, and I'm going to take your

half, and I'm going to put it together.

The backs match.

The card that was selected was half the jack of spades, half the two of

diamonds. But remember, at the start of the trick, Danny selected one card from

the other deck. She took that card and put it inside the box.

For the first time, Danny, pick the card out and show them the card you picked.

And that's magic.

Up next, amazing is the only way to describe Murray Sawyer.

You never know what to expect from this Vegas headliner. Here he proves that

milk can be very mysterious.

Watch this.

Here is Murray Sautza.

How you guys doing, guys?

Here we go.

Well, our time is up.

Don't ask me how they do it. All I can say is they do it very well because they

are the masters of illusion.

I'm Dean Cain. Until next time, thank you so much for watching. We appreciate

you guys being here.

thank you