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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. Good evening and welcome to Masters of Illusion.

I'm Dean Cain. Now, we live in a world of reality.

So if you witnessed something that turned your reality upside down, well,

would be no less than completely astonishing.

So are you ready to be astonished?

Me too.

So the obvious is not always obvious, at least to our brain. These lines appear

to be curved, right?

I see a lot of nods, yes. But in reality, they're straight.

Mm -hmm.

Except they're all straight. Now be warned that our illusionist tonight will

be straight with you either.

They plan to throw you many curds.

All the way from Paris, France, this illusionist has an interesting way to

sure his girl does not go away.

He has a ring for her. A nice thing to give a girl, perhaps, but maybe...

Not in this case.

Welcome, T2.

How's that doing?

Come on!

So, Harry Houdini has been the most famous escape artist in the whole time.

I'm obsessed with him. I know everything about him, but I know someone who is

even more obsessed about him than me. Her name is Kennaway. She knows

about it, and she asked me tonight... Come on!

She told me that she learned everything and that she could ever even escape.

So I didn't trust her, obviously, but she's going to try to show that to us.

what we're going to do, you're going to step up inside with those three rings

from the bottom to the top. For now, obviously, she can escape.

It's easy. Even a kid could do that.

So what we're going to do, we're going to make it a bit harder for her.

What are we going to do?

We're going to link her all the way to the top.

How are you feeling?

I don't care. Okay, good.

But obviously she can still escape.

It's getting hotter for sure.

Alright, I'm backstage, and I still can't figure this stuff out.

Now it's totally impossible.

Stainless steel rings all the way from the bottom to the top.

Could you escape?

I don't think so.

You guys think she can escape?

There's no way.

No.

I would love to see that.

How long can you give her?

Two seconds? Three seconds?

All right.

One, two,

three.

Give it up for Taylor. Come on.

Okay, now let's go to our audience camera and see the magic of a lady of

intrigue. This is Juliana Faye.

Have you ever gone through the X -ray machines at the airport and had security

take items away from you?

Yeah, I have. Well, it happened also to our next performer, and he wasn't too

happy about it. This is Leon Etienne.

Thank you guys so much. I really have the best job in the world. I get to tour

my show all over the place. And unfortunately, there is always a

and a downside, right? And the downside to touring all over the world... is that

you have to go through a lot of airport and a lot of airport security, right?

Yeah, I see you guys nodding. Just as a matter of fact, the other day, just

coming here to L .A. to shoot Masters of Illusion, I had to go through airport

security. And the first thing they asked for was my phone.

The second thing they asked for was not my wallet, but all the money inside of

it, which I thought was a little odd, right? But I gave her the money

nonetheless. She also asked for my watch.

And lastly, she asked for the ring on my finger.

She took the bag, put it on the conveyor, and I went through the x -ray

But instead of stopping at the conveyor belt to pick up all my stuff, I just

kept on walking.

And she tried to get my attention, said, sir, don't you want your belongings?

At that moment, I looked at the TSA agent and said, ma 'am, I'm a magician.

And at that moment, she looked down at the bag to realize she no longer had any

of my belongings.

Because I still had my ring guys.

I still had my watch.

I still had all the money in my wallet. And I still had my mobile phone.

The impossible is made possible by Joshua J.

When we come back.

Our next performer brings an extraordinary illusion to life right

eyes. Here is Joshua Jay.

Thank you.

All right.

I want to try and create for you an impossible thing.

To stand in for what I hope is an impossible experience. So we, together,

going to make a T -shirt. We'll use my T -shirt. And I need to borrow a couple

things. A dollar bill.

and somebody's phone.

You've got a dollar bill, and you've got a phone? Great.

Take out a dollar bill.

This one right here.

I'm going to give you a receipt for the purchase you just made.

The reason I do this is because we're going to have somebody else hold the

for a moment, and you get to pick that person, point to anybody you would like

in the front row, and right here, would you hold that between your thumb and

first finger? Don't put it in your pocket. I want it to stay in view so the

people here and at home know that that really is her bill from her pocket.

You've got a phone. Pull up the calculator there. We need to create a

that is unique to us.

So who came from far away today? Anybody come from out of state?

Anybody from out of state? Where do you come from?

Ohio. Me too. That's cool.

What's your zip code in Ohio?

45219.

Put in 45219. And now hit time.

And now I need somebody who's had some drinks in the last seven days. Anybody

had some cocktails?

How many cocktails you had in the last seven days?

Put in four.

And now hit plus.

I want you now to hit your passcode in the phone. I will not look.

And finally, who here has a speeding ticket in the last year or so?

How fast were you going?

You were going 31 and you got a ticket? That's bad luck.

Okay, hit times.

And put 31.

And now hit equals. And I'm going to have you read that number out to us. But

you're going to have to read slowly because...

I'm going to copy those numbers upside down and backward.

Go ahead and read those numbers out for us.

3, 1, 9.

3, 1.

Oh, boy.

Is that a 9 or a P?

That's a 9. Okay, good.

1, 5, 5.

1, 5, 5.

Uh -huh. 0, 0, 1.

0, 0, 1. We're running out of room.

4, 1.

4, 1.

Another one. Is that it?

Guys, this is our t -shirt.

Thought you'd be more impressed.

No, stop.

I thought you'd be more impressed. I mean, think about it. This is a unique

number. There's no t -shirt like this in the world. You could say it's as unique

as a dollar bill.

Would you unfold that dollar bill for us?

There's a serial number on every dollar bill. Would you read that serial number

out loud in a loud voice for us?

319 -5500

-1411. And that's your moment.

That is crazy.

And let's make sure that that really is a perfect fit.

I would say that that is worth at least a dollar tip.

But all these numbers multiplied and added on your phone by you because of

you sat.

The impossible moment is that upside down those numbers make the word I -M -P

-O -S -S -I -B -L -E. That's as impossible as I can make it. Thank you

much.

Can I just get that bill back from you? I want you to take your bill out of my

pocket. We're going to line up those.

Wait a minute. Try and get that tape off of there.

Try and get inside the pocket there.

You see, even though that tape and that bill is now just part of a T -shirt,

even though it's a perfect fit, it's now inside this shirt.

Next, the amazing card wizardry of Richard Turner.

Sometimes we see a performance that is so impressive, it takes magic to a whole

nother level.

Our next performer is an inspiration to everyone.

At age seven, he began losing his eyesight, but it never stopped him from

becoming one of the world's most...

skillful card technicians.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Richard Turner.

Howdy!

As you heard, I'm Richard Turner, and I represent why you should never play

cards with strangers.

And by the time this show is over, you'll realize this guy was pretty

Now, how many have ever played poker? Say yes.

In poker, you've seen they have wild cards like Deuces Wild.

Other times, they'll just cut a card, and that'll be the wild card.

And Lacey, what's your name?

There you go. You didn't forget.

First of all, I want you to see we have a standard pack of playing cards. We

give them what's called a casino wash.

And Lacey, and nobody trusts me, so you shuffle the cards any way you like. Give

the deck a shuffle.

That's another word for shuffle.

Start it right here when you're done.

All right, very good.

And like I said, just... Do me a favor. Cut the deck in half. Just cut off half.

Okay. And for... Just give me a random number. Three, four, five. What do you

want? Seven. Seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

What's that card?

Do you want me to say it out loud? Out loud. Okay. Queen of clubs. So the

are the wild cards.

Now, I had this guy. He owned a large commercial construction company. He

to cut high card double or nothing.

I am going to try to cut a wild card to the top of the deck.

What is that card, Lacey?

That's a queen of diamonds.

What is that card, Lacey?

A queen of spades.

What is that card, Lacey?

A queen of hearts.

Watch carefully, watch carefully, watch carefully.

Triple cut. What is that card, Lacey?

In case you blinked, I better do it again.

Put those queens back on the deck, face down, separate places, shuffle them up.

Put them in there very quickly, get all the cards in there, and give me a fancy

shuffle.

Fancy shuffle.

Just set them here when you're happy.

Okay.

And she's happy.

This time I'm going to try to cut a wild card to the bottom.

What's that card, Lacey?

A queen of diamonds.

And we'll give the deck another little cut. What's that card, Lacey?

A queen of spades.

And you did shuffle these, yes? I did not.

What's that, Lacey?

A queen of hearts.

And let's see here. I think one more ought to do it. And Lacey, what is that?

One more time. One more time. One more time.

Thanks. Put them back on the deck, Lacey. Face down. Step in places. Step

up. Face down. Thank you. I need to learn to shuffle.

Hey, you did it perfectly.

They're exactly where I wanted them to be.

That's what I said.

Yes. Do it again. I want... I'm really going to mix it.

She's mixing. She's mixing. I won't look. I won't look. Okay.

Inside joke.

Set them right here. Okay.

All right. This is the pretty way. I had the privilege of working with a man

named Professor Vernon, Guy Vernon.

And this was always the way he thought was really, really beautiful. I'm going

to try cutting a random card, your selected card from the middle. What are

cards? Oh, my God. A queen of hearts and a queen of hearts.

Slow motion. What's that?

A queen of hearts.

And watch carefully, Lacey.

Watch carefully. Watch carefully. Slow motion.

And Lacey, what's that?

Thank you.

Next,

is your mind able to keep up with the antics of Ed Alonzo?

Nothing delights a magician more than teaching someone how to do a trick,

although they don't teach me any of them.

It's great, though, especially if it's a child, and especially if the magician,

who is a child himself, really, Ed Alonzo.

You know, one of the great things about being a magician is that it translates

to everyone all over the world, even if we don't... speak. People understand

kind of what we're doing, even children.

So I thought it would be fun to find a kid from the audience.

Check this out. Here we go. Let's see.

Gotta be a kid someplace.

There's a lot of good ones here tonight.

Good over there. A couple guys over here. Maybe you. Could you help me?

Yeah, come on up. Give them some applause.

Come on.

Drum roll, please.

All right, that's it for this edition of Masters of Illusion. We hope you'll

join us next time for more amazing magic.

Until then, I'm Dean Payne. Thank you for watching.

Thank you.

I'll be the next guy.