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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. Good evening.

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

is impossible do that right okay right well the first thing i do is i try to

rationalize and justify and come up with a reasonable explanation as to why this

just happened but trust me what you're about to see will defy all explanations

so try not to let it drive you too crazy are you ready to lose your mind

this is an ancient map of how

our world once looked It shows the route of a famous explorer and his three

ships, the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria.

Actually, this map also includes the portrait of the explorer himself.

Do you see Christopher Columbus?

How many hidden meanings will you discover in what is fantasy and what is

This next performer is one of our favorites.

He never fails to amaze us with his original ideas.

Tonight, he conducts you in his performance.

From Perrin, please welcome Xavier Mortimer.

Hi, miss. What's your name?

Amber. Amber. Where are you from?

Los Angeles. Los Angeles?

Me too.

I'm kidding.

I actually come from France.

Oh, ooh la la.

Amber, can you hold this ball for me, please? And someone else, anyone, go

ahead, get the ball.

Let's go.

Yes, I had it on the tip of my tongue.

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

Vietnam who has a most unusual talent.

Please welcome Mae Nguyen.

Watch the astounding skill of JJ when we come back.

Now for our friend from down in Sydney,

Australia's quick -witted and too fast for words, JJ.

Thank you.

So as a con man, as a thief, as a pickpocket, it's getting harder for me

steal in the 21st century.

People are wearing less jewelry.

People are wearing less clothes.

But the new breed of pickpockets, the new breed of con men, thieves, have to

more specific, have to be more subjective on who they choose.

We have to wait.

We have to watch.

We're like smooth, sophisticated serpents ready to strike on our next

I need to borrow a sucker for this next script.

Would you be my sucker for the show?

Sure. What's your first name? Sarah. Give him a nice round of applause,

and gentlemen.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

How do you feel that I'm a pickpocket?

Stand up for two seconds.

Okay. Stand up. You've got everything on you, right? There's no way I could take

too much. You would feel everything. Take a seat for a second.

Okay. That's your phone, by the way. Put the phone back. Okay.

So pickpockets, they're looking for something. They're looking for a

They're looking for a tell.

Here's what's going to happen. I'm going to try to pick your tell. Well, do me a

favor. In a pack of 52 cards, I just want you to think of anyone.

Think of anyone.

Have you got one?

Don't say it.

Yeah?

Cool. Can you do me a favor? I want you to take the card outside of this deck.

Take it outside the deck.

Don't show the audience and have a look at it, but hold it on you.

What he's going to do, he's going to look for a card.

I'm very fascinated by how people lie.

The more trust that I can have with you, the closer I can get towards you.

I can get under your skin.

I can start touching you.

Okay, you take it out, pass it to me. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter, but make

sure that you remember it. Okay.

You're going to look at a point in a room right now.

You're going to look here and I'm going to ask you a series of questions. What

I'm looking for is I'm looking for a pattern. I'm looking for the way he

I'm looking for his health. Look at a point in the room and I'm going to ask

a series of questions. You're going to repeat the word no to me. You're not

going to speed it up. You're not going to slow it down. You're just going to

the word no.

I'm going to say, is your card this? You're going to say no. Is your card

You're going to say no. Are you ready for the game?

No. Very good.

Is your card a red card?

No. Is it a black card? No.

Interesting.

Don't laugh.

Because try and see if we can focus on doing amazing. Is it red?

No. Is it black? No. Okay, it's a red card.

Is it a heart?

No. Is it a diamond? No.

Once again, is it a heart? Stay right there. No. Is it a diamond?

No.

Is it a heart?

No. Is it a diamond?

No. What he's doing really amazing, ladies and gentlemen, is he's keeping

hands close like this, which gives him no chance to fiddle, tweak, but he

move his thumb on the diamonds right there. So I know it's a heart.

It's a heart. It's a red card. I'm going to go up the cards. 13 cards to a 2.

Is it an 8?

No. 2?

No. 3? No. 4? No. 5? No. 6? No.

6? No. 7? No. 8? No.

9? No. 10? No. Jack?

No. Queen? No. King?

No. Every time I know when the card is close to what he said, he's speeding up

his words. I know his card is a heart. I know it's a red card.

I know it's between 8, 2, 3, 4, 5 of hearts.

Be truthful. Is your card either the eighth, two, three, four, five apart?

Yeah.

Now this is your chance to play.

Five cards left. Here we go. Life, you're doing amazing.

Is your card the eighth apart?

No. Two apart?

No. Three? No. Four? No. Five? No.

Three? No. Four? No. Five?

No. Take the card out, the one that you chose, wherever it is. Just keep it to

your choice.

It's three, four, five apart.

Three, four, five apart. Once again, lie for me.

Three apart.

No. Four apart. No. Five apart.

No.

The problem with laughter, and this is why it's such a communal, it's a great

thing which brings us all together, it makes us very relaxed.

Challenging for me, with the cameras, with the lights, but the laughter's the

one that gets me the most.

I'm going into the five apart.

Do me a favour, turn around the card, tell everyone what the card is.

Ladies and gentlemen.

laughs, and the unbelievable talent of Murray Satch.

Our next illusionist is a popular Las Vegas performer.

Tonight, he makes the obvious impossible.

See if you can keep up with the fast innovations of Murray Satch.

Thank you.

I love history. I love aptitude tests. I find them interesting.

I have to have my aptitude test right over here.

And for those who know what they are, you get them for employment and all

of things. They're pretty simple usually.

So here's my test right here. And I actually have it inside the envelope

here. I'm going to seal that up so no one can see it. All right.

And I'll put that right here. Sir, what's your name?

Rick. Do me a favor, Rick. Come to the stairs halfway and meet Stacy. Hang on

the... Do not open it. That's your job, just to hang on to it. All right?

Wonderful. Thank you very much, sir. That's all you've got to do.

Now, here's what we're going to do. It's very simple. You match colors and

switches. See, the green switch matches the green bulb.

Blue matches the blue.

Yellow matches the yellow.

And the red matches the red. Pretty simple, right?

All right, great.

So, here we go. Let's have a look.

Let me see. Sir, what is your name right there?

Eric. Eric, you will be the red bulb, Eric.

All right?

Eric, the idea is not to put the bulb in the same socket because we know it

works. All right? You can put it in any socket you want. This is socket number

one, two, three, or four. Eric, where do you want your red bulb? Four. Four.

All right.

Socket number four. Thank you, Eric. Thank you very much.

Let's have a look over here. What's your name?

Right there, ma 'am. What's your name?

Sydney. Sydney?

All right, Sydney.

You're going to be the yellow bulb.

Where would you like the yellow bulb, Sydney? One, two, three, slot. Where

you like it? Three.

Three. You want...

Yellow bulb in number three. Thank you, Sydney. I appreciate that.

We've got two more bulbs in blue bulb over here. Let's have a look.

What is your name, ma 'am?

Chrissy. Chrissy.

Chrissy, you're going to be the blue bulb. Where do you want the blue bulb in

position number one versus number two?

One. One. All right. Thank you, Chrissy.

Blue bulb in position number one. Of course, we have the green bulb, and

have a look over here.

Sir, what is your name?

Jose. Jose.

Jose, you're the green bulb.

Where would you like the green bulb?

Where would you like to put it?

Slot number two.

Slot number two.

Last show.

They did not tell me to put it there. All right.

There's our order. You guys made it, all four of you, all right? But the cool

thing about this aptitude test, the red always works the red bulb. The yellow

switch always works the yellow bulb. The green switch always works the green

bulb. And the blue switch always works the blue bulb. What do you think?

I'm going to put the cap. You looked a little confused, so let's confuse you

some more. I'm putting the red cap on the red bulb. Pretty simple. Yellow cap

the yellow bulb. Of course, the green cap right over here on the green switch.

And then, of course, the blue cap right over here by the blue bulb. So there it

is. That's it. They should match up. If you look really carefully, you'll see

the red switch. The red bulb, yellow, is the yellow. Green is the green. Of

course, the blue is the blue. What do you think?

You guys created this test before. Your name again, sir, is? Rick. Rick. Rick,

do me a favor. Put the test on the envelope, please.

Excellent. Put that on the tray.

Excellent. Now, you've never had anything prearranged between you and I?

you sure?

Okay, you seem proud of that.

All right.

I'm going to take this. Rick's going to take this. Give it a cut.

That'll work.

Thanks.

Here we go.

You sure you didn't do anything with this at all?

All right.

Watch carefully.

All four of you. Ever meet before?

None of you. All right.

Check this out. Here's my test.

Look at this.

Here's my four balls.

Matching exactly. There's two dozen patterns.

Blue, green, yellow, red.

No, no.

No, you don't look that impressed, people.

You know, I know why. Because you think, in this day and age, we could use

wireless devices. It could be easy to figure out what switch works which.

But here's the cool thing is, Christy, of course, had the blue. Jose had the

green, of course.

Red and Eric had the... And that's my attitude test, everybody.

The wild and mind -bending deception of Garrett and Roger. After this.

Back from Vegas.

It's the dynamic duo that we all know and love. This time, they've figured out

how to get an audience member to do the impossible.

It's Jarrett and Raja.

Raja has graciously allowed me to use his crate of sheet music for my magic.

But first, I need someone from the audience. You're welcome, Jarrett.

So, let's see here.

Hey,

can you help me?

Yeah? Come on, let's give her a big hand.

What's your name?

Sophia. Sophia.

Wow, how old are you?

Eight. I'm going to do some magic. Are you ready for this?

Yeah. All right, well, come over here. Okay. I want you to have a seat right on

here, right on Roger's sheet music here.

Wow,

you're really good. Excellent.

Awesome. That's good.

I see Sophia.

This is my magic pocket watch, okay? All I want you to do is follow with your

eyes.

Go ahead, that's good.

Gently falling asleep.

Slowly falling asleep.

Close your eyes.

She fell asleep.

Okay, roger.

There you go.

Hey, everybody. Sophia.

Wow.

That was amazing.

All of them. And that's it for this edition.

of Masters of Illusion. So be sure to join us next time. Until then, I'm Dean

Cain. Good night.