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DEAN: Illusion.

The art of tricking the brain.

Distorting the senses.

Challenging perception.

You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes.

Because your brain can be misled.

Meet the masters of illusion.

Good evening and welcome to "Masters of

Illusion."

I m your host, Dean Cain.

Our brains enjoy filling in missing information.

They don't like an incomplete picture.

What do you see here?

Two blocks of wood.

But are you really seeing what you perceived/ They are

actually inside out.

And our brain creates them in a perfect world of reality.

Jonathan Pendragon asks the question,

"Is light as a feather reality?

Or is it just perception?"

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DEAN: Italy's Erix Logan has an appetite for aluminum

foil.

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DEAN: Next, Ed Alonzo needs a volunteer for

some dangerous magic.

DEAN: Ed Alonzo has the amazing powers

of suggestion and positive thinking.

Do they work for you?

ED: And now -- it is time for some mass hypnosis.

And I'm not talking about church.

Looking for somebody who is easily hypnotized.

Have you ever been hypnotized before?

Could, could you help?

Give her a round of applause. (APPLAUSE)

Come on.

Now be careful.

There we go.

And tell everyone, what is your name?

GEMMA: Gemma.

ED: Gemma, ladies and gentlemen.

Gemma. Ah...

all right, now, uh, Gemma...

you're going to have to listen very closely.

But over here, I have two chairs and a board.

And if you could just slowly come on over here.

There you go.

And then just slowly step up, slowly step up,

and then this is the, the difficult part.

Just, just sit down right here on,

just slowly...

slowly...

carefully, yeah, take your time.

No need to be frightened.

There you go.

Oh, that's perfect.

Now this is the, the strange part.

You re going to kick your legs over to this side but your

head will be on this side facing up.

You, do you trust me?

Okay, go ahead.

Yeah, bring your legs over to this side.

Very carefully.

Good.

Excellent.

And then, and then you'll just lay back.

Yeah.

Schooch this way just a, a bit.

Oh, that's...

that looks great.

Right there.

Perfect.

All right, now, I'm going to cover you up so you don't get

away. (LAUGHS)

All right.

Now listen only to the sound of my voice.

Breathe in and breathe out.

In.

And out.

And in a moment, you will feel as light as air.

Oh, gee...

okay.

Whoops.

Okay.

Whoops.

So...

okay.

Stop the music.

And then stop the...

okay.

Oops.

Oops.

Okay.

Uh...

uh...

are the chairs okay? (LAUGHS)

Okay.

We re okay.

The chairs are okay.

Thank you.

Thank you. (APPLAUSE)

Thank you. (APPLAUSE)

Well, that, that was fun.

Um, and now, ladies and gentlemen,

I'd like to find another volunteer from the audience.

Maybe a kid from the audience.

Yeah, let's see where there's a,

a good volunteer.

Oh, look, the kids are so excited to help out now.

This, this kid looks just like me when I was a kid so I don't

want that.

Sit down.

No, I'm teasing.

Come on.

Of course.

Give him a round of applause. (APPLAUSE)

There, be careful on the stairs.

Be careful.

There we go.

And, and there...

okay, they're, but they're, hello,

everybody.

They're right...

what's your name?

MATTHEW: Matthew.

ED: Matthew, take a bow for the crowd,

Matthew.

Very good.

Matthew.

Yeah.

Now Matthew, over here, I have a,

uh, a giant, uh, coloring book.

Do you remember these when you were just a little kid?

There's all kinds of pictures inside there.

Uh, there's, uh, the soldier and there's birds and all

kinds of...

now what I m going to do is I m going to flip through,

uh, the book and then when you see a picture that you like,

you just yell out, 'Stop' in a really loud voice,

okay?

All right, whenever you're, you're ready.

So just look at the picture.

MATTHEW: Stop.

ED: Okay, stop. Good.

Now look at your picture there.

There's his picture.

Now, uh, he could have picked any picture from the book.

But I m going to try and figure out the picture that he

chose by drawing my prediction on this,

uh, big pad of, uh, paper here.

So now, think about the picture that you just looked

at.

Are you thinking about it?

Okay, good.

Good.

I'm getting an image here.

All right.

There it is.

That is the one.

The ABC block.

Is that it?

MATTHEW: No.

ED: Okay, um, you seem excited about that.

Now let me...

which one did you pick tonight?

MATTHEW: Uh, the clown.

ED: The clown.

Okay.

Um, let me just change the box a little bit.

And there's a lid and that'll be the crank.

And now I have drawn here a jack-in-the-box which means

that here s a clown inside.

Thank you.

Thank... (APPLAUSE)

thank you... (APPLAUSE)

so...

no, there really is a clown in there.

I can prove it.

I just need a little jack-in-the-box music please.

(WHISTLES) Come on, little fella.

Come on.

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ED: And that's for you.

It's all drawn on there.

How about a big hand for my wonderful...

he was fantastic. (APPLAUSE)

The, get off the stage already.

You re done.

The...

just have, let him play that next music track,

anytime tonight would be good.

It... ♪MUSIC ♪

there it is. ♪MUSIC♪

How's that?

I can also do the merengue.

Oh...

what the...

Oh.

Oh, it's Gemma, everybody.

She's okay.

She's okay. (APPLAUSE)

Ah.

So lovely.

Whoo.

You're going to love this.

Are you ready?

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DEAN: Next, Joel Ward is out of this world.

DEAN: Now Joel Ward challenges the

gravity of the situation by taking us on a walk in space.

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FEMALE: Stop.

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JOEL: Look at that, a souvenir for Sarah.

Check it out.

Let's give her a big round of applause.

Thank you so much, Sarah.

DEAN: Zelandra invites you to buckle your seatbelt and

take a ride on a piano concerto.

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DEAN: Next, Keelan and Shereen change it up.

Again and again and again.

DEAN: Keelan and Shereen are ready

to dance but they're not sure what to wear.

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DEAN: Well, there you go.

Two masters of quick change.

Do you know how they did it?

I sure don't.

Remember who we re dealing with.

These are the best in the world.

These are the masters of illusion.

Until next time, I'm Dean Cain.