Now You See Me Page #3

you should feel a button.

Don't press it just yet.

That button activates an air duct

that connects Paris to Las Vegas.

Okay, good. Now you can press it.

All right, now, Etienne, hold on tight.

You might feel a bit of a vacuum.

(CHUCKLES)

(AIR WHOOSHING)

(WHOOPS)

Whoo! (LAUGHING)

Oh. Wait a second.

- Huh.

(RUMBLING)

WOMAN:
Oh, merde.

(CHEERING)

(CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHING)

Thank you, Etienne. Thank you, everyone!

We are The Four Horsemen.

- And good night!

- Good night!

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Hold up here.

Dylan Rhodes.

What? I don't think I heard you correctly.

Did you say magicians?

Yeah, Dylan, magicians.

Where are you now?

I'm at Aria.

I'm heading up there to grab 'em now.

FBI! Hands where I can see them.

Let's go. Get 'em up. Come on.

Uno minute.

FULLER:
Let's go. Get 'em up.

Put the book down.

Okay. You got me.

- Freeze! Hands in the air!

HENLEY:
(GASPS) Oh, my!

Do one of you guys

mind giving us a hand with our bags?

Let's go.

(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)

DYLAN:
Boss, please tell me this is a joke.

I just got Willy Mears

to finger Paulie Attanasio.

I'm a month, two tops,

away from blowing this whole thing open.

- Get Turkelson.

- He's in Atlantic City.

What about Cowan? Look at him.

He's just sitting there on his ass.

Hilarious, Rhodes.

I love you.

A**hole.

I don't have time for this magic crap.

This crap just pulled

three million Euro out of a Parisian bank.

- That's how much they got?

- Yeah.

Actually, 3.2.

- Who is she?

(MUMBLES)

Who are you?

Alma Dray from Interpol.

I'll be working the investigation with you.

You gotta be kidding me.

It's bad enough they got me chasing down

David Copperfield and Friends.

Now I'm being saddled with,

no offense, with Interpol?

I look forward to working

with you, too, Agent Rhodes.

I'm sorry. I don't think I'm gonna

need your help on this. Okay?

- Where's the French guy?

- I already spoke to him.

Oh, you did?

You spoke to my witness before me?

Your witness?

I thought you didn't want the case.

Besides, he's useless.

Oh, really? Why is that?

Because he believes their magic was real.

Oh, he believes the magic was real?

You're right, he probably is useless.

Is it okay with Interpol

if we talk to him, too?

- Mm-hmm.

- Thank you.

I have never stolen a

thing in my life, okay?

I tried to give the money back,

but they won't take it.

Okay, okay, okay,

let's just say you robbed a bank.

I did.

Fine. Fantastic. You did.

But since I'm new to this,

can you explain to me how you went

from Las Vegas to Paris in three seconds?

With the teleportation helmet.

Okay, what the hell is going on here?

He was hypnotized during the show.

I told you, he's useless.

Okay, I'll deal with you when I'm done

with this other bullshit.

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Hey!

FULLER:
During the show,

half the audience was hypnotized

to believe they were in the Philharmonic.

I guess that "bullshit"

was the trigger word.

Okay. Hey, hey. coutez.

Etienne, come on down from there.

You're not in the Philharmonic.

- How do you say "stop" in French?

- Stop.

Tell him to stop.

No, I can't. You just have to

let him finish his movement.

Okay, I need a time-out.

Too many French people in one room.

- Agent Rhodes!

- Huh?

I'm ordered by my bosses

to provide a report.

And until we have one, I'm

here, like it or not.

So we can work together,

or you can continue to follow behind

asking the same exact questions I'm asking.

It's up to you.

(SNORING)

Hmm.

I'm not finished.

I just flew 12 hours,

after what was already a long day.

And I do not handle jet lag well.

So if you want to see who can be grumpier,

- I promise you, you will lose.

- Hmm.

Mm-hmm. Fine. So which one of these idiots

do you want to talk to first?

Him?

Dylan, for the record,

mentalism has never actually

been proven to be accurate.

Okay.

That is to say, that it's not a science.

It's more for entertainment.

All right.

Just don't believe everything the guy says.

That's all.

Please convey my deepest apologies

to your colleague out there.

I'm really sorry about this

whole Tranny Tuesday thing.

I was out of line.

Tranny Tuesday?

Well, it's an arrangement

he and his wife have.

Or might not have, if you believe

everything Agent Fuller

is saying to be correct.

But isn't there a proud tradition

in the FBI of men wearing dresses?

No shame, Agent Fuller. No shame.

(LAUGHS) I'm just having fun.

Was this your card? No.

See, I knew you weren't

a queen of hearts lady,

and I respect that.

The trick usually works better

when I'm not strapped in here,

but I understand protocol.

Okay, okay.

So, if you had nothing to do with it,

then how did

the playing card get into the vault?

Oh, yes. That would be...

What do the kids call it these days?

Oh, yes, that's right. Magic.

Just answer the question, okay, smartass.

All right. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

You can keep that. Don't share it with him.

It says here you are a mentalist.

- Hmm.

- What exactly is mentalism?

Tricks, mostly. Um, some science.

Targeted guessing

might be a most apt description.

Along with some intuition

and the occasional...

Voices in my head.

(LAUGHS)

Says here you were fairly

famous at one point.

Mm-hmm.

You can

even hypnotize people over the phone.

Some big tours

around the U.S. for a few years,

- two TV specials.

- Glory days.

Then your brother/manager disappeared

with all your hard-earned money.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Did your research, did you?

DYLAN:
IRS audit. Back taxes.

You've had a long hard slog back into the

limelight, haven't you, Mr. McKinney?

Yes, indeed, it has. And I do appreciate

that trip down Memory Lane.

As far as I understand it,

when the man from Paris

put on the magical helmet...

Listen to me.

If you didn't rob that bank,

then you knew about it.

Which makes you an accomplice.

So if you wanna walk out of here today,

I'd suggest you start...

Now you listen to me, unless you think

there's a D.A. in the state of Nevada

who'd be willing

to make sense of this to a jury,

then we have a show to perform.

And you, Agent Rhodes,

have a drawing board to get back to.

Is this your first date?

What?

No, I mean, obviously, you guys don't

know each other well, if at all.

But, like,

there is a palpable tension in this room.

And before you get involved,

you should consider the fact

that she has a lot of big secrets.

And I know the first one is that this is

your first time off the desk. Isn't it?

You should have said something to him.

This is a weird way for you to find out.

You are literally begging to be arrested.

You know that?

If it means you would actually do it,

then, yeah. But you won't.

Because if you did, it means that you,

and the FBI, and your friends at Interpol,

actually believe,

at an institutional level, in magic.

The press would have a field day.

And we'd be even more famous

than we already are.

And you guys would look like idiots

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