Now You See Me Page #5

on-board an armored truck.

Which, of course, is just

as hard to break into.

Unless you're already inside.

And despite what the banks

would have you believe,

the men who drive these trucks

are not exactly mental giants.

For our Horsemen...

- Oh!

- ...It was almost too easy.

HENLEY:
Hey, boys.

So, how did they make the fake money

disappear from the vault? What is that?

THADDEUS:
Hash paper.

Magicians use it all the time.

Creates no smoke, leaves no residue.

Oh, merde.

CONAN O'BRIEN:
Two days ago,

no one heard of these guys,

but tonight's show sold out in 35 seconds.

I think these guys have cracked

the secret to show business.

Give your audience $3 million.

Puts 'em in a good mood, doesn't it?

Best finale ever.

They're gonna he

the first magicians in history

to get laid.

Remember, if the oxygen mask comes down,

- put it on the lawyer first. Remember.

- Oh, yes.

I always do. It's lawyer first,

- then myself and then the children.

- Then yourself.

Yes. Then the children.

Um... Allow me to make plain

what we've both been thinking.

And what's that?

Well, obviously, you have feelings

of affection for Daniel.

Unrequited and misguided, owing to

his lack of emotional availability.

Consequently, you're very tightly...

How should I put it? Um...

Corked.

Oh, I am?

Now, recognizing that

you have physical needs not being met,

and strictly in the vein

of helping a sister out,

I invite you to think of me

as your own personal corkscrew.

Wow. Thanks.

Let me mull over

that offer of cheap and meaningless sex.

Cheap and meaningless, maybe, but, uh,

not time-consuming.

(LAUGHING)

MAN:
(OVER PA) We should be getting there

a few minutes early.

So, sit back, relax.

We should be in the Big Easy soon.

Appreciate you flying with us today.

So, what's in it for Tressier,

besides the money?

Ego.

Okay, pick your card.

Look at it, put it in

the deck, and tell me.

No, don't tell me.

- Okay.

- Okay.

Thaddeus was there that night.

He knows exactly how they pulled it off.

What about him?

What are you saying?

You think they could be working together.

I don't know. All I know is that these guys

were a bunch of street magicians

a year ago with no resources.

So, how do they go from doing that to this

without some kind of outside help?

Is this your card?

No, my card is sitting

over there in that guy's lap.

(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

Nice shuffle.

You know, this is hard.

According to this book,

some of those guys practice one simple

move eight hours a day for years.

Really? Some of those guys

seriously need to get a life.

Is it magicians, in general,

you have a problem with?

Or specifically those guys?

I could care less about

magicians in general.

What I hate is people

who exploit other people.

Exploit them how?

- Try again.

- Um...

By taking advantage of their weaknesses.

Their need to believe in something

that's unexplainable

in order to make their lives more bearable.

I see it as a strength.

My life is happier when I believe that.

Is this your card?

Yeah.

Yeah?

- Yeah.

- Cool.

(LAUGHS) That smile on your face.

Is it real?

Maybe.

So let me ask you, Mr. Detective Man.

Do you feel exploited?

Or did you have maybe a

tiny, tiny bit of fun?

MERRITT:
Guy goes to the doctor.

Doctor says, "Sir, you're gonna

have to stop masturbating."

He says, "Why?"

He says, "So I can finish the examination."

Oh, Danny, can I talk to you about

- my role in the show real quick?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure.

- Hey, guys.

(LAUGHING)

We got a show to prepare for.

- Oh.

- Oh! Do we now?

No, no, no, don't do that.

You're not doing that thing to me. No.

What thing? I'm just looking at you.

No, you're not.

I've been watching you for a year.

I know all of your little tricks.

That what they are to you? Tricks?

Yes, it's gimmicks. it's Barnum statements.

It's reading the eyes. Body language.

I get it.

If it's such an easy thing,

why don't you do Henley?

Yeah, Danny. Why don't you do me?

No, you're too easy. I'll do Jasmine.

TRESSLER:
No.

- Do me.

- Oh, yeah. Yeah. Do Art.

DANIEL:
Okay.

MERRITT:
Even better.

DANIEL:
- Art.

- Yeah.

But I warn you, I can be difficult to read,

when I want to be.

Just stay with me, okay?

So, Art, you were a tough kid.

You know, kind of a real rapscallion.

You had a dog. A real tough dog.

A brutish breed. Like a real...

I want to say, Ben the bulldog.

Actually, I was a prissy little tot.

I had a fluffy white cat called Snuffles.

(LAUGHING)

- Wow.

Ah. Sorry.

Wait, let me try one.

- I can do way better than that.

- Let him do it.

Come on, give me one more time.

One more time.

He can do way better than that.

Let's do family.

You had an uncle on your mother's side.

He had a real, kind of...

A real masculine name.

A real, kind of, salt-of-the-earth...

You know, a real stick-it-to-you...

Like it was some kind of Paul.

Thompson? Was it a Paul...

(SIGHING) Okay.

You know what? I got nothin'.

- Nearly though.

- Was I?

Yeah. My uncle's name

was Cushman Armitage. (LAUGHS)

Really? Snuffles and Cushman Armitage?

That was your childhood?

I certainly hope tonight's show

is gonna be better than this.

DANIEL:
Don't worry. Just you wait.

Hey. Come on, give me some good news

on a hotel room, please.

FULLER:
What, are you kidding me?

No, it's Mardi Gras, Dylan.

There's nothing within

sight of the theater.

Hold on a second. Hold on.

Where is this woman?

Hey, hey! There you are.

What, the French girl doing a little

sightseeing while she's in New Orleans?

No. In fact, here, speaking French

- is actually an asset.

- Huh?

Do you see that woman up there?

That's Marie Claire.

And she has a lovely apartment for us.

You're welcome.

Yeah.

We got a place.

If you want to keep playing

into their hands, go for it.

I'm just trying to

understand how they think.

You think I'm playing

in their hands, do you?

I don't know how any of that

is gonna go against this.

This what? This magic?

Lionel Shrike.

In Central Park,

he has a guy pick a card and sign it.

Then he goes to a tree

that has been there 20 years.

They saw the tree in half.

Inside the tree, encased in glass,

is the card with the signature.

How did he do that?

I have no idea.

But I'm sure there's a logical explanation.

Excusez-moi.

You guys got a guy in that lobby yet?

FULLER:
No, but I do have some good news.

Remember how Atlas is such a control freak,

he's got his whole crew

on those tracking bracelets?

What tracking bracelets?

FULLER:
He has every member of his crew

wearing a tracking bracelet.

Those bracelets are on a sub-8 flat-band.

- So as long as Atlas is tracking them...

- Next.

...our boys can track Atlas

from right here in the mobile command unit.

DYLAN:
Okay, call me

if you get any movement.

Copy that.

You are missing the big

picture here, Dylan.

There is a place in Paris, Pont des Arts.

Sometimes in the mornings

I sit on a bench there.

And I watch the people make a wish

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