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and lock it in a lock on the bridge.

Then throw the key into the Seine.

All day they do this.

Mothers, lovers, old men.

Watching the key sink into the water

and their secret is locked away forever.

Real and, at the same time, magical.

(SIGHS)

So,

do you really think it's possible

there's a fifth Horseman?

Yeah.

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

THADDEUS:
There is a legend

of a secret order

born in ancient Egypt called

"The Eye."

It is said they perfected sleight of hand

to steal food from the Pharaohs

and give it to the slaves.

Their purpose?

Using magic and illusion

to even the scales of justice.

Are The Horsemen next in a long line

of fools to believe this myth?

Will they evade the rules of law and logic

like they did in Las Vegas?

Or will the dark mysticism

of this Southern swampland

get the better of them?

(SLOW CLAPPING)

Bravo, Mr. Bradley.

Either you have a cease-and-desist,

which you don't, or you should leave.

If I want something to cease or desist,

it does.

Take five.

According to your potential backers,

you stand to make 2.5 million tops

from your best special.

I have here a check

for 3.5 million.

To walk away?

To fly away. My jet is at your disposal.

Let's not kid ourselves, Mr. Tressier.

You're in this to ride them up.

I'm in it to ride them down.

I take it that we do not have a deal.

And therein lies our conflict.

Let me be blunt.

My bank account is much,

much bigger than yours.

And my lawyers are much stronger.

And they will manacle you

with so many injunctions.

Until you stand by, hopelessly watching

everything that you own drain away

in front of your greedy little eyes.

This isn't the first time

I've been threatened.

And I'm still here.

It is, however, the first time

you've been threatened by me.

And if you do anything

to sully my investment,

the ride down, which you mentioned,

will be sudden, precipitous,

and measurable on the Richter scale.

Oops. You shouldn't have done that.

According to superstition,

one who uses a doll to

enact one's own wrath,

is likely to bring that

very wrath unto himself.

Isn't that funny?

And I thought you didn't believe in magic.

(ALL CLAMORING)

Do me a favor.

Visualize your most adventurous

sexual experience.

Stay out of my head, you perv.

Well, no, if I stay out of your head,

I'm never gonna get into your pants.

- Right.

- So let's stick with this exercise.

- And it helps...

THADDEUS:
- Pardon the intrusion.

I just wanted to wish

you good luck tonight.

What, so you can try to expose us later

on your little website?

And on demand.

That's not gonna happen.

Oh, no?

Operating on a special plane

because of The Eye?

I heard it's a lovely place.

Lots of starshine and moonbeams.

Make any magician's wish come true.

You've come a long way,

much further

than anyone would have expected

of a bunch of wanna-bes and has-beens.

If by "has-been" you're referring to me,

I just wanna say I'm flattered,

because I always considered myself

a never-was.

Do you mind if I do a quick read on you?

By all means.

Okay, I'm picturing a little boy.

He wants to be a great magician someday.

And though he's good,

he's not quite good enough.

So he ends up at the bottom

of the entertainment food chain,

feeding off of those

who have the talent that he never did.

Tell me. Am I getting close?

Wait. Before you go. I'm working

on something new. Do you have a second?

Okay. Name a card.

- King of hearts.

- Knew it.

Okay.

It's up your left sleeve.

Is it?

No. No, I don't see it up there.

You know, why don't you check

your unnecessary velveteen pocket there?

Yeah.

Anyway, thank you so much for coming by, but

this is kind of a talent only area, so...

Break a leg.

Hey, you break something, too.

ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,

the Savoy management welcomes you

to tonight's special performance,

The Four Horsemen, Act Two.

Unlike traditional performances,

The Four Horsemen encourage you to film,

call your friends,

upload, stream, and tweet the show freely.

Thank you.

The show will begin in a few minutes.

Nice watch.

It's a family heirloom.

Oh. By the way, I know

how he did that trick.

- Who?

- Shrike.

So, when he was 14,

he saw a hole in a tree in Central Park.

He had a guy who worked at the carousel

sign a card for what looked

like a routine little trick.

And?

At the guy's retirement, 18 years later,

Shrike performs, has the guy sign a card,

and presto!

The card is in the tree.

It was in the tree for 18 years.

The card was in the tree.

The tree grew around the card in 18 years.

I mean, that isn't magic. It's not magic.

The point is, the trick

was not to look closely.

It was to look so far

that you see 20 years into the past.

After Shrike drowned,

they never found the body.

What are you suggesting?

(CROWD CHEERING)

ANNOUNCER:
Arthur Tressler presents

Jack Wilder,

Henley Reeves,

Merritt McKinney,

and Daniel Atlas.

The Four Horsemen.

Thank you. Before we begin,

we'd like to single out

two people in particular.

A man and a woman to whom we'd like

to dedicate tonight's performance.

FBI Agent Dylan Rhodes

and the lovely, if somewhat inexperienced,

Interpol Agent Alma Dray, everyone.

(CROWD BOOING)

Yeah, Agent Rhodes

has personally vowed to "nail us."

And we encourage him to do so

if he has the brains and the fur.

What is magic?

Our argument,

nothing but targeted deception.

So I want you to look.

Look as closely as possible.

Because the tricks you are about to see

may not seem connected.

But we assure you, they are.

Is what follows 100 different tricks?

Or is it one giant illusion?

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

And now for one

of the oldest tricks in the book.

Danny, if you wouldn't mind

opening up the box,

and showing everybody

that it's completely empty.

Now, we're gonna need

12 courageous volunteers.

I'm gonna take sweet little Fluffy here,

and put her inside this mystery box.

There are two pencils out there.

Hold 'em up high. Let me see 'em.

- Here!

WOMAN:
- Yeah!

And now, you will say the magic word.

Abracadabra.

Yes, and I will wave this magic wand

for no reason. And then...

Fluffy has magically vanished

before your very eyes.

If you haven't experienced mass hypnosis,

you're about to.

And sleep.

Down, down. Sleep, sleep. Completely sleep.

Good, good. Sleep, sleep.

And now we are gonna debunk

a few magic myths this evening.

We all know that Fluffy is,

in fact, alive and well.

And Fluffy has miraculously appeared.

As has the mirror

which makes the box only

appear as though it's empty.

When you hear the word "freeze"

you are all football players.

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

And your job is to tackle,

dismantle,

crush,

tear limb from limb,

the quarterback.

Now, we've all heard

of pulling the rabbit out of the hat.

But has anyone heard

of pulling a hat out of a rabbit?

You will know who the quarterback is.

He will be the one saying that word.

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