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Warning. What you're about to witness can be dangerous.

Attempting it can result in death.

Don't try this at home.

On this episode of Believe.

I want to be buried alive in an above ground tomb.

In cement.

Joe Burris died trying to do this.

If we fill this with cement right now, it's done.

Five hours, I'm supposed to do it. Clean cup to shut down cement green.

I don't feel like I'm in my life's mind.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to either a deep freeze or my death.

Chris Angel, believe.

Come over here a second, man.

I love creating experiences that are provocative, shocking.

Come over here a second, if you don't mind.

And that blow people's minds.

I want you to sit at the end of the bench and lay back.

Do you have a phone? Can you turn your phone on?

Sure. You're going to want to remember this, trust me.

And I'm going to download it if it's okay, but you can keep it as well.

Is that okay? Yeah. All right. I'm going to give it to somebody to operate.

Will you operate? You know how to use that? Okay. Turn it on. Start recording.

You got it? Yes. Recording? Perfect.

Okay. You're going to come over here.

And what I want you to do is to put your,

yeah, to sit down just like that. I want you to lean, lay back for me. Lay back.

Lay back. That's good.

That's good.

Very nice.

You want to cross your legs? Cross your legs. Cross this leg over.

There you go.

Good. Just like that. That's perfect. You keep your legs like this. That's

That's very good.

Okay. Bring your arms out over here like this for me.

Bring your arms out over here like this for me.

Good. Okay.

You married?

You together? Come over here.

I want you to do me a favor. You take his hands.

You're going to hold on to his wrist. You're going to come over here. You

Yeah, yeah. A little nervous. You're going to hold his ankle.

Okay? You're going to hold it just like that. All right? Just don't let go.

And then you two come over here for a second.

Same thing. You take her hands, her wrists, and you're going to come over

and just, okay, just hold her leg like this, okay?

All right? And then when I tell you to, you can let them down, okay?

Okay. Just like that. Relax.

Okay.

You all ready?

Take that.

I want you just to close your eyes, just relax yourself.

React to yourself.

Pull! Pull!

Pull!

come back over here come back over here come back over here relax relax relax

relax come over here come over here relax relax

Relax yourself. Relax.

Relax.

I'm over here.

No

matter

how you slice it, success comes from working hard, challenging yourself,

second to none.

Dynatrick is a world -renowned mentalist whose mind has been the subject of

government testing.

I've done a lot of danger stunts, and it's always the illusion of danger.

I got the drawing for the trust.

John's my production designer, and it's his job to take my twisted creations and

help bring them to life.

Doug's my fabricator, and because he's been practicing magic for over 20 years,

he has an understanding that not many builders do. He can actually make magic

that works.

Kristen is my apprentice. I met her after she won the National Junior

Competition. One day she'll get her shot on my live tour, Whimsical.

Hold it!

Jesse is my researcher, and he's responsible for providing information

help us accomplish each demonstration.

Who's to secure this today? Last but not least.

Spiro's job is to find locations based on weather, crowd size, and any special

requirements of any given demonstration.

When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was preparing for a stunt called Buried

Alive. Hey man, what's up?

I'm going to take on the same challenge and let my team know we only have two

weeks to accomplish it. How many people have seen that poster of Houdini in the

coffin? It's right over there on the wall.

There it is. Buried alive.

The effect he never did? He never did it because he said the weight of the earth

was crushing. They had to dig him out. I have a lot of experience, but this is

beyond anything I've ever done. I want to be buried alive in an above -ground

tomb.

A real escape.

And I also have a little something to throw in there, a little caveat. Sure

do.

I want to be completely manacled in the style of Houdini depicted in his

posters. So it's taking two of Houdini's, you know, iconic

signature posters and bringing them to life in a demonstration that has never

been attempted above ground, but has below ground.

And the guy died.

Well, he was underground with like a thin layer of cement and that crushed

He was very naive in believing that he could just go and do this. And I don't

mean any disrespect to his memory. You got to respect that. But you also can't

be foolish in going into something. That's why you guys are here.

That's why we do our due diligence, because I don't want to end up.

with the same fate. Joe Burr and Houdini both died on Halloween Eve, and the

fact that neither one of them lived to even attempt what Chris is proposing has

me very nervous.

Are we talking about a steel box and then we have some windows in it?

Whatever, John, you need to figure that out. If the goal is to make this

demonstration as spectacular as possible and to prove that there's no trickery

involved... We can build a grave out of transparent material so the audience

will have a 360 -degree view.

It's like a glass coffin in a glass box.

That's what we're talking about.

Wow. Right there.

Because when you're in the ground, people are always suspicious.

Like, could there be something going on that we're unaware of? I want to show

people that it's pure escape.

Do you know how much pressure is going to be on that inner coffin?

I'm sitting here thinking about this, Gordon.

I've never been a part of building something like that. If I'm not

myself and you're not challenging yourself, then we're just wasting each

time. It's what makes this job exciting.

If Houdini were alive today, this is the shit that Houdini would be doing. We

want to go into uncharted territories and we want to raze the states.

With this demonstration, the clock's already ticking.

We only have two weeks to go.

John and Doug need to build the glass coffin and the tomb with enough time for

me to rehearse.

All right, guys. Thanks.

All right. All right. All right.

I'm going to be easy.

I know.

This demonstration will feature five locks, handcuffs and ankle restraints,

airtight transparent coffin and grave, 12 tons of cement, 15 minutes of oxygen.

Category of magic, escape.

Dude, what are you doing? I'm taking my... This is not your thing.

Mateo, yeah, you wish.

What are you doing? Try this on. Like, really?

Like... Maestro.

After nearly 2 ,000 shows here at the Luxor, we've all become kind of like

family. Check this out. Look.

Oh, my God.

You're such a clown.

I can do that.

With so much creative talent in one place, We're always trying to one -up

other. I'll tell you something crazy.

What is this for?

For you.

Put your hand, hold that, just like that.

The needle?

Yeah. No way.

That's disgusting.

Yeah.

Coming up.

Oh, man.

That's crazy.

This is one of the most dangerous stuff ever.

Yo,

Burr. Right. His box, his coffin, was only quarter inch. And that collapsed.

Immediately. Instantly, as soon as they dumped the weight on it, it was quarter

-inch plexiglass. It already had a crack in it, so it had no structure. There

was no way that that was going to withstand any amount of pressure.

Whether I'm performing a death -defying escape like the Mencrave or an illusion,

it's always about the fans.

Welcome to the Loyal Vault here at the Believe Theater in the Luxor where I

perform 10 shows a week.

My fans worldwide are called Loyals and they are dedicated.

So much so that they've sent me thousands upon thousands of amazing

art. And what's fascinating to me is that they're all so very different, you

know?

For example, this was inspired from a photograph when I was on my Harley

Davidson, and they did a wonderful piece with that. This art and this room have

inspired some of my greatest pieces of work.

You want to know how I did that?

Can you guess?

Maybe I'll show you.

The room I was just in is a replica built here on the stage of our magic

factory. But then we had to create the illusion of the can floating.

This piece was inspired from a photograph.

By rotating the entire room, with Doug standing above and with me leaning with

my back against the pulse, It's very clear how we achieved the desired

So now you've seen how the illusion works.

Keep in mind, though, my cement grade will be anything but an illusion.

For the cement grave demonstration, Chris will be restrained in nine locks,

handcuffs, leg irons, and then locked inside of a glass coffin.

Then he'll be lowered into a glass grave and buried in wet cement.

The coffin itself is about 24 cubic feet.

Under stress, the average person consumes about one and a half cubic feet

per minute, and Chris will have about 15 minutes of safe oxygen inside the

coffin, which breaks down to about picking a lock every 90 seconds.

I want to see if I run into trouble and I can't get out or I need help or

something happens.

That's the other thing that's been keeping me up.

We could rig the cameras inside the coffin to monitor Chris's progress, but

that time limit passes and we do need to get to Chris, there'll be 12 tons of

cement between us and him. We'll be able to see you kicking, but once you're

free and once you start to escape the coffin itself...

Cement is going to take over and wash everything out. Chris won't only have to

be fast, he'll have to be perfect.

And because we're up against such a time crunch, we've got to get this grave and

coffin built as soon as we can so we have enough time to test it. If we pass

water test, we step it up to the next level and do the cement test.

What's up, man?

What's up?

Couldn't leave my house. Finding time to hang out with friends is definitely

challenging. I met Ice -T back in 2002 when I broke the world record as I hung

from six fish hooks literally for six hours.

And ever since then, we've been good friends.

You're looking good, man.

Yeah. Sharp as steak knives. Jack, I'm telling you, baby, you come to the hood,

they cut your hair correctly. Well, they have to or else they have a big

problem. There's going to be a problem. Yeah, it's not like going to Beverly

Hills, you know. They give you that whack haircut.

You talking about mine right now? No, no, that's good. Look, I was thinking,

when me and Coco came to your show, right, you did a trick with razor

-hmm. Crazy trick, right? Yeah, I knew that since I was like 13.

I was thinking since we in a barbershop, maybe they got some razor blades you

could show the homies this trick live.

All right, get me some blades.

Let's go. I'll do something for you. Let me check that.

Check it. You open it up. Open them up.

Can you open them up? Brand new.

My trick.

Get a man to raise his leg.

Lower hand.

Okay.

Ooh, brushed right out of the package.

Do you need another one?

No.

That right there is a trick.

That'll make him laugh, then.

Oh,

don't talk.

Yeah, yeah,

you meant to do jail.

Okay, all right.

Oh, hell no.

That's Chris Angel, baby.

That's crazy.

What? Who twisted those up? Oh.

This looks like a sewer tank.

Let's put it like this.

I don't believe in magic.

I'm a skeptic, so I know it's a trick.

But even though it's a trick, I can't figure out how to make a trick.

Coming up. We do it without a rehearsal, or we don't do it at all.

The last person to attempt cement grave was Joe Burris. He was just 32 years old

when he died trying it.

Burris was hoping that his attempt at fateful Halloween night would put him on

map as a rising star in magic.

Anytime the consequences of a demonstration are death, like they are

grave, I can't help but think about how impermanent life is.

Check out that chick's tattoos over there. That's a really cool tattoo.

I always wanted to do something with the tattoo because it's like something

that's permanent.

But what if it wasn't permanent? You know, like what if you can make it, you

know, like something that is there and then like it's not there.

Instead of going for like laser treatments to get rid of it, just make

vanish. That'd be neat. Or bring it to life.

Manipulate a real tattoo. Manipulate reality.

You know?

Yeah. I want to try that.

Really? No way.

It's awesome.

That's why I love coming out to dinner with you.

Hey, how are you? I don't want to interrupt you. You have a lot of

tattoos. I'm sure they all have a lot of different meanings, right? And I see

that you're eating sushi.

And I noticed that you had a bird and you had some fish right over there on

arm. You see that right over there? So this is the concept. Can I take that and

try something with it?

Yeah, absolutely.

I looked down, I grabbed a bite of food, and when I picked my head up, he was

sucking on her arm.

He sucked it out, and then he spit out a live fish into the cup.

The whole thing is crazy.

Focus, baby, focus.

Mind over matter.

In five days, Cement Grave will challenge my ability to remain focused

conserve oxygen.

Until the team has the coffin built and I'm able to test it, I need to be

creative and prepare as much as possible.

I've asked a retired Navy SEAL friend of mine to put me to the test.

You want to slow your heart rate, slow your breathing, and that gives you more

oxygen to last a lot longer.

I mean, I think my best breath hold was maybe three minutes.

And I understand Chris has gone for five, six minutes before, so he's pretty

amazing.

Yeah, yeah. If I'm unsuccessful here, there's no way I'll be able to pick the

locks, break free of the coffin, and crawl through 12 tons of cement.

When I'm not dealing with new and exciting ways to potentially get myself

killed, nothing's more exciting to me than testing new illusions on complete

strangers.

We're going to try a little experiment.

What I'm interested in doing is to create a human canvas.

And what I mean by that is I actually need somebody to help me out to sit in

chair that I can cover up as our human canvas.

Now I'm going to ask you, your name is? Tony. Tony, have a seat over here for

me. Okay.

And did you clean that slate for me? Okay, good.

Pick up your both ends.

Raise that up. And I'll try this with you, okay?

What I want you to do, huh?

You can do me a favor. Cover Tony up for me. Cover Tony up for me.

Good. Just like that. Perfect.

Now, what I want you to do is to think of a man.

Now, you don't know Tony, do you? No, I don't. And Tony doesn't know you.

Okay. I want you to think of a man for me, okay?

Okay. Just get one in your mind.

Now, Tony, I want you to hold on to the tablet. Just raise your hand up just a

little bit.

Perfect. Right there. Good.

Just like that.

Now.

I want you to first look. Is this man living or passed away? He's living.

Living. Okay. Who is this man?

My husband.

Your husband?

And where is he?

He's in Afghanistan.

He's in Afghanistan?

Yeah. He's serving our country? Yes.

What part of the military? He's in the Army.

In the Army?

The U .D., yeah.

Well, I want you to tell me, what is his name?

Stanley. Dan?

Yeah. Dan Stanley.

And you were visualizing, weren't you? Yes.

Because I picked that up as well, and I got Stan.

Is that right?

And not only that, you can visualize Tony as Stan, or I can take Tony and

actually make him your husband.

Little did they know I was going to show up, so here I am.

it. It was crazy.

I didn't expect him at all. He could appear out of nowhere from Afghanistan.

Yes, I believe in magic.

And we got a surprise.

I want

to tell you, Adam, the more than a thousand demonstrations I've done in my

career, this has been the most poetic, the most beautiful one of all. If it

wasn't for people like him who have served, America wouldn't be the greatest

country in the world. And I thank you so much for that.

It looks pretty snug.

You got a freaking heat right now? I eat when I'm nervous.

Wait till we are done.

We're hardly even there yet. Oh, man.

It looks sweet.

Third length. How's that? That's good.

How's that feeling to call it?

Tomorrow night, I'll attempt to escape cement grave.

where I'll be bound with shackles.

I've survived waterboarding, but this is the only chance I'll have to rehearse

this thing.

How do I rehearse this right now? You're going to rehearse it when we put the

water in the tank. Is water in the tank?

Chris, we have another hose coming.

Well, if anything ever went smoothly, I'd be concerned.

Given the limited time we've had, it might have been a better idea to choose

less complicated and expensive demonstration.

The coffin is essentially an air capsule, and an air capsule in water

push up. It's like taking a ball and going in a pool and trying to push it

It always has that force that wants to push up.

So now we have to figure out a way to either pin the coffin to the metal stand

or get thicker straps.

But this is solvable, but the problem is it's going to eat up valuable time.

We've gotten the coffin secured enough for Chris to give it a test run in

This is the coolest thing ever.

Chris being able to see this.

It stays attached and we release it. This is too basic to turn around.

I don't want him in there. You know, we still haven't tested if the coffin can

even hold up to the stresses of cement. It's kind of cool, isn't it? It felt

really cool.

It's also 35 degrees warmer than predicted for tomorrow night.

And I understand in the perfect world, if I didn't have two shows tonight, we

could go through every protocol and get to the crescendo, if you will.

But I bought the confidence to go in there knowing I only have 15 minutes of

that I'm able to get out of all those and then get through the cement, get out

of that thing. I don't want to do it for the very first time.

Running a mirage with thousands of people watching. I need to go in the

concrete. What time is it now? Load it with the concrete so you can swim

With this heat out here, the cement will harden faster.

And if we put Chris into it now, this rehearsal could turn into a disaster

really fast.

I sat here for five hours. I'm supposed to do it. If we fill this with cement

right now, it's done.

Once we fill this tank up, we have a block of cement.

So it's either we do it without a rehearsal or we don't do it at all.

We backed into a date for tomorrow night. But the only problem is I haven't

had a chance to rehearse this. It killed Joe Burris back in the 90s. And we got

to get this right.

Wish I had a better answer for you.

Anytime Chris performs a demonstration of this magnitude, the

fans come out in droves.

Two weeks ago, Chris secured this awesome location.

The coffin and the grave are in position.

Chris is wrapping up his live show. And while we wait, thousands of fans are

arriving. It's insanely crowded.

Chris is 20 minutes away, and the audience is getting so big. It's going

,000 to 3 ,000 people, and everybody's very nervous about crowd control and

safety. We need to close off the street, or we need to have more police.

We don't have enough.

I wasn't told to shut down the boulevard. I shut down certain lanes.

told to do was to secure an ambulance.

and the appropriate safety personnel.

So this isn't my fault. We have six officers. We have like 4 ,000 people

We agreed on a certain amount of police officers, and we have them here, right?

And we underestimated. Okay, then. We need to get more police down here to be

able to shut the streets down.

If we get shut down, this will be the first time in my 20 years with Chris

ever had to cancel. It is dangerous, and the ambulance is a very real thing.

Okay.

My thing is good.

We get people that are trampled on. I get one person getting killed.

We got people all the way down that way. We got people going down that way.

You got people behind all of this.

People on all across the street. Nothing I want.

We don't want that. The newspaper tomorrow, you know, coming up.

location planning is such a critical element of every demonstration we do i

the fact that sparrows got an ambulance and didn't even think about how the

ambulance was going to get to chris in an emergency it's baffling freshly

shutting it down

they're

saying they have too many people out here what

Hey, guys, whenever we do a huge stunt like this, we always were extremely

concerned about safety. This entire road right here was supposed to be shut

down. It hasn't happened.

There's absolutely nothing Chris can do about it. It's not his fault.

It's not me. It's the cops. Are you kidding me? We're not shutting down the

entire stunt.

We will be doing it again. The cops are shutting down cement green?

I need to get to Chris fast. I need to keep him confident and let him know that

Spiro is working on a backup plan so that he can attempt this tomorrow.

Chris is already exhausted

and not being able to rehearse a stunt that killed Joe Burris. And this letdown

tonight has Chris questioning his ability to even attempt this escape.

And it's my job to bring Chris's vision to fruition.

And Spiro needs to find a backup location for tomorrow.

No one saw the cancellation last night coming, so we've shifted our entire

production here to the Luxor. Chris has already $250 ,000 into this

demonstration alone.

The best we can do now is work out all the kinks today so that tonight when

Chris gets here, he can focus on what's important and deliver on the promise to

his fans.

Houdini never even attempted a cement grave, and lack of rehearsals and

exhaustion, it's rendered Chris very vulnerable right now, at a moment when

needs every bit of strength and every bit of focus.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to either history or my dad.

Ladies and gentlemen, time for history of my

death. Chris is about to attempt a demonstration with two forms of escape

synonymous with Houdini.

Being restrained with handcuffs, nine locks, and leg irons, and being buried

alive. Even if Chris is able to break himself free from the restraints, he's

to take whatever strength he has left, break out of the coffin, and then claw

through 12 tons of cement.

I hope with your energy.

And with your love, that we will all be successful.

To say I'm not nervous would be complete bullshit.

But the energy of the crowd is unbelievable.

It's keeping me focused and in the moment for what I'm about to do.

I've had people my entire career tell me why something wouldn't work, and I've

always proven them wrong.

Right now, I gotta focus on what matters most. Breaking free of this coffin in

the 15 minutes I have before I run out of air, or I'm crushed by 12 tons of

cement.

Nice and easy.

He's already got a lock up. Come on, come on, come on, come on.

It's still seven locks away. Eight locks to go? Yep.

Slow down, Chris.

Breathe, breathe, breathe. Stop moving.

Just take the lock. Stop moving.

The more he moves, the more oxygen he's using.

This is not good.

It's almost up.

Come on, Chris.

Let's go, baby.

Come on.

Here we go. I'm getting covered.

He's never done it before. He didn't even rehearse it before. He should have

been out already. Yes.

John, how long do we wait?

Because the longer that waits, the harder it's hardening every second. I

take this.

Not even like any movement on the top.

It's a freaking nerve wracking.

Oh, my God.

Doug?

Can you see anything?

Nothing. Nothing, Doug.

Nothing's wrong.

Do you see it?

I see something.

Oh, yeah. Here.

You can see it.

You can see it.

There's something on the side.

makes what we just accomplished so unbelievably rewarding.

line. Six stories above the ground. I can die, you know that, right? It's a

whole new Criss Angel. Hey mom, you don't want to hear what I'm about to do.

Criss Angel Believe. New series starts next Tuesday at 10 on Spike.

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