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DEAN CAIN: 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.

Can reality and illusion be the same?

Do you always see the same thing I see?

Can we both look at the same age and have different

results?

Well, what have we here?

You may see a white vase.

I see two faces.

I'm Dean Cain and our masters of illusion like to tease your

brain as well.

Our first master is from Germany.

She combines spontaneity, uniqueness,

and versatility with elegance.

Here is Alana.

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DEAN: The mysterious Drexus is a master escape

artist.

Pay careful attention as he attempts to free himself from

these master locks.

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DEAN CAIN: Murray Sawchuck dazzles audiences all over the

world.

But here he proves that the impossible can be real.

MURRAY SAWCHUCK So, you know, in Hollywood and everywhere

you go, you know, everyone's trying to stay thin.

So I finally came up with a thing called Slim-O-Matic

2000.

It's actually this thing right behind me.

I need someone to come up and help me.

Let me have a look, look, look.

Got a CD for you to look at it.

It's a workout CD.

Check it out.

Pretty normal, right?

You don't need it.

You're a kid.

You're young.

So watch very carefully, all right?

Check this out.

Here we go.

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DEAN CAIN: Next, the artistry of Arthur Trace

bringing life and beauty to the most unlikely of objects.

DEAN: We all know that the Japanese

invented the art of origami.

But Arthur Trace makes it live.

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ARTHUR: Nothing attracts a bee more than what?

Many of you may say honey.

But it's actually a flower. Watch.

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ARTHUR: It worked. Come on.

Back in the jar you go.

Run! Ooh.

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DEAN: Next, you'll get a kick out of Shimshi.

DEAN: One of Las Vegas' most popular illusionists

has the most inventive way of picking a card.

This is Shimshi.

SHIMSHI: Thank you guys very much.

I'm somebody to, uh, come help me out.

Would you mind to come and help me out?

And your name?

MICHELLE: Michelle.

SHIMSHI: Michelle, thank you so much for coming up.

All right, look, cards are all different.

All I want you to do is to take your finger and point to

whichever card you want and keep your finger on it.

That's the one.

That's a good choice.

I'm going to show that card to everybody.

I'm also going to tear a corner off that card.

This will make sure that your corner will be the only

matching card.

Make sure it is...

MICHELLE: Okay.

SHIMSHI: ...indeed a perfect match.

Is it?

SHIMSHI: Come right over here for me.

I'm going to put the card inside the deck.

Come right this way. Card goes inside.

And I want you to shuffle the cards.

Keep shuffling so there's no way I can know where it is.

I am not going to try sleight of hand.

I'm going to try something far more difficult.

I'm actually going to use my feet.

I'm going to try to pick her card while it's hanging about

eight feet up in the air.

May I have the cards please?

Hold on to the corner the whole time so everybody

can see it.

That's perfect.

Are you guys ready?

Yes!

Is that a perfect match?

MICHELLE: Yes.

SHIMSHI: Yes, it is.

This is for you.

Give her a nice round of applause.

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Thank you so much.

DEAN: Dana Daniels and his psychic partner,

Luigi, prove a bird in the hand is...

well, you'll see.

DANA : Thank you.

How about a nice round of applause for Luigi?

This next one, uh,

we're not really sure which one to do.

I have my favorite.

Luigi has his favorite so we thought,

uh, we'd have you decide.

We've been doing this one for some time ever since he was a,

well, that tall.

And, uh, actually, both of them.

My favorite is the Vanishing Parrot.

His favorite is Luigi doing his Parrot Dance of Mystery.

I've seen it and it's pretty stupid.

So here we go by applause, the Vanishing Parrot.

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Wow, this is going to be close.

Or Luigi's Parrot Dance of Mystery.

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Since we're going by the silent majority,

we're going to close with the Vanishing Parrot.

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One.

Two.

Three.

Thank you.

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Whoo, he's gone.

There you have it!

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DEAN: Next, Rick Thomas takes magic to the next

level.

DEAN : Rick Thomas is the World Magic

Award Stage Magician of the Year.

And he's about to show us why.

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DEAN: Get ready to go backstage and behind the

illusion with Michael Turco.

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MICHAEL: So, guys, I get asked all the time,

how do you do a trick?

Well, tonight, guys, you're in for a treat.

I'm going to show you how it's done.

All right, perfect.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Christina's going to get into place.

We're going to start this from the very beginning.

So you guys can see it from backstage.

Check this out.

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MICHAEL: Where's Christina?

MALE: Excuse me.

Who's Christina?

MICHAEL: Get out of the box.

Guys, I apologize.

Sir, you ruined the whole trick.

Jump up here.

Give me this rose.

That's for me, probably.

Yeah, good.

Oh, no, stop waving.

Just go.

All right, folks.

Let s do it.

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MICHAEL: Thank you.

DEAN: So there you go.

We went behind the illusion, behind the scenes.

Did you figure it out?

I can'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.