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DEAN: Illusion: the art of tricking the brain,

distorting the senses, challenging perception.

You can't trust what you see even with your own eyes.

Meet the Masters of Illusion.

Welcome to Masters of Illusion.

This is the famous Harry Houdini.

He passed away in 1926, but he can still confuse us.

Which way is he looking, right at us,

or is he staring away?

Well, our first master illusionist will challenge

us the same way.

Can he make us see what he wants us to see?

Well, this is no optical illusion.

Watch John Gabriel.

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DEAN: It is time for a classic escape in the tradition of

Harry Houdini.

Only one artist today is capable to be the

death-defying daredevil of danger.

Prepare yourself for Ed Alonzo.

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ED: And now, I'd like to read a tale from the past

about the greatest escape artist and magician in

history, the great Harry Houdini.

Houdini was once known as the king of handcuffs.

He claimed he could escape from almost any pair.

Now, the secret lie in his wife's hair.

You see, just before they would snap on the coughs,

Houdini would give his wife, Beth,

a hug, reaching up and carefully stealing out a

hairpin from her hair.

Well, it just so happens that I use a few hairpins.

So tonight, I will attempt to escape from a pair of

handcuffs while locked in this tiny box.

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DEAN: Now while we reset the stage,

please check out this close-up magic with Murray

SawChuck.

MURRAY: All right, so I want to try something,

okay?

Obviously, it's related to cards and a deck of cards.

Name any card you would like.

AUDIENCE: Ace of hearts.

MURRAY: Ace of hearts?

All right.

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DEAN: Coming up, Circe Martinez.

DEAN: This next illusionist is way too fast to describe.

Here she is from Cuba, Circe Martinez.

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DEAN: Next, David & Leeman.

DEAN: Here are two guys who want to explain why

they're so excited tonight, the actually very exciting

David & Leeman.

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DAVID: Thank you very much. I'm David.

LEEMAN: And I'm Leeman.

DAVID: Five years ago when we started working together,

when we came out on stage, it gave us this huge

adrenaline rush, and we got to say

LEEMAN: We got excited.

DAVID: We got really excited.

LEEMAN: We got really, really excited.

And the problem is, the more shows you do,

the harder it is to get excited in front of a crowd.

DAVID: It's so hard to get excited now.

LEEMAN: And there's nothing we want to do tonight more

than get excited in front of you guys.

The problem is, to get that level of excitement,

you need adrenaline.

DAVID: That's right.

You have to get the root of an adrenaline rush,

which is

DAVID & LEEMAN: Fear.

DAVID: Now, I have a fear of being shot in the face.

LEEMAN: And I have a fear of shooting someone in the

face.

DAVID: It's a good thing we have complimentary fears.

LEEMAN: Makes us a great team,

that's right.

Tonight, David and I we'll try and overcome our fears

and in the process totally get excited.

We'll do that by using one of these,

a paintball.

DAVID: But, to make a paintball something to be

feared, you need one of these.

This is a paintball gun.

If you don't know how one of these works,

we'll show you right now.

LEEMAN: The paintball goes into the loading chamber.

DAVID: 3, 2, 1, perfect.

AUDIENCE: Woo!

DAVID: Oh, thank you.

Now as you can see, it's not fatal,

but it can hurt quite a bit.

Now we need a volunteer.

LEEMAN: Don't worry.

The volunteer is not going to shoot the gun or be shot

by the gun.

The volunteer is going to make sure that everything we

do up here is for real.

But most importantly, the volunteer has got to want to

get excited.

DAVID: Yeah, that's right.

We need somebody who really wants to get excited on

stage.

How about this guy over here?

LEEMAN: Yeah, this guy over here.

DAVID: This guy over here?

What's your name, sir, with the goatee?

AUDIENCE: Al.

DAVID: Hal?

Why don't we give Hal a huge round of applause?

Hal, thanks for coming up on stage.

Hal or Al?

Al?

Thanks for coming up.

LEEMAN: Why don't you stand right here in the middle,

Al?

Al, reach in and grab any paintball that you would

like.

Perfect, a pin-it, clicks open like this.

Go and click that pin open.

Put your initials on your paintball.

DAVID: Now, what this does is it makes the paintball

completely unique to the world.

So Al, if you ever see your paintball again,

you'll know exactly that it's yours.

Got it?

Hold it up by your face, and they're going to zoom in and

get a closer look upon it.

It says, "A.M," nice.

LEEMAN: Nice close-up.

DAVID: Al, go ahead and drop the paintball in the

chamber.

Now, I want you just to make sure that you can actually

see the paintball with your initials on there,

yeah?

AL: Yeah.

DAVID: You can see it get cocked?

Hold up both your hands flat like this,

Al.

Hold on to it, then.

LEEMAN: Al, in a second I'm going to take that gun from

you, I'm going to fire your paintball across the stage

at David's face totally getting exciting.

DAVID: He's going to get real excited,

Al.

LEEMAN: I'm going to get real excited.

The problem is, shooting at David's face scares me,

but I came prepared.

Instead of shooting at David's actual face,

I will shoot at a replica of David's face.

I kind of drew it myself.

Pretty good, right?

So it will there you go.

Al, you hold on to the paper target.

I will take the gun.

And you will hold that target about two inches in

front of the barrel of the gun.

That's two inches, Al?

Now we're talking.

This is going to be ready position.

If for any reason I should move,

you should move, bring it right back here to this

ready position.

Here we go.

One, two I can't.

DAVID: What do you mean you can't?

LEEMAN: I don't want to ruin your pretty face.

DAVID: Oh, come on, man.

I know I got a pretty face, but we

LEEMAN: Oh, I'm talking about this one.

I think I captured

DAVID: We can make a new one.

We can make a new one for god's sakes.

LEEMAN: Here we go. One, two

DAVID: I'm sorry. I can't do this.

LEEMAN: What?

Hey, David, why?

DAVID: I feel like you don't want to get excited.

LEEMAN: I don't want to get excited?

DAVID: I feel like you don't want to get excited.

LEEMAN: I've never wanted to get excited more in

all my life.

DAVID: Oh, is that right? LEEMAN: Yeah.

The question is, do you want to get excited?

DAVID: I want to get excited right now.

LEEMAN: Al, do you want to get excited?

AL: Yes.

LEEMAN: Guys, do you guys want to get excited?

AUDIENCE: Yeah!

LEEMAN: Love getting excited in front of a crowd.

Here we go. One, two, three.

Al, did it go through the paper?

AL: Yes.

LEEMAN: Yes?

Get ready to catch the go to David as if to catch the

paintball.

Oh, sorry.

I was not scared to shoot him in the hands.

Scared to shoot him in the mouth.

Take this.

Take this.

Take this.

Look at his mouth.

Al, is that your paintball with your initials?

AL: Yes.

LEEMAN: Yes.

But most importantly, Al, are you excited?

AL: Yes.

LEEMAN & DAVID: Yes!

LEEMAN: Thank so much, have a good night!

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DEAN: Next, Vixen and Greg Gleason when we come

back.

DEAN: And now, an illusionist who will definitely set your

heart on fire.

Do not try this at home.

Here is Vixen.

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DEAN: I have no idea what you will think about our

next Master of Illusion.

Extraordinary is not a big enough word.

This is Greg Gleason.

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GREG: Thank you very much. All right.

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to show you something very

special right now.

Check it out.

This is a special box.

Spin that box.

I want you to see all four sides of the box,

the front, the back, the two sides.

You will also notice that box is 18 inches from the

ground so you can see anything underneath it at

all times.

It's also 12 feet from the wings and the back curtain.

Open the box.

As you can see, that is one big box.

There's the beautiful Erica back there.

Close the box.

Screens.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, check this out,

because this is one illusion you will never forget.

Watch this.

Ready?

Now!

It's a helicopter.

Guys, bring that forward.

Turn that box around.

Watch your heads.

Take it back.

Take it back.

What do you think about that?

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DEAN: I hope you have been amazed as I have.

Be sure to join us next time for more Masters of

Illusion.

Until then, I'm Dean Cain.

Good night.