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MAN 1 : Are you watching closely?
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(CHIRPING)
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MAN 2 : Every magic trick consists
of three parts, or acts.
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The first part is called "the pledge."
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The magician shows you
something ordinary.
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A deck of cards, a bird or a man.
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(APPLAUSE)
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He shows you this object.
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Perhaps he asks you to inspect it,
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to see that it is indeed real,
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unaltered, normal.
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But, of course, it probably isn't.
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Where do you think you're going?
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I'm part of the bloody act, you fool.
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(LOUD ZAPPING)
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The second act is called "the turn."
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(ZAPPING)
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The magician takes
the ordinary something
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and makes it do
something extraordinary.
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Now you're looking for the
secret, but you won't find it,
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because, of course,
you're not really looking.
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You don't really want to know.
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You want to be... fooled.
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But you wouldn't clap yet,
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because making something
disappear isn't enough.
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You have to bring it back.
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That's why every magic trick
has a third act.
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The hardest part.
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The part we call...
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..."the prestige."
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(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
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MAN : The prestige? And did Robert
Angier, the Great Danton, your employer,
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get to that final part
of his trick that night?
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- No, sir. Something went wrong.
- What went wrong?
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I saw someone making
their way below stage.
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I followed him.
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It was Borden,
watching Mr. Angier drown.
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Would you please describe
your occupation to the jury, Mr. Cutter.
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CUTTER : I'm an ingénieur, I design illusions
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and construct the apparatus
necessary for performing them.
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So, Mr. Cutter, was this
water-filled tank beneath the stage
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part of Mr. Angier's illusion?
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No. The tank was brought
on for the first trick
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and then taken offstage.
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Borden must have placed it
under the trap door after the end of it.
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How large was this tank?
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It's a normal tank
for escape under water,
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about 400 or 500 gallons.
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How do you think he
was able to move the tank
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under the trap door
without anyone noticing?
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- He's a magician, ask him.
- (LAUGHING)
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MAN : I ask again,
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would this man explain the mechanics
of Mr. Angier's illusion.
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The Real Transported Man is one
of the most sought after illusions
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in this business.
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I have the right to sell it on.
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If I reveal the method here,
the trick is worthless.
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How can we know
that the tank wasn't simply
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some part of the trick that went wrong?
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Mr. Cutter, I see your predicament.
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But Alfred Borden's life
hangs in the balance.
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If you were prepared to disclose
the details to me in private,
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I might be able to judge
their relevance to the case.
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Might this be an acceptable compromise?
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GUARD : I'm going to have to ask
you to turn out your pockets.
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Not my idea, sir. The warden saw
his show in Manchester last year
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where he vanished into thin air.
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He's convinced he'll try and escape.
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(MEN SHOUTING)
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I told him the only way
Borden's going to disappear
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is if I leave him out there
with the other inmates.
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Check the locks...
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...twice.
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OWENS : My name is Owens.
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I'm a solicitor.
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I represent Lord Caldlow, an
accomplished amateur magician and...
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BORDEN : How much?
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- He is interested...
- How much for my tricks?
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Five thousand pounds.
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Talk to Fallon, my ingénieur.
Money's for him.
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Yes, I did. He offered
to sell me your tricks.
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All except the most valuable
one, The Transported MAN.
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Well, I won't forgive myself
for selling my greatest trick.
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Even for your daughter?
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If you are for the drop, your daughter
is going to need looking after.
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Fallon will take care of her.
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Perfect, Fallon.
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A man with a past
as obscure as your own.
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The courts have motioned she be removed
from his care. She will be an orphan.
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I know you're no stranger
to the workhouse.
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It's better than here?
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I'm offering you a way to wrap up
your affairs with dignity.
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I'm offering your daughter a future.
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As Lord Caldlow's ward,
she will want for nothing...
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...ever.
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Well, think it over.
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And Lord Caldlow
would like you to have this,
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as a show of good faith.
It might be of interest.
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Robert Angier's diary, including
the time he spent in Colorado
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learning your trick.
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- He never learned it.
- Really?
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On his return, he mounted
a version of The Transported Man
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that the papers said was
better even than your original.
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If you want angier's secrets,
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you go dig him up and ask him yourself.
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I want your secret, Mr. Borden.
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Consider your daughter.
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ANGIER : A cipher,
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an enigma...
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... a search,
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a search for answers.
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Even if Colorado
is the end of my journey,
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it'll take much longer to unravel
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the rest of Borden's secrets.
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See, the cipher in his notebook is
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unlocked by a single word,
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but it will still take months
to translate his writing.
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And to know his mind.
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Well, my passion is equal to the task.
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MAN : Mr. Angier, welcome
to Colorado Springs.
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- The whole town has electricity.
- Yes, sir.
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Well...
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...quite a reception.
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You're our first guest
of the season, Mr. Angier.
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Your telegram didn't indicate
how long you'd be staying with us.
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As long as it takes.
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I will need a coach tomorrow
to take me up the mountain.
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Well, the peak's closed, sir.
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For scientific experimentation.
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Yes, I know.
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That's why I'm here.
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Whoa. Whoa.
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(DRIVER) You'll have to walk
the rest, I'm afraid, sir.
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(RUMBLING)
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(RUMBLING CONTINUES)
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- (ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
- (GROANS)
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(DOOR SLAMS)
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MAN : I'm amazed how many
of you newspaper writers
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can't read my sign.
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Not the welcome I was expecting.
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I know you.
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You're the Great Danton.
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I saw your show in London.
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Seven times you guessed every object
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the audience had in their pockets.
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I'm Alley. Sorry about the fence.
People keep interfering with our work.
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- I've come to see Tesla.
- Why?
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He made a machine
for a colleague of mine some time ago.
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- Can you get me a meeting with him?
- Impossible, I'm afraid.
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I've brought a lot of money.
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I'm sorry, Mr. Angier.
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I simply can't help.
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I'll be staying
at the hotel, indefinitely.
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Hey, what am I holding?
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Your watch.
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ANGIER : Borden's journal
entry for April 3, 1897,
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describes a show
at the Orpheum Theatre.
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That was just days
after he first met me.
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BORDEN : We were two young men
at the start of a great career,
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two young men devoted to an illusion,
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two young men who never
intended to hurt anyone.
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MAN : Which of you brave souls
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is willing to bind
this lovely young woman?
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(SHOUTING)
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MAN : Me!
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- (APPLAUSE)
- (DRUM TAPS)
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If you would tie her wrists,
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bind her feet...
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...around the ankle.
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Are either of you two gentlemen sailors?
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- No.
- No.
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I'm sure you can both tie a strong knot.
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(DRUM TAPPING CONTINUES)
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(STOPWATCH TICKING)
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(DRUM ROLL)
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(APPLAUSE)
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He's complacent,
he's predictable, he's boring.
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Milton has gotten success,
whatever that means,
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so now he's scared.
He won't take any risks at all.
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He's squandering the goodwill
of his audience with tired,
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- second-rate tricks...
- They're all favorites.
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Give me something fresh.
He won't even try a bloody bullet catch.
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A bullet catch is suicide.
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All it takes is some smartass
volunteer to put a button in the barrel.
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- Use a plant.
- You can't for every trick.
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No seats left for the punters.
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All right, no bullet catch, whatever,
but the point is a real magician
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tries to invent something new
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that other magicians will
scratch their heads over.
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Then you sell it to him
for a small fortune.
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- What?
- I suppose you have such a trick?
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- I sure do.
- Would you care to sell it to me?
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No. No one else can do my trick.
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- Any trick can be duplicated.
- Wrong.
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If Mr. Borden has invented
his masterpiece,
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he's prepared to do it.
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Milton is a showman,
but Borden is right,
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he won't get his hands dirty.
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If you want to see what
it takes to make real magic,
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go to the Tenley. There's a Chinaman
there and he really has what it takes.
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- Chung Ling Soo.
- I can't afford that.
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I know the bloke run the door.
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You two go and see that show, and
whichever one of you can tell me
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how he does the goldfish bowl
trick gets the prize.
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- Which is?
- Ten minutes onstage
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with my old friend, Mr. Ackerman.
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- Really?
- Who's Ackerman?
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The top theatrical agent in London.
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- I saw you drop the knot again.
- WOMAN : I turned my wrists.
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Some nights you
just don't get it, do you?
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I mean, if that knot slips
and Julia's on the hoist,
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she'll break her leg.
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It's the wrong knot.
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Like I said, the Langford
double will hold tighter.
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The Langford double isn't
a wet knot. It's too dangerous.
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If the rope swells, she can't slip it.
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- I can slip a Langford underwater.
- We can practice.
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- Borden, he said no.
- Oh, you know knots better than me?
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Listen, no more mistakes.
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All right. Yeah? Do you?
You want to take over?
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- Just leave.
- I didn't think so.
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Hey, Cutter, where's he from?
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Where are you from? He shifts
props for Virgil at the hall.
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- Worried he'll steal your tricks?
- Doesn't deal in methods.
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- How do you know?
- Because I hired him
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to find out how Virgil
does the orange trick.
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- I don't trust him.
- He's a natural magician.
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'Course you can't trust him.
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I think he's all right.
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- You think everyone's all right.
- Even you.
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Watch your sightlines. If I can see you
kiss your wife's leg every night,
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so can the blokes at the ends
of rows three and four!
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(ORIENTAL-SOUNDING GUITAR STRUMMING)
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(SNARE DRUM ROLL)
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ANGIER : You're wrong. It can't be.
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- Look at the man.
- This is the trick.
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This is the performance. Right here.
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This is why no one
can detect his method.
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Total devotion to his art.
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A lot of self-sacrifice.
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You know.
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It's the only way to escape...
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...all this, you know?
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I can barely lift this thing
and it's not even filled with water.
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Or fish, look.
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I don't know. Hang on a second.
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He must be strong as an ox.
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He's been pretending
to be a cripple for years.
249
00:17:24,558 --> 00:17:28,153
Any time he's in public,
any time he goes out. It's unthinkable.
250
00:17:28,228 --> 00:17:31,163
Borden saw it at once.
But I couldn't fathom it.
251
00:17:31,231 --> 00:17:34,098
Living my whole life
pretending to be someone else.
252
00:17:34,168 --> 00:17:35,897
You are pretending.
253
00:17:35,969 --> 00:17:37,994
I don't think changing a name compares.
254
00:17:38,072 --> 00:17:40,540
Not your name. Who you are
and where you're from.
255
00:17:40,607 --> 00:17:44,566
I promised I wouldn't embarrass
my family with my theatrical endeavors.
256
00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,344
I thought of a name for you.
257
00:17:49,716 --> 00:17:53,208
- The Great Danton.
- (CHUCKLES)
258
00:17:53,287 --> 00:17:56,256
Do you like it? But it's sophisticated.
259
00:17:56,323 --> 00:17:57,756
It's French.
260
00:18:03,730 --> 00:18:07,894
ANGIER : Borden writes as if no one but
he understood the true nature of magic.
261
00:18:13,540 --> 00:18:16,270
But what does he know of self-sacrifice?
262
00:18:21,381 --> 00:18:23,508
You bloody fool.
263
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,047
(APPLAUSE)
264
00:18:51,078 --> 00:18:54,673
- (WHIMPERING) He killed it.
- It's OK.
265
00:18:54,748 --> 00:18:58,582
- He killed it.
- He didn't.
266
00:19:02,656 --> 00:19:04,351
Look, now he'll bring it back.
267
00:19:06,593 --> 00:19:09,528
- No, he killed it.
- No, he didn't.
268
00:19:11,865 --> 00:19:15,460
(APPLAUSE CONTINUES)
269
00:19:17,838 --> 00:19:20,807
Look, see, he's all right. He's fine.
270
00:19:20,874 --> 00:19:24,970
- Look at him.
- But where's his brother?
271
00:19:27,681 --> 00:19:30,946
He's a sharp lad, your son.
272
00:19:31,018 --> 00:19:33,612
Oh, he's my nephew.
273
00:19:33,687 --> 00:19:35,177
Ah.
274
00:19:35,255 --> 00:19:39,351
(CHIRPING)
275
00:19:39,426 --> 00:19:40,916
You're the lucky one today.
276
00:20:01,515 --> 00:20:04,678
Are you watching closely?
277
00:20:07,454 --> 00:20:08,944
Look closer.
278
00:20:12,025 --> 00:20:13,822
Never show anyone.
279
00:20:13,894 --> 00:20:16,624
They'll beg you
and flatter you for the secret,
280
00:20:16,697 --> 00:20:20,189
but as soon as you give it up,
you'll be nothing to them.
281
00:20:20,267 --> 00:20:22,531
You understand? Nothing.
282
00:20:22,603 --> 00:20:25,663
The secret impresses no one.
283
00:20:25,739 --> 00:20:29,334
The trick you use it for is everything.
284
00:20:33,580 --> 00:20:36,515
Well, thank you for lunch, Mr. Borden.
285
00:20:36,583 --> 00:20:38,073
You're welcome.
286
00:20:39,519 --> 00:20:41,180
Alfred, it's Alfred.
287
00:20:41,255 --> 00:20:42,847
Alfred.
288
00:20:42,923 --> 00:20:45,892
So I could use a cup of tea.
289
00:20:45,959 --> 00:20:49,486
I can't allow...
It's the landlord. It's not...
290
00:20:50,931 --> 00:20:54,162
You think that's...
is that enough to keep me out?
291
00:20:54,234 --> 00:20:57,465
(CHUCKLING) I think so.
292
00:20:58,472 --> 00:21:00,064
So I'll see you again?
293
00:21:09,283 --> 00:21:11,774
Milk and sugar?
294
00:21:32,873 --> 00:21:34,841
What's in there?
295
00:21:34,908 --> 00:21:36,842
Angier's machine.
296
00:21:45,419 --> 00:21:47,046
You built this, Mr. Cutter?
297
00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,987
Oh, no, sir. This wasn't
built by a magician.
298
00:21:50,057 --> 00:21:52,082
This was built by a wizard.
299
00:21:52,159 --> 00:21:57,153
A man who can actually do
what magicians pretend to do.
300
00:21:57,230 --> 00:22:01,428
Tell me, Your Honor, what happens
with these things after the trial?
301
00:22:01,501 --> 00:22:03,469
They've been sold to a Lord Caldlow.
302
00:22:03,537 --> 00:22:06,301
An avid collector,
very interested in the case.
303
00:22:06,373 --> 00:22:08,864
Yeah. Well, don't let him take this.
304
00:22:08,942 --> 00:22:11,740
- Why ever not?
- It's too dangerous.
305
00:22:11,812 --> 00:22:13,973
I'm sure beneath its bells and whistles
306
00:22:14,047 --> 00:22:16,345
it's got a simple
and disappointing trick.
307
00:22:16,416 --> 00:22:18,850
The most disappointing of all, sir.
308
00:22:21,021 --> 00:22:22,716
It has no trick.
309
00:22:25,158 --> 00:22:26,750
It's real.
310
00:22:27,928 --> 00:22:29,793
(SCOFFS)
311
00:22:29,863 --> 00:22:32,161
This is the tank Angier drowned in?
312
00:22:32,232 --> 00:22:34,291
Yes.
313
00:22:34,368 --> 00:22:36,529
This is the...
314
00:22:36,603 --> 00:22:39,663
...place where the performer's
hand reaches through
315
00:22:39,740 --> 00:22:41,002
to the trick padlock.
316
00:22:41,074 --> 00:22:43,338
A standard magical
apparatus for escapes?
317
00:22:43,410 --> 00:22:45,901
Yeah, with one important difference.
318
00:22:45,979 --> 00:22:48,004
This isn't a trick lock.
319
00:22:48,081 --> 00:22:50,049
It's been switched for a real one.
320
00:22:50,117 --> 00:22:52,085
What a way to kill someone.
321
00:22:52,152 --> 00:22:54,848
They're magicians, Your Honor.
322
00:22:54,921 --> 00:23:00,325
Showmen, men who live by dressing up
plain and sometimes brutal truths,
323
00:23:00,727 --> 00:23:03,491
to amaze, to shock.
324
00:23:03,563 --> 00:23:05,724
Even without an audience?
325
00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:08,868
There was an audience.
326
00:23:09,703 --> 00:23:11,762
You see, this water tank
327
00:23:11,838 --> 00:23:15,274
was of particular significance
to these two men.
328
00:23:16,576 --> 00:23:19,101
Particularly awful significance.
329
00:23:22,015 --> 00:23:27,009
MILTON : Which of you brave souls is
willing to bind this lovely young woman?
330
00:23:27,087 --> 00:23:29,521
(DRUM TAPS)
331
00:23:29,589 --> 00:23:31,079
If you would tie her wrists,
332
00:23:31,158 --> 00:23:33,319
bind her feet around the ankle.
333
00:23:46,540 --> 00:23:49,134
- Are either of you gentlemen sailors?
- No.
334
00:23:49,209 --> 00:23:51,040
(LAUGHTER)
335
00:23:51,111 --> 00:23:53,306
I'm sure you can both tie a strong knot.
336
00:24:06,293 --> 00:24:08,193
(MILTON CLAPS)
337
00:24:25,212 --> 00:24:27,544
(STOPWATCH TICKING)
338
00:24:29,416 --> 00:24:33,352
(DRUM ROLL)
339
00:24:47,334 --> 00:24:48,426
(GASPS)
340
00:24:48,502 --> 00:24:49,696
Robert!
341
00:25:11,858 --> 00:25:13,257
No, no.
342
00:25:17,230 --> 00:25:19,755
Julia. Julia!
343
00:25:45,725 --> 00:25:47,852
(GASPS)
344
00:26:04,444 --> 00:26:07,311
CUTTER : I knew an old sailor once.
345
00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:10,281
They told me he went overboard,
346
00:26:10,350 --> 00:26:12,443
tangled in the sails.
347
00:26:12,519 --> 00:26:14,316
They pulled him out,
348
00:26:14,387 --> 00:26:18,289
but it took him five minutes to cough.
349
00:26:18,358 --> 00:26:20,383
He said it was like...
350
00:26:20,460 --> 00:26:22,291
...going home.
351
00:26:27,634 --> 00:26:29,966
What do you want, Borden?
352
00:26:36,776 --> 00:26:38,801
I'm sorry for your loss, Angier.
353
00:26:42,616 --> 00:26:44,675
Which knot did you tie?
354
00:26:47,821 --> 00:26:50,756
I keep asking myself that.
355
00:26:50,824 --> 00:26:52,815
- And?
- And...
356
00:26:54,561 --> 00:26:57,428
I'm sorry, I just don't know.
357
00:26:59,499 --> 00:27:00,989
You don't know?
358
00:27:02,836 --> 00:27:04,770
I'm sorry.
359
00:27:05,739 --> 00:27:08,333
You don't know?
360
00:27:11,945 --> 00:27:14,140
You don't know?!
361
00:27:20,420 --> 00:27:23,753
- Alfred?
- Good news. We got our first booking.
362
00:27:24,224 --> 00:27:26,158
I don't think we've had the pleasure.
363
00:27:26,226 --> 00:27:29,252
- Mr. Fallon is my ingénieur.
- Where did you get all...?
364
00:27:29,329 --> 00:27:33,322
- I had to borrow and... don't ask.
- He's a very enterprising soul
365
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,197
is... is Mr. Fallon. So...
366
00:27:35,268 --> 00:27:38,704
- We can't afford to pay him.
- The money will come with the audience.
367
00:27:38,772 --> 00:27:42,469
But what about until then?
What I earn, it's barely enough for us.
368
00:27:42,542 --> 00:27:46,501
Don't worry about it. I'll share
half my food with him or something.
369
00:27:46,579 --> 00:27:49,548
You're going to be
doing that with someone else.
370
00:27:49,616 --> 00:27:51,516
No. You're...
371
00:27:51,584 --> 00:27:53,848
Having a baby.
372
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,821
Oh, my God.
373
00:27:56,890 --> 00:27:59,723
We should have told Fallon.
That is great.
374
00:27:59,793 --> 00:28:02,261
Oh, come here.
375
00:28:02,328 --> 00:28:05,297
(CHUCKLING) Oh.
376
00:28:05,365 --> 00:28:06,889
Alfred, what is this?
377
00:28:06,966 --> 00:28:11,130
Oh, this is just the trick to work
Ackerman up at the end of my act.
378
00:28:11,204 --> 00:28:13,900
Is it the masterpiece, the great trick?
379
00:28:13,973 --> 00:28:16,737
No, no, no, the world is
not ready for that one yet.
380
00:28:16,810 --> 00:28:21,144
This is just your run-of-the-mill,
daring, spectacular bullet catch.
381
00:28:21,214 --> 00:28:23,739
- A bullet catch.
- Yeah, but it's safe.
382
00:28:23,817 --> 00:28:26,115
I promise. Look.
383
00:28:28,488 --> 00:28:30,752
- Shoot me.
- Shoot you?
384
00:28:30,824 --> 00:28:32,052
Go on, shoot me.
385
00:28:34,561 --> 00:28:36,586
- Right there.
- No, I can't.
386
00:28:36,663 --> 00:28:39,223
No, no, not there.
Shoot me here. Don't...
387
00:28:43,470 --> 00:28:46,337
- (LAUGHS)
- How's that?
388
00:28:46,406 --> 00:28:49,739
That's very good. Tell me how you do it.
389
00:28:49,809 --> 00:28:50,935
No, I can't do that.
390
00:28:53,012 --> 00:28:55,879
- Well, then you can't do it.
- I can't do it?
391
00:28:55,949 --> 00:28:59,282
I'm sorry, but I can't
raise a child on my own.
392
00:28:59,352 --> 00:29:01,684
You don't tell anybody that I told you.
393
00:29:01,755 --> 00:29:04,087
- OK.
- Gunpowder.
394
00:29:06,659 --> 00:29:07,785
Wadding.
395
00:29:09,429 --> 00:29:11,522
Then the bullet.
396
00:29:12,132 --> 00:29:13,861
Ramrod.
397
00:29:18,571 --> 00:29:20,562
Hold out your hand.
398
00:29:22,642 --> 00:29:26,578
The bullet is not even in the
gun when the charge is fired.
399
00:29:26,646 --> 00:29:30,412
Once you know,
it's actually very obvious.
400
00:29:31,484 --> 00:29:33,475
Well, I mean, you still get...
401
00:29:33,553 --> 00:29:35,145
It's dangerous.
402
00:29:35,221 --> 00:29:37,416
- People still get killed doing that.
- How?
403
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:40,220
You get some smartass who
could put a penny or a button
404
00:29:40,293 --> 00:29:43,626
or, God forbid, Sarah, somebody
could put a bullet down there.
405
00:29:43,696 --> 00:29:46,893
Don't worry. Don't worry,
406
00:29:46,966 --> 00:29:50,231
because I'm not gonna let
anything happen.
407
00:29:50,303 --> 00:29:53,170
Everything's gonna
be all right because...
408
00:29:54,541 --> 00:29:57,806
...I love you very much.
409
00:30:00,446 --> 00:30:03,745
- Say it again.
- I love you.
410
00:30:04,818 --> 00:30:07,286
- Not today.
- What?
411
00:30:07,353 --> 00:30:10,516
Well, some days it's not true,
and today you don't mean it.
412
00:30:10,590 --> 00:30:13,821
Maybe today you're more
in love with magic than me.
413
00:30:13,893 --> 00:30:16,521
I like being able
to tell the difference.
414
00:30:16,596 --> 00:30:19,394
It makes the days it is true
415
00:30:19,465 --> 00:30:21,797
mean something.
416
00:30:23,436 --> 00:30:24,869
All right.
417
00:30:41,054 --> 00:30:43,784
(BOOING)
418
00:30:43,857 --> 00:30:47,156
BORDEN : Metal rings,
ladies and gentlemen.
419
00:30:47,227 --> 00:30:49,889
If there are any
ladies and gentlemen here.
420
00:30:49,963 --> 00:30:53,330
- Solid metal.
- MAN : Seen that already.
421
00:30:57,070 --> 00:30:59,061
(BOOING)
422
00:31:03,977 --> 00:31:05,069
Who threw that?
423
00:31:08,982 --> 00:31:13,385
(BOOING CONTINUES)
424
00:31:21,661 --> 00:31:23,458
This is what you came for, is it?
425
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:28,790
So...
426
00:31:29,903 --> 00:31:31,803
...who wants to volunteer?
427
00:31:31,871 --> 00:31:33,634
- MAN : I do!
- MAN 2 : Me!
428
00:31:33,706 --> 00:31:37,039
(SHOUTING)
429
00:31:41,381 --> 00:31:42,439
Me.
430
00:31:44,217 --> 00:31:46,276
Me.
431
00:31:50,790 --> 00:31:52,917
(AUDIENCE SILENT)
432
00:31:59,699 --> 00:32:02,190
Are you man enough, sir?
433
00:32:07,173 --> 00:32:09,004
Yes.
434
00:32:19,786 --> 00:32:21,845
Which knot did you tie, Borden?
435
00:32:28,061 --> 00:32:30,325
Which knot did you tie, Borden?
436
00:32:31,497 --> 00:32:33,192
I don't know.
437
00:32:35,969 --> 00:32:38,494
- (GUNSHOT)
- (GASPS)
438
00:32:38,571 --> 00:32:42,007
(GROANING)
439
00:32:48,748 --> 00:32:52,411
BORDEN : He came in to demand
an answer, and I told him the truth.
440
00:32:52,485 --> 00:32:55,648
That I have fought with myself
over that night,
441
00:32:55,722 --> 00:32:59,055
one half of me swearing blind
that I tied a simple slipknot,
442
00:32:59,125 --> 00:33:02,492
the other half convinced
that I tied the Langford double.
443
00:33:02,562 --> 00:33:04,587
I can never know for sure.
444
00:33:07,533 --> 00:33:09,797
How can he not know!
445
00:33:09,869 --> 00:33:11,632
ANGIER : How can he not know?
446
00:33:13,272 --> 00:33:15,763
He must know what he did.
447
00:33:15,842 --> 00:33:17,241
He must.
448
00:33:19,879 --> 00:33:21,870
Sarah, that bloody hurts.
449
00:33:22,582 --> 00:33:25,210
I don't understand
how it can be bleeding again.
450
00:33:25,284 --> 00:33:27,718
It's as bad as the day it happened.
451
00:33:29,455 --> 00:33:33,391
- We have to get a doctor back.
- We can't afford the doctor back.
452
00:33:33,459 --> 00:33:34,892
(BABY CRIES)
453
00:33:34,961 --> 00:33:38,556
- You've woken her.
- Great.
454
00:33:38,631 --> 00:33:41,532
I'm sorry, I need this to heal
so I can get back to work.
455
00:33:41,601 --> 00:33:45,367
You've got to face things. What tricks
can you perform with this injury?
456
00:33:45,438 --> 00:33:48,896
I can do car pulls.
I can do some prop tricks.
457
00:33:48,975 --> 00:33:53,344
I can still do that. I can do
the trick I've been telling you about.
458
00:33:53,413 --> 00:33:55,540
The one that they're
gonna remember me for.
459
00:33:57,917 --> 00:33:59,509
Come on.
460
00:34:25,078 --> 00:34:28,275
I never thought I'd find an answer
at the bottom of a pint glass.
461
00:34:28,347 --> 00:34:29,939
Hasn't stopped your looking.
462
00:34:35,154 --> 00:34:38,021
Heard about a booking.
Nice little theater.
463
00:34:38,091 --> 00:34:40,924
- Young, up-and-coming magician.
- Who?
464
00:34:40,993 --> 00:34:43,723
- You.
- Me? Booking? Why?
465
00:34:43,796 --> 00:34:45,889
I want to keep on working.
466
00:34:45,965 --> 00:34:49,196
Who's going to hire the ingénieur
that killed Julia McCullough
467
00:34:49,268 --> 00:34:51,395
in front of a sellout crowd
at the Orpheum?
468
00:34:52,171 --> 00:34:54,366
Someone who knows it wasn't your fault.
469
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,932
Someone who knows Alfred Borden
and his repertoire of exotic knots.
470
00:34:58,010 --> 00:35:01,537
I hear he had a spot of bad luck
catching a bullet south of the river.
471
00:35:01,614 --> 00:35:04,412
That's a dangerous trick, that one.
472
00:35:09,622 --> 00:35:11,590
We'll have to whitewash the windows,
473
00:35:11,657 --> 00:35:15,354
confound the more curious
members of the public, but it will do.
474
00:35:15,428 --> 00:35:17,123
(STOMPS ON FLOOR)
475
00:35:17,196 --> 00:35:20,825
- We should see about an assistant.
- I've made some arrangements.
476
00:35:21,734 --> 00:35:23,497
You settled on a name?
477
00:35:24,403 --> 00:35:26,064
Yes, I have.
478
00:35:26,139 --> 00:35:28,004
The Great Danton.
479
00:35:28,074 --> 00:35:30,599
It's a bit old-fashioned, isn't it?
480
00:35:32,011 --> 00:35:34,241
No, it's sophisticated.
481
00:35:34,313 --> 00:35:37,077
The birdcage can't be
our climax. Everybody knows it.
482
00:35:37,150 --> 00:35:39,550
- Not like this.
- I don't want to kill doves.
483
00:35:39,619 --> 00:35:41,484
Then stay off the stage.
484
00:35:41,554 --> 00:35:43,249
You're a magician, not a wizard.
485
00:35:43,322 --> 00:35:47,190
You got to get your hands dirty, if
you're going to achieve the impossible.
486
00:35:48,661 --> 00:35:51,027
In here, Miss Wenscombe.
487
00:35:51,097 --> 00:35:55,557
No point in meeting Mr. Angier
if you don't fit. On the right.
488
00:35:58,738 --> 00:36:00,763
- What's so hard about this?
- Nothing.
489
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,365
You're going... down here.
490
00:36:03,442 --> 00:36:09,108
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
491
00:36:09,182 --> 00:36:12,049
- And this will conceal, right?
- Oh, sure.
492
00:36:12,718 --> 00:36:14,310
- Tighten up on there.
- Yep.
493
00:36:14,387 --> 00:36:15,411
OK.
494
00:36:17,523 --> 00:36:18,581
This ties up here?
495
00:36:18,658 --> 00:36:20,057
- Ties in the back.
- Good.
496
00:36:26,132 --> 00:36:28,327
Breathe as little as possible.
497
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,468
Now, you see?
498
00:36:37,543 --> 00:36:38,942
- That's it.
- OK.
499
00:36:42,381 --> 00:36:44,212
She's not experienced,
500
00:36:44,283 --> 00:36:46,308
but she knows how to present herself.
501
00:36:46,385 --> 00:36:50,981
A pretty assistant is the most
effective form of misdirection.
502
00:36:51,057 --> 00:36:54,424
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen,
for my final trick,
503
00:36:54,493 --> 00:36:57,257
I will require the assistance
of two volunteers.
504
00:36:57,330 --> 00:36:59,594
Mr. Merrit, if you would oblige me?
505
00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:03,024
Yep.
506
00:37:04,837 --> 00:37:06,532
- Under?
- Under, yeah.
507
00:37:08,107 --> 00:37:09,404
Come around his foot.
508
00:37:09,475 --> 00:37:10,908
- Careful.
- It's all right.
509
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,694
(GRINDING)
510
00:37:31,764 --> 00:37:34,028
- Your volunteer, put their hand there.
- Yeah?
511
00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:35,931
And another one here.
512
00:37:36,002 --> 00:37:39,529
If you'll place your hands
on either side of the cage, please.
513
00:37:39,605 --> 00:37:40,936
Thank you, Olivia.
514
00:37:41,007 --> 00:37:44,773
You best not be intending
to hurt this animal, Mr. Angier.
515
00:37:44,844 --> 00:37:47,210
- Of course not.
- Ready? Right.
516
00:37:47,980 --> 00:37:50,778
- One...
- Two...
517
00:37:51,517 --> 00:37:52,779
Three.
518
00:37:56,789 --> 00:37:58,586
That's bloody marvelous, Cutter.
519
00:37:59,592 --> 00:38:00,786
Very nice.
520
00:38:00,860 --> 00:38:02,657
And the best part is...
521
00:38:05,398 --> 00:38:07,958
(CHUCKLING)
522
00:38:08,034 --> 00:38:10,468
I thought you said I had
to get my hands dirty.
523
00:38:10,536 --> 00:38:12,436
Someday, perhaps you will.
524
00:38:12,505 --> 00:38:14,063
I just had to know that you can.
525
00:38:14,140 --> 00:38:16,074
Very nice. Very nice, indeed.
526
00:38:16,142 --> 00:38:19,805
I haven't had the chance to compliment
you on your beautiful theater.
527
00:38:19,879 --> 00:38:22,245
It'll be a lot more
beautiful when it's full.
528
00:38:22,315 --> 00:38:23,304
Don't worry.
529
00:38:23,382 --> 00:38:25,612
You all say that. Why should I worry?
530
00:38:25,685 --> 00:38:28,552
If your tricks don't get them
in, somebody else's will.
531
00:38:28,621 --> 00:38:32,717
Maybe somebody willing
to do a bullet catch or a water escape?
532
00:38:32,792 --> 00:38:34,350
Cheap thrills, Mr. Merrit.
533
00:38:34,427 --> 00:38:38,090
People hoping for an accident,
likely to see one too.
534
00:38:38,164 --> 00:38:40,155
What would that do for your business?
535
00:38:40,232 --> 00:38:43,099
(CHUCKLING) You got a week, John.
536
00:38:43,169 --> 00:38:46,536
- Thank you, Mr. Merrit.
- (CHUCKLES)
537
00:38:47,673 --> 00:38:52,303
(UP-TEMPO CLASSICAL MUSIC)
538
00:38:54,513 --> 00:38:55,878
Thank you.
539
00:38:55,948 --> 00:38:57,609
- (MUSIC ENDS)
- (APPLAUSE)
540
00:38:57,683 --> 00:39:01,312
Uh... Sir, in the third row there.
541
00:39:01,387 --> 00:39:04,083
Please stand up
and show us your handkerchief.
542
00:39:06,092 --> 00:39:07,889
- (LAUGHTER)
- This isn't mine.
543
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,418
Perhaps you'd return it to the lady
in the aisle of the second row.
544
00:39:11,497 --> 00:39:13,795
I believe she has yours.
545
00:39:13,866 --> 00:39:16,061
(APPLAUSE)
546
00:39:16,135 --> 00:39:20,071
(UP-TEMPO PIANO MUSIC)
547
00:39:20,139 --> 00:39:24,803
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm making
so many mistakes. I'm so nervous.
548
00:39:24,877 --> 00:39:27,141
The audience doesn't seem
to be responding.
549
00:39:27,213 --> 00:39:29,443
They've seen a lot of tricks before,
550
00:39:29,515 --> 00:39:32,006
but not this next one.
551
00:39:41,060 --> 00:39:42,823
Cloth over.
552
00:39:42,895 --> 00:39:44,658
Keep your fingers crossed.
553
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:46,994
I'll have the champagne ready.
554
00:39:51,170 --> 00:39:54,105
(APPLAUSE)
555
00:39:55,174 --> 00:39:56,835
(ANGIER CHUCKLES)
556
00:39:59,412 --> 00:40:01,403
(ALL GROANING)
557
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,779
- You've seen this one before?
- MAN : We've seen them all before.
558
00:40:04,850 --> 00:40:06,977
I'll make it a little
harder then, shall I?
559
00:40:07,052 --> 00:40:10,021
Two volunteers, please.
A lady and a gentlemen.
560
00:40:10,089 --> 00:40:13,286
To hold this cage with me.
561
00:40:13,359 --> 00:40:15,327
I'll perform this feat in a manner
562
00:40:15,394 --> 00:40:19,922
never before seen by yourselves or any
other audience anywhere in the world.
563
00:40:19,999 --> 00:40:22,331
(DRUM ROLL)
564
00:40:22,401 --> 00:40:25,029
Madame, place one hand
on the back of the cage,
565
00:40:25,104 --> 00:40:26,628
one hand on the front.
566
00:40:26,705 --> 00:40:29,071
Sir, one hand on the bottom of the cage
567
00:40:29,141 --> 00:40:30,665
one hand on the top.
568
00:40:36,949 --> 00:40:39,281
- (SNAPPING)
- (WOMAN SCREAMS)
569
00:40:44,154 --> 00:40:47,055
- I should've spotted him.
- You had a lot of plates going.
570
00:40:47,124 --> 00:40:49,285
- Don't suppose we can do this again.
- No.
571
00:40:49,359 --> 00:40:51,793
- So, what's the climax of our show?
- Show?
572
00:40:51,862 --> 00:40:54,990
- You don't have a show.
- We have a week's engagement.
573
00:40:55,065 --> 00:40:58,660
To perform magic, not butcher birds
and break my customers' fingers.
574
00:40:58,735 --> 00:41:01,431
Clear out, anything here
in the morning gets burned.
575
00:41:01,505 --> 00:41:03,939
- Mr. Merrit...
- It's done, John.
576
00:41:04,007 --> 00:41:06,805
I've hired a comedian.
You know I hate comedians.
577
00:41:08,945 --> 00:41:11,436
CUTTER : Well, there's
plenty of good theaters.
578
00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:14,348
If we can come up with a new trick,
579
00:41:14,418 --> 00:41:17,649
- change the name of the act.
- The name stays.
580
00:41:19,489 --> 00:41:24,620
Right, well, then the new trick's
gonna have to be irresistible then.
581
00:41:24,695 --> 00:41:26,720
I have a couple of methods to try out.
582
00:41:26,797 --> 00:41:30,028
And then we need a new angle
on the presentation.
583
00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:31,931
And if you need some inspiration,
584
00:41:32,002 --> 00:41:35,165
there's a technical exposition
at the Albert Hall this week.
585
00:41:35,238 --> 00:41:37,968
Engineers, scientists, you know?
586
00:41:38,041 --> 00:41:41,340
That sort of thing captures
the public's imagination.
587
00:41:41,411 --> 00:41:45,438
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
588
00:41:58,395 --> 00:42:01,796
Mind if I join you? Tesla sends
me down here during the storms.
589
00:42:01,865 --> 00:42:05,096
Perfect excuse to come join
the Great Danton for a drink.
590
00:42:06,069 --> 00:42:08,469
Two of them.
591
00:42:08,538 --> 00:42:11,166
Beautiful, isn't it?
God, I miss New York, though.
592
00:42:11,241 --> 00:42:13,675
- Why are you here?
- The lightning lives here.
593
00:42:13,744 --> 00:42:15,371
And not much else.
594
00:42:15,445 --> 00:42:16,969
Our work is secret.
595
00:42:17,614 --> 00:42:19,514
That a cipher?
596
00:42:21,618 --> 00:42:24,746
A rotating transposition
that shifts every day of the diary.
597
00:42:24,821 --> 00:42:28,814
Simple but time-consuming to translate,
even with the five-letter keyword.
598
00:42:28,892 --> 00:42:30,621
Which is?
599
00:42:30,694 --> 00:42:32,685
We magicians have a circle of trust.
600
00:42:32,763 --> 00:42:36,859
You have a circle of trust
with someone whose diary you stole?
601
00:42:36,933 --> 00:42:38,696
Maybe I bought it.
602
00:42:38,769 --> 00:42:41,499
And you're hoping to find
a great secret in there?
603
00:42:41,571 --> 00:42:43,869
I've already found it.
604
00:42:43,940 --> 00:42:45,339
That's why I'm here.
605
00:42:51,548 --> 00:42:54,176
Tesla built one for another magician.
606
00:42:54,251 --> 00:42:56,014
Why would you want the same thing?
607
00:42:56,086 --> 00:42:58,077
Call it a professional rivalry.
608
00:42:58,155 --> 00:43:02,285
Mr. Tesla has built unusual
machines for unusual people.
609
00:43:03,293 --> 00:43:06,387
- But he would never talk about it.
- I understand discretion.
610
00:43:06,463 --> 00:43:07,760
I just want the machine.
611
00:43:11,101 --> 00:43:12,762
Finish your drink.
612
00:43:13,737 --> 00:43:16,433
I want to show you something.
I think you'll have
613
00:43:16,506 --> 00:43:18,736
a special appreciation for our work.
614
00:43:18,809 --> 00:43:22,267
- I thought it was a secret.
- You're a magician.
615
00:43:22,345 --> 00:43:24,074
Who's gonna believe you?
616
00:43:25,248 --> 00:43:27,443
Not long now.
617
00:43:27,517 --> 00:43:29,985
Our equipment requires
a great deal of current.
618
00:43:30,053 --> 00:43:31,782
Tesla electrified the whole town
619
00:43:31,855 --> 00:43:34,915
in exchange for using the
generators when we need them.
620
00:43:36,126 --> 00:43:39,323
We do our tests when
the townspeople are asleep.
621
00:43:39,396 --> 00:43:42,092
Mr. Tesla doesn't want
to scare anyone.
622
00:43:44,501 --> 00:43:47,334
(ELECTRICAL HUMMING)
623
00:43:59,916 --> 00:44:01,941
Where are the wires?
624
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:04,582
Exactly.
625
00:44:13,797 --> 00:44:16,493
Where's the generator?
626
00:44:16,566 --> 00:44:17,999
You saw it last week.
627
00:44:18,068 --> 00:44:21,162
- That must be ten miles from here.
- Fifteen.
628
00:44:21,238 --> 00:44:25,334
And I have to ride all of them
before I get to bed.
629
00:44:25,408 --> 00:44:28,104
I'll send word for you
in a few days, Mr. Angier.
630
00:44:28,178 --> 00:44:32,274
ANGIER : Magic. Real magic.
631
00:44:32,349 --> 00:44:34,476
MAN : Now appearing, only here
at London's Royal Albert Hall,
632
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,818
one of the miracles of our age.
633
00:44:38,889 --> 00:44:43,485
A technological marvel. You've never
seen anything like it in your lives.
634
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,290
Your eyes will not believe
what they're witnessing.
635
00:44:46,363 --> 00:44:49,230
The miracle of Nikola Tesla,
ladies and gentlemen.
636
00:44:49,299 --> 00:44:51,790
Free, clean power.
Like to know the future?
637
00:44:51,868 --> 00:44:54,928
The man who's speaking right now
is going to change the world.
638
00:44:55,005 --> 00:44:59,374
Come one, come all.
Immediate seating, no waiting.
639
00:44:59,442 --> 00:45:02,843
(LOUD ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
640
00:45:14,491 --> 00:45:15,719
Ladies and gentlemen,
641
00:45:15,792 --> 00:45:17,760
(GASPS)
642
00:45:17,827 --> 00:45:19,658
Objections have been raised...
643
00:45:19,729 --> 00:45:23,165
They should be raised.
Does that look safe to you?
644
00:45:23,233 --> 00:45:25,793
Part of Thomas Edison's smear campaign
645
00:45:25,869 --> 00:45:31,569
against Mr. Tesla's
superior alternating current.
646
00:45:31,641 --> 00:45:34,474
MAN : We have asked Mr. Tesla
to reconsider.
647
00:45:34,544 --> 00:45:37,035
MAN 2 : Which he will not!
648
00:45:37,113 --> 00:45:42,278
But I've been told he refuses
to appear under any such restrictions.
649
00:45:42,352 --> 00:45:44,912
- (GASPS)
- This thing's gonna blow.
650
00:45:46,256 --> 00:45:48,690
Ladies and gentlemen, please.
651
00:46:27,397 --> 00:46:28,523
BORDEN : Hey.
652
00:46:30,767 --> 00:46:33,201
Hello, Jess.
653
00:46:35,672 --> 00:46:39,472
Have you had a nice day
with mommy? Huh?
654
00:46:40,410 --> 00:46:42,435
Sarah.
655
00:46:42,512 --> 00:46:45,413
- I love you.
- See, today it's true.
656
00:46:45,482 --> 00:46:48,042
- Yeah.
- Hello.
657
00:46:49,953 --> 00:46:52,319
ANGIER : I saw happiness.
658
00:46:52,389 --> 00:46:55,017
Happiness that should have been mine.
659
00:46:55,091 --> 00:46:57,116
But I was wrong.
660
00:46:57,193 --> 00:47:01,823
His notebook reveals that
he never had the life that I envied.
661
00:47:01,898 --> 00:47:04,526
The family life
that he craves one minute,
662
00:47:04,601 --> 00:47:08,901
he rails against the next,
demanding freedom.
663
00:47:08,972 --> 00:47:11,964
His mind... his mind is a divided one.
664
00:47:12,042 --> 00:47:13,475
His soul is restless.
665
00:47:13,543 --> 00:47:15,670
His wife and child, tormented
666
00:47:15,745 --> 00:47:19,704
by his fickle and contradictory nature.
667
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,411
So, what do you think you'll call her?
668
00:47:26,489 --> 00:47:27,854
I don't know.
669
00:47:27,924 --> 00:47:30,222
Everybody needs a name, so, what's hers?
670
00:47:31,127 --> 00:47:32,924
Maybe Sarah.
671
00:47:35,298 --> 00:47:37,698
That's a lovely name.
That's a lovely name.
672
00:47:37,767 --> 00:47:40,998
Well, you talk about what you want
to do for the rest of the day.
673
00:47:41,071 --> 00:47:42,936
All right, go on, you talk with her.
674
00:47:45,375 --> 00:47:49,641
Are they taking her away?
675
00:47:49,713 --> 00:47:51,613
To the workhouse?
676
00:47:54,451 --> 00:47:55,941
You keep talking.
677
00:47:58,655 --> 00:48:01,055
Tell Owens I've reconsidered. Take it.
678
00:48:01,124 --> 00:48:02,921
Go on, take it.
679
00:48:06,496 --> 00:48:08,623
It's for the best.
680
00:48:13,436 --> 00:48:16,030
Let me see.
681
00:48:16,106 --> 00:48:18,734
I'm gonna learn
all the professor's secrets.
682
00:48:18,808 --> 00:48:22,244
Only if I teach you how to read.
683
00:48:22,312 --> 00:48:24,678
They're just stupid tricks, right?
684
00:48:24,748 --> 00:48:27,979
Haven't helped you
get out of here, have they?
685
00:48:28,051 --> 00:48:31,384
Or can't you undo real locks, professor?
686
00:48:32,756 --> 00:48:35,418
Maybe I'm just biding my time.
687
00:48:35,492 --> 00:48:37,983
Maybe one day I'll...
688
00:48:38,061 --> 00:48:40,689
...open my hand, get your attention,
689
00:48:40,764 --> 00:48:43,665
ask, "Are you watching closely?"
690
00:48:43,733 --> 00:48:45,826
Maybe a magic whirl or two.
691
00:48:48,438 --> 00:48:50,269
And then I'll be gone.
692
00:48:53,877 --> 00:48:56,937
How'd you get so famous then?
693
00:48:57,847 --> 00:48:59,576
Magic.
694
00:49:02,051 --> 00:49:04,918
- Oi! Borden, get back here!
- (ALL LAUGING)
695
00:49:04,988 --> 00:49:06,546
Thank you.
696
00:49:06,623 --> 00:49:08,591
Shut up!
697
00:49:09,526 --> 00:49:11,824
(LAUGHING CONTINUES)
698
00:49:11,895 --> 00:49:13,988
Where's the bloody key?!
699
00:49:14,063 --> 00:49:17,931
(DISTANT ELECTRICAL HUMMING)
700
00:49:20,603 --> 00:49:23,071
ANGIER : February 8, 1899.
701
00:49:23,139 --> 00:49:25,266
Today, finally, a breakthrough.
702
00:49:25,341 --> 00:49:28,071
Tesla's agreed to see me.
703
00:49:28,144 --> 00:49:31,341
(ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
704
00:49:35,819 --> 00:49:36,979
Perfectly safe.
705
00:49:58,508 --> 00:50:02,274
So this is the Great Danton.
706
00:50:02,345 --> 00:50:06,941
Mr. Alley has effused about your act
to me on any number of occasions.
707
00:50:08,785 --> 00:50:10,343
Hold out other hand.
708
00:50:18,928 --> 00:50:22,728
- What's conducting the electricity?
- Our bodies, Mr. Angier.
709
00:50:22,799 --> 00:50:26,997
Quite capable of conducting
and, indeed, producing energy.
710
00:50:28,538 --> 00:50:30,597
Have you eaten, Mr. Angier?
711
00:50:32,508 --> 00:50:35,671
(CHUCKLING) I need something impossible.
712
00:50:37,447 --> 00:50:42,214
You're familiar with the phrase,
"Man's reach exceeds his grasp"?
713
00:50:42,285 --> 00:50:43,980
Is a lie.
714
00:50:44,053 --> 00:50:46,078
Man's grasp exceeds his nerve.
715
00:50:47,290 --> 00:50:50,157
Society only tolerates
one change at a time.
716
00:50:51,628 --> 00:50:54,893
First time I tried to change the world,
717
00:50:54,964 --> 00:50:56,727
I was hailed as a visionary.
718
00:50:57,233 --> 00:50:59,360
Second time...
719
00:50:59,435 --> 00:51:02,461
...I was asked politely to retire.
720
00:51:03,606 --> 00:51:07,133
So here I am, enjoying my retirement.
721
00:51:07,210 --> 00:51:11,078
Nothing is impossible, Mr. Angier.
What you want is simply expensive.
722
00:51:11,147 --> 00:51:13,377
If I were to build for you this machine,
723
00:51:13,449 --> 00:51:16,509
you would be presenting it
merely as illusion?
724
00:51:16,586 --> 00:51:19,919
Well, if people actually
believed the things I did on stage,
725
00:51:19,989 --> 00:51:22,389
they wouldn't clap, they'd scream.
726
00:51:22,458 --> 00:51:24,449
Think of sawing a woman in half.
727
00:51:24,527 --> 00:51:26,859
Have you considered the cost of this?
728
00:51:26,930 --> 00:51:28,864
Price is not an object.
729
00:51:28,932 --> 00:51:32,891
Perhaps not, but have you
considered the cost?
730
00:51:33,870 --> 00:51:35,201
I'm not sure I follow.
731
00:51:36,272 --> 00:51:38,103
Go home, forget this thing.
732
00:51:38,174 --> 00:51:40,369
I can recognize an obsession.
733
00:51:40,443 --> 00:51:44,470
- No good will come of it.
- Hasn't good come of your obsessions?
734
00:51:44,547 --> 00:51:47,778
At first, but I have
followed them too long.
735
00:51:47,850 --> 00:51:49,784
I am their slave.
736
00:51:49,852 --> 00:51:52,946
And one day,
they will choose to destroy me.
737
00:51:54,757 --> 00:51:59,194
If you understand an obsession, then
you know you won't change my mind.
738
00:52:00,129 --> 00:52:01,118
So be it.
739
00:52:02,632 --> 00:52:03,963
Will you build it?
740
00:52:04,934 --> 00:52:08,495
I've already begun
to build it, Mr. Angier.
741
00:52:08,571 --> 00:52:12,564
I hope you enjoy the mountain air.
This will take some time.
742
00:52:20,149 --> 00:52:22,947
(DEEP INHALE & EXHALE)
743
00:52:36,499 --> 00:52:39,195
Uh... I thought you'd gone.
744
00:52:40,336 --> 00:52:42,804
I don't really have anywhere to go.
745
00:52:44,774 --> 00:52:46,674
You've been sleeping here?
746
00:52:46,743 --> 00:52:51,476
Cutter said it'd be all right till we
get another booking. What are you doing?
747
00:52:51,547 --> 00:52:53,777
Uh... research.
748
00:52:53,850 --> 00:52:55,283
Part of a magician's job
749
00:52:55,351 --> 00:52:58,218
is to... watch his competition,
see what illusions...
750
00:52:58,287 --> 00:53:01,222
You're going to do something
to that man, aren't you?
751
00:53:01,290 --> 00:53:03,155
Cutter's hoping you let things lie.
752
00:53:03,226 --> 00:53:06,093
He says if Borden thinks
things are even between you...
753
00:53:06,162 --> 00:53:07,993
Even?
754
00:53:08,064 --> 00:53:10,624
My wife for a couple of his fingers?
755
00:53:10,700 --> 00:53:13,794
He has a family now
and he's performing again.
756
00:53:13,870 --> 00:53:16,703
Borden is out there living
his life just as he intended,
757
00:53:16,773 --> 00:53:19,469
as if nothing had happened
and look at me.
758
00:53:19,542 --> 00:53:22,033
I'm alone and no theater will touch me.
759
00:53:22,111 --> 00:53:23,703
Us.
760
00:53:23,780 --> 00:53:26,146
You're going to need a better disguise.
761
00:53:43,666 --> 00:53:45,861
I need a volunteer.
762
00:53:45,935 --> 00:53:47,402
WENSCOMBE : What happened?
763
00:53:48,404 --> 00:53:50,235
Did you hurt him?
764
00:53:52,141 --> 00:53:53,438
What happened, Robert?
765
00:53:55,845 --> 00:53:59,804
You, sir. Just a rubber ball, yes?
766
00:53:59,882 --> 00:54:00,974
Thank you.
767
00:54:01,050 --> 00:54:03,644
Just a rubber ball? No.
768
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,916
Not normal. Not a normal rubber ball.
769
00:54:06,989 --> 00:54:08,115
It's magic.
770
00:54:08,925 --> 00:54:10,984
He had a new trick.
771
00:54:25,007 --> 00:54:26,565
WENSCOMBE : Was it good?
772
00:54:30,947 --> 00:54:34,906
It was the greatest
magic trick I've ever seen.
773
00:54:36,919 --> 00:54:38,750
- (DOOR OPENS)
- (MINIMAL APPLAUSE)
774
00:54:38,821 --> 00:54:40,948
ANGIER : Did they applaud
when you saw it?
775
00:54:41,023 --> 00:54:44,891
It was too good. It was too simple.
The audience hardly had time to see it.
776
00:54:44,961 --> 00:54:47,828
- He's a dreadful magician.
- A wonderful magician.
777
00:54:47,897 --> 00:54:50,422
He's a dreadful showman.
He doesn't dress it up,
778
00:54:50,500 --> 00:54:52,331
- how to sell it.
- How does he do it?
779
00:54:52,401 --> 00:54:54,426
- He uses a double.
- No, it's too simple.
780
00:54:54,504 --> 00:54:55,994
This is a complex illusion.
781
00:54:56,072 --> 00:54:58,472
You say that because
you don't know the method.
782
00:54:58,541 --> 00:55:00,941
It's a double that comes out.
It's the only way.
783
00:55:01,010 --> 00:55:04,912
I've seen him perform it three times.
The prestige is the same man.
784
00:55:04,981 --> 00:55:08,508
- No, it's not.
- The same man comes out of the cabinet.
785
00:55:08,584 --> 00:55:10,848
It's the same man.
786
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,616
He wears padded gloves
to hide his damaged fingers,
787
00:55:13,689 --> 00:55:16,283
but, if you look closely, you can tell.
788
00:55:17,994 --> 00:55:20,861
He doesn't know how to sell it
to an audience, but I do.
789
00:55:20,930 --> 00:55:23,364
Yeah, we could use it
as a climax to the show.
790
00:55:23,432 --> 00:55:25,832
Yes.
791
00:55:25,902 --> 00:55:29,099
The man stole my life,
I'm gonna steal his trick.
792
00:55:29,172 --> 00:55:31,333
We got to find someone
who looks like you.
793
00:55:31,407 --> 00:55:34,934
- He doesn't use a double.
- I don't know how Borden does it.
794
00:55:35,011 --> 00:55:39,505
Either... You either wait for him
to retire and buy the secret,
795
00:55:39,582 --> 00:55:41,379
or you listen to how I would do it.
796
00:55:41,450 --> 00:55:43,975
And the only way
that I know how to do it
797
00:55:44,053 --> 00:55:46,521
is to find you a bloody good double.
798
00:55:47,523 --> 00:55:48,922
All right.
799
00:55:50,359 --> 00:55:52,850
Take a good look.
Let's get out there and find me.
800
00:55:52,929 --> 00:55:55,056
Whoo!
801
00:55:55,131 --> 00:55:56,621
Look, look.
802
00:56:01,170 --> 00:56:02,694
What's that?
803
00:56:06,042 --> 00:56:08,340
- It's for you.
- What's this for?
804
00:56:08,978 --> 00:56:10,809
Come.
805
00:56:13,950 --> 00:56:15,713
SARAH : You...
806
00:56:15,785 --> 00:56:19,812
- I asked you last week...
- You caught me in a wrong mood.
807
00:56:19,889 --> 00:56:22,084
- But you won't ever...
- Sarah,
808
00:56:22,158 --> 00:56:25,321
I'm gonna have
to change my mind, aren't I?
809
00:56:25,394 --> 00:56:30,058
The act is taking off. Soon we'll be in
a bigger theater, things will work out.
810
00:56:32,635 --> 00:56:36,435
I can't believe it. Thank you.
Thank you. It's beautiful.
811
00:56:43,079 --> 00:56:46,173
- Gerry?
- (GASPS) Darling, look at you.
812
00:56:46,249 --> 00:56:49,218
Mr. Cutter, Mr. Angier,
I'd like you to meet Gerald Root.
813
00:56:49,285 --> 00:56:51,446
Mm-hm.
814
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,216
- (WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
- (WENSCOMBE GIGGLES)
815
00:56:54,290 --> 00:56:58,226
A pleasure. Pleasure
to meet you fine gentlemen.
816
00:56:58,294 --> 00:57:02,025
Would you like for me
to tell you a little joke? Come here.
817
00:57:05,067 --> 00:57:08,161
Yes. Are you laughing now?
818
00:57:08,237 --> 00:57:10,262
(CHUCKLING)
819
00:57:11,607 --> 00:57:13,234
I have to take a piss.
820
00:57:14,644 --> 00:57:17,738
- He's out of his mind.
- Of course, he's an out-of-work actor.
821
00:57:17,813 --> 00:57:19,713
He's perfect. He needs a little help.
822
00:57:19,782 --> 00:57:22,751
But when I get done with him,
he could be your brother.
823
00:57:22,818 --> 00:57:25,412
I don't need him to be my
brother, I need him to be me.
824
00:57:25,488 --> 00:57:27,183
Give me a month.
825
00:57:33,963 --> 00:57:36,591
So you open the door...
826
00:57:36,666 --> 00:57:38,133
...and...
827
00:57:40,169 --> 00:57:42,000
(CHUCKLING)
828
00:57:43,406 --> 00:57:45,431
(EXHALES)
829
00:57:45,508 --> 00:57:47,271
Come on.
830
00:57:49,545 --> 00:57:50,910
- (GROANS)
- (CHUCKLING)
831
00:57:50,980 --> 00:57:52,914
Couldn't you have found a softer one?
832
00:57:52,982 --> 00:57:55,314
Well, it's not for sleeping on.
833
00:57:55,384 --> 00:57:57,443
So, if you come down through there...
834
00:58:00,122 --> 00:58:03,148
...does Root go up through there?
- Yep.
835
00:58:03,225 --> 00:58:05,284
It's going to be amazing.
836
00:58:05,361 --> 00:58:08,819
Well, it has to be. Borden's
trick is getting noticed.
837
00:58:11,667 --> 00:58:14,033
The place was packed today.
838
00:58:15,638 --> 00:58:17,435
You went and saw his show again.
839
00:58:17,506 --> 00:58:19,940
Ready to meet yourself, Mr. Angier?
840
00:58:23,746 --> 00:58:25,304
(ROOT SIGHS)
841
00:58:26,615 --> 00:58:28,242
(WENSCOMBE GIGGLES)
842
00:58:28,317 --> 00:58:30,649
All I have to do is
keep myself stinking drunk,
843
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,052
and no one will be able
to tell the difference.
844
00:58:33,122 --> 00:58:35,215
Have a little faith, sir.
845
00:58:35,291 --> 00:58:39,193
Now, would you favor us
with a performance, Mr. Root?
846
00:58:57,646 --> 00:58:59,876
(CLAPPING)
847
00:58:59,949 --> 00:59:04,113
You'd drink, too, if you knew
the world half as well as I do.
848
00:59:07,823 --> 00:59:09,518
Did you think you were unique?
849
00:59:09,592 --> 00:59:12,288
I've been Caesar, I've played Faust.
850
00:59:12,361 --> 00:59:15,455
How difficult could it possibly
be to play the Great Danton?
851
00:59:15,531 --> 00:59:18,659
You can go back to being
yourself now, Root, for nothing.
852
00:59:18,734 --> 00:59:20,998
I'd rather be him for now.
853
00:59:21,070 --> 00:59:23,834
I find it, uh... amusing.
854
00:59:25,107 --> 00:59:27,200
(CHUCKLES)
855
00:59:27,276 --> 00:59:29,005
"My liege,
856
00:59:29,078 --> 00:59:32,411
I did deny no prisoners."
857
00:59:32,481 --> 00:59:34,642
- You look wonderful.
- Oh, thank you.
858
00:59:34,717 --> 00:59:37,982
Root has to keep a low profile.
Anyone sees him, the game's up.
859
00:59:38,053 --> 00:59:40,851
I don't know how you do things.
I'm not sure I wanna know.
860
00:59:40,923 --> 00:59:43,255
Have you thought what we should call it?
861
00:59:43,325 --> 00:59:47,489
There's no point being coy. Borden
calls his trick The Transported man.
862
00:59:47,763 --> 00:59:51,062
(APPLAUSE)
863
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,563
Ladies and gentlemen, much
of what you've seen may be termed
864
00:59:54,637 --> 00:59:58,403
- as illusions or entertaining trifles.
- (RIMSHOT)
865
00:59:58,474 --> 01:00:00,567
(APPLAUSE)
866
01:00:03,078 --> 01:00:04,136
Alas...
867
01:00:04,213 --> 01:00:06,238
(DRUMROLL)
868
01:00:06,315 --> 01:00:08,840
...I cannot claim
this next feat as illusion.
869
01:00:09,752 --> 01:00:10,946
Watch carefully.
870
01:00:12,388 --> 01:00:14,822
You will see no trickery,
871
01:00:14,890 --> 01:00:17,984
for no trickery is employed.
872
01:00:18,060 --> 01:00:21,427
Merely a technique familiar
to certain citizens of the Orient
873
01:00:21,497 --> 01:00:23,658
and various holy men of the Himalayas.
874
01:00:26,936 --> 01:00:29,962
Indeed, many of you may be
familiar with this technique,
875
01:00:30,039 --> 01:00:33,202
but for those of you who
are not, do not be alarmed.
876
01:00:33,275 --> 01:00:36,335
What you're about to see
is considered safe.
877
01:00:40,950 --> 01:00:44,283
(APPLAUSE, CHEERING)
878
01:00:52,394 --> 01:00:54,555
(APPLAUSE, CHEERING CONTINUES)
879
01:01:07,910 --> 01:01:10,970
To our achievement.
880
01:01:11,046 --> 01:01:13,810
The manager says he's
never seen a reaction like it.
881
01:01:13,883 --> 01:01:17,182
At least he saw it. I spent
the ovation hiding under the stage.
882
01:01:17,253 --> 01:01:19,585
No one cares about
the man who disappears.
883
01:01:19,655 --> 01:01:21,646
They care about the one who comes out.
884
01:01:21,724 --> 01:01:23,783
I care about the man in the box.
885
01:01:23,859 --> 01:01:28,159
Thank you. I don't know,
maybe we could switch before the trick.
886
01:01:28,230 --> 01:01:30,391
I'm the prestige,
and Root's below stage.
887
01:01:30,466 --> 01:01:33,401
No, the anticipation
of the trick is everything.
888
01:01:33,469 --> 01:01:36,529
We need your showmanship
to build up the suspense.
889
01:01:36,605 --> 01:01:40,166
Once Root opens his mouth, it's over.
He can't introduce this trick.
890
01:01:40,242 --> 01:01:42,972
Of course I can. I'm the Great Danton.
891
01:01:43,045 --> 01:01:46,640
Root, you bloody fool,
get out of that wardrobe and makeup.
892
01:01:46,715 --> 01:01:49,377
Anyone could walk in here at any minute.
893
01:01:49,451 --> 01:01:51,510
Congratulations, all.
894
01:01:51,587 --> 01:01:55,284
Life is not full of these
moments. We worked hard.
895
01:01:55,357 --> 01:01:57,018
We need to celebrate properly.
896
01:02:00,763 --> 01:02:03,231
What's wrong? Is it your wife?
897
01:02:03,299 --> 01:02:05,597
No, it's the trick.
It isn't good enough.
898
01:02:05,668 --> 01:02:09,001
BORDEN's trick is nothing
compared to ours. He has no style.
899
01:02:09,071 --> 01:02:12,939
He doesn't spend the finale
hiding under the stage.
900
01:02:13,008 --> 01:02:15,909
- I need to know how he does it.
- Why?
901
01:02:15,978 --> 01:02:18,469
So I can do it better.
902
01:02:20,549 --> 01:02:23,017
I need you to go and work for him.
903
01:02:26,055 --> 01:02:27,784
Work for him? Are you joking?
904
01:02:29,058 --> 01:02:30,252
You'll be my spy.
905
01:02:30,326 --> 01:02:32,521
We just got our start.
You want me to leave?
906
01:02:32,595 --> 01:02:34,688
That's how we advance. Think of it.
907
01:02:34,763 --> 01:02:37,960
People are excited by Cutter's
version. Imagine what we'd do
908
01:02:38,033 --> 01:02:42,470
with the real illusion. We'd have the
greatest magic act anyone's ever seen.
909
01:02:42,538 --> 01:02:46,304
- He knows I work for you.
- Exactly why he'll want to hire you.
910
01:02:46,375 --> 01:02:48,935
- He'll want my secret.
- Why would he trust me?
911
01:02:49,011 --> 01:02:51,707
Because you're
gonna tell him the truth.
912
01:02:54,617 --> 01:02:56,448
Hmm?
913
01:03:03,993 --> 01:03:05,119
Good girl.
914
01:03:05,194 --> 01:03:08,220
(RATTLING)
915
01:03:08,297 --> 01:03:11,824
You must be curious to see what
so much money has bought you.
916
01:03:12,501 --> 01:03:15,402
Fitting you should be here
for her maiden voyage.
917
01:03:15,471 --> 01:03:17,302
Your hat.
918
01:03:25,247 --> 01:03:27,841
You might want to stand back.
919
01:03:29,752 --> 01:03:31,219
(ELECTRIC ZAPPING)
920
01:03:42,965 --> 01:03:47,129
(FIZZLING)
921
01:03:48,303 --> 01:03:49,429
I don't understand.
922
01:03:49,505 --> 01:03:51,837
Perhaps it would be best
if you left us to it.
923
01:03:51,907 --> 01:03:53,534
Is there a problem, Mr. Tesla?
924
01:03:53,609 --> 01:03:55,634
- No. Come back next week.
- Next week?
925
01:03:55,711 --> 01:03:58,271
- Next week, it will be fine.
- Tesla!
926
01:03:58,347 --> 01:04:00,076
Just a little temperamental.
927
01:04:02,751 --> 01:04:04,742
(DOOR CLOSING)
928
01:04:05,921 --> 01:04:08,822
- Interesting workshop.
- Yeah, we make do.
929
01:04:08,891 --> 01:04:11,052
- My name is Olivia...
- I know who you are.
930
01:04:11,126 --> 01:04:12,787
Here to steal the rest of my show?
931
01:04:12,861 --> 01:04:14,761
To give your show what it's missing.
932
01:04:14,830 --> 01:04:18,061
- Yeah, what might that be?
- Me.
933
01:04:18,133 --> 01:04:22,593
(CHUCKLES) I was just
saying that, wasn't I?
934
01:04:22,671 --> 01:04:24,969
- A woman's touch.
- I've left Angier.
935
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,099
- All right.
- I want a job.
936
01:04:27,176 --> 01:04:28,507
Yeah.
937
01:04:28,577 --> 01:04:30,408
I know you've no reason to trust me.
938
01:04:30,479 --> 01:04:32,037
Why wouldn't I trust you?
939
01:04:32,114 --> 01:04:35,550
You're only the mistress of my
enemy. Why wouldn't I trust you?
940
01:04:37,219 --> 01:04:39,153
- Mr. Borden
- Alfred.
941
01:04:41,590 --> 01:04:43,251
I'm going to tell you the truth.
942
01:04:43,325 --> 01:04:45,555
Now that is a slippery notion
943
01:04:45,627 --> 01:04:47,959
in our line of work,
isn't it, Miss Wenscombe?
944
01:04:50,065 --> 01:04:52,727
I am here because he sent me here.
945
01:04:52,801 --> 01:04:55,269
He wants me to work for you
and steal your secret.
946
01:04:55,337 --> 01:04:58,704
What does he need my secret for?
His trick is topnotch.
947
01:04:58,774 --> 01:05:01,368
He vanishes,
and then he reappears instantly
948
01:05:01,443 --> 01:05:03,934
on the other side
of the stage, mute, overweight
949
01:05:04,012 --> 01:05:06,572
and, unless I'm mistaken, very drunk.
950
01:05:06,648 --> 01:05:10,140
It's astonishing. How does
he do it? And tell me, Olivia,
951
01:05:10,219 --> 01:05:13,677
does he enjoy taking his bows
under the stage?
952
01:05:13,756 --> 01:05:17,055
It's killing him. He's obsessed
with discovering your methods.
953
01:05:17,126 --> 01:05:20,186
He thinks of nothing else,
takes no pleasure in our success.
954
01:05:20,262 --> 01:05:21,752
And I've had enough.
955
01:05:21,830 --> 01:05:24,230
There is no future with him.
956
01:05:25,367 --> 01:05:29,098
He sent me here to steal your secrets,
but I've come to offer you his.
957
01:05:29,171 --> 01:05:33,073
This is the truth... is it?
958
01:05:37,613 --> 01:05:39,911
Think you'd better get dressed, sir.
959
01:05:39,982 --> 01:05:44,009
Root, you're late and more drunk than
usual. Get down below stairs right away.
960
01:05:44,086 --> 01:05:45,815
No.
961
01:05:45,888 --> 01:05:49,255
No, we need to have
a little chat, Mr. Cutter.
962
01:05:49,324 --> 01:05:53,658
We have a problem. Cutter, Borden
is performing right across the street.
963
01:05:53,729 --> 01:05:56,994
Yeah, we have a bigger problem.
964
01:05:57,065 --> 01:06:00,057
Root. He's realized
that he can make demands.
965
01:06:00,135 --> 01:06:02,228
Wha...? He's blackmailing us?
966
01:06:02,304 --> 01:06:04,272
I was surprised, to tell you the truth.
967
01:06:04,339 --> 01:06:06,933
It usually takes them
a lot longer to figure it out.
968
01:06:07,009 --> 01:06:09,569
- How much does he want?
- It makes no difference.
969
01:06:09,645 --> 01:06:13,103
- We've got to stop doing the trick.
- Stop the trick? Look at this.
970
01:06:13,182 --> 01:06:19,018
Last week they said you were
the premier stage performer in London.
971
01:06:19,087 --> 01:06:22,454
Not magician, mind you.
Performer of any kind.
972
01:06:22,524 --> 01:06:25,755
- What's your point?
- My point is, you've climbed too high
973
01:06:25,828 --> 01:06:28,262
to get away with
professional embarrassment.
974
01:06:28,330 --> 01:06:31,697
We don't do any tricks we can't control.
975
01:06:33,869 --> 01:06:37,168
Just pay him for now. We keep
doing the trick until Borden opens,
976
01:06:37,239 --> 01:06:39,207
and then we'll phase it out.
977
01:06:40,108 --> 01:06:41,598
All right.
978
01:06:44,379 --> 01:06:46,506
ANGIER : Cutter was always surprised
979
01:06:46,582 --> 01:06:48,482
how fast Root turned bad.
980
01:06:48,550 --> 01:06:53,112
To what do I owe the pleasure
of this rather welcome pint of ale?
981
01:06:53,188 --> 01:06:56,316
- You're the Great Danton, aren't you?
- Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh.
982
01:06:56,391 --> 01:07:00,054
Of course I am, but don't advertise it,
because I'll be mobbed with fans.
983
01:07:00,128 --> 01:07:02,562
ANGIER : We paid him enough
to keep him in beers.
984
01:07:02,631 --> 01:07:04,724
You wouldn't expect him
to rock the boat.
985
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,394
MANy of you may be
familiar with this technique,
986
01:07:07,469 --> 01:07:10,961
but for those of you
who aren't, do not be alarmed.
987
01:07:11,039 --> 01:07:14,202
What you're about to see
is considered safe.
988
01:07:14,276 --> 01:07:17,905
- And who are you?
- I am a humble admirer
989
01:07:17,980 --> 01:07:20,574
and a fellow practitioner.
990
01:07:20,649 --> 01:07:23,015
Mmm. Very good.
991
01:07:27,289 --> 01:07:28,984
(GRUNTS)
992
01:07:32,394 --> 01:07:35,227
- BORDEN : Another one?
- Oh, if you insist.
993
01:07:35,297 --> 01:07:38,027
- BORDEN : Another.
- I'm not performing tonight.
994
01:07:38,100 --> 01:07:40,125
I'm only doing one show,
but to be frank,
995
01:07:40,202 --> 01:07:42,534
my people pretty much
run things these days.
996
01:07:42,604 --> 01:07:43,798
Get up there.
997
01:07:45,173 --> 01:07:46,231
Get up!
998
01:07:46,308 --> 01:07:49,072
Your illusion, The Transported man,
999
01:07:49,144 --> 01:07:51,738
I'm not claiming to know your methods,
1000
01:07:51,813 --> 01:07:56,011
but I had a similar trick in my act,
1001
01:07:56,084 --> 01:07:58,917
and, uh... (WHISPERING) I used a double.
1002
01:07:58,987 --> 01:08:04,186
- Mm, I see, very good.
- Well, it was, and then it went bad.
1003
01:08:04,259 --> 01:08:07,660
What I didn't count on was that
when I incorporated this bloke
1004
01:08:07,729 --> 01:08:09,822
into my act,
1005
01:08:09,898 --> 01:08:11,889
he had complete power over me.
1006
01:08:13,035 --> 01:08:14,662
Complete power, you say?
1007
01:08:19,107 --> 01:08:21,234
(LAUGHING)
1008
01:08:21,310 --> 01:08:23,870
(APPLAUSE)
1009
01:08:25,547 --> 01:08:28,141
(GRUNTING)
1010
01:08:30,652 --> 01:08:32,085
Ohh! (LAUGHS)
1011
01:08:32,154 --> 01:08:37,421
Be very careful giving
someone that power over you.
1012
01:08:37,492 --> 01:08:41,826
Huh. Thank you. Um...
1013
01:08:41,897 --> 01:08:44,764
Yes, thank you for the warning.
1014
01:08:44,833 --> 01:08:47,529
Hmm. Cheers.
1015
01:08:48,971 --> 01:08:51,098
I cannot claim
this next feat as illusion.
1016
01:08:51,173 --> 01:08:54,540
What you're about to see
is considered safe.
1017
01:08:58,847 --> 01:09:00,542
Ahh!
1018
01:09:03,251 --> 01:09:06,345
(MOANING)
1019
01:09:14,029 --> 01:09:16,725
(CROWD LAUGHING)
1020
01:09:16,798 --> 01:09:20,359
(APPLAUSE)
1021
01:09:29,044 --> 01:09:31,478
(CHUCKLING)
1022
01:09:31,546 --> 01:09:32,706
(LAUGHING, APPLAUSE)
1023
01:09:32,781 --> 01:09:37,741
Oh! The Great Danton.
1024
01:09:43,959 --> 01:09:45,824
I apologize.
1025
01:09:45,894 --> 01:09:49,660
There simply is too much magic...
1026
01:09:49,731 --> 01:09:52,495
...for my stage at The Pantages
1027
01:09:52,567 --> 01:09:54,728
across the street.
1028
01:09:58,774 --> 01:10:01,709
Pardon my intrusion.
1029
01:10:03,779 --> 01:10:08,182
And go easy on the poor chap.
He does try so very hard.
1030
01:10:08,250 --> 01:10:10,980
(ALL LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
1031
01:10:11,053 --> 01:10:13,487
I don't know how Borden found him.
1032
01:10:13,555 --> 01:10:15,455
Kept him under wraps. I was careful.
1033
01:10:15,524 --> 01:10:17,185
Yeah, well, he did.
1034
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,351
Do you think it was her?
1035
01:10:26,601 --> 01:10:29,570
You weren't expecting me?
1036
01:10:29,638 --> 01:10:32,368
I expected you sooner.
Your message said afternoon.
1037
01:10:32,441 --> 01:10:34,705
It takes a bit for me
to get around these days.
1038
01:10:34,776 --> 01:10:38,837
He's taken everything from me.
My wife, my career,
1039
01:10:38,914 --> 01:10:40,779
- now you.
- You sent me.
1040
01:10:40,849 --> 01:10:43,909
I sent you to steal his secret,
not to improve his act.
1041
01:10:43,985 --> 01:10:45,543
- It's my job.
- Or fall in love!
1042
01:10:45,620 --> 01:10:48,384
- I did everything you asked!
- Yes? Yes?
1043
01:10:48,457 --> 01:10:50,948
- How does he do it?
- Cutter was right, a double.
1044
01:10:51,026 --> 01:10:53,256
- 'Course he said that.
- He didn't say it.
1045
01:10:53,328 --> 01:10:56,764
I've seen things, makeup, glasses, wigs.
We don't use for the show.
1046
01:10:56,832 --> 01:10:59,562
- I've seen it hidden backstage.
- Misdirection.
1047
01:10:59,634 --> 01:11:02,330
He leaves them lying
around to make you think that.
1048
01:11:02,404 --> 01:11:04,269
He doesn't know when I'm looking.
1049
01:11:04,339 --> 01:11:07,570
All the time, Olivia! That's who he is!
1050
01:11:07,642 --> 01:11:08,904
That's what it takes!
1051
01:11:08,977 --> 01:11:11,411
He lives his act, don't you see?
1052
01:11:13,448 --> 01:11:16,815
Just because you're sleeping
with him doesn't mean he trusts you.
1053
01:11:16,885 --> 01:11:19,285
You think you can see
everything, don't you?
1054
01:11:19,354 --> 01:11:22,187
The Great Danton is a blind fool.
1055
01:11:22,257 --> 01:11:23,656
His notebook.
1056
01:11:25,026 --> 01:11:27,290
You stole it?
1057
01:11:27,362 --> 01:11:29,159
I borrowed it for tonight.
1058
01:11:29,231 --> 01:11:31,426
I thought you could translate
some of it...
1059
01:11:31,500 --> 01:11:35,561
I can't. No one can. It's a cipher.
1060
01:11:35,637 --> 01:11:39,073
Even with the keyword,
it will take months to decode.
1061
01:11:39,141 --> 01:11:42,042
- And without the keyword?
- Perhaps never.
1062
01:11:42,110 --> 01:11:43,737
- We'll see.
- We will not see.
1063
01:11:43,812 --> 01:11:46,747
If I don't get that back by
tomorrow he'll know I took it.
1064
01:11:46,815 --> 01:11:49,113
- Leave him.
- I can't. He knows where I live.
1065
01:11:50,452 --> 01:11:55,253
This is his diary, Olivia. All of his
secrets are right here in my hands.
1066
01:11:55,924 --> 01:11:57,516
It won't bring your wife back.
1067
01:11:57,592 --> 01:12:00,288
I don't care about my wife.
I care about his secret.
1068
01:12:07,669 --> 01:12:10,570
(SIGHS, GRUNTS)
1069
01:12:13,542 --> 01:12:16,272
Look, I'll, um...
1070
01:12:16,344 --> 01:12:18,676
I'll go to his workshop
and stage a break-in.
1071
01:12:18,747 --> 01:12:21,944
- He'll know you took it.
- Yes, me. Not you.
1072
01:12:23,051 --> 01:12:25,042
Understand?
1073
01:12:33,495 --> 01:12:34,484
Robert.
1074
01:12:36,898 --> 01:12:39,696
I have fallen in love with him.
1075
01:12:40,602 --> 01:12:43,070
Then I know how hard
this has been for you.
1076
01:12:51,613 --> 01:12:53,103
Notebook?
1077
01:12:55,750 --> 01:12:57,741
Then he's just getting started.
1078
01:12:57,886 --> 01:12:59,979
(CLAPPING)
1079
01:13:00,055 --> 01:13:04,082
- (DRUMROLL)
- (CYMBAL CRASHES)
1080
01:13:04,159 --> 01:13:06,821
(ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
1081
01:13:14,569 --> 01:13:16,969
(APPLAUSE)
1082
01:13:26,982 --> 01:13:28,449
ALL : Professor!
1083
01:13:28,516 --> 01:13:30,006
Good evening.
1084
01:13:30,085 --> 01:13:32,144
(CHATTERING)
1085
01:13:34,889 --> 01:13:36,516
I'm walking tonight.
1086
01:13:36,591 --> 01:13:39,151
Let him come. I don't care.
1087
01:13:39,227 --> 01:13:41,923
ALL : Professor! Professor!
1088
01:14:09,557 --> 01:14:11,548
(MAN YELLS)
1089
01:14:18,166 --> 01:14:21,431
(HEART BEATING)
1090
01:14:44,426 --> 01:14:46,553
(MAN GAGGING)
( COUGHING)
1091
01:15:04,312 --> 01:15:05,745
- (GUNSHOT)
- Ahh!
1092
01:15:05,814 --> 01:15:08,374
- You all right?
- I'm alive.
1093
01:15:08,450 --> 01:15:10,543
Saves me cutting you an air hole.
1094
01:15:24,632 --> 01:15:27,192
- I'm impressed.
- Why is that?
1095
01:15:27,268 --> 01:15:30,237
You're finally getting your hands dirty.
1096
01:15:30,305 --> 01:15:33,206
It's what a good trick costs, Angier.
1097
01:15:33,274 --> 01:15:36,072
Risk, sacrifice.
1098
01:15:36,144 --> 01:15:38,635
The sacrifice, I'm afraid,
is all gonna be yours,
1099
01:15:38,713 --> 01:15:40,340
unless you give me what I want.
1100
01:15:41,716 --> 01:15:43,843
- Which is?
- Your secret.
1101
01:15:43,918 --> 01:15:45,317
My secret?
1102
01:15:45,387 --> 01:15:48,515
Your method for The Transported man.
1103
01:15:48,590 --> 01:15:51,423
Fallon wouldn't tell me.
He doesn't talk at all.
1104
01:15:51,493 --> 01:15:54,985
- You have my notebook.
- Useless without the keyword.
1105
01:15:56,464 --> 01:16:00,025
Write down your method,
Mr. Borden, describe it in full.
1106
01:16:13,148 --> 01:16:15,514
I want the whole method,
not the keyword.
1107
01:16:15,583 --> 01:16:17,983
I don't know if your secret's
in your notebook.
1108
01:16:18,052 --> 01:16:20,520
The keyword is the method.
1109
01:16:24,526 --> 01:16:25,823
Where's my ingénieur?
1110
01:16:32,967 --> 01:16:35,595
- Alive?
- How fast can you dig?
1111
01:16:38,072 --> 01:16:41,098
Fallon, you hear me? Fallon!
1112
01:16:42,410 --> 01:16:45,072
- ANGIER : How's the arm?
- Still attached.
1113
01:16:46,514 --> 01:16:48,072
Did you find your answer?
1114
01:16:48,149 --> 01:16:51,915
Our answer, Cutter. I haven't
looked yet. I wanted you to share this.
1115
01:16:51,986 --> 01:16:54,420
I already know how he does it, Robert.
1116
01:16:54,489 --> 01:16:57,583
Same way he always has,
the same way as we do.
1117
01:16:57,659 --> 01:17:00,127
It's just that you want something more.
1118
01:17:00,195 --> 01:17:02,959
Well, let's find out then, shall we?
1119
01:17:07,268 --> 01:17:08,701
What does it mean?
1120
01:17:16,544 --> 01:17:19,012
It means, Cutter, we have
a journey ahead of us.
1121
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,947
- To America.
- Robert?
1122
01:17:22,016 --> 01:17:24,985
Listen to me.
1123
01:17:25,053 --> 01:17:28,511
Obsession is a young man's game.
1124
01:17:28,590 --> 01:17:30,114
Come on.
1125
01:17:30,191 --> 01:17:32,659
I can't follow you any further in it.
1126
01:17:33,728 --> 01:17:35,662
I can't, I'm sorry.
1127
01:17:39,767 --> 01:17:41,462
Then the rest is up to me.
1128
01:17:43,538 --> 01:17:45,062
I'm sorry.
1129
01:17:50,378 --> 01:17:53,973
Good evening. Hello, darling.
(LAUGHS)
1130
01:17:54,048 --> 01:17:55,538
Champagne, your finest.
1131
01:17:55,617 --> 01:17:58,313
I didn't know we were going
to be joined for dinner.
1132
01:17:58,386 --> 01:18:00,684
Absolutely, we are celebrating.
1133
01:18:00,755 --> 01:18:02,450
Miss Wenscombe, Mr. Fallon.
1134
01:18:03,458 --> 01:18:06,325
- What are we celebrating?
- We've hit upon a new trick.
1135
01:18:06,394 --> 01:18:08,453
- Haven't we?
- What trick, Freddie?
1136
01:18:08,530 --> 01:18:10,555
Yes, Freddie, what trick?
1137
01:18:10,632 --> 01:18:15,035
I am going to bury
myself alive every night,
1138
01:18:15,103 --> 01:18:18,971
and then someone will come along
and dig me up. Wonderful.
1139
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:22,134
- I think he's had quite enough...
- No, pour the champagne.
1140
01:18:22,210 --> 01:18:25,907
Pour the... Sarah, don't talk to me
like that. I'm not a bloody child.
1141
01:18:25,980 --> 01:18:29,177
- Perhaps it would be better...
- Mr. Fallon, escort her home.
1142
01:18:29,250 --> 01:18:32,083
- My husband's being a bore.
- Oh, please.
1143
01:18:32,153 --> 01:18:35,953
- I see no reason you should suffer.
- Don't ruin this evening.
1144
01:18:38,359 --> 01:18:41,260
Good night, Mrs. Borden.
Good night, Freddie.
1145
01:18:45,700 --> 01:18:47,998
- Freddie?
- That's my name.
1146
01:18:48,069 --> 01:18:51,436
- Not at home.
- I'm not always at home, am I?
1147
01:18:53,241 --> 01:18:55,903
Couldn't you have at least
taken off the beard?
1148
01:18:55,977 --> 01:19:00,141
Sarah, I just came from
the bloody theater just now.
1149
01:19:00,214 --> 01:19:03,274
All right? I'm out in public.
Everybody else loves it.
1150
01:19:03,351 --> 01:19:05,285
Why are you being like this?
1151
01:19:05,353 --> 01:19:08,254
I had a terrible ordeal today.
1152
01:19:08,323 --> 01:19:12,089
I thought that
something very precious...
1153
01:19:13,261 --> 01:19:15,195
...had been lost to me.
1154
01:19:15,263 --> 01:19:18,391
So I just wanted
to celebrate just a little.
1155
01:19:18,466 --> 01:19:21,924
All right, what? What did you lose?
1156
01:19:27,075 --> 01:19:28,633
I see, more secrets.
1157
01:19:29,577 --> 01:19:32,740
Sarah, secrets are my life.
1158
01:19:34,682 --> 01:19:37,947
- Our life.
- No, Alfred, stop, this isn't you.
1159
01:19:38,019 --> 01:19:40,487
Stop performing.
1160
01:19:42,490 --> 01:19:44,651
(SHUDDERS)
1161
01:20:04,646 --> 01:20:07,137
I thought I had the place to myself.
1162
01:20:07,215 --> 01:20:10,514
Unexpected guests, not very polite.
1163
01:20:10,585 --> 01:20:12,416
A lot of questions.
1164
01:20:12,487 --> 01:20:15,285
At first, I thought they
worked for the government.
1165
01:20:15,356 --> 01:20:19,019
- No?
- Worse, they work for Thomas Edison.
1166
01:20:20,995 --> 01:20:23,486
BORDEN : Today, a most
curious development.
1167
01:20:23,564 --> 01:20:26,624
His assistant came to us
with a proposition.
1168
01:20:28,269 --> 01:20:31,670
Obviously, Angier has sent her
and told her to admit as much.
1169
01:20:31,739 --> 01:20:34,537
Does he enjoy taking
his bows under the stage?
1170
01:20:34,609 --> 01:20:38,375
He sent me here to steal your secrets,
but I've come to offer you his.
1171
01:20:38,446 --> 01:20:41,415
This is the truth...
1172
01:20:41,482 --> 01:20:42,471
...is it?
1173
01:20:50,525 --> 01:20:53,983
No, that's what he told
me to tell you. The truth...
1174
01:20:54,062 --> 01:20:57,896
...is that I loved him and I stood by
him and he sent me to you,
1175
01:20:57,965 --> 01:21:01,492
like he would send a stagehand
to pick up his shirts.
1176
01:21:01,569 --> 01:21:04,367
I hate him for that.
1177
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,670
I could spot Angier's methods
from the back of the theater.
1178
01:21:09,377 --> 01:21:11,641
So, what could you
possibly have to offer me?
1179
01:21:11,713 --> 01:21:13,340
You may know his tricks,
1180
01:21:13,414 --> 01:21:16,474
but you can't understand why
no one sees yours are better.
1181
01:21:16,551 --> 01:21:19,111
You hide this.
I had to look very closely
1182
01:21:19,187 --> 01:21:21,519
to spot it
during The Transported man,
1183
01:21:21,589 --> 01:21:24,422
but this makes you unique.
1184
01:21:24,492 --> 01:21:26,517
It shows you aren't using a double.
1185
01:21:26,594 --> 01:21:29,085
You mustn't hide it.
You must display it proudly.
1186
01:21:29,163 --> 01:21:33,930
I'm sure it takes great skill
to perform illusions with one good hand.
1187
01:21:34,001 --> 01:21:35,764
Yeah, it does.
1188
01:21:37,538 --> 01:21:40,701
So let people know.
1189
01:21:40,775 --> 01:21:44,267
You can be so much more than
he is and I can show you how.
1190
01:21:45,980 --> 01:21:48,574
BORDEN : I think
she's telling the truth.
1191
01:21:48,649 --> 01:21:50,776
I think we cannot trust her.
1192
01:21:54,322 --> 01:21:56,790
But I love her. I need her.
1193
01:21:57,992 --> 01:22:01,325
To open myself to such a relationship,
1194
01:22:01,395 --> 01:22:05,229
to the dangers of such an affair,
1195
01:22:05,299 --> 01:22:10,100
I need assurances of fidelity, of love.
1196
01:22:11,139 --> 01:22:12,731
But how to be sure?
1197
01:22:14,942 --> 01:22:19,276
I know a way. It's the only
way to know her mind.
1198
01:22:19,347 --> 01:22:21,178
How could he send you away?
1199
01:22:23,050 --> 01:22:26,144
BORDEN : She must help me
rid ourselves of Angier.
1200
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,752
Today, my mistress
proves her truthfulness.
1201
01:22:35,830 --> 01:22:37,559
Not to me, you understand.
1202
01:22:37,632 --> 01:22:40,260
I've been
convinced since she led me to Root.
1203
01:22:40,334 --> 01:22:43,861
Today, Olivia proves her love for me
1204
01:22:43,938 --> 01:22:46,406
to you, Angier.
1205
01:22:46,474 --> 01:22:50,877
Yes, Angier, she gave you
this notebook at my request.
1206
01:22:50,945 --> 01:22:54,381
And yes, "Tesla" is merely
the key to my dairy,
1207
01:22:54,448 --> 01:22:57,246
not to my trick.
You really think I'd part
1208
01:22:57,318 --> 01:23:00,446
with my secret so easily after so much?
1209
01:23:00,521 --> 01:23:02,182
Goodbye, Angier.
1210
01:23:02,256 --> 01:23:04,622
May you find solace
for your forward ambition
1211
01:23:04,692 --> 01:23:06,489
back in your American home.
1212
01:23:16,003 --> 01:23:17,630
Tesla!
1213
01:23:19,574 --> 01:23:21,974
Tesla! Alley!
1214
01:23:23,177 --> 01:23:24,166
Alley!
1215
01:23:24,245 --> 01:23:26,839
Tesla never made a machine
like the one I asked for.
1216
01:23:26,914 --> 01:23:29,712
- I never said he had.
- You let me believe that he had.
1217
01:23:29,784 --> 01:23:32,480
You stole my money because
your funding was cut off.
1218
01:23:32,553 --> 01:23:35,454
You've been shooting
sparks in my top hat,
1219
01:23:35,523 --> 01:23:39,015
laughing at me all along,
while using my money to stave off ruin.
1220
01:23:39,861 --> 01:23:41,988
- I have seen Edison's men.
- Where?
1221
01:23:42,063 --> 01:23:44,554
In the hotel, I have a mind
to bring them up here.
1222
01:23:44,632 --> 01:23:47,328
That would be unwise, Mr. Angier.
1223
01:23:47,401 --> 01:23:50,529
It is true that you are
our last remaining financier,
1224
01:23:50,605 --> 01:23:52,470
but we have not stolen your money.
1225
01:23:52,540 --> 01:23:54,007
This is my cat.
1226
01:23:54,075 --> 01:23:57,135
When I told you I could make you
a machine, I spoke a truth.
1227
01:23:57,211 --> 01:23:58,303
Why isn't it working?
1228
01:23:58,379 --> 01:24:00,711
Because exact science, Mr. Angier,
1229
01:24:00,781 --> 01:24:02,180
is not an exact science.
1230
01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:05,413
The machine simply
does not operate as expected.
1231
01:24:05,486 --> 01:24:09,513
- It requires further examination.
- So where did my top hat go?
1232
01:24:09,590 --> 01:24:10,648
Nowhere.
1233
01:24:10,725 --> 01:24:13,523
We tried the damn thing a dozen times.
1234
01:24:13,594 --> 01:24:15,221
The hat went nowhere.
1235
01:24:15,296 --> 01:24:17,196
We need to try different material.
1236
01:24:17,265 --> 01:24:19,426
It may provoke a different result.
1237
01:24:19,967 --> 01:24:21,992
(MEOWING)
1238
01:24:22,069 --> 01:24:23,627
Great.
1239
01:24:30,778 --> 01:24:34,737
You are responsible for whatever
happens to this animal, doctor.
1240
01:24:39,253 --> 01:24:40,379
(MEOWS)
1241
01:24:40,454 --> 01:24:42,945
(ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
1242
01:24:53,434 --> 01:24:56,198
(SIGHS)
1243
01:24:56,270 --> 01:24:58,898
I hope whatever you were
really doing with my money
1244
01:24:58,973 --> 01:25:01,407
was more worthwhile, Mr. Tesla.
1245
01:25:13,721 --> 01:25:15,814
(MEOWING)
1246
01:25:15,890 --> 01:25:18,723
(CATS SCREECHING)
1247
01:25:28,903 --> 01:25:32,134
(SCREECHING CONTINUES)
1248
01:25:32,206 --> 01:25:34,436
(HISSING)
1249
01:25:57,331 --> 01:25:58,320
Alley!
1250
01:26:01,402 --> 01:26:03,131
So the machine was working?
1251
01:26:03,204 --> 01:26:06,833
I never checked the calibration,
'cause the hat never moved.
1252
01:26:06,907 --> 01:26:09,774
These things never quite
work as you expect them to.
1253
01:26:09,844 --> 01:26:12,335
That's one of the principal
beauties of science.
1254
01:26:12,413 --> 01:26:15,871
I'll need a couple of weeks to iron out
the problems with the machine.
1255
01:26:15,950 --> 01:26:18,009
We'll send word when it's ready.
1256
01:26:20,221 --> 01:26:23,190
Don't forget your hat.
1257
01:26:23,257 --> 01:26:26,988
- Well, which one is mine?
- They are all your hats.
1258
01:26:32,933 --> 01:26:35,925
You look so pretty
in this new dress of yours.
1259
01:26:36,003 --> 01:26:39,837
- Are we going to the zoo?
- No, Daddy has some errands to run.
1260
01:26:39,907 --> 01:26:42,137
- But you promised.
- I promised, did I?
1261
01:26:42,209 --> 01:26:44,507
Then go to the zoo, we shall.
1262
01:26:44,578 --> 01:26:48,036
Daddy will go run his errands,
and I'll be back before you know it.
1263
01:26:48,115 --> 01:26:51,846
So you go get ready. We'll go
see those chimpanzees. (HOOTS)
1264
01:26:54,855 --> 01:26:58,256
Sarah... what are you doing?
1265
01:27:01,929 --> 01:27:04,921
Each of us have our vices.
1266
01:27:08,035 --> 01:27:10,503
Sarah, whatever you may think...
1267
01:27:12,073 --> 01:27:15,702
...your only competition
for my affections is our little girl.
1268
01:27:15,776 --> 01:27:18,745
I love you. I will always love you
1269
01:27:18,813 --> 01:27:20,246
and you alone.
1270
01:27:22,116 --> 01:27:25,916
- You mean it today.
- Absolutely.
1271
01:27:25,986 --> 01:27:29,820
Which makes it so much
harder when you don't.
1272
01:27:39,166 --> 01:27:41,964
More shopping. She does
love the smell of money.
1273
01:27:42,036 --> 01:27:46,336
The little lady wants to go to the zoo,
so I thought you could take her, yeah?
1274
01:27:46,407 --> 01:27:48,773
I mean, I can do it tomorrow, if not.
1275
01:27:48,843 --> 01:27:52,142
And, uh... Sarah,
1276
01:27:52,213 --> 01:27:54,340
she knows.
1277
01:27:54,415 --> 01:27:58,579
Uh, at least she knows
that something is not right,
1278
01:27:58,652 --> 01:28:01,553
so if you can just do
whatever you can to help me.
1279
01:28:01,622 --> 01:28:06,184
Talk to her, just
convince her that I do love her.
1280
01:28:16,837 --> 01:28:18,805
What is it, Freddie?
1281
01:28:18,873 --> 01:28:21,171
Listen, don't call me that, please.
1282
01:28:21,242 --> 01:28:25,110
It's nothing. It's just that
sometimes it seems wrong.
1283
01:28:25,179 --> 01:28:27,670
I told you, when you're
with me, you're with me.
1284
01:28:27,748 --> 01:28:30,774
Leave your family at home
where they belong.
1285
01:28:30,851 --> 01:28:34,116
I'm trying. I'm trying, Olivia.
1286
01:28:34,188 --> 01:28:36,554
- I'll get dressed.
- Yeah.
1287
01:28:38,058 --> 01:28:41,084
I saw Fallon hanging around again.
1288
01:28:41,162 --> 01:28:43,630
There's something about
that man I don't trust.
1289
01:28:43,697 --> 01:28:46,757
You trust me? Then trust Fallon.
1290
01:28:46,834 --> 01:28:49,496
He protects the things
that I care about.
1291
01:28:49,570 --> 01:28:52,562
(ENGINE SPUTTERS)
1292
01:29:27,741 --> 01:29:30,232
We're sorry to see you go, Mr. Angier.
1293
01:29:30,311 --> 01:29:32,871
We were sorry to see
Mr. Tesla leave, as well.
1294
01:29:32,947 --> 01:29:35,040
He's very good to Colorado Springs.
1295
01:29:35,115 --> 01:29:37,777
Mr. Angier,
1296
01:29:37,851 --> 01:29:41,480
I didn't think it was necessary
to tell Edison's men about the box.
1297
01:29:41,555 --> 01:29:43,216
What box?
1298
01:30:08,549 --> 01:30:11,950
TESLA : I apologize for leaving
without saying goodbye.
1299
01:30:12,019 --> 01:30:17,252
But I seem to have outstayed
my welcome in Colorado.
1300
01:30:17,324 --> 01:30:21,818
The truly extraordinary is not
permitted in science and industry.
1301
01:30:21,895 --> 01:30:24,693
Perhaps you'll find
more luck in your field,
1302
01:30:24,765 --> 01:30:27,427
where people are happy to be mystified.
1303
01:30:27,501 --> 01:30:31,460
You will find what you
are looking for in this box.
1304
01:30:31,538 --> 01:30:35,975
Alley has written you
a thorough set of instructions.
1305
01:30:36,043 --> 01:30:40,776
I add only one suggestion
on using the machine.
1306
01:30:40,848 --> 01:30:42,816
Destroy it.
1307
01:30:42,883 --> 01:30:46,182
Drop it to the bottom
of the deepest ocean.
1308
01:30:46,253 --> 01:30:49,654
Such a thing will bring you only misery.
1309
01:30:53,527 --> 01:30:57,156
ANGIER : Tesla's warning is
as unheeded as he knew it would be.
1310
01:30:57,231 --> 01:31:00,792
Today I tested the machine.
Taking precautions in case
1311
01:31:00,868 --> 01:31:03,837
Tesla hadn't ironed out
the kinks in its operation.
1312
01:31:03,904 --> 01:31:05,701
But if it went wrong,
1313
01:31:05,773 --> 01:31:07,934
I would not want to live
like that for long.
1314
01:31:10,678 --> 01:31:12,270
(ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
1315
01:31:27,394 --> 01:31:31,524
ANGIER : But here at the turn,
I must leave you, Borden.
1316
01:31:31,598 --> 01:31:33,828
Yes, you, Borden,
1317
01:31:33,901 --> 01:31:36,267
sitting there in your cell,
1318
01:31:36,337 --> 01:31:40,364
reading my diary, awaiting your death,
1319
01:31:40,441 --> 01:31:42,432
for my murder.
1320
01:31:47,781 --> 01:31:51,080
Angier's journal, that gesture
of good faith, that's a fake.
1321
01:31:51,151 --> 01:31:52,448
I assure you, it's not.
1322
01:31:52,519 --> 01:31:55,454
The provenance of the journal
is clear and under no doubt.
1323
01:31:55,522 --> 01:32:00,016
And it's written in Angier's own hand,
for which we have numerous examples.
1324
01:32:01,895 --> 01:32:03,795
It don't matter.
1325
01:32:05,733 --> 01:32:07,758
So my tricks.
1326
01:32:11,004 --> 01:32:14,462
- All of them.
- Including The Transported man?
1327
01:32:15,909 --> 01:32:19,106
- Lord Caldlow will be very pleased.
- No, he won't.
1328
01:32:19,179 --> 01:32:21,545
They're not complete.
1329
01:32:21,615 --> 01:32:24,345
It's just the pledge
and the turn for each.
1330
01:32:24,418 --> 01:32:28,479
Without the prestige for these
tricks, these are worthless.
1331
01:32:28,555 --> 01:32:30,580
Yeah.
1332
01:32:30,657 --> 01:32:34,184
You get the rest of it...
when you bring my daughter here.
1333
01:32:36,930 --> 01:32:39,160
I want to say goodbye.
1334
01:32:40,901 --> 01:32:44,064
SARAH : We have to go through it now.
We have to go through it now.
1335
01:32:44,138 --> 01:32:46,504
Now, listen to me, deny it all you want.
1336
01:32:46,573 --> 01:32:48,939
Olivia means nothing.
1337
01:32:49,009 --> 01:32:50,806
- Olivia?
- I need an assistant.
1338
01:32:50,878 --> 01:32:53,711
- I'll go to her, I'll tell her.
- You'll tell her what?
1339
01:32:53,781 --> 01:32:55,840
I know what you really are, Alfred.
1340
01:32:57,951 --> 01:32:59,714
- I know.
- Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.
1341
01:32:59,787 --> 01:33:02,415
- I can't keep it in.
- You can't talk like this.
1342
01:33:02,489 --> 01:33:05,014
- No. No.
- Sarah, shut up! Sarah, shut up!
1343
01:33:05,092 --> 01:33:09,222
I don't want to hear it anymore.
You can't talk like this.
1344
01:33:11,832 --> 01:33:15,233
SARAH : You can't hide it anymore,
because I know, Alfred, I know.
1345
01:33:15,302 --> 01:33:18,738
I know what you really are, Alfred.
1346
01:33:18,806 --> 01:33:21,604
I can't live like this.
1347
01:33:21,675 --> 01:33:23,802
Oh, well, you think
I can live like this?
1348
01:33:23,877 --> 01:33:27,040
You think I bloody enjoy
living like this?
1349
01:33:27,114 --> 01:33:31,517
We have this beautiful house,
lovely little girl, we're married.
1350
01:33:31,585 --> 01:33:33,246
What is so wrong with your life?
1351
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:35,914
Alfred, I can't live like this!
1352
01:33:35,989 --> 01:33:38,355
Well, what do you want from me?
1353
01:33:41,695 --> 01:33:45,392
I... I want...
1354
01:33:45,466 --> 01:33:48,526
I want you to be... honest with me.
1355
01:33:51,271 --> 01:33:53,739
No tricks.
1356
01:33:53,807 --> 01:33:55,900
No lies.
1357
01:33:55,976 --> 01:33:59,776
And no secrets.
1358
01:34:06,053 --> 01:34:09,386
Do you... do you love me?
1359
01:34:12,459 --> 01:34:14,086
Not today.
1360
01:34:16,230 --> 01:34:17,288
No.
1361
01:34:21,835 --> 01:34:24,668
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
1362
01:34:54,801 --> 01:34:57,599
- (CRASHING)
- (BIRDS SQUAWKING)
1363
01:35:28,468 --> 01:35:31,403
(SEAGULLS CALLING)
1364
01:35:42,416 --> 01:35:44,646
(BIRDS FLUTTERING)
1365
01:35:54,962 --> 01:35:55,986
Who's there?
1366
01:35:59,132 --> 01:36:01,225
I'm looking for an old friend.
1367
01:36:01,301 --> 01:36:04,236
I heard about a booking,
nice little theater,
1368
01:36:04,304 --> 01:36:06,738
- good up-and-coming magician.
- You're back.
1369
01:36:06,807 --> 01:36:08,399
It's good to see you, John.
1370
01:36:09,176 --> 01:36:11,906
Good rehearsal space.
1371
01:36:11,979 --> 01:36:14,743
Blind stagehands, I like it. (LAUGHS)
1372
01:36:14,815 --> 01:36:17,477
You always had a good eye for publicity.
1373
01:36:17,551 --> 01:36:18,882
I need your help, John.
1374
01:36:18,952 --> 01:36:21,750
It's my last show. A limited engagement.
1375
01:36:21,822 --> 01:36:23,449
Your last show?
1376
01:36:23,523 --> 01:36:27,653
A wise man once told me obsession
was a young man's game.
1377
01:36:27,728 --> 01:36:31,289
I'm almost done. There's one thing left.
1378
01:36:32,299 --> 01:36:34,824
The Real Transported man.
1379
01:36:36,637 --> 01:36:38,628
You want to design a show around it?
1380
01:36:38,705 --> 01:36:41,572
I don't want you backstage
I need you in front managing.
1381
01:36:41,642 --> 01:36:44,304
Call in any favors
or connections you have left
1382
01:36:44,378 --> 01:36:45,845
to get us the right booking.
1383
01:36:45,912 --> 01:36:48,005
What sort of booking you after?
1384
01:36:48,081 --> 01:36:50,481
The sort that Borden can't ignore.
1385
01:36:56,857 --> 01:37:00,088
Oh, what an honor it is
to see you again, sir.
1386
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:04,119
You told me you only wanted to show me
one trick that'd pique my interest.
1387
01:37:04,197 --> 01:37:07,360
- It's a very clever trick.
- Pleased to meet you, Mr. Ackerman.
1388
01:37:07,434 --> 01:37:10,301
Likewise, I'm sure.
Let's get on, shall we?
1389
01:37:13,940 --> 01:37:15,703
Turn it on, gentlemen.
1390
01:37:20,947 --> 01:37:22,073
Very pretty.
1391
01:37:33,126 --> 01:37:36,789
That's it, Cutter? He simply disappears?
1392
01:37:36,863 --> 01:37:39,229
That's not a trick. He has to come back.
1393
01:37:39,299 --> 01:37:41,460
- There has to be a...
- ANGIER : A prestige?
1394
01:37:41,535 --> 01:37:42,524
Exactly.
1395
01:37:45,539 --> 01:37:48,201
Pardon me.
1396
01:37:48,275 --> 01:37:51,540
It's very rare to see...
1397
01:37:51,611 --> 01:37:53,078
...real magic.
1398
01:37:54,581 --> 01:37:56,276
It's been many years since...
1399
01:37:56,349 --> 01:37:58,078
Are you interested in helping us?
1400
01:38:00,153 --> 01:38:03,884
Yes... but you'll have
to dress it up a little.
1401
01:38:06,159 --> 01:38:07,820
Disguise it.
1402
01:38:09,496 --> 01:38:11,987
Give them enough reason to doubt it.
1403
01:38:12,799 --> 01:38:16,030
You haven't spoken
about her, Freddie, not once.
1404
01:38:16,103 --> 01:38:19,800
Why would I talk about her to you, hm?
1405
01:38:19,873 --> 01:38:23,741
Because she was a part of
your life and now she's gone.
1406
01:38:26,713 --> 01:38:31,207
You know, the day before she killed
herself she said she wanted to meet me.
1407
01:38:31,284 --> 01:38:34,219
That she had something
to tell me about you.
1408
01:38:34,287 --> 01:38:37,882
I was such a coward,
I couldn't bring myself to face her.
1409
01:38:37,958 --> 01:38:39,448
But...
1410
01:38:40,660 --> 01:38:42,924
...what would she have said?
1411
01:38:42,996 --> 01:38:46,090
You want to know the truth about me?
1412
01:38:47,367 --> 01:38:49,858
The truth is that...
1413
01:38:52,038 --> 01:38:54,029
...I never loved Sarah.
1414
01:38:55,242 --> 01:38:56,732
I never loved her.
1415
01:38:56,810 --> 01:38:59,040
You married her,
you had a child with her.
1416
01:38:59,112 --> 01:39:02,206
Yes. Part of me. Part of me did, but...
1417
01:39:02,282 --> 01:39:04,216
...the other part didn't.
1418
01:39:04,284 --> 01:39:08,516
The part that found you,
the part that's sitting here right now.
1419
01:39:08,588 --> 01:39:11,648
I love you. No, Olivia, I love you.
1420
01:39:11,725 --> 01:39:13,693
That's the truth.
1421
01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:16,160
That is the truth that matters.
1422
01:39:16,229 --> 01:39:20,632
You could be in some other restaurant
with some other woman right now,
1423
01:39:20,700 --> 01:39:22,292
talking about me that way.
1424
01:39:22,369 --> 01:39:24,496
- No.
- Yes.
1425
01:39:27,941 --> 01:39:31,672
It's inhuman to be so cold.
1426
01:39:37,350 --> 01:39:38,612
He's back.
1427
01:39:39,519 --> 01:39:42,784
After two years, he's got a new trick.
1428
01:39:42,856 --> 01:39:45,518
They're saying it's
the best London's ever seen.
1429
01:39:47,727 --> 01:39:50,195
You should see the look
on your face, Professor.
1430
01:39:52,065 --> 01:39:53,999
You should go to him.
1431
01:39:54,067 --> 01:39:56,592
You two deserve each other.
1432
01:40:01,575 --> 01:40:05,511
But I'm afraid I'm booked. The Moscow
Ballet plays through next year.
1433
01:40:05,579 --> 01:40:10,141
Then get rid of them. There will be
100 performances, no more, no less.
1434
01:40:10,217 --> 01:40:12,708
Five performances a week, no matinees.
1435
01:40:14,521 --> 01:40:17,547
That's what you'll
charge for each ticket. Good day.
1436
01:40:20,927 --> 01:40:25,193
(APPLAUSE)
1437
01:40:25,265 --> 01:40:28,701
(FOOTSTEPS ON STAGE)
1438
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:44,910
Ladies and gentlemen, my first trick of
the evening involves considerable risk.
1439
01:40:46,152 --> 01:40:47,517
Anyone in the audience
1440
01:40:47,587 --> 01:40:50,420
who would be irrevocably
damaged by seeing a man drown
1441
01:40:50,490 --> 01:40:52,082
should leave now.
1442
01:40:52,158 --> 01:40:54,956
When I tell you the lady
who taught me this illusion
1443
01:40:55,028 --> 01:40:57,019
actually died performing it,
1444
01:40:57,097 --> 01:41:00,396
you'll understand the seriousness
of the dangers involved.
1445
01:41:02,569 --> 01:41:04,969
- Let's begin.
- (APPLAUSE)
1446
01:41:14,681 --> 01:41:17,309
In my travels, I have seen the future.
1447
01:41:19,119 --> 01:41:22,714
And it is a strange future, indeed.
1448
01:41:22,789 --> 01:41:24,950
The world, ladies and gentlemen,
1449
01:41:25,025 --> 01:41:27,323
is on the brink of new
1450
01:41:27,394 --> 01:41:29,123
and terrifying possibilities.
1451
01:41:29,195 --> 01:41:31,186
(TAPS CANE)
1452
01:41:38,204 --> 01:41:42,436
(APPLAUSE)
1453
01:41:49,616 --> 01:41:53,074
What you're about to witness
is not magic.
1454
01:41:54,254 --> 01:41:55,653
It's purely science.
1455
01:41:55,722 --> 01:41:58,156
I'd like to invite you
to come up on stage now
1456
01:41:58,224 --> 01:42:01,216
so that you can examine
the machine for yourselves.
1457
01:42:17,177 --> 01:42:19,509
(ELECTRICAL ZAPPING)
1458
01:42:51,778 --> 01:42:54,508
(CROWD MURMURING, GASPING)
1459
01:42:54,581 --> 01:42:56,446
(APPLAUSE)
1460
01:42:56,516 --> 01:42:58,347
Man's reach
1461
01:42:58,418 --> 01:43:01,546
exceeds his imagination.
1462
01:43:01,621 --> 01:43:05,216
(APPLAUSE, CHEERING)
1463
01:43:12,832 --> 01:43:14,197
Bravo!
1464
01:43:22,242 --> 01:43:24,972
One hundred performances. Why?
1465
01:43:25,045 --> 01:43:26,603
Does his method dictate that?
1466
01:43:26,679 --> 01:43:28,579
Is it a publicity move? What is it?
1467
01:43:28,648 --> 01:43:31,014
He's a no-talent magician,
and they call him
1468
01:43:31,084 --> 01:43:33,484
the bloody best in England. Why?
1469
01:43:33,553 --> 01:43:36,317
Fifty yards in a second! In a second!
1470
01:43:36,389 --> 01:43:39,483
And all that we know
is he uses a trap door.
1471
01:43:39,559 --> 01:43:43,825
Brilliant! What is going on
under that stage? Huh?!
1472
01:43:43,897 --> 01:43:46,331
Why can't you out-think him?
1473
01:44:01,448 --> 01:44:06,647
They do this every night,
after each performance. Yeah?
1474
01:44:06,719 --> 01:44:09,210
(SIGHS)
1475
01:44:32,946 --> 01:44:34,277
BORDEN : Huh.
1476
01:44:35,148 --> 01:44:38,117
- (CRUMPLING PAPER)
- We're done.
1477
01:44:39,419 --> 01:44:40,977
All right?
1478
01:44:42,288 --> 01:44:44,051
Let him have his trick.
1479
01:44:44,124 --> 01:44:46,615
I don't need his secret.
1480
01:44:46,693 --> 01:44:48,183
So...
1481
01:44:49,696 --> 01:44:52,665
...don't go back there,
you leave him alone.
1482
01:44:52,732 --> 01:44:55,997
Both of us... just leave him alone.
1483
01:44:56,069 --> 01:44:57,696
We're done.
1484
01:45:06,446 --> 01:45:08,505
ANGIER : I told you, John.
1485
01:45:08,581 --> 01:45:10,674
I don't want you backstage on this one.
1486
01:45:12,318 --> 01:45:14,718
ANGIER : I would like to
invite you onstage now
1487
01:45:14,787 --> 01:45:17,483
so that you can examine
the machine for yourselves.
1488
01:45:46,686 --> 01:45:50,417
- Hey, where do you think...?
- I'm part of the bloody act, you fool.
1489
01:45:55,695 --> 01:45:57,890
(ELECTRIC ZAPPING)
1490
01:45:59,432 --> 01:46:00,421
Who was that?
1491
01:46:04,537 --> 01:46:07,529
(RUMBLING)
1492
01:46:21,554 --> 01:46:24,045
(ZAPPING CONTINUES)
1493
01:46:45,411 --> 01:46:47,003
(SILENCE)
1494
01:46:56,990 --> 01:47:01,120
- (MUFFLED SCREAMING)
- Hey! Where's the bloody key?!
1495
01:47:01,194 --> 01:47:02,752
Where's the bloody key?!
1496
01:47:02,829 --> 01:47:05,127
(BORDEN YELLING)
1497
01:47:05,198 --> 01:47:08,929
Where's the bloody key?!
He's bloody drowning!
1498
01:47:18,177 --> 01:47:19,166
Hold on!
1499
01:47:20,280 --> 01:47:21,304
(SCREAMS)
1500
01:47:24,484 --> 01:47:25,951
What have you done?
1501
01:47:47,774 --> 01:47:53,212
MAN : Alfred BORDEN, you have been found
guilty of the murder of Robert Angier.
1502
01:47:53,279 --> 01:47:57,511
You will be hanged
by the neck until dead.
1503
01:47:57,583 --> 01:48:00,552
May the Lord have mercy on your soul.
1504
01:48:02,322 --> 01:48:04,483
OWENS : Mr. Cutter?
1505
01:48:04,557 --> 01:48:06,184
Owens.
1506
01:48:06,259 --> 01:48:09,092
Oh, thank you for coming, Mr. Owens.
1507
01:48:09,162 --> 01:48:13,531
It has fallen to me to dispose
of Mr. Angier's equipment.
1508
01:48:13,599 --> 01:48:15,191
But I notice from this manifest
1509
01:48:15,268 --> 01:48:18,965
that Lord Caldlow has purchased
the bulk of the items.
1510
01:48:19,038 --> 01:48:22,337
Mr. Cutter, if you need to know
where to deliver these items...
1511
01:48:22,408 --> 01:48:26,003
No, it's just there is
one particular item,
1512
01:48:26,946 --> 01:48:29,540
this item, in fact,
1513
01:48:29,615 --> 01:48:31,879
- I would like to...
- You would like to...
1514
01:48:31,951 --> 01:48:33,043
...buy.
1515
01:48:33,119 --> 01:48:35,019
- Buy yourself?
- Yeah, I suppose so.
1516
01:48:36,255 --> 01:48:38,189
- This is the machine?
- Yes.
1517
01:48:38,257 --> 01:48:40,487
Well, I'm afraid
Lord Caldlow was adamant
1518
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:42,790
about purchasing this particular item.
1519
01:48:42,862 --> 01:48:45,956
Do you think I could
talk to Lord Caldlow in person?
1520
01:48:46,032 --> 01:48:48,796
Out of the question, I'm afraid.
1521
01:48:51,237 --> 01:48:53,137
Of course,
1522
01:48:53,206 --> 01:48:56,437
I suppose if, in the course
of your delivery arrangements,
1523
01:48:56,509 --> 01:49:00,969
your paths were to cross,
I can't stop you speaking your mind.
1524
01:49:01,948 --> 01:49:03,074
Thank you.
1525
01:49:03,216 --> 01:49:04,547
(DOOR OPENS)
1526
01:49:04,650 --> 01:49:06,811
- MAN : Still here, Borden?
- For now.
1527
01:49:07,420 --> 01:49:10,389
You got a visitor. Lord Caldlow.
1528
01:49:10,456 --> 01:49:12,549
With a little girl.
1529
01:49:20,833 --> 01:49:22,733
Jess?
1530
01:49:22,802 --> 01:49:24,429
Hello, my love.
1531
01:49:24,504 --> 01:49:27,962
How are you? I've missed you so much.
1532
01:49:28,040 --> 01:49:30,167
Fallon's missed you too. We both have.
1533
01:49:30,243 --> 01:49:32,575
Daddy, can I come in there?
1534
01:49:33,212 --> 01:49:35,840
Not right now. Not right now, darling.
1535
01:49:35,915 --> 01:49:38,179
No, but everything
is gonna be all right.
1536
01:49:39,752 --> 01:49:41,481
You must be Lord Caldlow?
1537
01:49:41,554 --> 01:49:45,285
Caldlow. Yes, I am. I always have been.
1538
01:49:50,329 --> 01:49:52,524
They flatter you with all those chains.
1539
01:49:52,598 --> 01:49:55,624
Don't they know you can't escape
without your rubber ball?
1540
01:49:55,701 --> 01:49:58,693
I pulled you out... out of that tank.
1541
01:49:58,771 --> 01:50:02,605
All I wanted to do was prove
that I was a better magician.
1542
01:50:02,675 --> 01:50:04,575
But you couldn't leave me alone.
1543
01:50:06,078 --> 01:50:08,171
I don't know what you've done.
1544
01:50:10,082 --> 01:50:13,779
But you're not afraid to get
your hands dirty anymore, are you?
1545
01:50:13,853 --> 01:50:17,118
No, not anymore. And I win.
1546
01:50:17,190 --> 01:50:20,523
No one cares about the man
in the box, the man who disappears.
1547
01:50:20,593 --> 01:50:21,719
You win?
1548
01:50:23,162 --> 01:50:27,826
This ain't a bloody competition
anymore. This is my little girl's life.
1549
01:50:27,900 --> 01:50:30,892
And don't you dare
put her in the middle of this.
1550
01:50:30,970 --> 01:50:33,962
Oh, I know how hard it is
to have someone so special
1551
01:50:34,040 --> 01:50:36,406
taken away from you, don't I, Borden?
1552
01:50:37,410 --> 01:50:40,140
And you can't take it
with you, now, can you?
1553
01:50:40,213 --> 01:50:42,113
Oh, she'll be looked after.
1554
01:50:42,181 --> 01:50:44,206
Goodbye, Professor. Come on, darling.
1555
01:50:44,283 --> 01:50:46,046
No, no, no, no, stop, my darling.
1556
01:50:46,118 --> 01:50:48,245
Look, here.
1557
01:50:49,789 --> 01:50:53,054
That's what you're after.
That's what this is about.
1558
01:50:53,860 --> 01:50:55,225
Take it.
1559
01:50:55,294 --> 01:50:56,989
- Your secret?
- Yeah.
1560
01:51:00,199 --> 01:51:03,760
You always were the better magician.
We both know that.
1561
01:51:04,403 --> 01:51:06,997
Whatever your secret was,
you have to agree,
1562
01:51:08,140 --> 01:51:09,471
mine is better.
1563
01:51:11,177 --> 01:51:14,544
Don't do this. Don't do this,
Angier. Jess, Jess!
1564
01:51:14,614 --> 01:51:18,141
Jess, I'm gonna take you
home soon. I promise.
1565
01:51:18,217 --> 01:51:20,777
- For God's sake.
- I promise. Look!
1566
01:51:24,624 --> 01:51:28,219
I promise. I love you, Jess.
1567
01:51:28,294 --> 01:51:29,955
I love you.
1568
01:51:30,029 --> 01:51:31,656
- Come on.
- I love you.
1569
01:51:31,731 --> 01:51:33,426
I love you, Jess.
1570
01:51:33,499 --> 01:51:35,831
Angier! Angier!
1571
01:51:35,902 --> 01:51:37,995
What, do you think
this place can hold me?
1572
01:51:38,070 --> 01:51:41,096
Angier! They're gonna bloody hang me!
1573
01:51:41,173 --> 01:51:43,698
And you can put a stop to this now!
1574
01:51:44,343 --> 01:51:46,538
Listen! Listen! That man...
1575
01:51:46,612 --> 01:51:48,978
Listen, that man is
the one I'm in for killing!
1576
01:51:49,048 --> 01:51:53,382
Listen! If he's alive, I'm not guilty!
1577
01:51:53,452 --> 01:51:55,716
- I'm not guilty!
- I don't care!
1578
01:51:55,788 --> 01:51:57,881
- Get hold of him.
- Angier!
1579
01:52:02,562 --> 01:52:05,122
Run along now.
1580
01:52:05,197 --> 01:52:07,722
Sir, there's a gentleman waiting.
1581
01:52:24,550 --> 01:52:27,280
- Dear God.
- Hello, Cutter.
1582
01:52:28,254 --> 01:52:30,688
You're still alive.
1583
01:52:30,756 --> 01:52:32,621
How is it you're still alive?
1584
01:52:32,692 --> 01:52:35,092
I saw you on a slab, for God's sake.
1585
01:52:38,097 --> 01:52:40,122
- Child.
- Good night, sir.
1586
01:52:40,199 --> 01:52:42,167
ANGIER : Good night, Jess.
1587
01:52:43,402 --> 01:52:45,063
I've seen her before.
1588
01:52:45,137 --> 01:52:47,662
I saw her in court with...
1589
01:52:48,608 --> 01:52:50,235
...Fallon.
1590
01:52:52,345 --> 01:52:54,939
- What have you done?
- She needs looking after.
1591
01:52:55,014 --> 01:52:57,505
She needs her father.
1592
01:52:57,583 --> 01:53:00,552
You're letting him hang,
and I helped you.
1593
01:53:00,620 --> 01:53:05,557
I came here to beg Lord Caldlow
to let me destroy that machine.
1594
01:53:07,026 --> 01:53:10,462
I am not going to beg you for anything.
1595
01:53:10,529 --> 01:53:13,794
You don't have to. I'm gonna
make sure it is never used again.
1596
01:53:14,934 --> 01:53:18,028
Then, Lord Caldlow...
1597
01:53:20,573 --> 01:53:22,632
...where do you want me to deliver it?
1598
01:53:22,708 --> 01:53:26,474
My theater. It belongs
with the prestige materials.
1599
01:53:26,946 --> 01:53:29,540
John, I tried not to involve you.
1600
01:53:42,495 --> 01:53:44,759
So...
1601
01:53:46,799 --> 01:53:49,393
We go alone now.
1602
01:53:49,468 --> 01:53:51,902
Both of us.
1603
01:53:54,707 --> 01:53:58,108
I mean, I don't have
as far to go as you.
1604
01:54:03,416 --> 01:54:04,747
No.
1605
01:54:06,285 --> 01:54:09,345
You were right. I should have
left him to his damn trick.
1606
01:54:11,123 --> 01:54:13,216
I'm sorry.
1607
01:54:14,760 --> 01:54:17,092
I'm sorry for a lot of things.
1608
01:54:18,230 --> 01:54:20,960
I'm sorry about Sarah.
1609
01:54:22,068 --> 01:54:25,526
Didn't mean to hurt her, I didn't.
1610
01:54:27,406 --> 01:54:31,740
You go live your life in full now,
all right? You live for both of us.
1611
01:54:40,586 --> 01:54:42,076
Goodbye.
1612
01:55:27,867 --> 01:55:30,301
Are you watching closely?
1613
01:56:01,667 --> 01:56:03,601
Put it down on the end.
1614
01:56:37,002 --> 01:56:40,768
Take a minute to consider
your achievement.
1615
01:56:41,841 --> 01:56:44,639
I once told you about a sailor
1616
01:56:44,710 --> 01:56:47,008
who described drowning to me.
1617
01:56:47,079 --> 01:56:49,274
Yes, he said it was like going home.
1618
01:56:50,382 --> 01:56:54,148
I was lying. He said it was agony.
1619
01:57:33,893 --> 01:57:38,057
MAN : Alfred Borden, this day,
in the name of the king
1620
01:57:38,130 --> 01:57:40,121
and the High Court of England,
1621
01:57:40,199 --> 01:57:42,030
you will meet your end.
1622
01:57:44,136 --> 01:57:46,161
No one cares about the man in the box.
1623
01:57:51,010 --> 01:57:52,739
Cutter?
1624
01:57:57,416 --> 01:57:58,940
Cutter!
1625
01:58:00,819 --> 01:58:03,083
MAN : Do you have anything to say?
1626
01:58:07,826 --> 01:58:09,225
Abracadabra.
1627
01:58:15,401 --> 01:58:16,959
(GUNSHOT)
1628
01:58:20,706 --> 01:58:22,970
(MOANS)
1629
01:58:32,952 --> 01:58:35,978
(ANGIER MOANS)
1630
01:58:45,864 --> 01:58:48,594
A brother? A twin?
1631
01:58:50,436 --> 01:58:52,802
You were Fallon.
1632
01:58:54,306 --> 01:58:56,968
- The whole time?
- No.
1633
01:58:58,010 --> 01:59:00,342
We were both Fallon.
1634
01:59:00,412 --> 01:59:02,312
We were both Borden.
1635
01:59:07,686 --> 01:59:10,655
Were you the one who went into the box?
1636
01:59:10,723 --> 01:59:12,418
Or the one who came back out?
1637
01:59:13,726 --> 01:59:16,024
We took turns.
1638
01:59:20,833 --> 01:59:22,892
The trick is where we would swap.
1639
01:59:29,108 --> 01:59:31,008
Cutter knew. Cutter knew.
1640
01:59:31,076 --> 01:59:33,340
But I told him it was
too simple, too easy.
1641
01:59:34,546 --> 01:59:35,535
No.
1642
01:59:37,082 --> 01:59:39,050
Simple, maybe, but not easy.
1643
01:59:39,118 --> 01:59:42,884
There's nothing easy
about two men sharing one life.
1644
01:59:48,560 --> 01:59:51,757
I don't understand,
how it can be bleeding again?
1645
01:59:55,234 --> 01:59:58,032
Wha... What about Olivia and your wife?
1646
01:59:59,038 --> 02:00:00,938
We each loved one of them.
1647
02:00:04,576 --> 02:00:07,306
I loved Sarah.
1648
02:00:07,379 --> 02:00:09,904
He loved Olivia.
1649
02:00:09,982 --> 02:00:12,416
We each had half of a full life,
1650
02:00:12,484 --> 02:00:15,476
really, which was enough for us...
1651
02:00:15,554 --> 02:00:16,543
...just.
1652
02:00:19,191 --> 02:00:20,920
But not for them.
1653
02:00:23,495 --> 02:00:25,725
See, sacrifice, Robert,
1654
02:00:25,798 --> 02:00:28,528
that's the price of a good trick.
1655
02:00:30,569 --> 02:00:33,129
You wouldn't know
anything about that, would you?
1656
02:00:33,205 --> 02:00:36,333
(GROANING)
1657
02:00:36,408 --> 02:00:38,342
I've... I've made sacrifices.
1658
02:00:38,410 --> 02:00:40,378
- No.
- Yes.
1659
02:00:40,846 --> 02:00:43,940
It takes nothing
to steal another man's work.
1660
02:00:44,016 --> 02:00:46,780
Yeah, it takes everything.
1661
02:01:06,839 --> 02:01:08,966
No, no, wait, I'm not...
1662
02:01:09,041 --> 02:01:10,702
(GUNSHOT)
1663
02:01:15,647 --> 02:01:18,275
It took courage.
1664
02:01:20,285 --> 02:01:23,482
It took courage to climb
into that machine every night,
1665
02:01:24,289 --> 02:01:26,723
not knowing...
1666
02:01:26,792 --> 02:01:28,919
...if I'd be the man in the box...
1667
02:01:31,964 --> 02:01:33,226
...or in the prestige.
1668
02:01:34,566 --> 02:01:37,592
Do you want to see...
1669
02:01:37,669 --> 02:01:39,967
...what it cost me?
1670
02:01:40,038 --> 02:01:42,802
You didn't see where you are, did you?
1671
02:01:43,709 --> 02:01:46,109
Look. Look.
1672
02:01:47,212 --> 02:01:48,702
I don't care.
1673
02:01:53,418 --> 02:01:56,979
You went halfway around the world.
1674
02:01:57,055 --> 02:01:59,819
You spent a fortune.
1675
02:02:01,894 --> 02:02:04,419
You did terrible things.
1676
02:02:05,430 --> 02:02:07,898
Really terrible things, Robert.
1677
02:02:09,935 --> 02:02:11,425
And all for nothing.
1678
02:02:12,404 --> 02:02:13,598
For nothing?
1679
02:02:13,672 --> 02:02:15,003
BORDEN : Yeah.
1680
02:02:18,677 --> 02:02:21,305
You never understood...
1681
02:02:21,380 --> 02:02:23,371
...why we did this.
1682
02:02:26,485 --> 02:02:29,045
The audience knows the truth.
1683
02:02:30,189 --> 02:02:32,623
The world is simple.
1684
02:02:32,691 --> 02:02:34,420
It's miserable.
1685
02:02:34,493 --> 02:02:38,190
Solid... Solid all the way through.
1686
02:02:40,532 --> 02:02:42,864
But if you could fool them,
1687
02:02:42,935 --> 02:02:45,096
even for a second...
1688
02:02:46,638 --> 02:02:49,038
...then you could make them wonder.
1689
02:02:50,175 --> 02:02:52,370
And then you...
1690
02:02:52,444 --> 02:02:54,674
Then you got to see something
1691
02:02:54,746 --> 02:02:56,407
very special.
1692
02:03:00,719 --> 02:03:03,244
You really don't know.
1693
02:03:06,325 --> 02:03:07,986
It was...
1694
02:03:09,061 --> 02:03:12,030
...it was the look on their faces.
1695
02:03:14,967 --> 02:03:16,764
(INHALES DEEPLY)
1696
02:03:27,212 --> 02:03:32,047
CUTTER : Every magic trick
consists of three parts, or acts.
1697
02:03:35,487 --> 02:03:38,945
The first part is called "the pledge."
1698
02:03:39,024 --> 02:03:41,788
The magician shows you
something ordinary.
1699
02:03:42,928 --> 02:03:45,863
The second act is called "the turn."
1700
02:03:47,332 --> 02:03:50,199
The magician takes
the ordinary something
1701
02:03:50,269 --> 02:03:53,136
and makes it into
something extraordinary.
1702
02:03:54,473 --> 02:03:58,375
But you wouldn't clap yet,
because making something disappear
1703
02:03:58,443 --> 02:04:02,539
isn't enough. You have to bring it back.
1704
02:04:36,982 --> 02:04:39,416
Now you're looking for the secret.
1705
02:04:42,354 --> 02:04:46,085
But you won't find it, because,
of course, you're not really looking.
1706
02:04:49,194 --> 02:04:52,630
You don't really want to work it out.
1707
02:04:55,434 --> 02:04:57,732
You want to be fooled.