Episode 1 Help! My Mini School Trip Is Magic

It's term-time again

and our four magicians have left school on a brand-new mission.

This time, we're taking unsuspecting kids out of school

and sending them on school trips.

They're off to visit some amazing locations where they'll witness

incredible magic.

And once again, we're hiding secret cameras on every corner

so you don't miss a trick on any school trip.

How long will it take before the classes shout...

ALL: Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

CHEERING

This is year four.

They're going to the Royal Institution of Great Britain,

an organisation devoted to scientific education.

James will add his magical formula but first,

-we need to doctor his looks.

-(WOLF WHISTLES)

-Hot stuff!

So today's presentation,

I get to bisect a live human being right before their very eyes.

It's going to be great.

The cameras are set in,

the kids are sent in but they don't know they've been set up.

We're going to use Miss Lyne.

Miss Lyne, if you could come and help me

and if you'd like to just lie on the table there.

The people think she works here but Miss Lyne is James'

magical assistant.

Now, Miss Lyne is positioning herself over the main sensor area,

and we're just going to put some dynamic dispersion domes

on top to activate the nanotechnology.

Now, obviously when doing this, you have to be very,

very careful that we put these on correctly.

There, I think that's fantastic.

This futuristic looking device is about to house a massive

illusion and it's one that will cause mass confusion.

I'm going to take this one and pop it straight on top here and that's good.

Good.

Now, it's obviously very important that because we're using such small

technology, that we're very accurate with where we place our sensors.

I'm sensing some magic and I bet Miss Lyne is sensing danger.

Alan, could you come up and help me put on the head and the ankle rest.

That would be great.

In fact, if we do the feet first, that would be good.

Fergus looks like an Alan. Suits him.

As I said, it's very important that we are very, very accurate

with how we pinpoint our technology, which is

why it's important just to slightly restrict the movement...

Miss Lyne is well and truly secured in that unit. She's going nowhere.

..allowing us to be very accurate indeed.

I'm just going to be very careful.

Is that OK for you, Miss Lyne? OK.

And if you could just straighten that out.

Science occasionally needs a human guinea pig but if I was her,

I'd be having kittens!

So if we can bring the thermal plates out.

Now the thermal plates are going to allow us to bisect Miss Lyne.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Did he just say bisect?

Surely he's not going to put those through her body!

This might tickle a bit, as you know. So we're just going to pop that in.

How is that? Is that OK? ALL: Whoa!

-Oh, that made me jump.

-Yes, yes.

It's all very good, it's all very good.

And then we'll take the other plate and do the top half - like this.

Now the wonderful thing about this is we don't have to use any

-anaesthesia at all. Just make sure we've got at the

-Oh, it's stuck.

It's a good job James is a doc. Except he isn't.

Just give that a little pull.

He pulled her head and it's gone in. Ouch!

The thermal plates have bisected Miss Lyne in the middle.

Miss Lyne is split by what James is calling the thermal plates,

but her body seems OK.

They're undoing the catches and the catch is that this is magic.

So therefore, we can completely separate Miss Lyne.

I can't believe my eyes. I can't believe her legs.

That is one trick and a half.

Now, imagine the possibilities of this technology once it's rolled

out into hospitals all over the country. And are you OK, Miss Lyne?

-Yes.

-Fantastic. Miss Lyne's OK.

And you can see, we've temporarily bisected you without anaesthesia.

Isn't that exciting? And Alan, if we could, that would be great.

Can James ands Fergus keep it together?

Can he put Miss Lyne back together?

Fantastic and if you could just pop your hand in there, Miss Lyne,

that would be great.

And of course, take the plate at. Plates must come out.

The plates are out but have the class kept their food down

at this stomach-wrenching trick?

Fantastic and I'll take the top off, being very careful.

And there we go, Miss Lyne, everybody. Isn't she marvellous?

And I'll just help you up. Hey, there you go.

Phew! She's good as new.

And it's about time the class knew the secret.

As well as the two marvellous things we've shown you,

we've actually got another thing to tell you.

This is very, very exciting.

You are being secretly filmed on cameras hidden here and here,

and here for CBBC's Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

The class are cheering in excitement and relief.

Has it been a great trick? Not half!

What I really liked was when they separated the lady

and I was like, "Oh, my gosh!"

It was absolutely fantastic.

This school trip had no idea James was a magician.

How long would it take for you to shout...

Help! My School Trip Is Magic!