Episode 8 Now You See It

On tonight's show, floating...

That's just bizarre.

..spinning, and a heavy landing.

Ah!

-You'll hear the famous magic words.

-I want these locked tighter, Doug.

And something tastes funny.

THEY SCREAM

Not that funny.

We'll find out what singing superstar Liam Payne thinks.

I love these things, they're so good. I'm glad it's going well.

What band's he in again?

-This direction.

-This direction, OK.

-Close enough.

If only there was one little word

to describe the fun you're about to experience...

-Magic.

-Yeah, that'll do.

Welcome to Now You See It.

This is just getting strange now.

Let's begin with a card trick.

We haven't had enough of those on this show.

Diamonds are forever, as long as you don't shake the card too hard.

On a long car journey, you've got to make your own entertainment.

The joy of being a magician is never having to decide

which fingers to keep your elastic band on.

THEY SPEAK MANDARIN

And also, you can remove the elastic from your fingers

in a really stylish way.

Hang on, which one of you is supposed to be driving?

Want to see a T-shirt change colour mid-bounce?

Done!

Now over to magician Ben Hanlin with more clothes-based shenanigans.

Here's some money.

Just go in there and buy an outfit, buy whatever you want.

-See you in a bit.

-See you guys later. Anything, a full outfit?

-A full outfit, go.

-For 50 quid?

-Yeah.

He's sent a fashion student shopping.

I'm surprised she hasn't come back with a bird cage and a hard hat.

Hello!

Right, I'm intrigued, you took your time. Let's have a look.

You've got...some socks, good.

It's a really pretty look.

What are they?

Some leggings.

-Some leggings.

-She's a fashion designer!

-Some shorts.

-Shorts.

-And a vest.

-What did she do with the other £49.50?

-What I didn't tell you is this outfit, it was for me.

-Wow!

Sexy still.

That's the top!

Oh!

-Hold on.

-No!

-Love a Velcro-sided trouser.

-Stunning.

-It's a good look!

To be fair, this is better than a lot of magicians dress.

What do you think?

It's a good look.

Now, you know where they love a good trick and a joke? The airport.

I don't now if I'm supposed to report it, but it's been

doing this thing where it floats around and follows me

and it's been really suspicious.

-Should I report it?

-Yeah!

-Who should I report this to?

-Do that again.

A suspicious dollar has been floating around.

It's been really, really suspicious.

I don't know! Where's security?

Oh, I suspect they're on their way now.

-Meanwhile in the airport multistorey...

-Do you have keys?

..it's Andrew Mayne...

Is that even a key?

..amusing himself while his flight's delayed.

Magic in a multistorey car park. Fun on so many levels.

-You don't need a key any more?

-No.

You're right, you don't need a key any more. At all.

It's a very good trick.

Can I help you or can I just get my key back, or...?

I'm going to help you get your key back, going to help you find it.

I know where my key is, you have it.

-You can have your tape back, I don't want this.

-You know what?

We should use the tape.

That's creepy.

-What we need is a ball of tape.

-OK.

What we need is a ball of tape.

Magic.

-Getting angry with me, all right?

-OK.

-Tape is the answer to everything.

-Yeah.

Except when it's not the answer to anything. That's the problem.

Where are my keys at?

Come on!

What?

I can't reach that. Do you realise I'm only 5'2"? With my heels!

And of course, every hour they're there is costing them another £8.20.

Here's another of Andrew's victims,

trying to drill his way into the car using his head.

Give him back his keys, Andrew!

Back in a Terminal One, this guy is still trying to report

his magic trick to the relevant authorities.

Go! We got to report this.

OK, we've got to report it right away.

-This is not good!

-This is completely suspicious.

Totally...

No, wait a minute. Uh-uh. Give me that.

No, you're doing it wrong, like this, let me borrow it.

You've got to stick it on top of your fingertip, right there.

So, it looks like it's floating.

And then slowly pull your fingertip away and then it becomes suspicious.

Well, we've all done it -

spent so long making a dollar bill float, they've closed the gate.

But enough of appropriate audience responses,

it's time to enjoy some massive overreactions

to something quite small.

You know the trick where the assistant

is secretly hidden inside the magic box?

Well, this guy doesn't.

Ah! Oh! Holy cow!

What about the one where you put an air horn under a seat?

-HORN BLARES

-Agh!

Yep, he doesn't know that one either.

In massive overreaction number two, it's elastic bands again.

SHE SCREAMS

What is wrong with you?

Magic! Magic is awesome, dude!

She's going to cry. Are you crying?

If you give her a hanky to dry those tears,

make sure it isn't one that turns into a dove.

But when it comes to massive overreactions, the prize goes to...

Time to take off, mate.

All aboard the 9.47 to Plaque Central.

-HE SPEAKS MANDARIN

-Agh!

Whoa!

Another train, another magician.

Look, Dynamo's giving us a wave.

That's utterly baffling.

He's getting off where he was getting on.

Waste of a ticket if you ask me.

Now, let's go back to a simpler time,

when trains were powered by steam

and pastel colours had yet to be invented.

And it's Finn Jon, the real-life pioneer of floating magic.

Yeah, try telling him to put a cork in it.

They don't make magic like this any more.

Or wallpaper. Or menswear.

Speaking of which, you've heard of three coins in a fountain?

Well, here's two coins in a shirt.

Now, that's smart. The trick, I mean.

Not the shirt, that's more sports casual.

Want some sunglasses to complete the outfit?

Hmm, looks like there's a problem.

What are you doing, mate? They go over your ears.

Ah, that's better. Now let's head for the sun.

And Great Yarmouth's looking lovely.

Find pouring orange juice too much like hard work?

Try magic!

Let's have some more orange juice-based trickery

with the brilliant Michael Carbonaro.

-I didn't know they made such a thing.

-Yeah, it's tiny.

He's demonstrating a miracle juicer. The gadget doesn't look like much

and it's going to take a lot to impress these customers.

..from it, that's what's cool about it.

-Let me see your muscles.

-All right.

There we go.

-Let's see if I can get it.

-SHE GASPS

-But fair enough, that's a lot.

-Yes.

-OK, wait a minute.

How did you do that with that one little thing?

The juicer actually pulps the pulp.

-For some reason, it doesn't work with lime.

-OK, this is not real.

-The Juicer?

-It's just called The Juicer, yeah.

What in the world?

-Are you kidding me?

-No, it's great. You see, it's pulping its own pulp.

-How are you doing that?

-You've got to squeeze.

If you keep turning while you squeeze.

-Are you getting that much orange juice out of there?

-Yeah.

-Stop it.

-This is just one orange and you got that much juice?

-Yeah, because it's pulping...

-No, I'm talking.

This orange gave you that?

Yeah, the pulp is juiced.

This is a miracle.

And here's another miracle. Plus you get the answer to the question -

how do they do that?

This week, the disembodied hands of Professor Richard Wiseman.

Empty hands, empty cup. Or so you'd think.

Bet you can't do it with yellow.

Sorcerer! How does he do that?

Well, to do this yourself, all you need is a cup, two balls,

a black curtain with a hole in it, 100 yards of metal

shaped into a channel at exactly the right angle

and a friend in a bear suit.

He's no Debbie McGee, is he?

The bear suit isn't necessary, but he doesn't know that.

Stand by for some more mind-blowing magic.

I hate these things, they scare me.

Expect the unexpected.

How crazy is that?

OK, that is random.

-Are you ready?

-Yes, Criss! Yeah, we are.

More from Michael Carbonaro now, this time performing animal magic.

Someone came by before...

You've seen a magician produce a rabbit from a hat,

but I bet you haven't seen a magician do this.

These are Norwegian jack rabbits,

so you're not supposed to put them in the same cage together.

-Oh, uh-huh.

-Yeah.

-He's got the cutest little face, right?

-Hey there, bunny.

You know what? I'm going to put them together.

It'll be all right.

And this one's really interesting because...

-See?

-They said they would go crazy if you put the two together.

-And this one has the cutest little eye.

-Oh, yeah, how cute.

-Got a little bit of colour...

-Oh, and you got another one!

Look at that! Wait a minute.

-Did it just pop out?

-That can't be!

No way, there were only two rabbits in here.

-Oh, they're like a little family.

-Yeah.

-Look, there's another one.

-What?

-Whoa! Wait a minute.

-SHE LAUGHS

-How?

-Now there's two babies! Whoa!

-There's three babies!

-How?

-Where were those babies?

-I don't...

-That is the most bizarre thing ever.

-Yeah!

Is that why you're not supposed to put them together?

I mean... Look, there's a black one. I saw a black one!

-That's just a bizarre.

-That is bizarre. Take one out.

-Now this one here is moving around.

-Yeah, here there's one.

I mean, how in the world could they...? Yeah, there's four.

There's four... One, two, three...

-No way, there's five.

-Wait.

One, two, three, four, five.

-There's five.

-Let me see, one, two, three...

..four...

-..five.

-Six!

-Six?

-How did that just happen? I mean, I swear...

No wonder she said they would go crazy.

-There's seven.

-Seven? Whoa!

-I think there's one underneath.

-Wait a minute, here. Come over here.

-You got those?

-I've got these!

Oh!

I mean, it couldn't happen that quick.

-No way, they can't... Whoa.

-Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

OK, check underneath them and just see if there is any...

-OK, just look underneath them?

-Yeah.

-Just see if there's any left.

-Do you see any?

-No, I don't see any.

-No?

-No.

-OK. And any over here?

-No.

-No? Whoa!

-How many is it? Eight?

-I don't know.

Was that one already in there?

No, you just told me it was empty. Wait a minute.

-Did you put this one in here?

-No!

-Hole on, how many are here now?

-I'm losing count.

-Three, four, six, eight, ten, 11.

-11, 11.

-Dude, stop!

What am I going to do with all of them?

They're still there, by the way, and the latest tally is 743.

Plastic bottle, straw.

Correct, you've passed the audition for Eggheads.

Impressive.

Why not try this next time you're in the pub?

Fold up the menu, waitresses love that.

If he only wanted a half pint, it's what he should have ordered.

Yep, these are actually just delaying tactics

cos it's his round.

I wonder how he feels that no-one stuck around to watch

his wonderful beer trick?

Bitter? Possibly. I mean, it's obviously not lager.

HE SPEAKS FRENCH

FRENCH ACCENT: Over now to gay Paris, where this petit garcon

has roped in an unsuspecting adult to take part in his trick.

Everyone else on the boat breathes a sigh of relief.

HE SPEAKS FRENCH

HE CONTINUES SPEAKING

If I'd paid 50 euros for a cruise down the Seine,

I wouldn't agree to block my own view with an old tea towel!

HE CONTINUES SPEAKING

..un, deux, trois. Go!

Either all the people on this boat have been magic'd away

or the bar has just opened on the lower deck.

Maybe you should check overboard. That's right, I'm sure it's fine.

Just double check.

Oh, well. Bon chance, as they say.

We all know three is the magic number,

although in this case it's 3, O2 and Vodafone.

Check out this new invisible phone.

If you do have an invisible phone, don't put it on silent.

You'll never find it.

I'm getting a call. Hello?

Hey, where did that come from?

Er... Actually, I am kind of a busy.

I'm actually recording, recording my video for the...

..my project and...

Oh, they've hung up.

This magician also has an invisible phone.

MOBILE RINGS

Yeah, you'd better answer that, mate.

DUTCH ACCENT: And now to the Netherlands where a woman

is being given a gift-wrapped box above a canal.

THEY SPEAK DUTCH

And now he's after the man's mobiel.

I wonder what that is in Dutch?

Ah, mobile! Yeah, should have guessed.

Immediately, he's realised that dropping his phone into a canal

because someone he'd never met told him to do it

was a silly thing to do.

SHE LAUGHS

THEY SPEAK DUTCH

I can't help thinking the word on her T-shirt is describing

her boyfriend's intelligence.

Oh, yes, come on. Let's see what's in the box.

Hooray, it's his mobile! Great trick.

It's One Direction megastar Liam Payne. Not him. Him!

And he's about to have his mind read by Chris Cox. Shouldn't take long.

All I want you do is think of an artist, a musical artist for me.

And I want to imagine seeing the person up there singing.

Look at them in your head and I'm going to say the alphabet.

Think about the first letter of this person, don't give anything away

when I say the alphabet, but just think of a first letter, OK?

So, do you mind if I touch your earlobe? Bit weird, but... OK?

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J... Oh, OK, great.

A-B-C-D-E-F... A-B-C-D...

This is good, you're going as poker face as possible now.

A-B-C-D, it's a D, yeah? Starts with a D?

-I hate these things, they scare me.

-OK.

Next letter, so imagine typing.

Don't move your hands but imagine typing

the next letter of their name.

Don't move your fingers, I'm just going to...

I think it's this hand, good.

OK, put that hand down. Keep typing.

No, it's not, it's here.

-It is here, isn't it?

-You were close there.

-I know.

Is it an R?

-This is just getting strange now, isn't it?

-Yeah, erm...

Just say the person to yourself.

You're thinking of Drake.

-I'm leaving.

-Are you thinking of Drake?

-Yes, I am.

-OK, right.

-I want you to imagine Drake...

-I love these things, they're so good!

-It's going well.

-Let's try one more thing.

I want you to imagine Drake singing a song - not his song,

someone else's song.

See Drake sing a song, it's not his song but I want you to go...

-# La-la-la! # Do a little scale for me.

-# La-la-la! #

That's quite nice, have you considered a career in music?

-Sometimes. It's a passion of mine.

-It's a current song.

Will it...?

Hang on, you've got two songs in your head there, haven't you?

-Yeah, yeah.

-You're confused between two?

-Yes.

-OK. Give me...

Do a downward scale.

# La-la-la! #

-One's male, one's female.

-Yes.

You're thinking of Hello, aren't you? The song Hello.

Yeah, but is Adele's song called Hello?

Yeah, Adele's song's Hello and then the Lionel Richie one, yeah.

-Yeah, yeah.

-You got both of them.

-Brilliant.

-That's ridiculous.

Kick a soccer ball just right...

He shoots, he scores! Gets a dog.

..get a puppy!

-Yeah.

-How did he...?

Oh, I think I know.

Over now to the big stage to join Nathan Burton

with a beautiful childhood memory.

I picked up a napkin, kind of like this.

And I told all my friends to watch closely.

I then ripped it once, twice,

three times and I told them every snowflake is different.

But this is kind of what one looks like.

Yep, your reaction was about the same as my friends'. It's OK.

But I then told them real snowflakes are made out of water

and they never forgot what happened after this.

The reason they never forgot it

was because they were snowed in with him for a fortnight.

It's snowing!

-Do you guys want more?

-THEY CHEER

I can't hear you. Do you want more?

More snow? Best not.

How am I going to get home, Nathan?

Check...this...out!

Wow, a snowmobile! I was not expecting that.

The only snowmobile in Hollywood.

Brilliant illusion, although this childhood memory

has gone a bit weird.

Touch the top of one card. There we go, pick it up for me.

Have a look at it, make sure I can't see it, show your friends.

-Yep, you done that?

-Yeah.

-Beautiful, put it back in the pack.

-On the top?

On the top. We're going to put it in the middle. Is that fair?

Fair, in the middle? OK, lovely.

Now, we've had a lot of tricks with phones on this show,

so let's try something completely different

with a trick that uses some mobile phone earphones.

Hold it like that, like this. OK. Oh, amazing.

And I have my headphones.

OK, I've got my headphones.

That looks like a charger.

Here we go. Here we go, headphones.

Hold it up like this, beautiful. OK, so here we go.

Here are my headphones.

OK, I love you smelling it. That's Versace right there.

Here we go, guys. Remember your card, yeah?

OK, I'm going to take the headphones.

I'm going to go in like this and I'm going to try and find your card.

Here we go, I'm going to use a bit of fishing.

-Here we go, do you remember your card?

-Yes.

-Do you remember?

-How crazy is that?

-Ah!

-No, that's weird.

-It's a lie!

-How did you do that?

Yeah, how did you do that?

Yeah, how did he do that? How did he do that? Yeah, how did he do that?

Time now for some inexplicable mind control as we enjoy

the mystifying magic of Katherine Mills.

I hear that you're a bit of a bookworm, is that right?

Yeah, to some extent.

OK, did you have a favourite book that you liked to read

-when you were younger?

-Hobbit.

-The Hobbit?

-Yes.

-Good choice.

This is one of Britain's biggest bookshops.

There's actually over 200,000 books in here, and what I want you to do

is choose one single book from the entire 200,000.

She can do this with an online bookseller, but it does

take five to ten working days to get to the finale.

Barrington has a one-in-200,000 choice to make,

a completely free decision, except it's not.

I'm going to influence Barrington to choose one specific book in here

and I'm so confident that I'm going to get that book right,

that I've written it down here.

This is it. Are We Being Watched?

I hope so or I may as well go home.

The first decision I want you to make is do we go down a floor,

stay on this floor or go up?

-What do you want to do?

-Erm, go up.

-Go up. Yeah.

Second decision for you.

-Do you want to go in this direction?

-OK.

Or that direction?

Erm, this direction.

This direction, OK, great.

Do you want to go in this direction, this direction or that direction?

-That direction.

-This direction?

-Yeah.

Do you feel you are more drawn to this part of the bookshop?

Or this part of the bookshop?

-What do you feel?

-This way.

-That part.

Great, let's head down there. So, do you want that way or this way?

-This way.

-This way, OK, great.

Right, we've ended up here.

We've got lots of different topics of books here.

-What do you want to go for?

-Popular science.

-Popular science.

-Yes.

-So, what shelf do you want to go for?

-I'm going to go with third.

Third one. Just pick out which book you'd like.

Yeah.

What book have you chosen?

-Are We Being Watched?

-By Paul Murdin.

You know, the entire time I've been trying to lead you.

OK.

And I was so confident that right before we started,

I wrote down a book that I thought you would choose.

Are We Being Watched?

-OK.

-What was that book that you said that you loved? What was it?

-The Hobbit.

-The Hobbit?

Open up the book, have a look inside.

I already know from the first page what this is.

-Let's have a look.

-Yeah, The Hobbit.

-OK, that is random.

-Or is it random?

If you thought that was amazing,

check out this optical illusion in New York City.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Or is it a sort of balsawood model of a person

piloted by remote control?

It's brilliant, you could make your own superhero movie

with only some sticky back plastic.

Although not quite so much fun when the batteries run out,

unless you like a swim.

Time now to join the always ambitious Criss Angel

for a record-breaking big finish.

-Are you ready?

-THEY CHEER

I'm ready, Criss! Whoo!

Sorry, I went a bit American there.

We are here in the ballroom,

at the Luxor Las Vegas,

to set a new Guinness Book Of World Record!

-Feel the excitement.

-I want these locked tighter, Doug.

I want them locked tighter.

If this is a card trick, I'll be very disappointed.

If you could do me a favour and just kind of split back there.

Everybody just split the other way.

Split that way, you split that way.

-Just like you're parting the...

-Red Sea, Criss. It's the Red Sea.

Chains all the way round.

And I want you to see that that goes over here as well.

A crowd of people handcuffed together?

You've got me interested, Criss.

Actually, he's about to break the record for the most people

to disappear at the same time.

If you are by a side, I need you to help me pick up the curtain,

just lean down and gently bring it up for me.

Stop right about there, good. Perfect.

As you can see, folks,

do you see yourselves on the monitor right there?

This is my point of view, my POV camera,

and you're going to see everything as it unfolds.

I need you to be silent, I need you to listen to what I'm saying.

Now what were going to do is raise up the curtain.

Raise up the curtain.

I want you to see the impossible conditions. We have 100 people here.

Literally people completely random, on the ground, handcuffed

to the ankle of the person next to them.

Completely impossible conditions.

I want everybody to close your eyes now.

Completely close your eyes.

I hope you're not stealing their valuables, Criss.

Close your eyes, I'm going to go in the centre over here.

I want everybody to take a deep breath in through your nose,

out through your mouth.

Yeah, this is just normal breathing, by the way, Criss.

You can't take credit for that.

..completely becoming invisible.

Believe that you can become invisible. Feel nothing.

-It's going to happen.

-I believe, I believe.

-One!

-Whoa!

-Oh, what's happening. Where am I?

-Two! Three! Now!

-Agh!

-Where have they all gone?

That's the most people to disappear out of a ballroom

since Jeremy Vine took to the floor on Strictly.

Let's have a look at that again from another angle.

It's even more impressive.

They have vanished and now, sadly, so must we.

Done! Bam!

We've seen some One Direction.

Join us next time for more magic and misdirection.

SHE SCREAMS

I can promise you tricks that'll make you go...

What in the world?

Magic.

Oh, come on. Cheer up, mate.

Aw!