"it's easier to trick you when you don't pay attention"

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"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Savoy management welcomes you tonight"s special performance, The Five Horsemen, Act II"

"You look beautiful," Jack says to Athena as they walk hand in hand over to the side of the stage. Athena looks down and a grin appears on her face, Athena thanks him before stopping to wait for their queue.

While waiting for their queue, Athena stands in front of Jack, fixing his collar.

"You look handsome," She says breaking the silence... "Well when you have a beautiful girlfriend, you need to look the part." He replies. They turn their head as they heard the queues.

Jack kisses her forehead before letting her go.

The Five Horsemen walk onto the pitch dark stage, getting in their positions for the show.

"Unlike traditional performances, The Five Horsemen encourage you to film, call your friends, upload, stream, and tweet the show freely. Thank you. The show will begin now"

"Arthur Tressler presents Jack Wilder," The spotlight lights up Jack's part on the stage

"Henley Reeves," The same thing repeats for Henley

"Merritt McKinney, "A third spotlight shines on the oldest Horsemen

"Daniel Atlas," Danny smirk as the crowd cheers as his figure appear on the stage.

"And Athena Knight" Lastly, the light shines on the youngest Horsemen. Athena stands in between Danny and Merritt on the stage.

"The Five Horsemen"

"Thank you. Before we begin, we'd like to single out two people in particular." Merritt exclaims, "A man and a woman to whom we'd like to dedicate tonight's performance." Athena continues

"FBI Agent Dylan Rhodes and the lovely, if somewhat inexperienced, Interpol Agent Alma Dray, everyone." Danny introduces the two agents.

A spotlight shines on the two of them, Agent Dray covers her eyes with her hand, slightly embarrass while Agent Rhodes frowns at them, Athena gives them one of her infamous smirks.

The crowd boos loudly, and the two agents squirm in their seat.

"Yeah, Agent Rhodes has personally vowed to "nail us." and we encourage him to do so" Jack adds, "if he has the brains," Athena says. "And the fur" Merritt adds, drawing the crowd to give in a few laughs.

"Okay, so let's start with the show" Henley exclaims, saving the two agents from the stares of the crowd.

"What is magic? Our argument, nothing but targeted deception. So we want you to look." Danny said, hyping up the crowd. "Look as closely as possible, because the tricks you are about to see may not seem connected, but we assure you, they are." Athena continues

The horsemen start to back up, forming a v line at the back of the stage.

"Is what follows 100 different tricks? Or is it one giant illusion?" Danny adds before the lights go off. The crowd roars in excitement as the room goes black for a second before the lights come back.

"And now for one of the oldest tricks in the book," Henley says, walking to the front of the stage with a rabbit in her arms, Danny beside her.

"Danny, if you wouldn't mind opening up the box, and showing everybody that it's completely empty." Danny, quickly opens the front of the box, showing the insides, proving it's empty.

"I'm gonna take sweet little Fluffy here, and put her inside this mystery box." Henley places the rabbit into the box and Danny seal the box.

"And now, you will say the magic word" Danny gesture to Henley as he grabs a magicians wand from his jacket pocket "Abracadabra" Henley replies, "Yes, and I will wave this magic wand for no reason. And then..." He then proceeds to throw the wand away.

"Fluffy has magically vanished before your very eyes," Danny exclaims as he opens the box.

"And now we are gonna debunk a few magic myths this evening. We all know that Fluffy is, in fact, alive and well." Henley says as Danny reveals a mirror in the box. "And Fluffy has miraculously appeared"

"As has the mirror which makes the box only appear as though it's empty," Danny says as he spins the mirror in his hands.

For their second act, Danny creates a few big bubble with his hands, Henley then signals Danny that he is ready for their act, Danny uses his hands to increase the size of the bubble, Henley starts to run towards it before jumping into it and floats off the stage.

She starts to twirl and move as she is flying, which technically she is.

The audience watches as the bubble starts to float higher and higher, When the bubble touches the chandelier, the bubble pops.

The crowd gasps as she falls screaming. Danny caught her before she touches the ground, the crowd stands up in shock and claps loudly, cheering for the act. The two bow to the crowd before walking down to the stage.

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  "Okay, so can I have my beautiful girlfriend to bring me a deck of cards?" Jack announces once it was his turn to show his specialty.

Athena walks out with a deck of cards in her hands, she flicks them once she's next to Jack "Here you go" she hands the cards to her boyfriend

"By the way, give a round of applause to my girlfriend everybody" Jack exclaims excitedly, "You know, I just came up here to give you the cards right?" Athena says, "Yeah, I just want to call you my girlfriend" Jack replies, the crowd coos as Athena walks off the stage shaking her head with a smile on her face.

"There are two pencils out there. Hold 'em up high. Let me see 'em." He says as he shuffles the card.

"Okay, you, can you point that pencil at me, while you, please point it towards the ceiling," He says. Jack uses a marker from his pants pocket to sign his signature onto one of the cards.

"Okay, I am going to stick this card, that I have signed to that pencil, and I'm going to take this marker top and break that pencil, think I can do it?" Jack asks the crowd

The crowd cheers, "Okay, come and count with me"

"One"

"Two"

"Three"

Jack flicks the deck of cards towards the pencil and the card with his signature went through the pencil, he then throws the marker top towards the other pencil braking it on half.

The crowd roars in excitement.

Athena at the back joins with the crowd cheering for his boyfriend.

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  Some backstage hands start to wheel some props onto the stage so that Athena can get ready for her act.

"Hey," Jack said touching Athena's waist,

"Hey, you were great," Athena said resting her hands on his shoulders as his hands are resting around her waist.

"Thank you," Jack thanks her before pecking her lips, the stage manager calls out Athena's name, Athena gives him one last peck before walking towards the stage "Good luck out there"

"I think the correct term is 'Break a leg" Athena calls out to her boyfriend over her shoulder.

As Athena walks on the stage, the crowd claps, cheering for her.

Unlike the others, she doesn't start with the crowd or a monologue, a song starts to play...

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( Imagine that as Athena, but less enthusiastic and without the head piece, it starts at 1:24 )

Once her act is over, the crowd stands and roars loudly, amazed by her performance, the girl bow before walking off the stage, where she sees the Horsemen clapping for her.

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"Now, we're gonna need 12 courageous volunteers." Merritt starts his act and the crowd starts to raise their hands and screaming to choose.

Later, 12 volunteers from the crowd have been chosen, they are all on the stage in one line and all of them has their eyes close.

"If you haven't experienced mass hypnosis, you're about to," Merritt warns before commands them to sleep. "And sleep. Down, down. Sleep, sleep. Completely sleep. Good, good. Sleep, sleep." Merritt walks to each of them, touching their shoulders.

"When you hear the word "freeze" you are all football players." The crowd laughs, "And your job is to tackle, dismantle, crush, tear limb from limb, the quarterback." He adds while walking down the line, "Freeze" He says before snapping his fingers.

"Okay everyone, huddle in"

They all huddle in one circle "Kill the quarterback on three"

"One"

"Two"

"Three"

"Kill the quarterback!" Everyone shouts before running back to their seats. "Now I have a feeling I'm gonna be seeing you all very soon," Merritt says happily.

Merritt walks down the stage so that he and the Horsemen can prepare for the main event of the night.