Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)
Director: Timo Vuorensola
Screenplay: Michael Lesslie, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Seth Grahame-Smith
Story by: Eric Warren Singer, Michael Lesslie
Based on:Â Characters by Boaz Yakin, Edward Ricourt
Release Dates: November 11, 2025 (Harbour Club); November 14, 2025 (United States)
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, Lizzy Caplan, Rosamund Pike, Morgan Freeman
Plot: Ten years after the events of the second film, a trio of young magicians – Charlie, Bosco LeRoy, and June Rouclere – stage a fake Four Horsemen magic show via deepfakes and holograms, where they drain the wallet of the corrupt owner of a cryptocurrency exchange and distribute the stolen funds among the attendees. After the show, they are unexpectedly approached by J. Daniel Atlas, one of the original Horsemen. He recruits them in a plot apparently given to him by the Eye, the secret magic society, via a tarot card: to steal “the Heart,” the largest diamond in the world. The diamond is in the possession of Veronika Vanderberg, the head of a South African diamond company started by her father, a former Nazi who uses the business to launder money for war criminals. Soon after, Veronika receives a phone call from an unknown man using a voice changer, who threatens to expose her company’s amoral activity if she does not give him the diamond.
At a private party in Antwerp where the diamond is being exhibited and is set to be auctioned, Daniel and the three young magicians execute the heist through a combination of disguises, prop switching, and misdirection to seize the diamond from Veronika. Her security and police fail to pursue them as Jack Wilder, Henley Reeves, and Merritt McKinney, the remaining members of the original Four Horsemen, arrive to assist them, explaining that they have also received messages on tarot cards from the Eye. The Horsemen later reveal that a heist had gone wrong that resulted in their leader, Dylan Rhodes, being arrested and held in a Russian prison, resulting in the group’s split and disappearance from the public.
The group travels to an estate owned by the Eye in France, where they meet Thaddeus Bradley, the former grandmaster of the Eye, who also received a card telling him to assist the Horsemen. Thaddeus says that Veronika’s secrets were hidden within the estate and implores them to find it. The police, who are on Veronika’s payroll, arrive to raid the estate, forcing the group to split up and use the illusory rooms within the estate (including an Ames room, relativity-esque stairs, and a rotating corridor) to disorient and take down the police. Charlie and Bosco manage to find the secret: Veronika’s client list and their illegal activities, and escape with Daniel and Henley, while Merritt, Jack, and June are captured by the police. While trying to escape, Thaddeus is fatally shot inside the escape tunnel.
Inside the police station, Veronika interrogates Merritt, who in turn rattles her by deducing that, after her father’s affair with their housekeeper resulted in her mother’s suicide, Veronika planned the murder of her housekeeper and half-brother. Lula May, another Horseman, arrives and helps Jack and June escape, but Merritt is recaptured by Veronika. The group, now reunited, begins planning to rescue Merritt, as Veronika receives another phone call from the unknown man, pressuring her to retrieve the diamond.
Veronika and the Horsemen agree to arrange a meet in Abu Dhabi at the Yas Marina Circuit, where a party is being held for the Formula 1 team Veronika owns. During the swap, Bosco and Charlie create a distraction by stealing the F1 car on display at the party and driving off, starting a police chase; meanwhile, Veronika traps the Horsemen in a glass cube. Veronika reveals she plans to bury them alive as sand fills up the cube. Veronika leaves with the diamond and arranges to meet with the unknown man in her vault. The Horsemen manage to escape by breaking a water pipe and use Henley’s diamond ring to break through the glass.
Veronika arrives at her vault and takes a gun from a guard. Upon entering, she learns that the unknown caller is Charlie, who is actually Veronika’s long-lost half-brother, and that his mother saved him from the drowning orchestrated by her years ago. A tearful Veronika apologizes and hands Charlie the diamond, but then shoots him. As she prepares to take the diamond, the seemingly dead Charlie moves, revealing a bullet caught in his teeth. Veronika attempts to shoot again, only to discover that she was firing blanks. The vault walls open, revealing that Veronika is actually on the Horsemen stage with a live audience. It is revealed that the car Veronika got in was driven by Charlie, the security guard whom she took the gun from was Bosco, the car went into the rear of a truck driven by June, and that the elevator ride in the vault was actually the Horsemen rolling a box onto the stage.
Charlie reveals that he orchestrated and planned every aspect of the heist, including bringing the Horsemen together in the first place. He also admits that he created every clue to exact revenge on Veronika, ultimately leading to her arrest. Charlie tells the crowd that every client of the Vanderberg company involved in amoral activity will be arrested, and that the proceeds of the diamond mining and the Heart itself will be given back to the people of South Africa.
Some time later, the Horsemen gather at Charlie, June, and Bosco’s hideout, and Jack and Lula rekindle their relationship. A package arrives at the door containing a hologram of Dylan, having faked his imprisonment, who officially inducts Charlie, Bosco, and June to the Eye, and tells the group that there is more to be done.
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) | Transcript
(AUDIENCE CHEERING AND APPLAUDING FAINTLY)
AUDIENCE: (CHANTING) Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen! Horsemen!
ATLAS: Did you think we abandoned you?
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
Or that we’d run out of magic? Well, think again, ladies and gentlemen, because you are about to be amazed.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
If you’re here right now, then you have followed the clues and cracked the code. Congratulations, and welcome.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
It’s been 10 years since the horseman last appeared, but we are back!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
Okay, so, come in close.
Mm, closer.
Because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to dress up old tricks and fool you that they are new.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
So, my name is J. Daniel Atlas, and allow me to speak as I often do for my less charismatic colleagues when I say…
Whoo! It is very good to be back!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
Yes. Yes.
We vanished for a while, but in the world of magic, everything that disappears, reappears.
Well, at least if the trick is done right.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
I’m Merritt McKinney.
(CHUCKLES)
Unlike my, uh, very good buddy here, Danny, most of you checked your egos at the door tonight.
You found this little underground soiree because you wanted to get fooled.
Hey, everyone.
I’m Jack Wilder.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING AND SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
Wars, pandemics, climate change, AI.
Let’s face it, we all need magic more than ever.
So I want you to pay very close attention.
You are not gonna want to miss this next trick.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Henley Reeves, now Henley Reeves Stanley.
Three kids, two dogs and a master’s degree.
It’s been a while.
Did you miss us?
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
Those guys were great back in the day.
I used to want to be a magician.
And then I turned 12.
(BOTH LAUGH) Careful, they might be listening.
Ooh, I’m shaking in my All-Saints.
What are they gonna do?
(CHUCKLES)
Is that real gold?
What?
Is that real gold?
Yeah, I’m rich.
(SNORTS) This is a magic show, dude.
Every fool here is a pickpocket, or a pickpocket’s fool.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Was that a haiku?
What was that?
Each of you just received a playing card.
If you wouldn’t mind, uh, pulling it out?
Right. Now, we’re gonna shuffle the deck, so everybody find a random person near them and switch cards with them.
And then when you’ve done that, find somebody else and switch with them.
Okay, great. Uh, now…
Uh, duhduhduhduhduh…
You there, down there.
Me?
Yeah. What is your card?
Ace of diamonds.
Ace of diamonds. Okay.
Let’s make things a little more complicated here.
Does anybody else here have the ace of diamonds?
Wait, it’s me.
Ace of diamonds!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
MERRITT: Ooh!
Looks like we have a Fifth Horseman not named Lula.
Come up on stage, you’re gonna be our helper.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
MAN 1: Do it!
MAN 2: Yeah, go!
Now, uh, look into my eyes and… sleep.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
(CHUCKLES) Still got it.
Now, this might look like an ordinary kid to you, but tonight, he is going to do extraordinary magic like a man possessed.
Literally.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING) Henley.
Yes, Merritt.
Would you mind stepping inside his body?
(SNAPS FINGERS)
(AUDIENCE GASPS) Yep. And, Jack, uh, why don’t you throw yourself on in there, too?
What I do best.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
And… Oh, God help you.
Atlas, why don’t you slither on inside, as well?
(SNAPS FINGERS)
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
And I might as well wedge myself in there, too.
It takes a village to make magic.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
MAN IN AUDIENCE: Oh!
WOMAN: Whoa!
(AS ATLAS)
J. Daniel Atlas in the house.
So, who wants to see a magic trick?
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Take it away, Merritt.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)
(AS MERRITT)
Hello, you beautiful people.
Now, everyone knows that Merritt McKinney reads minds.
Well, now, I’m him.
Or he’s me. Who knows?
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
Uh, I’m sensing someone came here tonight not to enjoy magic, but to tear it down.
Is there a Brett Finnegan in the house?
BRETT: What up?
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
(BRETT’S FRIEND SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
Now, you and your friends here set up the Camp Hobart Crypto Exchange.
Fact. Yep. Yeah.
It’s what we’re about.
Took the good people of New York’s employee pension and welfare fund half its cash.
(AUDIENCE BOOING)
Uh, you’re rounding up, and also, the risks were laid out very clearly.
Everybody knew what they were getting into, dude.
Did you hide the profits offshore?
Account ending in 53297?
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
You couldn’t know that without my, uh…
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
(AS JACK)
Oh, is this real gold?
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Brett, you ought to be more careful with your things, man.
Merritt’s a psychic, but me, Jack, I’m into sleight of hand.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS)
Ask your friends.
They’ve just done their part to close the wealth gap.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
What? What the…
Now, here’s a little redistribution.
Hey! Hey, hey!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Thank you. Thank you.
Lawyer up, dude!
I’ll kick your ass!
(AS HENLEY) Uh-oh!
Someone forgot Henley can fly.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
We can take it from here, but a round of applause for the best Horseman on stage.
Whoo! Wow.
BRETT: Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.
Fantastic. So, everybody, I want you to take your drink, and I want you to pour it onto the face of your card.
Can you do that?
JACK: Those 12 unique words on each of your cards form the password to your new crypto wallet.
MAN IN AUDIENCE: Oh!
Log on and you’ll find Brett’s stolen millions more… fairly redistributed.
Oh, my God. Fifty…
50,000 bucks!
50,000!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
You’re freaking done, dude!
Whoa, whoa!
Cool your head, gingerbread, because I am having a vision.
Eh, maybe cops are gonna come bursting through that door!
So perform a magic trick of your own and disappear in three, two, one.
(AUDIENCE CLAMORING)
(SIREN WAILING)
ATLAS: (ON RECORDING) Now come in close. Mm, closer. Because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to dress up old tricks…
What?
…and fool you that they are new.
(GASPS)
Oh, my God, no.
No!
(SOBBING) No!
(HITS SHEET)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(SIREN WAILING)
Look, in my opinion, I think you did a great job.
Uh, I think my Atlas was good.
My Merritt could probably use some work.
JUNE: Mm.
It’s like a San Diego stoner and a shrimp boat captain had a baby.
Sure.
(CHUCKLING)
JUNE: No, seriously, Bosco, I don’t know how you do it.
A good impersonation isn’t just about the mimicry.
It’s about attention to detail, personality and nuance.
Okay. Okay.
Let me try, let me try.
Um… (HIGHPITCHED) I’m J. Daniel Atlas.
(SPUTTERS) The closer you look, the less you see.
CHARLIE: (LAUGHS) It was something.
Yep. Uh, you’ll work on it.
I wasn’t bad.
It was a good start.
But it could use some work.
Okay, sure.
What do you keep looking at?
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Dude, cheer up.
Guys, come on! Look at us!
Look at how far we’ve come.
We totally scored tonight.
JUNE: All right, next time, you wear the pink wig, okay?
BOSCO: No.
Dude, it’s locked again.
Okay, I’ll pick it.
Wait, wait, wait, hold on.
Do the thing.
No.
Please do the thing.
It’s so unnecessary.
It’s so cool.
I’ll hold your bag.
It’s so unnecessary.
Come on, it’s fun.
Okay.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
BOSCO: You got this.
(GRUNTS)
She’s like a little Mario.
She is like Mario.
CHARLIE: Careful, careful.
BOSCO: Please don’t die.
BOSCO: Are you okay?
JUNE: Yeah.
BOSCO: If I could do that, I would only do that.
(CHUCKLES) It’s so cool.
It’s insane.
Happy?
Yeah, that was awesome.
Yeah.
Please let us in.
It’s cold.
JUNE: Whoo.
(GATE RATTLING) Best apartment in the whole city.
Yep, and no one will ever see it but us.
(JUNE CHUCKLES)
(CRUSADES BY GEESE PLAYING FAINTLY)
♪ Everybody… ♪
It’s such a shame.
♪ But in my armor
I am a man… ♪
ATLAS: (ON RECORDING) Come in close. Closer.
JUNE: That guy is so screwed.
(RECORDING CONTINUES PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)
Who’s rich now?
Charlie, can you turn that thing off, please?
I think I’ve had enough Atlas for one night.
CHARLIE: Yeah, I got you.
ATLAS: …disappears, reappears. At least if the trick is done right.
Bosco, can you check for pizza? I’m so hungry.
BOSCO: Ugh, me, too.
ATLAS: (ON RECORDING) …Four Horsemen!
BOSCO: No pizza, but we got beer.
And, no, literally just beer.
Closer. Because the more you think you see…
BOSCO: Any takers?
Yeah, I’ll have one.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
Dude, seriously, turn that thing off.
I did.
Okay. Real funny, guys.
Where’s the other projector?
I’m not a hologram.
“I’m not a hologram.”
Right. Yes.
Exactly what a hologram would say.
Oh, my God, you’re real.
Never touch my face again.
I’m so sorry. I thought that you were a hologram.
I would never do that.
I’m a huge fan of yours.
How are you? (PANTING) How did you find us?
I don’t know.
Took me about 30 seconds.
And if it was this easy for me to find you, how hard would it be for the police?
Whoa, hold on, the police?
ATLAS: Yeah, the police.
Why would the police be looking for us?
Uh, I don’t know, what about that little heist you just pulled?
Or the fact that you’re squatting in this place or that your electricity comes from the circuit box in the corner?
I don’t know, it could be anything.
Am I right, Bozo?
(CHUCKLES) Bosco.
ATLAS: Hmm.
Bosco Leroy.
Ah, that’s right, yeah, Bosco Leroy.
What, did you type, uh, “fictional magician name” into ChatGPT?
No, that’s actually my real name, Atlas.
ATLAS: Hmm.
What, did your mom have sex with a map?
(JUNE AND CHARLIE LAUGH)
That’s not funny.
ATLAS: Hmm.
You don’t know anything about us, dude.
I know everything about you.
Oh.
The dubiously named Bosco Leroy, a promising acting career cut short by crippling student loans.
It’s a bummer you had to drop out of Juilliard, but you never stopped performing.
Uh, if memory serves, your last paid gig, I think, was dressing as Elmo in Times Square?
Okay, first of all, I was never Elmo.
It’s the red Teletubby.
Po!
What?
The red Teletubby.
Her name is Po.
Oh, Po!
She’s my favorite one.
CHARLIE: Right?
(JUNE CHUCKLES) Her name is Po.
JUNE: Cute.
And you, June Rouclere.
Kicked out of every boarding school your parents forced you to attend.
Not a big fan of authority, I take it.
Uh, let me guess.
Uh, you think the “olds” broke the planet and it’s your generation’s duty to clean up their mess.
Am I right?
Am I wrong?
No.
And so, you ran away from home, made your way to New York, where you ran into this guy at Tannin’s Magic Shop, Charlie Gayes.
Yeah, hi.
Yeah, hi.
I actually couldn’t find a lot about you online.
Although, I do know you were an orphan and you were in and out of foster care your entire childhood, and that you didn’t know the meaning of family until you hooked up with these two.
And so, the three of you have been working your little Robin Hood act for years now, trying to change the world one trick at a time, all leading to your riskiest theft to date, my identity.
You were there?
You had our faces plastered on every scaffolding and subway stop in the city.
That’s copyright infringement, by the way.
Of course, I was there.
So, what’d you think?
I think your Merritt needs work.
I knew it.
That’s a sensitive topic.
No.
You don’t even get it.
He’s lying.
But overall design was impressive.
That’s you, I assume, the quiet guy?
Textbook, behind the scenes.
Yeah, well, Alexander Herrmann…
Oh, boy.
…he said that the people who designed his tricks were the real geniuses.
The fact that you know that man’s name, “behind the scenes” clearly.
And you, your sleight of hand was advanced. Good dexterity.
You’re quick and nimble on your feet.
Really, I was impressed.
Thanks.
ATLAS: You’re welcome.
Sounds like we’re pretty great.
ATLAS: You’re far from it.
But, uh, maybe with a little fine tuning, you could be.
Yeah, I could… I could see why The Eye sent me to you.
I’m sorry.
Wait, did you say “The Eye”?
Yeah, The Eye.
All right, listen.
This card arrived at my apartment three weeks ago, along with four plane tickets and instructions hidden in the lining for a trick bigger and better than anything you have ever seen.
A trick that, for some reason, includes the three of you.
Us?
ATLAS: Mmhmm.
Why not the other Horsemen?
No, the other horsemen are dead.
What?
To me, they’re dead to me.
Stop interrupting.
No, things got emotional.
Everyone quit.
I took a walkabout in Australia.
It’s a long story.
And now you need us?
According to that card, yes.
Well, we don’t need you, so…
BOTH: Bosco.
What? What do we need this guy for? We’re crushing it.
You’re crushing it?
You’re stealing a little money from some crypto bro.
I’m talking about big fish here, man.
I’m talking about something that will make a real difference.
(BANGS HAND ON TABLE)
I thought that’s what you kids are all about.
It is. No, exactly.
Yes, we are.
Yeah, but I think we can catch our own fish.
You can?
CHARLIE: No, no, he…
ATLAS: Good luck with that.
What? No.
Can you just wait one second?
What are you doing?
What’s… what’s going on?
Are you out of your mind?
This is J. Daniel Atlas.
Yeah, I know who he is.
He’s a freaking legend.
He was a legend.
Now he’s just kind of a dick.
Can you…
JUNE: Yeah, sure.
Bosco, he’s kind of a dick, but he is a Horseman.
I mean, come on, just trust us on this, please.
Okay. Decision time, kids.
What’s it gonna be?
Are you in…
(BANGS HANDS ON TABLE)
…or are you out?
What’s the trick?
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
WOMAN: Welcome, esteemed community members, valued press, friends and colleagues.
We are gathered here tonight to celebrate Vanderberg’s latest and greatest mine, C3, or as we like to call her, “Amahle,” Zulu for “The Beautiful One.”
Because every child is beautiful in the eyes of its mother.
(CROWD CHUCKLING)
Our customer can rest assured that when they buy the world’s greatest symbol of love that it was produced with nothing but.
(CROWD CHEERING) To Amahle, and to all of you.
(CHUCKLES)
Well, thank you all so much for making the trip out here.
Now, I take it you were all impressed by Amahle.
Sorry, C3.
MAN: Oh, it’s quite dramatic.
WOMAN: Yeah, it’s amazing.
But I also understand that you have chosen this fine day to broach some concerns, which, contrary to your expectations, I don’t begrudge.
Fire away.
Right. Well, um, the board feels that projections might be optimistic…
VERONIKA: Mm.
…with increasing competition from lab grown and, in the event borrowing rates plum…
William. William.
My father loved you, but there was a reason he called you his dark cloud.
Aw, shame.
The Vanderberg family does not lose.
As you’re well aware, our motorsports team just won the Monaco Championship for the seventh time.
The mine will produce.
Next?
Right.
Pricing. The minimums that you’ve set for…
Will you humor me, William?
In a demonstration about reality?
This diamond is say, what, 55 carats?
The AWDC would price it at 3,000,000 US dollars.
William, will you open your mouth and stick out your tongue?
(CHUCKLES IN DISBELIEF)
Now.
(LOW FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
Really?
Really.
Now, if William here were to swallow it, that selfsame diamond would tear his throat to shreds.
He would bleed to death before paramedics arrived.
So, to the AWDC, it’s 3,000,000, but to William, priceless.
Tell me then, as the CEO responsible for the world’s last great diamond mines, should I undercut our profits, or should I choose prices that I know are unique clients will pay?
As I thought.
(SPITS)
Now…
(COUGHING) …unless there are more concerns, I would like to head to Antwerp with my price list and show off our stones.
(ALL AGREEING QUIETLY)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
BOSCO: Oh, uh, you know, you probably could have led with a free trip to Europe?
CHARLIE: You know, a little known fact about Antwerp, is that…
ATLAS: Oh, great, more magic trivia.
This is fun.
CHARLIE: No, I was just gonna say that they make great biscuits.
JUNE: Oh, do they? Can we actually get some, please?
BOSCO: On Atlas, obviously.
ATLAS: No.
No, no, I’m not getting you biscuits.
I just got you chocolates, okay?
All right, listen, this is not a vacation, okay?
We have three days to prepare an effect that’ll make your barely passable Pepper’s Ghost trick look like a cave painting.
All right, come here.
The Heart Diamond, the most valuable jewel in history and the foundation of the Vanderberg Mining Corporation.
(ENGINES REVVING)
Now, for years, the family’s kept this big rock hidden inside their secret vault, 70 stories underground. And not just any ground. The Arabian Desert.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
No one beyond their most trusted team has been inside. Access through a single elevator, constantly monitored by armed guards…
(SOFT TRILLING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Identity verified.
ATLAS: …and behind a multilevel biometric security system.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
But the world will be watching, because for the first time in half a century, that diamond is being traveled here to Antwerp, to establish credibility and to spur bidding at a private auction for the company’s latest finds in three days’ time.
Okay, obviously, I’m down for stealing.
But what makes this diamond so special?
Well, because the magical tarot card told us to, June, right?
Yeah, okay, that’s very cute.
But can I please finish?
You’re not finished? Jeez, you’ve been talking forever.
Yes, and I’m about to talk more.
So, please, pay attention.
For decades, first, Peter Vanderberg, now his daughter, Veronika, have been selling these diamonds at inflated prices to arms dealers, traffickers, warlords the world over, to, like, help launder their money.
So, I mean, the cash is dirty.
I mean, in some cases, it’s, like, literally blood-soaked.
But then, voila…
(SNAPS FINGERS)
…it’s cleaned in exchange for these precious stones.
She makes all the world’s worst people possible.
So, whoever sent that tarot card…
Are the few truly honorable people left in this world.
The only people that still care about justice.
They’re people I haven’t spoken to in a long time.
They call themselves “The Eye,” and they want us to do something that the Horsemen never could.
This, man, this is a chance to drive a stake through the heart of the devil herself.
CHARLIE: Let’s do it.
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
VERONIKA: All eyes will be on me and the Heart tonight at the auction.
I have to look dazzling.
Do you have that Kitten Kiss color?
(LOW INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Lethabo.
LETHABO: Yes?
Straw.
Who’s that British photographer from Vanity Fair? Uh, what’s his name again?
Marc…
Marc Scriber?
Schreiber, good God.
Schreiber.
Confirm him, cancel the others.
We went wide last year.
This year, exclusivity.
LETHABO: All right.
We’re open, transparent.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
We have nothing to hide.
LETHABO: Okay, perfect.
I’ll have it done.
This is Veronika.
DISTORTED VOICE ON PHONE: ♪ Hush little baby ♪
♪ Don’t say a word ♪
Who is this?
♪ Papa’s gonna
buy you a mocking bird ♪
♪ And if that mocking bird ♪
Vacate.
♪ Don’t sing ♪
How did you get this number?
♪ Papa’s gonna buy you
a diamond ring ♪
This is a private line, and that was a bit tone deaf.
(DISTORTED VOICE CHUCKLES)
VERONIKA: I asked who you are.
Ah, Veronika. The storage unit to your left.
(LOW SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Look familiar? It belonged to that boy who died 15 years ago.
This means nothing to me or anyone.
Really? You and I both know what you did.
Look, if you have real evidence and you’re out to get me, why not just use it?
Fifteen years ago, you took what your father loved most. Now I’m going to do the same to you. I want the Heart Diamond.
(STATIC CRACKLES)
You’re going to give it to me. Or I’m going to hold up a looking glass for the whole world to see you as you are.
Go ahead.
I have nothing to hide.
(TRAIN HORN BLARES)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
JUNE: Oh, my God.
Hey.
I’m so sorry about that.
Hi. Can you help me find this?
I’ve been looking literally for an hour.
Yes. It’s gonna be right over there, ma’am.
Marc Schreiber, James Winn, Vanderberg PR.
Huge admirer of your work.
James?
What happened to Dani?
Oh, Dani. Yeah, sadly, we had to let her go.
Turns out she was racist.
And also, she booked you into the Radisson Blu in a partial view, double.
Ugh.
Thankfully, I took the liberty of moving you to the FRANQ.
I do love the FRANQ.
Yes, the presidential suite is befitting of, well, presidents and talented photographers like yourself.
Uh, your gala invitation has been rerouted.
If I could just check your confirmation?
Thank you.
(CAMERA CLICKS) I also bumped your shoot from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
to give you proper time to make your magic.
Someone gets it.
Yeah.
(DIAMOND BY ANGELINA JORDAN PLAYING)
♪ I’m shinin’
like a supernova ♪
♪ With my hands up high
And my heart wide open… ♪
(ENGINE REVS)
♪ I shine even more bright
Like a diamond ♪
♪ Brush that fear
right off my shoulder… ♪
Take, for instance, diamonds created in laboratories.
They purport to have value, but they’re neither natural nor rare.
What honest woman wants a falsehood on her finger?
I agree.
(CHUCKLES) One of the great truths left is the power behind a natural gem.
Real diamonds fill people with passion, as they have for centuries.
That’s right.
In fact, MarieAntoinette, wore the Hope Diamond for a single day, and a month later…
(SNAPS FINGERS)
…was dragged to the guillotine by some very, well, as you say, passionate folks.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
But MarieAntoinette didn’t die because of a diamond.
She died because of a monstrous lack of empathy.
(CHUCKLES) Well…
And truth is, she never even wore the Hope.
People just believe she did.
Really?
That’s kind of interesting.
So it was not the mob that killed her, and it was not the guillotine, it was a… a story.
I must not know my own guest list.
Are you in the diamond business?
(CHUCKLES) No, no, I’m in the illusion business, like you.
(CHUCKLES)
See, for centuries, diamonds were worthless until some very smart, very rich people like Veronika here, told us that, not only are these little shards of glass rare, but that no self-respecting couple could possibly get married without one.
No, now, that one is a good magic trick.
(CHUCKLES)
The problem with the trick is, um…
(QUIETLY) All the good ones have a little twist in the tale.
Is it you?
Is what me?
Of course not.
No, no.
I mean, you wouldn’t have let me in had I not demonstrated the finest moral fiber, like some of your other guests.
I notice Luis Briseno, the arms dealer over there.
Hello, sir.
And of course, Maria Bortnick, when starstruck, how she manages to mingle while monopolizing her state media.
Perhaps you’d care to reveal yourself.
Then we can apply the same scrutiny to you.
ATLAS: Hmm.
(CHUCKLES) Not just yet. (INHALES) I’m sorry for interrupting.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
That won’t be necessary.
Let him eat cake.
Marc Schreiber.
Veronika Vanderberg.
(CHUCKLES)
Let’s make this quick, shall we?
Our auction begins shortly.
I trust you can do me and the Heart justice.
Yes. I only have one rule.
What I say goes.
Well, I’m sure I can find my submissive side.
Well, if not, I’ll find it for you. (CHUCKLES) Ooh. I like you.
Right this way, darling.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
I don’t want to be too matte.
JUNE: Sure. Sure, sure.
And I don’t like the sides of my nose shining.
JUNE: Okay.
Show me.
Mmhmm.
Excuse me, can the little fruit fly in my shot please shoo, shoo, shoo.
Thank you.
The only thing more valuable than that diamond is my time.
(CAMERA CLICKING)
I did my research on you.
Your industry, like mine, is besieged by manufacturer lore.
But you, you bring us beauty as it is.
We’re alike in that regard.
We don’t sell contrivance, we sell reality.
Well, I would argue that we don’t sell at all.
Others buy.
BOSCO: Hmm.
Let’s see…
Uh… The diamond, take it out.
Nah, boy.
Absolutely not.
The glare in the glass will mar the photos.
I don’t tolerate imperfections.
I don’t imagine someone as ravishing as Ms. Vanderberg does either.
So, take it out or find yourself a new photographer.
(CHUCKLES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(WHIRRING SOFTLY)
In truth, I was hoping you’d ask.
I don’t remember asking.
There it is. (CHUCKLES) Beautiful.
Work it. Fabulous.
Fabulous.
(CHUCKLES) Fabulous.
Beautiful.
Yes. Smiling, we’re having fun.
This is what we came for.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS)
Hold it, hold it.
That’s the money shot.
Hold it.
And you, ma’am, are far enough.
I’m just trying…
I’m trying to help.
Her forehead is shinier than the diamond.
When it comes to the Heart…
Actually, I’m doing my job.
I don’t take orders from you.
When it comes to the Heart, you listen to me. Get out.
I… I can walk myself.
Thank you.
Right.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
VERONIKA: Mr. Schreiber.
If you’re all you purport to be, you should already have what you need.
More than enough. Thank you.
Excellent.
Well, it’s been a pleasure, but I have buyers waiting.
LETHABO: I’ve had enough of this of this nonsense.
Make sure it’s secured.
MAN: Yes, Lethabo.
(DOOR OPENS) What the hell, what happened?
I don’t know. I don’t know.
(DOOR CLOSES) Time’s ticking. Let’s go.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
At last, the auction we’ve all been waiting for.
Now, if you’re here tonight, you probably think you’ve seen everything.
So it is to you that I ask…
Everything?
(AUDIENCE GASPS AND APPLAUDS)
(VERONIKA LAUGHS)
It’s not been seen in person for a quarter of a century.
Still the largest diamond ever discovered, the Heart.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(LOUD SLOW CLAPPING)
BOSCO: Congratulations to all of you and for getting away with it for so long.
Well, guess what?
(AUDIENCE GASPS) Climate change doesn’t believe in you, either.
You tore your fortunes from our Mother Earth, set fire to her skies in your private jets…
Okay, she gets it.
BOSCO: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS)
Bled her dry with your insatiable…
Young man, we all want to save the world here, but time is also precious and you’re wasting mine.
(LAUGHS) Zip it, sparkles.
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
BOSCO: Why don’t you stop sucking on plastic straws, and suck on this!
(GRUNTS) (SHATTERS)
(AUDIENCE GASPING)
(GRUNTING)
Honored guests.
My name is J. Daniel Atlas.
You may remember me as your personal favorite of the Four Horsemen of magic.
Now watch closely as I make the famous Heart Diamond appear on my palm.
Geewhiz, he must be as starved for attention as Greenpeace here.
(ALL LAUGH)
Rest assured that the diamond is completely safe.
Is it?
Now, a wise man once told me, in the mirror, in fact, uh, never assume you’re the smartest person in the room, prove it.
Be my guest.
All right, well, let’s see if we can get that case open.
Uh… Abracadabra.
Huh. Nope.
Uh… Alakazam.
Wait.
Open sesame.
(WHIRRING SOFTLY)
(AUDIENCE WHISPERING) ATLAS: Ah.
Still safe with me.
(SHATTERS)
(ALL GASPING) No. Relax.
Mm, relax, Veronika.
Now, as your ads like to remind us, diamonds are forever.
(PEOPLE GASP) Get her to safety. Now!
You stop him! Stop him!
Stop him!
(GUN COCKS)
(GRUNTS)
(PEOPLE GASP)
ATLAS: Jack.
Hey.
What are you doing here?
Saving your ass.
ATLAS: Ah.
You’re welcome.
ATLAS: You got one, too. Huh.
Hi. I’m June.
ATLAS: Yeah.
JACK: Who’s she?
ATLAS: Sorry, she’s with us.
(GRUNTS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(GRUNTS) Where is the diamond?
(GRUNTS)
(BONE CRACKS)
WOMAN: What?
(POPS)
(LETHABO GROANING)
(GRUNTS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MEN GRUNTING)
I guess you guys don’t care about the environment.
You’re stronger than you look.
JUNE: Hey!
(GRUNTING)
SECURITY GUARD: Hey, hey. Hey!
Stop! Don’t let them get away!
ATLAS: Okay, what now?
My card just said to get you out of there. I don’t know.
(GROANING)
(EXHALES) CHARLIE: Henley Reeves?
I have so many posters of you.
You’re my childhood…
All right, fanboy later.
But it does, uh… You know, it is really nice to see you.
Fanboy later.
We got to go up.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(DOORS BANG OPEN)
Put your hands up and don’t move!
This is some bullshit.
(VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING)
What is happening?
Beethoven’s Concerto in D major.
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!
(GRUNTS)
Whoa. Merritt? What…
What the hell was that?
Atlas, I would like to see you hypnotize three dudes in Belgian.
You mean Flemish.
Okay, that explains it.
Lovely reunion.
We have to go.
(CHUCKLING) Henley Reeves!
Welcome back!
Thanks.
And may I say, you are…
Okay, come on, let’s go!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
I was paying her a compliment because it was nice to see her, and only her.
I was…
JACK: We get it!
LETHABO: Up there.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(HELICOPTER HOVERING)
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Is that for us?
Do you see any other people trying to escape?
Come on, come on.
Go, go!
(GRUNTING)
(MUTTERS IN DISBELIEF)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Come on, come on.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
VERONIKA: Uh, it was in my hand the whole time. It never…
(SOFT BEEPING) They didn’t swap the diamond.
They swapped the case.
And you, ma’am, are far enough.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Why don’t you stop sucking on plastic straws, and suck on this!
(SHATTERS)
(SOFT BEEPING AND WHIRRING)
Honored guests…
Open sesame.
(BEEPS)
(WHIRRING SOFTLY)
VERONIKA: Still safe with me.
(BEEPS)
(SHATTERS)
Diamonds are forever.
Lethabo.
Yes, ma’am?
We’re going to make them regret this.
And then some.
Marc Schreiber, Vanity Fair. What did I miss?
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
You know, I thought it’d be shinier.
ATLAS: Okay.
All right, give it back.
Thank… What are you doing?
Oh. Sorry. It’s so slippery.
Hey. Hey.
Heads up.
Okay, don’t do that again.
Hey, can I address the, uh, infant in the room?
Uh… Who are these guys?
These are the wonderful kids that deep-faked our show.
HENLEY: What?
ATLAS: Yeah.
You had the cops sent to my house?
You freaked out my kids.
Yeah, sorry.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
How are the kids, though?
How is the whole boring suburban life you left us for?
Hey, relax, man.
You missed your shot.
ATLAS: Hmm.
You see the size of that rock?
ATLAS: No, let me see that.
Ooh, it’s no Heart diamond, but it’s impressive.
I already told you, Danny.
I didn’t feel safe trying to escape from a straitjacket hanging upside down.
I was six months pregnant.
Come on, we would have flipped you right side up at the end.
You’d have been fine.
(SCOFFS) Come on.
You guys didn’t even miss me.
How long did it take you to replace me? An afternoon?
Um, and the better part of an evening.
Hey, speaking of, how is Lula?
Are you guys still, uh…
No.
She, uh… she moved to Paris.
Oh, no. She dumped the great J. Wilder. My God.
I’m sorry. My apologies.
Don’t you need to be on some, like, cruise ship somewhere humiliating yourself?
Humiliating myself?
Yeah.
I make five figures per cruise, plus perks.
(CHUCKLES) “Plus perks.”
He said, “plus perks.”
And I thought Merritt drinking himself to death in Mexico was depressing. Ooh.
Speaking of, I got to get back to it.
This liver’s not gonna destroy itself.
Uh, can we dry dock this thing?
Wait, wait, wait.
You’re leaving?
Well, yeah, I mean, great catching up.
Um, I don’t know, what, see you in another ten?
Nice to meet you, little tadpoles.
Adios. Yeah, you know what?
I’m out of here, too.
I have a gig to get to.
Really?
They’re covering your Uber?
Signed an NDA.
Can’t say a word.
What are you doing?
MERRITT: Six handles and none of them open it.
Who do you think you’re talking to? Move.
I’m sorry, but I don’t really know what’s going on with you guys.
I’m getting the feeling there’s a lot of weird history here, and things are a little awkward.
Yeah, you guys, you used to be the Horsemen.
I don’t get it.
Why did you break up?
Ask them.
Ask them why we broke up.
If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have.
(SIGHS)
The Eye wanted us to…
No, no.
…expose a Russian arms dealer.
JACK: Do we really have to live through this again?
We made some huge mistakes, we got…
Sloppy.
Cocky.
Because of us, Dylan Shrike will never see the outside of a Russian prison again.
Who?
Dylan Shrike. Okay?
He’s a Horseman. Come on.
Do your homework, man.
I’m so sorry.
Guys, I had no idea.
What, he’s stuck in there forever?
ATLAS: Which is obviously a tragedy and something I’ll never forgive myself.
MERRITT: Nor will I.
Yeah, fine, man.
But it didn’t mean you have to quit.
(YAWNS)
Man, that is, uh…
It’s really a bummer, guys.
Sorry about that.
“A bummer”?
I… I… I love the way your generation sums things up so eloquently.
I mean, someone explain to me why these pre-pubes are even here.
Same reason you are, man.
The Eye wanted ’em.
JUNE: Well, we got the Heart.
What does The Eye want us to do next?
No idea.
I know one thing.
You’ve got a half a billion dollar diamond in your hands.
They’re gonna get in touch.
ATLAS: Yeah, probably.
Whoa, wait, wait.
Atlas, can I see your card?
Yeah.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
ATLAS: Hmm.
(JUNE CHUCKLES)
JACK: Whoa.
It’s a map.
Hey, Atlas, it’s your dad.
No, it’s…
It’s a map that only reveals itself when the Horsemen are together.
(JACK SCOFFS)
Fat chance.
JUNE: Really, dude?
I mean, come on, The Eye obviously wants you guys to do this.
You’re the Horsemen.
Start acting like it.
(SIGHS) All right.
I suppose Rosarito can wait a couple days.
I… I can try to reschedule this gig. (SIGHS) It’s not gonna be easy, but I’ll figure it out.
I mean, I have kind of missed running for my life and jumping off roofs with you guys.
It’s good to have you back.
Thanks.
Okay, so where is this place?
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
JUNE: What are we supposed to be doing here?
ATLAS: The Eye will let us know.
All right, picture time.
What are you doing?
Taking a photo.
That’s what couples do now.
Please don’t post photos of the top secret location.
JUNE: Don’t be jealous.
I know you want to be in it.
ATLAS: Yeah.
I don’t want to be in it.
Because it can be used for…
JUNE: For memories.
ATLAS: No, not memories.
Evidence.
HENLEY: Huh. I’ve never seen a door like this.
(GRUNTS)
Okay, I can’t open it.
You got this, Jack?
Wait.
Don’t you mean “June”?
HENLEY: Jack’s our lockpick.
Whoa.
Looks like a little healthy competish.
Come on, this isn’t fair.
I’ve been picking locks since before she was born.
(DISTANT BIRDS CHIRPING)
Let me find the keyhole.
HENLEY: Maybe the other side.
ATLAS: Yeah, it’s underneath.
MERRITT: You’re not inspiring confidence right now, Jack.
He’s got it.
JUNE: Hmm.
He’s got it.
Feeling rusty?
JACK: Don’t rush me.
When does he start the lock picking?
Hey, Jack, I don’t think this is a lock you pick.
I think it’s a lock you solve. So…
(THUDS, RUMBLING)
CHARLIE: Show him how it’s done.
HENLEY: Whoa.
Do you mind if I just figure this out real quickly?
(JACK CHUCKLES)
(CLEARS THROAT) Okay.
(THUDS)
If you’ve ever done an escape room, you’d know there are all kinds of different puzzles.
It’s not just about locks and keys.
MERRITT: Whoa.
ATLAS: Huh.
JUNE: You might want to update your game, Jack.
HENLEY: Whoa.
But, by all means, lead the way.
I think he loosened it for her, ultimately.
Huh.
Ooh.
Whoa.
Wow.
Uh, what is this place?
Magic nerd heaven.
P.T. Selbit’s coffin?
See?
Guys, Houdini’s straitjacket.
Yes, it is.
Hey, can I put you in here for old time’s sake?
No.
No?
I thought it was funny.
Thanks a lot.
You wanna come in?
No.
Right.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GUN COCKS, FIRES)
(CHUCKLES) Charlie, check this out, dude.
CHARLIE: What is it?
Bullet catch.
No way!
Yo! (CHUCKLES)
(IMITATES GUNSHOT)
(IMITATES GROAN) Dead end?
Yeah, dead end.
Hey, guys, dead end. (SIGHS) Or, is it?
ATLAS: Hmm.
(BOSCO CLEARS THROAT)
Oh, my God.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, it is.
Hmm, that’s weird.
The die should be here and the ball should be here.
(CLANGING AND CLATTERING)
Whoa.
Well played.
It’s nothing.
HENLEY: Four rows.
One, five, eight, four?
Is it a code?
One, one, five, six, 18…
Minus four.
One, eight, nine?
Fifteen, eighty-four.
1584.
Wha…
The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
It’s the first book on stage magic.
It’s when it was published.
HENLEY: God, how does he know that?
Uh, he’s basically a computer full of useless information.
HENLEY: Huh.
(THUDDING AND RUMBLING)
“Useless”?
This is cool.
(JUNE CHUCKLES)
Unreal.
Nice.
Hey, guys, it’s the floor plan of the chateau.
But it’s different somehow.
THADDEUS: Up is down.
Left is right.
Even the rooms are tricks.
My Horsemen.
(GASPS) Thaddeus!
(CHUCKLING)
So good to see you.
So good to see you, darling.
You could’ve just checked the Ring camera and buzzed us in.
Now, where’s the fun in that?
Sir. Hi, I’m Charlie.
(SPUTTERS)
I’m such a big fan of yours.
Hi, Charlie.
CHARLIE: Um…
I’ve never seen a Lubor Lens this big in person.
Really? Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
(CHUCKLES)
So you sent the tarot cards?
THADDEUS: No.
No, I’ve long since given up such foolishness, and your collective dysfunction.
No, the only magic I do nowadays is for my grandchildren.
Some weeks ago, however, a card did appear on my doorstep, warning me to prepare this chateau for the arrival of seven soon-to-be fugitives from the law.
That tracks.
Yeah.
Wait, so why does The Eye want us here?
Well, I can only assume that whatever it is they want you to do next, is hidden somewhere in these walls.
See, this chateau, Chateau Roussillon used to be their home.
In 1943, the Allies needed military miracles from every source.
(SOFT WHIRRING)
They enlisted the aid of some of the most talented magicians of the time.
They built a whole city using mud, cardboard, lights, thousands of inflatable rubber tanks to misdirect the Germans.
The genius of Jasper Maskelyne.
Somebody knows his history.
Wait, so, what do the Nazis have to do with the diamond?
That, I do not know.
But the answer is here somewhere.
We just have to start looking.
REPORTER: Ms. Vanderberg.
Ms. Vanderberg.
How do you respond to the rumors that your company is nothing but a front for money laundering?
The Horsemen are thieves posing as anti-capitalist entertainers, and they have unfairly targeted me and my good company.
I challenge anyone who maligns us to look closely at our operations and our books.
And I challenge police to put those magicians back where they belong, in the past.
(REPORTERS CLAMORING)
All right, no more questions.
No more questions, please!
Thank you!
(EXHALES)
(REPORTERS CONTINUE CLAMORING)
VERONIKA: Interpol said it was an inside job.
Thieves knew exactly where the blind spots were.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
DISTORTED VOICE: How was it?
Let me guess.
You’re the one behind these Horsemen and their little stable hands.
No. Why would I ask for the diamond and then try to steal it? If I were you, I’d figure out a way to get it back, and fast. I understand that you and your race team will be in Abu Dhabi later this week. A perfect neutral ground. I’ll bring my evidence. You bring your Heart, if you have one. I…
(LINE DISCONNECTS) Have you found them yet?
We do have a few leads.
They were seen headed south out of Belgium.
VERONIKA: Now they’re saying the Horsemen have been seen in France one hour ago.
The head of the French police owes me.
Just call him and say that I want these Horsemen’s heads served up on a platter.
The gendarme will find them.
I’m sure of it.
Thaddeus told us to look for something.
What do you think it is?
(CHUCKLES)
Oh, wow. This is cool.
You are not a big talker.
Oh. Sorry.
But you are a big apologizer.
Sorry. (SPUTTERS) I just did it again.
Sorry. I mean…
I’m just nervous.
(SPUTTERS)
I’m a big fan of you guys.
And I got the cops called in, and I’m really…
I’m really…
I’m not gonna say it.
(CHUCKLES) You’re forgiven.
And you guys made the Horsemen look good.
But I didn’t see you.
Why weren’t you in it?
Oh, I just… I prefer to be behind the scenes, you know.
I design all of our tricks.
Um, where are we going?
I feel like we’re lost.
Do you really prefer that, or is that just something you hide behind?
Uh, what do you mean?
Well, I… Whoa.
For years, I told myself I wanted to be an assistant, that I didn’t mind being upstaged by Atlas, ’cause he’s so brilliant.
But really, I just…
I was afraid.
I was afraid to take the spotlight.
(SOFT INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYS)
Ooh. Thaddeus was right.
Up is down.
(ENTHRALLING MUSIC PLAYS)
Upside down room. Cool.
Cool?
Is nothing impressive to you?
BOSCO: (CHUCKLES) That’s why I said “cool.”
Do you not know what cool means?
All right, let’s just try to figure out how this room works, okay?
Yeah.
Figured it out.
Of course. That’s right.
You know everything already.
So what did I do wrong this time?
Ah, nothing.
My apologies.
You’re amazing.
It’s an honor to watch you.
Has anyone ever told you that you’re a control freak?
ATLAS: Yep. Many times.
Whoa! Hey!
(RUMBLING)
I did figure it out.
(SOFT INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYS)
Whoa. Wow.
(WARBLING)
Gummies kicked in.
JUNE: I wonder what we’re looking for.
JACK: Anything weird.
JUNE: This is all weird.
(SCOFFS) Jesus.
Look at this.
You know, I have always looked up to you.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, before you became a cruise ship magician.
Hey, I also do corporate events.
Oh, no way.
I couldn’t tell.
BOSCO: So that was a total waste. What now?
One trick. Okay? No charm, no gifts of gabs.
Just one trick.
(SCOFFS) Dude, I do not have to prove myself to you.
I mean, you kind of do.
Show me why The Eye picked you.
You know what?
Prove to me that you don’t need a babysitter.
(SIGHS)
Oh, what, now you stop performing?
You’re done showing off because your misfit friends aren’t here?
They’re my family.
Mmhmm.
Don’t you dare.
I don’t have to impress them.
All right, fine.
Forget it.
I just wanted to see what you were capable of when you weren’t trying to win cheap applause, but I guess the answer is nothing.
All right.
You wanna see a magic trick?
See, the problem with you, Atlas, is that you just like to overcomplicate things, man.
It is a lot easier to find a diamond than you think.
Ooh.
And to make it… (EXHALES) …disappear.
Nice.
Check your pocket.
ATLAS: Really?
Yeah.
ATLAS: Hmm.
Ooh, not bad.
Card to impossible location.
But don’t play checkers on a chessboard because I’m already five steps ahead of you.
Check your pocket.
THADDEUS: Hey.
Those are priceless antiques.
ATLAS: Yeah.
This room is where old relics go to their final resting place.
Yep. You are, uh… You’re probably right, Thaddeus.
But, uh, not before they have one last shot at glory.
What’s going on here?
Pretty good, but you should try to do things a little more slow.
Really?
Let your audience enjoy the real magic.
(ALL EXCLAIM IN AWE) ATLAS: Okay, not bad. Not bad.
Wow.
JUNE: Nice one, Bosco.
I’ve never been great at poker, but is a diamond trumped by a heart?
(JUNE CHUCKLES)
ATLAS: Ooh. There it is.
JUNE: Whoo.
Nice misdirection, but, let’s not forget what this is really about.
HENLEY: I wasn’t done.
JUNE: Show ’em, Charlie.
Making a jewel disappear.
ATLAS: Let’s see this one.
All right.
Keep your eye on the prize.
Round and round they go, where they stop, nobody knows.
Good as gone.
JUNE: Ooh.
Black art, table’s rigged, saw it when I came in.
Time for a clean escape.
HENLEY: Oh, yeah.
BOSCO: Where is he going?
ATLAS: I know what he’s doing.
Jack in the box?
That’s a trick?
BOSCO: Ah, it’s old stuff.
If I had known he was that easy to get rid of. (CHUCKLES) Not that easy.
ATLAS: Yeah, Jack.
Ohh! Okay, enough of the warm up act, time for the headliner.
I want you to think of one of these cards, but don’t think of the one you think I want you to think of.
Got one?
JUNE: Yeah, I got one.
What was your card?
JUNE: Four of hearts.
(GROANS)
Haha.
(ALL EXCLAIM) Nice one, professor.
I’m impressed. I’m impressed.
Hey. Hey. That whiskey is older than you.
Sorry, boss. So sorry.
Look, you guys, I’m not gonna lie.
This has been really cool.
Really, really cool.
Go show ’em.
But, uh, I think I just want to make it a little cooler.
BOSCO: Come on now, yeah!
Hey.
CHARLIE: There she goes.
Yes! Snow storm in China.
JACK: There we are.
Beautiful.
(APPLAUSE)
I always wear white in winter, guys.
Snow is rare in this part of France, but, ice, that is just impossible.
CHARLIE: Classic.
JUNE: Nice.
How do you do a vanish so good?
Oh, a magician never tells.
Hmm?
Ooh. Hmm.
Check.
Mate?
BOSCO: Shit.
Face it, Bosco. Wisdom and skill overcome youth and arrogance every time.
Thank you. Never assume you’re the smartest guy in the room. Prove it.
Give me a break, man.
You didn’t prove anything.
Hey, can I just remind everyone we still haven’t figured out why we’re even in this World War II relic.
CHARLIE: Wait!
Jasper Maskelyne, the… the magician who vanquished the Nazis.
He built fake cities, fake tanks.
I mean… I wonder…
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHUCKLES)
Whoa.
Oh.
JACK: Oh, wow.
Oh, my God, I was right?
Hey, Magic 101, man, never act surprised when the trick actually works.
Oh, sorry.
HENLEY: Oh, my goodness.
What is all that?
Encyclopedia of Nazi war criminals.
Uh, which apparently includes Veronika’s dad.
After World War II, surviving Nazis fled around the world.
I’m not an accountant, but looks like Peter Vanderberg got rich cleaning their dirty money.
ATLAS: Yeah, and apparently Veronika took over right where he left off using his criminal network.
But…
But I don’t understand.
What does The Eye want us to do with this?
Well, if I’m not mistaken, The Eye wants us to unmask the Vanderbergs, bring down two generations of criminals with a single sleight of hand.
I’ve read some interesting rumors about the Vanderbergs online.
Looks like 15 years ago, Veronika’s mom killed herself, and a week later, their housekeeper’s brakes failed.
Her car crashed, she and her son died.
There was some suspicion of foul play, but nothing was ever proven.
ATLAS: Hmm.
(SIRENS APPROACHING) BOSCO: Whoa.
HENLEY: Oh, shit.
(SIRENS WAILING)
(SIRENS STOP)
(OFFICERS SHOUTING IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Police!
THADDEUS: Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Listen closely.
Split up, find a way out.
Okay.
Come on, let’s go.
Go. Go.
ATLAS: He’s right.
Everybody split up.
HENLEY: Okay, let’s go.
(THUDDING)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(IN ENGLISH)
This way, this way!
Stop!
(GUN COCKS) Turn around.
Turn around.
ATLAS: You heard him, Bosco.
Turn around.
(THUDS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(ALL GRUNTING)
JUNE: Here they come!
(OFFICERS GRUNTING)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
Adios, mon ami.
(OFFICER GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(BOSCO GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
CHARLIE: (IN ENGLISH) Sorry!
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
Bonjour, monsieur. Bonjour.
(IN ENGLISH) You know, normally, I like to give a proper tour to new guests.
I suspect you’ve discovered that this house holds many secrets.
Thaddeus!
(RUMBLING)
(THUDS)
Thaddeus!
Would you like to see a magic trick?
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) How about if I make myself… disappear?
(OFFICER SHOUTS IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Don’t move!
(POPS)
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
Thaddeus!
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
Thaddeus!
(OFFICER SPEAKS FRENCH)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
ATLAS: (IN ENGLISH) Hurry! This way!
Thaddeus?
ATLAS: Oh, thank God.
Hey, which is the fastest way out of here?
(WEAKLY) Around this bend…
Yeah.
…there’s a passageway.
Just follow the creek through the forest.
(EXHALES WEAKLY)
Whoa.
Oh!
Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.
This can’t be happening.
Come on, Thaddeus, stand up.
We’re gonna go now.
We need to get you help.
Please, stand up.
You have to stop Veronika Vanderberg.
No, we can’t do it without you, Thaddeus.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
You don’t need me.
But you do need each other.
Never forget that.
I knew when I came here, this was… probably my final trick.
Now, don’t let me die in vain.
There’s work to be done.
(DISTANT THUD) (OFFICER SHOUTING IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH)
Go. Go now, go. Please.
Before it’s… too late.
(EXHALES)
(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES)
(OFFICERS SHOUTING IN FRENCH IN DISTANCE)
(IN ENGLISH)
Let’s go. We gotta go.
Atlas!
(BIRDS CALLING)
CHARLIE: The police took June into custody.
Well, what about Jack and Merritt?
Them, too.
Okay, so we break them out.
Whoa, uhuh. Let’s just talk about this for a second.
BOSCO: Talk about what?
Listen to me.
We need to be smart.
No. We gotta get my friend out of jail.
Bosco…
Look, when you were researching all that stuff about us, you know what didn’t come up?
Charlie and June are my only friends.
You know what I really love about them?
They don’t make me feel like an asshole.
I’m getting June.
HENLEY: Bosco, wait…
Listen to me. Hey.
Just one second, dude.
ATLAS: Listen to me.
You can’t.
Why? Tell me.
They’re looking for you, Bosco.
They’re looking for all of us.
Yes. Yes, you’re gonna get arrested, too.
Yes.
Shit.
Exactly.
If only there was somebody else crazy enough to stage a jailbreak with no resources, no protection. (INHALES) Atlas.
Yeah?
Maybe there is.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Thaddeus Marcus Bradley, in case you’re interested in the name of the man you just murdered.
(CLICKS TONGUE) Ah, yes, that was unfortunate.
You know, when this whole thing started, I didn’t give a shit about you or your diamond, but you just went and made it deeply personal.
And now, I am really looking forward to taking you down.
(LAUGHS) My father would have loved you.
He was quite fond of magic.
When I was five or six, in one of the few moments that I had him to myself, he taught me a trick.
He would make a red silk handkerchief disappear and then come back out of his mouth.
I loved it!
It had just the right amount of flair.
And I practiced that trick for months.
I thought that if I could do it just right, I would earn more of… of him.
But that was the illusion.
I’ve hated magic ever since.
The camp, the cheese, not to say anything of con artists like you with your mentalism.
(CHUCKLES)
Neither one of us has psychic powers, Mr. McKinney.
But you don’t have to.
You know where my Heart is.
And I don’t have to, because you’re going to tell me.
I think you’re smart enough to know that I ain’t telling you shit, as we say in Texas.
And, you’re wrong about mentalism.
People wear their entire life story on their face.
You just have to know how to read it.
Take yours, for example.
May I?
With pleasure.
This is gonna be fun.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
Well, you’ve already shared, in excruciating detail, your daddy issues, but I’m curious about your mom.
Why did she commit suicide?
Was she as desperate for your father’s attention as you were?
Ooh…
She was.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
And why was that?
Did your father give his attention to someone else?
(CHUCKLES)
When you tuck your hair behind your ear, that’s a tell.
He was.
(CHUCKLES) So, was he banging his secretary?
No, that’s too cliche.
But it had to be someone close to your mom for her to…
A good friend?
Hairdresser?
It wasn’t the housekeeper, was it?
No, not the housekeeper.
(SPUTTERS)
I don’t have time for this.
And that’s what people usually say when I’m getting hot.
Should we crank up the AC, maybe open a window?
Now, if my dad was having sex with my housekeeper and my mom found out and committed suicide, I probably wouldn’t cut the brakes on my housekeeper’s car.
But then again, I’m not a psychopath.
You are a sad and pathetic man.
I can see why you want to end it.
Uh, hey, uh, Veronika…
(KNOCKS) You know, walking away is also a tell.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
Oohlala.
(OFFICER SPEAKS FRENCH)
(WOMAN GRUNTS)
Monsieur, monsieur, monsieur.
(OFFICER SPEAKS FRENCH)
(BOTH GRUNT) (CRACKS)
(OFFICER SPEAKS FRENCH)
(GASPING AND CRYING)
(SCREAMING)
(OFFICER SHOUTING IN FRENCH)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Where is she?
Where’s the girl?
LETHABO: Shit!
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
LETHABO: (IN ENGLISH) She escaped.
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(OFFICER REPLIES IN FRENCH)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES)
Bonsoir.
(IN ENGLISH)
That’s pretty disgusting, even for you.
(EXHALES)
(SIGHS) I think I may have overdone it on the wine.
Hi, Lula.
You look great, by the way.
Okay, one…
I didn’t think I’d ever see you again.
How did you find us?
A little birdie told me.
(CHUCKLES)
Imagine my surprise.
You guys all got back together without me.
What? No, it’s not like that.
You don’t understand.
It wasn’t? No?
(HANDCUFFS CLATTER) You’re free. Dick.
MERRITT: The cavalry.
(DOOR OPENS) (LAUGHS) Miss me?
Oh, a lot.
Oh, hello there.
It’s me, Lula…
Teeth! Lula!
Remember?
I too was once a Horseman.
Yeah, I asked about you.
I was the only one.
Oh, you were the…
He was the only one. Really?
(SPEAKS FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Shit. Okay.
We have to get to the meet up.
Okay, here’s the plan.
I have the getaway car.
It’s all ready to go.
I just need Jack to hotwire it.
Wait, your plan is for me to steal a car?
Uhhuh!
Okay, I’ll hotwire the car.
You get June.
Do not leave without her, all right?
Meet us outside.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Oh! Uh, watch for flashing lights!
Okay.
You know, I can hotwire the…
(ALARM RINGING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS) (GROANS)
(WINCES)
(SHATTERS)
You can let go of me now.
Right. Sorry.
(ALARM CONTINUES RINGING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(OFFICER SPEAKS FRENCH)
(OUIOUI (A CANADIAN IN PARIS) BY PULSALLAMA PLAYING)
(SONG PLAYING IN FRENCH) (OFFICER SCREAMING)
(OFFICER GROANS)
(OFFICER GRUNTS)
Whoa! (GRUNTS)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(SONG CONTINUES)
♪ Viva la France ♪
♪ I love the fries
and the toast ♪
(SONG CONTINUES IN FRENCH)
(PANTING, GRUNTS)
(IN ENGLISH) Come here.
Where is the diamond?
(PANTING) Merritt, thank you.
(CHUCKLES)
Got your back, kiddo.
But who’s got yours?
(GUN COCKS)
Flashing lights.
Run!
(GUNSHOT) (YELLS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
Look into my eyes, watch and wonder why I whisper words that weaken your will, and sleep. (SNAPS FINGERS)
(GRUNTS)
Not everyone’s susceptible.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(STRAINING) I said, “Sleep!”
(PANTING)
(GUNS COCKING)
Easy does it s’il vous plait.
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
Tada!
(PANTING)
(EXHALES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
Hello?
ATLAS: Jack?
You could have told us you were coming in a police car.
Thank you very much.
And, look, we made the Fifth Horseman reappear.
Hello, Lula.
Hi.
Okay.
Are you okay?
Yeah. No, I’m okay. I’m okay.
But they have Merritt.
Shit.
Yeah, I escaped, he couldn’t.
LULA: Yeah, yeah.
Very emotional time for everybody here.
Clearly a lot going on.
And I’m really trying not to take any of this personally.
But, please, can you tell me, did The Eye contact you directly?
Yeah.
LULA: You, too?
Yes.
Well, why didn’t you call me sooner?
I’m so sorry.
I had to find a babysitter.
Come on!
Everything happened like that.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
Wait, sorry. (SPUTTERS) You two know each other?
Yeah.
Yeah, we know…
How many female magicians do you think there are in the world?
I mean, the fact that there are three of us in the room right now…
Shocking. Shocking.
…it’s, like, mind blown.
That’s true.
I’m surprised the universe isn’t folding in on itself.
HENLEY: Exactly.
Abu Dhabi!
Does he just do that?
HENLEY: Mmhmm.
Sorry, I just…
I’m a big fan of yours, by the way.
I was trying to figure out where Veronika was gonna be next.
And, apparently, Vanderberg Global has a motorsports team.
They’re introducing a new car this weekend in Abu Dhabi.
So we can get Merritt back and expose her.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, no, no.
I am not exposing her.
I am not exposing anyone, okay?
I don’t care what The Eye wants. No.
We are swapping this for Merritt, and then we are done.
We’re saving our friend, we’re not saving the world.
And then what?
What?
We just go back to our lives and let her walk away?
After Russia, you said, “Magicians are entertainers, “not superheroes.”
Oh, my God. Here we go.
And I’m starting to think that you were right.
She doesn’t just launder money like her father.
You saw what happened to Thaddeus.
Obviously, I’m playing a bit of catch up here, right?
I don’t have all of the information, but I don’t think that that should stop me from having an opinion about what we do next.
Of course it should.
Exactly.
No, it shouldn’t, Atlas.
And I think we should expose Vanessa.
Veronika.
Veronika.
For murder and…
What is the other thing?
Money laundering.
And for money laundering.
For murder and for money laundering.
Yeah. Yeah.
LULA: We should tie her up…
No, no!
No, it is too dangerous!
And Atlas is right.
What?
We are done sacrificing ourselves.
Yeah.
I’m sorry. It’s not worth it.
That’s bullshit!
What?
CHARLIE: You’re wrong.
Am I?
Sorry.
No. Don’t be sorry.
Say it.
You are.
You’re wrong. It’s just…
(SIGHS)
Before I discovered the Horsemen, I didn’t give a shit about anything.
I… My family gave me up.
I hated the whole world.
And then, I saw a video of you guys, and you were trying to make the world less corrupt, less terrible.
And that made me give a shit.
(SLOW CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
So what’s the trick?
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
JACK: I promise this is gonna work.
But is that enough misdirection?
(SIGHS) As long as she’s here and not there.
We can take care of that.
If you’re even just five minutes late…
Five? I’d say one.
One minute late.
How do we know enough people are gonna show up?
You guys, it’s already viral.
I guarantee there’ll be a crowd.
This is nuts.
There’s too many variables.
Hey, we’ll be in constant contact with you if something goes awry…
Hey, hey, hey, there’s, like, no margin for error here, man.
Okay? Zero.
We’re going to have to be absolutely flawless if we’re gonna pull something this risky off with this many moving parts in this ridiculously short amount of time.
Okay?
Yes.
Yeah.
But speaking for myself, at least, I think the seven of us have a better chance than most.
(CHUCKLES) Oh.
Would you look at this.
When did the great Bosco Leroy go soft?
Okay, guys, are we doing this or what?
It has a ten million to one shot.
Those are my kind of odds.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
ANNOUNCER: (OVER SPEAKERS) Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. Tonight, for one night only.
ATLAS: Come in close. JACK: Closer.
HENLEY: Because the more you think you see…
LULA: The easier it will be to fool you.
ANNOUNCER: The countdown begins in only two hours. The Four Horsemen will be on stage together for the first time in ten years. J. Daniel Atlas.
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
Henley Reeves.
(CHAINS BREAKING)
Jack Wilder. And Lula May.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Ladies and gentlemen, the Four Horsemen. That’s right, the Horsemen are back for one night only. Now, last week, we stole the Heart Diamond, and tonight, in two hours’ time, we’re going to return it to its rightful owner, all of you.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Do you think that got her attention?
If that didn’t, I don’t know what will.
All right, listen, now that you know how bad things can actually get, can you please just try playing it safe this one time?
No.
Okay.
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING) Oh.
Here she is.
Right on time.
You enjoying the show?
VERONIKA: (ON PHONE) Eh, it’s a little tacky for my taste.
I assume you chose your venue for its proximity to my own.
Well, good news for you.
I’ve placed you on our guest list.
Bring me my Heart.
We’ll make an exchange.
Mr. McKinney for the diamond.
ATLAS: Mmhmm.
Outside, under the lights, and not the first hint of magic.
One rabbit comes out of a hat, one ace slides out of a sleeve, and your friend goes poof.
Just trying to use parlance you’ll understand.
(ABRACADABRA BY LADY GAGA PLAYING)
♪ Abracadabra, amoroonana ♪
♪ Abracadabra
Mortaoogaga ♪
♪ Abracadabra, abraoonana ♪
♪ In her tongue she said
“Death or love tonight” ♪
♪ Abracadabra, abracadabra ♪
♪ Abracadabra
Abracadabra… ♪
Welcome to the W Yas Island.
The Orlando of the Middle East.
LULA: Ha.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
VERONIKA: Now, finally, thank you to Yas Island for hosting an event worthy of the fastest team in motorsports.
(CROWD CHEERING)
This track is elite, but it will soon provide our competitors with the most common view in racing, the rear wings of our cars.
(CROWD LAUGHING)
Thank you.
Thank you.
Holy shit. That’s Veronika?
She has a very commanding presence.
Our magical friends have arrived.
Why don’t you go and greet them?
Thank you so much for coming.
I hope you enjoy the race.
Okay, Atlas said to create a distraction.
How are we gonna pull this off?
There is security everywhere.
Okay, guys, calm down.
I got this.
Hello. Hi.
Uh, David. Cool.
I’m from media relations.
I was just checking in.
Do you think you guys could do a different camera placement?
Okay, thanks. Continue.
Who is that?
Your turn.
Let’s do this.
Make sure you confirm the authenticity of the diamond.
These people are very tricky.
I’m so glad you came.
What do you say we bury the hatchet?
In each other’s necks?
Ha! He’s funny.
We each possess something beneficial to the other.
Perfect reason to do business.
Only, there’s one caveat.
I fervently hope our mutual dealings are at a close.
She’s so poised.
Not now.
I hate her… Ugh.
Lula. Shh.
How’s it going?
GUARD: Bro, can I help you?
Yeah, we’re here to shoot the car.
ID?
Oh, right. Of course.
Obviously. There you are.
And you?
BOSCO: Uh, yeah, it’s in my jacket somewhere.
There it is.
We’re with Checkered Flags, the doc series.
Next season’s on Vanderberg Motorsports.
They seriously didn’t give you guys a heads-up?
CHARLIE: Typical.
We’re just gonna get some inserts, maybe some Broll and some party people gawking at this beauty.
All right, whenever you’re…
Oi, don’t touch the car.
We got to shoot the interior.
Yeah.
I can actually get you a cameo in this thing.
Save it. I’ve got my orders.
Yeah, and so do we.
Good evening, Ms. Vanderberg.
Yeah. We’re trying to get that footage you asked for, but we ran into a little bit of a problem.
You’re gonna be in trouble.
She wants to talk to you.
That’s not good, my guy.
Mmmm. Not good.
Hello.
VERONIKA’S VOICE ON PHONE: Listen, my father always said no one buys a diamond sight unseen. And at this very moment, my car is the diamond.
(AS VERONIKA) So, you can either let them do their job, or you can find yourself a new one.
Sorry for the holdup, ma’am.
You’re good.
You’re the best.
If you could just back up for me really quick?
Just for the light.
Thanks, man.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Well, shall we get on with it?
ATLAS: Please.
Oh. Of course, you have a goon. Forgive me.
Ah, come on, you don’t trust us?
After all we’ve been through?
Is there a problem?
Double check if you’re not certain.
It’s the Heart.
Yes, of course it is.
Now, please, can you get our friend?
Come on.
There he is. Okay.
HENLEY: Ah!
ATLAS: Hey.
MERRITT: Whew. (LAUGHS) You okay?
Well, now that I know I’m worth half a billion dollars.
I still think we got ripped off, but it’s good to see you.
Signed, sealed, delivered.
See, I’m a woman of my word.
Stick around if you want, enjoy the party.
(ENGINE REVVING)
What in God’s name?
(MAN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE) (ENGINE REVVING) BOSCO: Shit!
Come on, come on, how do you make this thing go?
GUARD: Look out!
BOSCO: I can’t concentrate with you yelling at me!
(TIRES SCREECH) Don’t let him get away!
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
Excuse me!
GUARD: Call the police!
You enjoying the show?
You just gonna stand there gawking or get my car back?
You did this.
(POPS) (HENLEY GASPS)
BOSCO: Okay, here we go.
(ENGINE REVVING)
Okay, Atlas, you wanted a distraction, you got a distraction.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
Man, this thing is tail happy.
(ALL GROANING)
JACK: Oh, man, what the hell?
LULA: We fell through a trapdoor or something.
HENLEY: Is everybody okay?
LULA: Where are we?
No.
When I woke up this morning, there was only one thing I wanted more than my diamond.
My Horsemen under lock and key.
And now that I have both, I must admit, I’m feeling a little bit spoiled.
While you were prepping your little performance, I curated a trick of my own.
Five Horsemen trapped, no escape.
You five may be national treasures, but we have those here, too.
Only they’re hard to find, because they’re buried in sand.
(CLANGS)
(ALL EXCLAIM)
VERONIKA: To the world, it will appear you died in a failed escape act.
Now, let’s see some magic.
Fuck magic!
Somebody call for backup!
ATLAS: Jack, call June.
Anyone have service?
God, she must have scrambled the cell signal.
She thought of everything!
Lula, whose side are you on?
I’m on our side, obviously, but she also thought of everything.
Both things can be true at one time.
The sand is getting higher.
The sand is getting bigger.
There’s more sand and it’s getting larger.
Henley, Henley, uh, first principle of escape.
Uh, how long is it survivable? Right.
Right. Great. Judging from the rate of the flow, the volume of the box…
Uh, yeah, we’re screwed.
LULA: Oh, amazing.
Okay, how about the second principle of escape then?
Okay, so that’s the box itself.
Is there a flaw?
Is there a weakness?
Is there a back door?
Everybody just needs to check!
ATLAS: This side’s sealed.
Shit. No, it’s sealed, sealed, sealed.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
HENLEY: Everything’s sealed.
Any chance there’s a third principle?
I have what you’re after.
DISTORTED VOICE:
(ON PHONE) Perfect. I will meet you where the Heart resides. I can hardly wait.
Straight to the vault.
(ENGINE REVVING)
BOSCO: No, no, no, no! Yes!
(VEHICLE HORN BLARES)
Help me, Ricky Bobby!
Help me!
(PEOPLE GASP)
(SIRENS WAIL)
Is this really gonna happen right now?
We’re just gonna die here in this box? Really?
It’s funny. A week ago, I wanted to die, and then… then I get my reason to live back, and now, we’re actually gonna die.
(SPUTTERS)
How is that funny?
Well, I mean, it was funnier in my head.
It’s… You know, it’s peculiar funny.
No. Uh-uh. No.
We’re out of options.
God, I never should have been that horrible about your website and your costumes and the logo.
Okay.
It’s not embarrassing that the “I” in “Wilder” is a little magic wand.
I got it.
That’s… Thank you.
It’s not. It’s cute and it’s charming.
JACK: That’s enough.
And I… I missed you.
Listen, I know I don’t always show it, but, um…
I really do think the world of all of you.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
I cannot believe we’re getting buried alive.
I mean, it’s like a Western.
Wait, wait. Buried alive.
That’s, like, an old magic tradition.
Sorry, who do we know who did that?
Bill Shirk nearly died doing that. Remember?
He got into a Plexiglas coffin and had it covered in sand.
But didn’t the Plexiglas break?
JACK: The sand got wet.
The sand got wet.
I remember now.
It rained the night before.
Okay, wet sand is heavier than dry. It broke the glass.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
If we broke that pipe, then it would wet the sand, and then it’ll… it’ll break the box, right?
If I could… If I could wrap something around it, I might be able to get some leverage.
HENLEY: Okay.
JACK: Merritt, give me your belt.
ATLAS: Okay.
Okay, you got it. You got it.
Yep, yeah.
ATLAS: Good, good, good.
Wrap it, wrap it.
Come on, come on, come on.
Yes! Yes!
Yes, yes, yes.
(STRAINING)
Help me! Help me!
Pull me down!
Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It’s made up of metal.
(ALL STRAINING)
(METAL CREAKING)
(SHRIEKING) Nice, nice, nice, okay.
(LAUGHING)
OFFICER: (ON SPEAKER) Pull over.
You have been surrounded.
BOSCO: I’d love to pull over, but I’m finally getting the hang of it.
(ENGINE REVS)
(BOSCO LAUGHS)
(OFFICER SPEAKING ARABIC)
BOSCO: (IN ENGLISH) I’m the greatest driver in the world!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(TIRES SCREECH)
(OFFICER SPEAKING ARABIC)
BOSCO: (IN ENGLISH) No, no, no, no.
Watch out!
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
BOSCO: Damn it!
OFFICER: (ON SPEAKER) Turn off the engine and exit the vehicle.
We’ve got you surrounded.
Put your hands up and don’t move!
I’m sorry. Did I forget to use my blinker?
You’re under arrest.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Excellent work.
We’ve had a red notice for one Bosco Leroy.
Thank you.
No problem.
BOSCO: Yep, Atlas is gonna kill me.
Water’s coming in too fast.
And the glass won’t break.
All this for a diamond.
We could use that now.
Nothing cuts glass like a diamond.
Wait. Wait, Henley. Henley.
Yes! I can hold my breath for eight minutes.
If anyone can get us out of this, we can.
(EXHALES, INHALES)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(THUDS)
DRIVER: (ON SPEAKER) We’re crossing into the desert, ma’am.
The dust storm is getting worse.
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
What’s he doing here?
Ms. Vanderberg’s diamond that you and your friends stole?
(BONE CRACKS)
(ALL GRUNTING)
Lost something?
(SCREAMS) (TIRES SCREECH)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
That was fun.
(FAINT CRACKING)
(GASPS) It’s working!
ATLAS: It’s working.
Everybody help!
Everybody help!
Let’s do it! Come on!
(MUFFLED THUDDING)
(CRACKING)
(ALL GROANING)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)
(ALL LAUGHING AND SIGHING IN RELIEF) Henley, way to go!
Oh, my God!
Nice job!
All right, we got a show to catch.
I hope we’re not too late.
You all right?
Yeah.
(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)
(WIND BLOWING)
(TRILLING SOFTLY)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Identity verified.
(DOOR OPENS)
(LOW SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
VERONIKA: You made it.
Do you have what I want?
MAN: (IN ACCENTED ENGLISH) If you have what I want.
Where’s the evidence?
Right here.
I’m the evidence.
(GASPS SOFTLY) No.
Charlie, I… I don’t…
You’re dead.
Now you see me.
It’s quite fascinating the things people do to make something or someone… disappear.
(BLOWS AIR)
Ah.
I taught you that trick.
Just like our father taught you.
And now, after 15 years, you’re… you’re trying to ruin me?
No.
All 15 years.
I didn’t know you’d be in that car.
But you must have been relieved to hear I was.
When we hit the water, I couldn’t unbuckle my seat belts.
Mom freed me with her dying breath.
I had nothing but fondness for you, Charlie.
Let me finally treat you like a brother.
I am your brother!
Father’s blood is in both of us, though he’d never acknowledge mine.
God knows Mother begged.
And the shame drove my mother to her grave.
Then you sent mine to hers!
(EXHALES)
Fine.
You’re right.
It should be yours.
Here.
Take it.
(GUNSHOT)
(BODY THUDS)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
(EXHALES)
(GASPS)
(SPITS) (BULLET CLATTERS) Bullet catch.
That’s impossible.
No. Just magic.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Ah.
Hmm.
(FLUTTERING) (GASPING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
CHARLIE: (IN NORMAL ACCENT) Hello, everyone.
Thank you.
All right, thank you.
(CHEERING REDUCES) Earlier tonight, J. Daniel Atlas promised to return the Heart Diamond to its rightful owner.
(CROWD CHEERING)
But before we do that, some introductions are in order.
First, let’s say hello to the fierce force of nature, the extraordinary June Rouclere!
(CROWD CHEERING)
MAN: Yeah, June!
Wow. Hello, everyone.
Thank you.
(BLOWS KISS)
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And give it up for the indomitable Bosco Leroy!
(CROWD CHEERING)
The pleasure is ours.
Hello, gorgeous.
(CLICKS TONGUE)
(CROWD CHEERING AND SHOUTING)
CHARLIE: And, of course, we could not have done any of this in the first place without the help of the world’s greatest magicians.
The Four…
Sorry, make that Five Horsemen!
(CROWD CHEERING LOUDLY)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)
Thank you, everyone.
Wow. Uh… (CHUCKLES) You know, we have entertained, well, dazzled audiences all over the world, but we have never been part of a trick like this.
JACK: And you may be asking yourself, “How did they pull this off?”
Okay, well, every magician needs an assistant. Veronika?
(CROWD BOOING)
CHARLIE: You may think Veronika here, as Peter Vanderberg’s sole heir, is the rightful owner of this diamond.
But, here’s the twist.
Peter didn’t have one child.
He had two.
(GASPS) JUNE: That’s right.
And that other child cheated death.
And landed in New York City.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
JUNE: Where vengeance became his life’s work. But he would need help. Oh. Found the scotch.
Thanks.
BOSCO: So he recruited. …when to stop, tell me when.
WOMAN: Stop.
Is that your card?
Yes.
Yeah? You want to know how I did it?
BOSCO: Enticed… and lured some of the most brilliant minds he could assemble, laying the groundwork for a trick unlike any other. JUNE: Which brings us to tonight.
Make some noise for the mastermind behind all of this.
Our best friend.
A ghost…
Until this very moment.
BOTH: Charlie Vanderberg!
(ALL CHEERING LOUDLY)
Wow.
Whoo!
I know I said I’d enjoy taking you down, but this is more fun than I anticipated.
You are still a sad and pathetic man.
And you are nothing.
Oh, hold on, everyone.
One sec.
And you never will be.
What’s that?
I don’t understand how you pulled this off.
You don’t understand?
Veronika doesn’t seem to understand how she found herself in this position.
Well, let’s explain it to her.
You see, the finest magic preys on assumptions.
That the car waiting for you was the same one that dropped you off.
Let’s go.
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
BOSCO: That an act of Mother Nature is nothing but.
JUNE: And that a vault in the desert isn’t just smoke and mirrors.
BOSCO: That a gun isn’t filled with blanks.
JUNE: And that an elevator is just simply descending into earth.
If you want to trick the master of deception, you have to manipulate her reality.
And for our last trick, why don’t we make Veronika disappear?
(CROWD CHEERING)
No.
You don’t win.
I’m the Vanderberg family!
There she is.
Miss you already.
CHARLIE: Final reveal!
Do you hear me?
The real Veronika Vanderberg.
VERONIKA: (SHOUTING) The Vanderbergs do not lose!
The world is full of illusions.
One of the biggest is that this diamond belongs to the Vanderbergs at all.
As my father’s only unincarcerated next of kin, I’ll make sure every one of our illicit buyers faces legal repercussions.
And then I’ll gift all our assets, including the Heart to the South African communities they came from with a few extra dollars left for all of you.
(CROWD CHEERING)
Horsemen crowds always leave with deeper pockets.
Nice trick.
I learn from the best.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for joining us, all of us.
And please remember, no matter what cards life deals you, you have to learn to make your own magic.
Ladies and gentlemen…
ALL: We are the Horsemen.
Good night.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHAT DO WE EVER REALLY KNOW? BY BALU BRIGADA PLAYING)
♪ Ali made a score ♪
♪ Made a milli
Wanted more… ♪
BOSCO: (SIGHS) All right, what do you want, pomegranate or boysenberry?
Dude, I said I wanted a drink.
Just give it a try.
Kids today.
Mm!
Of course.
That’s pretty good.
You wanna try?
No.
CHARLIE: I think you dropped this.
ATLAS: Oh. My old card.
Just in case you wanna frame it.
Thanks. I might.
You know, I still cannot believe you’re a Vanderberg.
Neither could she.
(CHUCKLES) I was thinking I feel like we should start our own group, you guys.
A girls magic group?
(GASPS) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
The Hor… Horsegirls.
No. Not that.
(LAUGHS) Wait, Horsewomen.
Not that.
Ladies of the Horse.
It wouldn’t be that.
Ponies!
That’s really bad.
Yeah?
Can I talk to you real quick?
HENLEY AND JUNE: Ooh!
I’m not trying to infiltrate the Horsewomen.
What… what’s up?
Um…
It’s just…
Speak.
What is the matter with you?
What’s wrong?
It’s hard because I don’t…
I don’t know how you feel. (SIGHS) So…
MERRITT: Hey, uh, everybody.
Everybody, come on over here, please.
Yeah? Come on, guys.
Hey, can you grab some more of those delicious things, Bosco?
You are gonna love this stuff.
It is slap.
No, Merritt, please.
MERRITT: It slaps.
What I meant to say is it’s good.
JUNE: Yeah. Right.
(HENLEY CHUCKLES) Yes, and I will be the one to say it.
I’m going to miss you guys.
I was just thinking the same thing.
Yeah. Me, too.
Damn it, I love you guys.
ALL: Aw.
ATLAS: We love you, too.
HENLEY: We love you.
(ALL CHUCKLE) Adorable.
MERRITT: Me, too.
ATLAS: Very sweet.
Even me?
Really?
You must be very drunk.
Whoa.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
HENLEY: My God.
Can we just talk about something else?
Go back to what… we all love each other.
I mean, come on, you love him, he loves her.
JUNE: You guys love each other more.
(DOOR BELL BUZZES)
MERRITT: Oh.
You guys expecting someone?
No one’s supposed to know where we are.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Who’s it from?
Doesn’t say.
Open it.
You open it.
Okay.
(ALL EXCLAIM SOFTLY)
Oh, that’s the… that’s the thing from the door.
Yeah, from the chateau.
JUNE: Oh, yeah!
Do you, uh… You mind if I take another crack at it?
Yeah, yeah, go for it.
Yeah?
I think I can handle it this time. (EXHALES)
(CLICKS)
(FAINT CLICKING)
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
Hello, Horsemen.
(ALL EXCLAIM SOFTLY)
Did you miss me?
Dylan.
But he’s supposed to be in prison.
I know what you’re thinking.
“He lied to us.”
But I…
I didn’t lie to you.
I just led you to believe something that wasn’t true.
But it was for your own good, trust me.
There’s more to this mystery than you realize.
And the end result is that the Horsemen are back together again.
It warms my heart.
Now, for you three imposters, brazenly pretending like you’re part of our top secret organization?
You think you’re gonna get away with it with no consequences or repercussions?
Well… you thought right.
(CHUCKLING) Hey!
DYLAN: Welcome.
Welcome to The Eye.
As for the rest of you, you thought your work was done.
Think again, team.
You’re just getting started.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC CRESCENDOS)
BOTH: What’s the trick?
(LUCKY BY RENEE RAPP PLAYING)
♪ Hurry up ♪
♪ I swear to God
I’m out of patience ♪
♪ I pull up ♪
♪ With or
without an invitation ♪
♪ ‘Cause I’m so fly
And I’m so money, baby ♪
♪ You can look
But don’t get touchy ♪
♪ I go fast
baby, I go hard ♪
♪ But don’t leave a scratch
when I crash my car ♪
♪ Steppin’ on stars
on the boulevard ♪
♪ I find it kinda funny ♪
♪ I get so lalala lucky ♪
♪ Okay, got my way ♪
♪ It’s almost
like I’m Renee ♪
♪ Oh no, where’d you go ♪
♪ Now you see me
Now you don’t ♪
♪ Okay, got my way ♪
♪ It’s almost like
I’m Renee ♪
♪ Oh no, where’d you go ♪
♪ Now you see me
Now you don’t ♪
♪ I go fast
baby, I go hard ♪
♪ But don’t leave a scratch
when I crash my car ♪
♪ Steppin’ on stars
on the boulevard ♪
♪ I find it kinda funny ♪
♪ I get so lalala lucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ I find it kinda funny ♪
♪ I get so lalala lucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ Hear me out ♪
♪ I’ve never been too good
at listenin’ ♪
♪ I’m good at getting
what I want ♪
♪ Don’t need forgiveness
or permission ♪
♪ ‘Cause I’m so fly
And I’m so money, baby ♪
♪ You can look
But don’t get touchy ♪
♪ I go fast
baby, I go hard ♪
♪ But don’t leave a scratch
when I crash my car ♪
♪ Steppin’ on stars
on the boulevard ♪
♪ I find it kinda funny ♪
♪ I get so lalala lucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ Lalalalucky ♪
♪ I find it kinda funny ♪
♪ I get so lalala lucky ♪
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
