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Pushing Daisies - Season 02 Episode 06
"Oh Oh Oh... It's Magic!"
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Subtitle (720p CTU v.1.00): A²S Team
--==All-about-Subs.fr==--
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At this very moment
in the town of Coeur d'Coeurs,
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young Ned believed in magic.
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It was not the magic
that sparked from his fingertip
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when he touched
a dead thing alive again.
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That particular magic
had not yet been discovered.
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This was the magic
of a father's love.
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Young Ned would discover
this magic was not magic at all.
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Alakazam!
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It was just a trick.
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After Ned's mother died,
his father performed another trick...
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a cruel disappearing act.
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I'll be back.
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And when his father never came back,
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Ned stopped believing in magic.
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Young Ned discovered his father
would one day perform
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his sleights of hand
and misdirections
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for a younger,
more impressionable audience,
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a new family
that did not include Ned,
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but did include his half-brothers,
Maurice and Ralston.
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Maurice and Ralston loved their father
and delighted in his magical tricks
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and insisted on learning
every one of them.
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But there was one magic trick
their father never taught them
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and would only show them once...
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a cruel disappearing act.
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It's 19 years, 42 weeks,
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6 days, 13 hours,
and 7 minutes later.
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Maurice and Ralston have become
the illusionist duo "Two for the Show."
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The mercurial world of magic
and its associations
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had another effect
on half-brother Ned,
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who could wake the dead...
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- Magicians?
- Illusionists.
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At the mere mention of magic,
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he experienced the sting
of anxiety-induced acid reflux.
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Who doesn't like magic?
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I love magic...
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as much as I love other forms
of popular entertainment,
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like boxarate tae-kill-do cage-fighting
or monster trucks on ice.
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To certain factions
of the god-fearing public,
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magic is the devil's work,
you little devils.
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Magically delicious little devils.
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Oh, I thought you were...
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magically delicious little devils.
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Like a confection.
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Inside one of these pies is a prize.
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But which one?
This pie? That pie?
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Pick a pie, any pie.
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That one! That one!
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You just magically
julienned the cherries.
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But wait, there's more.
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- Oh! A magic show!
- Oh! A magic show!
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A magic show?!
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Where did I put
that rat's ass I could give?
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Magic ain't nothing
but a voodoo grift.
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Magic is as magical
as you want it to be.
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He magically put
those tickets in that pie.
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If by "magically", you mean
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"made you look that way so you wouldn't
see what they were doing this way",
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then, yes, those tickets
alakazammed their way
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right underneath
that delicious, flaky crust.
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Or Hocus pulled the damn tickets
out of his pocket
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and Pocus slid them
under the pie pan,
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as evidenced by the cherry-rhubarb
crumble on his sleeve.
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We're performing after the second
performance of the Great Herrmann.
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He's the big, muckety-muck patriarch
of the Conjurer's Castle,
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and to us, too.
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After dad had to leave...
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- "Had to leave"?
- Why else would he have left?
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After dad had to leave,
Herrmann was the next best thing.
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Another magic dad.
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We'll introduce you after the show,
if you come to the show.
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- Will you come , big brother?
- Big half-brother,
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once removed by the fact that you
didn't know I existed until last week.
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I'd like to RSVP
in the resoundingly affirmative.
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I thought you said
magic was a voodoo grift.
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It is a voodoo grift.
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But exposing these two
and their fairy-dust deceptions
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will only hone my PI skills, much like
a brainteaser or "Where's Waldo?".
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You're not invited
if you're gonna heckle.
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But shazam...
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I have a ticket.
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I'll be there, front and center,
loud and applauding,
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snapping like a beatnik or praising
the lord, whatever you'd like.
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Loud and applauding!
Loud and applauding!
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And preferably amazed.
What do you say, frère pie maker?
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Look! There's a ticket
with your name on it.
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You barely said a word to them.
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I barely know them.
I saw them once when I was 9,
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and they were just those little bastards
my father was cheating on me with.
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Those little bastards
are now your little brothers.
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You can't just flash some jazz hands
and then abracadabra... brotherly love.
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What he said.
There should be a grace period,
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then a getting-to-know-you period,
then a dinner on a national holiday.
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I invite them to the pie hole,
and suddenly it's,
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"frère pie maker, come to our show."
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- It's a magic show.
- What do you got against a magic show?
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There's sequins and drama
and the promise of bloodshed.
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Next to pageants,
they're my favorite thing.
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- They give me acid reflux.
- Oh, here.
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Suck a lozenge.
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A lozenge that'll make me forget
they're putting on a magic show,
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the kind of show my dad put on,
so what they're pulling out
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of their magic hats isn't a rabbit,
it's my childhood trauma.
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They're wearing it like a cape
and taking it to the stage.
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I was just about to tell y'all
to shut the hell up,
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and then you stopped talking
so I didn't have to.
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Maurice and Ralston are the family
that you didn't know you had.
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If I could talk to my aunt Lily
as the mother I didn't know I had...
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Oh, I'd have a sea of questions.
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Don't you have a sea of questions?
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There may be a pond.
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Then dive in.
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I'm not a diver,
I'm a cautious swimmer.
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I test the water with my big toe
and then gently wade into the shallows.
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While the pie maker insisted on wading
into the shallows of brotherly love,
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Chuck insisted on diving into the depths
of a recent and strange revelation.
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Her aunt Lily was,
in fact, her mother Lily.
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Not satisfied hearing
such life-altering news secondhand,
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Chuck wanted to hear the words
directly from her mother's lips.
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Hello?
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Oh, hello,
I'm from Livelong Day Life Insurance.
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Now, we have an amazing mother's day
offer for women who have given birth.
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Now, may I ask,
do you qualify for...
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Our November cheese
is rubbed with paprika.
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It is particularly appealing to...
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the woman who has had a bébé?
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Have you ever had a bébé?
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You've been randomly selected to receive
your very own psychic reading.
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Hello?
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Oh, no.
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Here comes another magic dad.
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Is that the Great Herrmann?
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Maybe he could be your magic dad,
too.
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Already had a magic dad.
It didn't work out.
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I need another lozenge.
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Lozenge isn't working.
Stomach acid's rising...
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As well as
other contents of stomach.
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Are you the pie maker?
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I'm a pie maker.
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Hello!
Excuse me, excuse me.
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I feel I should hug you.
Can I give you a big hug?
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I'm already hugging
and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I want a hug!
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I'm not made of hugs.
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Maurice and Ralston
can't stop gushing.
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I'm so grateful
that you came into their lives.
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Perhaps you can take some heat off me.
The boys are rather needy.
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We'll talk about it later.
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Pretty girl, pretty girl, and you...
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I sense you're a great investigator
of things unsolved...
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named after a poet and a fish.
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I sense you better give me my wallet
'fore I make my foot disappear up...
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The boys tell me you're a heckler.
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We don't play that way
at the Conjurer's Castle,
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so let's nip that in the bud,
shall we?
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And how do you propose nip, Herman?
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It's Herrmann.
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And this is how we nip.
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Ever had your breath taken,
Emerson Cod?
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Leached from your lungs by a cement mass
crushing you in a deadly embrace?
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No.
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In just moments, I will be contorting
my shackled body into this box,
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which will then be filled with
quick and hard brand quick-set cement
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and then welded shut.
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Demented and cemented,
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I give you "Cementia"!
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If my shackles are secure, Mr. Cod,
then kindly return to the audience.
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Applause for Emerson Cod!
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Now you see me...
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It was no accident
I chose you to volunteer.
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I require your keen eye
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in investigation of things
in a personal matter.
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Someone has been killing
my assistants.
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I invite you tonight
to solve their murders.
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I live to amaze another day!
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But not another day after that.
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Her name was Alice.
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Tonight would've been
our 200th performance together.
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I found her just like this...
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except over there.
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You turned your assistant
into a bunny?
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My assistant
has always been a bunny.
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I just wanted to see
if he knew that.
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Alice was murdered like the others.
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Fred and Ginger were impaled
when a rigging in my coat misfired.
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They would fly out of my pockets
in a puff of glitter and birdseed
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as I strummed
a chirping slide guitar.
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And Mercury, sweet Mercury.
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Mercury loved performing
with balloons and children.
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That's when he was happiest of all.
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And now he's dead,
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bludgeoned by a falling sandbag.
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Who would want to kill
all your animals?
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While we can appreciate and sympathize
with your predicament, Mr Herrmann...
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Please, call me Great.
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No.
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We're private detectives,
not pet detectives.
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It would sully my reputation
as an expert in the field
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if I were to take to investigating
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missing "puddy tats"
or dead "bunny wabbits".
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I want to help missing
puddies and dead bunnies.
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I'm curious... Do pet detectives
get paid more than the other kind?
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Pet detectives get paid
a whole lot more,
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so you need to get to prestidigitating
a little more green
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if you want to get serious.
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- Blow on my hands.
- Man, give me my damn money.
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Now, if you'll excuse me,
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the county bridge and tunnel folk
have arrived
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for the 9:00.
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Great?
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I never got to ask...
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How exactly do you know
Maurice and Ralston?
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I was there when their father left...
Your father left.
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I had real good seats to that show.
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I was the dress rehearsal.
The show sucked then.
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What do you tell
a couple of kids you've never met
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that their dad, who you've never met,
has just dropped 'em like they were hot?
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You can't sugarcoat that turd.
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No, not effectively.
What did you tell them?
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What they wanted to hear.
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That their dad was an important man
with important-man matters to attend to.
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Blah, blah, blah.
Please stop crying. Blah.
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Did their da...
my dad say anything to you?
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What was he gonna say?
"Hey, the boys'll be hungry in an hour"?
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He was ditching the kids at
a Sunday matinée, for christmas' sake.
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Thanks for looking out for them.
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Didn't have any other choice.
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Every day after school,
they'd pop by,
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looking to be taught some new magic
trick or play with my monkey.
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Heed this warning...
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Establish very clear
boundaries early and often.
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I guess they just needed a father.
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Son...
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Ever feed a stray pussycat?
It was like that.
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You love the pussycat,
and I do love those boys,
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but that plate of tasty paté
with the tuna sauce was not a promise.
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It was the promise of sisterly devotion
that concerned Lily.
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30 years, 9 months ago,
Lily broke that promise
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when she was impregnated
by her sister Vivian's fiancé.
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Lily lived in fear that one day
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Vivian would discover her betrayal
and settle her hash,
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00:12:17,533 --> 00:12:21,066
and today that hash-settling day
has come one day closer.
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Who the hell are you?
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00:12:27,442 --> 00:12:30,223
"Who the hell he was"
was Dwight Dixon.
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In his youth, Dwight Dixon
brandished the blue beret
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of the United Nations Peacekeepers.
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Together with Chuck's father
and the pie maker's father,
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Dwight performed tasks
of peace enforcement
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and, in the process, learned many things
about his brothers in arms...
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Some things
Lily would rather he not know.
252
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Charles kept a picture of you.
253
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You were a mermaid sitting
in the cradle of a giant fishhook
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with a clamshell brassiere and...
255
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the tail of a mackerel.
256
00:13:01,227 --> 00:13:03,078
I don't think
we were ever mackerels.
257
00:13:03,108 --> 00:13:04,670
Oh, you were always a mackerel.
258
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Whenever I saw that picture,
I'd say...
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"Holy mackerel."
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00:13:08,443 --> 00:13:10,591
I heard that one coming
from around the corner.
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00:13:10,621 --> 00:13:12,257
It was wearing tap shoes.
262
00:13:12,371 --> 00:13:14,531
Charles never told me
you were witty!
263
00:13:15,199 --> 00:13:17,736
It's probably the only thing
he never told me about you.
264
00:13:17,766 --> 00:13:19,289
Boy, did he talk...
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about you...
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when he wasn't talking about this one,
which was 99.9% of the time.
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I'm quite the conversation piece.
268
00:13:27,303 --> 00:13:30,730
When you opened that door,
I got a "Rock 'em sock 'em robot"
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pow to the chin.
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00:13:32,341 --> 00:13:35,118
Now I know why Charles
always regretted
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letting another woman
come between the two of you.
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00:13:38,296 --> 00:13:39,664
He broke my heart.
273
00:13:40,290 --> 00:13:43,334
Charles broke a lot of hearts,
but he only got his broken once.
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Knocked him for a doozy, too.
275
00:13:46,115 --> 00:13:47,631
Do you have a point to this visit,
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or did you just stop by
for snorts and giggles?
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00:13:50,103 --> 00:13:52,493
The snorts and giggles
are the raisins in my oatmeal.
278
00:13:52,523 --> 00:13:56,389
No, I'm here for something...
a common brass pocket watch.
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It belonged to Charles, hence it had
a "CC" engraved on the back.
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It looked a lot like this one,
which is mine, hence the "DD".
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00:14:04,404 --> 00:14:06,256
We got 'em when we were
in service together.
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00:14:06,286 --> 00:14:07,525
I don't recall a watch.
283
00:14:08,483 --> 00:14:10,638
- Vivian, maybe...
- She doesn't recall, either.
284
00:14:10,668 --> 00:14:11,418
Well,
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00:14:11,856 --> 00:14:15,742
pocket watch or no pocket watch, I think
I can tell when it's time for me to go.
286
00:14:17,354 --> 00:14:19,604
- I'll get your coat.
- Thank you.
287
00:14:21,711 --> 00:14:24,327
I'm not gonna say anything to Vivian
about what you did to her.
288
00:14:24,357 --> 00:14:25,807
That would be cruel.
289
00:14:25,979 --> 00:14:29,218
Not as cruel as what you did, but
no need to quantify your sister's pain.
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00:14:29,248 --> 00:14:31,174
Hey, don't come for me, fella.
I fight dirty.
291
00:14:31,354 --> 00:14:32,643
I don't want to fight.
292
00:14:32,673 --> 00:14:34,928
I need to change
your perception of me.
293
00:14:34,958 --> 00:14:38,190
Let's sit down and tear a pheasant
together... you, me, and your sister.
294
00:14:38,220 --> 00:14:40,819
If I ever see you again,
it won't be pheasant I'll be tearing.
295
00:14:41,370 --> 00:14:44,492
Tabasco.
You sure are a spicy cocktail.
296
00:14:45,931 --> 00:14:50,262
While Lily was giving Dwight
the stink-eye with the only eye she had,
297
00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:54,764
her sister, Vivian, had set her eyes
on something much sweeter,
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a confection she hadn't tasted
in quite some time...
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A date.
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00:15:07,102 --> 00:15:09,085
As the Great Herrmann
took to the stage
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00:15:09,147 --> 00:15:10,949
for his second performance
of the night...
302
00:15:10,979 --> 00:15:12,665
Now you see me...
303
00:15:17,822 --> 00:15:20,494
A murder investigation
was being performed
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00:15:20,524 --> 00:15:23,142
under the proscenium arch
of his dressing room.
305
00:15:23,394 --> 00:15:24,352
Poor Mercury.
306
00:15:26,034 --> 00:15:29,065
- I wish you could tell who did you in.
- He's a monkey.
307
00:15:29,167 --> 00:15:32,318
Barring and evolutionary leaps
yet unheard of, the monkey can't talk.
308
00:15:32,687 --> 00:15:35,071
Well, he's also dead,
which is why he really can't talk.
309
00:15:35,254 --> 00:15:37,265
- That's true, too.
- Alice can talk.
310
00:15:37,295 --> 00:15:39,872
She's got burns on her lips
and ulcers on her tongue.
311
00:15:39,902 --> 00:15:41,843
She's telling us that
she was poisoned.
312
00:15:41,873 --> 00:15:44,301
We got a monkey
flattened by a sandbag.
313
00:15:44,331 --> 00:15:46,791
Means the killer knows
their way around backstage.
314
00:15:46,914 --> 00:15:50,762
We've got two doves impaled by bad taste
and a malfunctioning coat gag.
315
00:15:50,792 --> 00:15:52,964
Killer knows
how the Great Herrmann's tricks work.
316
00:15:53,081 --> 00:15:55,717
I think Alice ate the lettuce off
the Great Herrmann's BLT.
317
00:15:56,166 --> 00:15:58,010
Killer knows how to make a sandwich.
318
00:15:58,071 --> 00:16:00,063
The lettuce was supposed to stay
on the sandwich
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00:16:00,093 --> 00:16:01,806
and be eaten by the Great Herrmann.
320
00:16:01,866 --> 00:16:05,560
The falling sandbag, the rigged jacket.
Killer wasn't trying to kill animals.
321
00:16:05,620 --> 00:16:07,854
Killer was trying to kill
the Great Herrmann.
322
00:16:15,739 --> 00:16:17,089
He didn't get out!
323
00:16:17,855 --> 00:16:19,205
He didn't get out!
324
00:16:25,204 --> 00:16:28,958
Isn't it funny how easy it is to remain
calm when everyone else is freaking out?
325
00:16:33,431 --> 00:16:37,776
Sadly, the Great Herrmann had failed
to escape his great escape.
326
00:16:38,196 --> 00:16:41,592
His untimely expiration
was deemed by the authorities
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00:16:41,622 --> 00:16:45,713
to be accidental death
due to aggravated "Cementia."
328
00:16:45,743 --> 00:16:46,984
This wasn't an accident.
329
00:16:47,430 --> 00:16:49,747
The Great Herrmann performed
that trick a thousand times.
330
00:16:49,777 --> 00:16:51,790
What did he do
with all those cement blocks?
331
00:16:51,820 --> 00:16:55,335
Donated them to the Papen County Marine
Institute to create artificial reefs.
332
00:16:55,365 --> 00:16:58,906
The Great Herrmann had a dedicated fan
base of barnacles, corals, and oysters.
333
00:16:58,936 --> 00:17:03,417
Well, tonight the invertebrates
of the sea will mourn his loss.
334
00:17:04,065 --> 00:17:05,036
Poor Herrmann.
335
00:17:05,443 --> 00:17:09,107
Fred and Ginger and Alice and Mercury.
I want them all avenged!
336
00:17:09,137 --> 00:17:12,738
I'm sorry, but now that everyone's
calmed down, I'm freaking out.
337
00:17:12,768 --> 00:17:14,818
I think it's the animal cruelty.
338
00:17:14,987 --> 00:17:15,963
Don't freak out.
339
00:17:16,066 --> 00:17:18,700
I know a dog and a pig that haven't been
impaled, poisoned, or bludgeoned
340
00:17:18,730 --> 00:17:20,904
that need to be fed,
loved, and walked.
341
00:17:20,934 --> 00:17:22,984
Maybe I'll go do that right now.
342
00:17:23,144 --> 00:17:25,431
I'm sorry about
your next-best-thing magic dad.
343
00:17:26,398 --> 00:17:27,348
And I'm...
344
00:17:28,564 --> 00:17:30,414
I'm sorry about yours, too.
345
00:17:34,084 --> 00:17:35,503
He wasn't my...
He didn't...
346
00:17:35,533 --> 00:17:37,943
We didn't have
that kind of relationship.
347
00:17:38,552 --> 00:17:41,380
Although he did put his hand
on my shoulder and called me "son",
348
00:17:41,410 --> 00:17:43,878
which felt like someone
rubbed their feet across a shag rug,
349
00:17:43,908 --> 00:17:46,285
reached into my chest
and gave my heart a static-electric pop.
350
00:17:46,388 --> 00:17:48,922
I always loved
that static-electric pop.
351
00:17:48,952 --> 00:17:50,602
It's all very confusing.
352
00:17:50,821 --> 00:17:53,064
There's murdered magic dads and
353
00:17:53,094 --> 00:17:55,773
the promise of tasty paté
with tuna sauce.
354
00:17:55,803 --> 00:17:58,927
What do you think you were saying?
'cause that ain't what came out.
355
00:17:58,957 --> 00:18:00,307
What I'm saying...
356
00:18:02,070 --> 00:18:03,219
I need to say to them.
357
00:18:05,478 --> 00:18:07,958
I'm gonna take care of this.
Herrmann will be avenged.
358
00:18:07,988 --> 00:18:10,791
I don't mean vigilante justice, because
what kind of example would that be?
359
00:18:10,821 --> 00:18:13,479
I mean regular
go-to-jail-for-your-crimes justice.
360
00:18:13,774 --> 00:18:15,690
You gonna kick someone's ass,
frère pie maker?
361
00:18:16,886 --> 00:18:17,636
Yes.
362
00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,470
I'm gonna kick someone's ass.
363
00:18:20,676 --> 00:18:24,952
And the ass-kicking would commence
with the ass that poured the cement.
364
00:18:25,629 --> 00:18:27,243
I gave him
plenty of time to get out.
365
00:18:27,303 --> 00:18:28,953
- Why didn't he get out?
- Don't know.
366
00:18:29,258 --> 00:18:31,997
It's pretty cramped in there.
Maybe he got a clot and passed out.
367
00:18:32,178 --> 00:18:34,774
- How'd he usually get out?
- He doesn't tell me that stuff.
368
00:18:34,804 --> 00:18:36,416
The monkey knows more than I do.
369
00:18:36,446 --> 00:18:38,725
- You mean the dead monkey?
- Yes, the dead monkey.
370
00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:40,944
What, are you gonna try
and pin that one on me, too?
371
00:18:40,974 --> 00:18:43,285
- What about Fred and Ginger?
- Don't forget the rabbit.
372
00:18:43,315 --> 00:18:45,063
Alice was the only one I liked.
373
00:18:45,093 --> 00:18:46,494
Damn monkey was mean.
374
00:18:46,524 --> 00:18:49,022
And those birds...
those horrible birds.
375
00:18:49,456 --> 00:18:51,892
Every time they'd fly out
of his pockets, they'd attack my weave.
376
00:18:52,109 --> 00:18:55,187
So when animals attack, you attack back,
then kill the guy who trained them.
377
00:18:55,508 --> 00:18:59,109
No, I stand there
humiliated by a mean monkey
378
00:18:59,139 --> 00:19:01,939
night after night for eight years.
379
00:19:01,969 --> 00:19:03,988
I told myself no more than 3,
but it's been 8.
380
00:19:04,273 --> 00:19:07,699
I stand there, and I take it, hoping
the Great Herrmann will make good
381
00:19:07,729 --> 00:19:10,161
on the carrot he's been dangling
and give me my own act.
382
00:19:10,374 --> 00:19:12,913
Eight years of carrot-dangling
while the Bobbsey Twins pass you by?
383
00:19:13,016 --> 00:19:14,354
Honey, you've been spurned,
384
00:19:14,705 --> 00:19:17,626
and next to the spurned lover,
the spurned employee rides shotgun
385
00:19:17,849 --> 00:19:19,587
on the homicide chuckwagon.
386
00:19:19,753 --> 00:19:23,507
Herrmann and anyone he shared a stage
with has ended up dead, except you.
387
00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:25,243
Which means you're the killer...
388
00:19:25,273 --> 00:19:26,218
Killer.
389
00:19:26,536 --> 00:19:28,738
Or... I'm next.
390
00:19:29,285 --> 00:19:31,849
Or it was an accident,
and no one's next.
391
00:19:32,356 --> 00:19:33,806
Also, you're wrong.
392
00:19:34,527 --> 00:19:37,513
Someone else shared the stage
with the Great Herrmann...
393
00:19:37,907 --> 00:19:38,873
The Geek.
394
00:19:39,841 --> 00:19:42,610
So, you like the comic books,
and action figures?
395
00:19:43,198 --> 00:19:45,154
He's the kind that bites
the heads off chickens.
396
00:19:45,564 --> 00:19:49,158
Oh, animal-rights groups put a stop
to that kind of geek a long time ago.
397
00:19:50,021 --> 00:19:52,828
Performers dressing up
as savages and eating live animals.
398
00:19:53,339 --> 00:19:56,017
It's tacky and a surefire way
to alienate your audience.
399
00:19:56,508 --> 00:20:00,503
I eat glass and nails
and regurgitate fish, frogs, and mice.
400
00:20:01,197 --> 00:20:02,755
I'm working my way up to a kitten.
401
00:20:02,857 --> 00:20:05,677
Regurgitating a kitten?
That's a unique talent.
402
00:20:06,073 --> 00:20:08,732
I trained my body
to do the extraordinary.
403
00:20:09,076 --> 00:20:11,765
My first job was as a plant
in Herrmann's audience.
404
00:20:11,990 --> 00:20:13,014
That's how we met.
405
00:20:13,044 --> 00:20:15,912
He'd pretend to hypnotize me,
and then, under his spell,
406
00:20:16,087 --> 00:20:18,419
I'd drink a bottle of beer
and then eat the bottle.
407
00:20:18,644 --> 00:20:20,298
We were like a father-and-son act.
408
00:20:21,010 --> 00:20:24,561
What were you and your tummy doing when
Herrmann was on stage getting cemented?
409
00:20:24,713 --> 00:20:27,493
I was walking the crowd.
I pickpocket rings, watches,
410
00:20:27,523 --> 00:20:30,137
and keys and then regurgitate
them later in my act.
411
00:20:30,523 --> 00:20:32,906
With all that happened,
I forgot to give some of them back.
412
00:20:33,082 --> 00:20:34,440
Listen for yourself.
413
00:20:38,311 --> 00:20:39,542
Did you swallow a magnet?
414
00:20:40,058 --> 00:20:41,794
Somebody must've had one
in their pocket.
415
00:20:42,848 --> 00:20:45,130
That's an amazing talent,
Mister Geek.
416
00:20:45,190 --> 00:20:48,384
Herrmann was the only one around here
who had any respect for my contribution.
417
00:20:48,652 --> 00:20:50,469
Any idea why he couldn't get out
of that box?
418
00:20:50,572 --> 00:20:51,530
Can't say.
419
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,803
I bet the Great Herrmann
is in there right now striking some
420
00:20:54,949 --> 00:20:58,936
"Last days of Pompeii" pose that's gonna
tell you everything you need to know.
421
00:20:59,445 --> 00:21:02,857
While the investigators continued
to ponder why the Great Herrmann
422
00:21:02,959 --> 00:21:04,855
did not get out...
423
00:21:07,245 --> 00:21:08,172
Olive Snook...
424
00:21:08,202 --> 00:21:11,479
was about to ponder
how someone else did.
425
00:21:12,903 --> 00:21:13,801
We're closed.
426
00:21:15,456 --> 00:21:16,854
Vivian! You're out!
427
00:21:17,003 --> 00:21:19,717
I thought we'd agreed you'd call
before dropping by unexpectedly,
428
00:21:19,747 --> 00:21:21,766
which would have been
expected had you called.
429
00:21:21,796 --> 00:21:24,819
I couldn't risk sending
a message and Lily intercepting it.
430
00:21:24,849 --> 00:21:27,047
This has to be covert.
431
00:21:27,268 --> 00:21:28,462
I'm on a date...
432
00:21:28,784 --> 00:21:30,276
with a man.
433
00:21:32,331 --> 00:21:33,248
Evening.
434
00:21:34,145 --> 00:21:35,092
Evening.
435
00:21:36,299 --> 00:21:38,517
We walked out of that sandstorm
with our boots, our berets,
436
00:21:38,577 --> 00:21:40,904
and our pocket watches with
437
00:21:40,934 --> 00:21:42,221
no pockets to put them in.
438
00:21:43,985 --> 00:21:46,463
We made a spit pact,
like in the boy scouts.
439
00:21:47,107 --> 00:21:49,910
Last one alive and kicking takes them
watches into the desert
440
00:21:50,046 --> 00:21:52,456
and lets the sandstorm claim them.
441
00:21:52,486 --> 00:21:55,206
That's so very romantic and poetic,
442
00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:57,928
and you certainly took
your time to come calling.
443
00:21:57,958 --> 00:21:59,786
Charles has been dead for 20 years.
444
00:21:59,816 --> 00:22:01,415
I've been in prison for 22.
445
00:22:01,679 --> 00:22:04,043
- Emotional or federal?
- I'm gonna say "yes" to both.
446
00:22:04,190 --> 00:22:06,173
I can only say "yes" to one.
447
00:22:06,912 --> 00:22:08,630
Must seem
a little less romantic now.
448
00:22:08,961 --> 00:22:09,833
Oh, no.
449
00:22:11,020 --> 00:22:12,217
On the contrary.
450
00:22:13,023 --> 00:22:14,929
I knew what kind of man Charles was,
451
00:22:15,118 --> 00:22:18,223
and the way you tell it, you boys
sound more like bandits
452
00:22:18,284 --> 00:22:19,762
than peacekeepers.
453
00:22:20,006 --> 00:22:21,381
We were a little of both.
454
00:22:22,204 --> 00:22:24,449
About Charles' pocket watch...
455
00:22:24,719 --> 00:22:25,731
I do recall it.
456
00:22:25,834 --> 00:22:28,801
So does Lily.
I don't know why she lied to you.
457
00:22:28,947 --> 00:22:30,537
I think
she just wanted you to leave.
458
00:22:30,567 --> 00:22:32,743
If Lily wants to keep that watch,
she should keep it.
459
00:22:32,773 --> 00:22:34,125
She didn't keep it.
460
00:22:34,155 --> 00:22:37,172
We buried it with our niece,
lonely tourist Charlotte Charles.
461
00:22:38,001 --> 00:22:40,555
It was her father's.
We wanted her to have it.
462
00:22:41,057 --> 00:22:44,833
That poor girl murdered on a Tahitian
getaway. That was Charles' little girl?
463
00:22:45,246 --> 00:22:48,634
Lily is sensitive
when it comes to Charlotte.
464
00:22:48,790 --> 00:22:50,086
Of course she is.
465
00:22:51,092 --> 00:22:52,257
She lost her daughter.
466
00:22:52,629 --> 00:22:53,654
- Niece!
- Niece.
467
00:22:53,684 --> 00:22:55,588
I know what the relationship is.
468
00:22:55,618 --> 00:22:59,513
I'm just saying,
I think you both lost a daughter.
469
00:23:00,411 --> 00:23:03,435
You raised the girl. How could you
not feel like she's your own?
470
00:23:05,027 --> 00:23:08,169
I'm glad the pocket watch
is with Charlotte.
471
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,022
Because now,
he knew where to find it,
472
00:23:12,188 --> 00:23:13,720
or so he thought,
473
00:23:14,215 --> 00:23:16,671
just as our private investigators
thought they knew
474
00:23:16,701 --> 00:23:19,184
where to find the Great Herrmann.
475
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,013
Where's the Great Herrmann?
476
00:23:24,295 --> 00:23:25,365
Give me that.
477
00:23:29,051 --> 00:23:30,337
Now you see me...
478
00:23:30,729 --> 00:23:35,017
"... And now you don't. Double kisses,
double hugs, the Great Herrmann."
479
00:23:35,047 --> 00:23:36,646
Son of a bitch.
480
00:23:41,492 --> 00:23:43,153
It was a disappearing act.
481
00:23:43,405 --> 00:23:44,559
Now you see him...
482
00:23:44,999 --> 00:23:45,929
now you don't.
483
00:23:46,322 --> 00:23:48,553
The good news is he's still alive...
484
00:23:48,832 --> 00:23:50,809
- somewhere.
- Why would Herrmann disappear?
485
00:23:50,869 --> 00:23:52,608
He wouldn't disappeared
unless he had to.
486
00:23:52,638 --> 00:23:55,932
He's an important man. He probably
had important-man matters to attend to.
487
00:23:57,024 --> 00:23:58,810
That's what Herrmann told us
when dad left.
488
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,029
That's why "oh". It was an attempt to
corral those words back into my mouth.
489
00:24:02,567 --> 00:24:05,590
What did Herrmann tell you
about when dad left?
490
00:24:06,094 --> 00:24:07,534
Did he say why dad had to leave?
491
00:24:08,673 --> 00:24:10,370
He told me what he told you.
492
00:24:10,734 --> 00:24:12,956
Did he tell you anything
he didn't tell us?
493
00:24:13,495 --> 00:24:15,292
There may have been select details.
494
00:24:15,743 --> 00:24:17,290
The facts were these...
495
00:24:17,655 --> 00:24:19,831
On a cool autumn day 9 years,
496
00:24:19,861 --> 00:24:22,883
48 weeks, 26 days,
and 7 hours earlier,
497
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,680
Maurice and Ralston's father
promised them a magic show
498
00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:28,368
they would never forget.
499
00:24:28,574 --> 00:24:32,924
A new magician, cleverly billed
as Herman Gunt's Magic Express,
500
00:24:33,139 --> 00:24:35,104
called for a volunteer.
501
00:24:36,312 --> 00:24:38,848
"I'll be back", dear dad said.
502
00:25:05,436 --> 00:25:09,213
The fledgling magician tried
to comfort the fatherless boys
503
00:25:09,419 --> 00:25:13,868
with vague but important motives
behind their dear dad's disappearance.
504
00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:17,406
The twins' fragile hearts
505
00:25:17,436 --> 00:25:20,509
gladly believed
in the illusion of his words...
506
00:25:21,049 --> 00:25:22,570
Until now.
507
00:25:23,898 --> 00:25:25,205
He wasn't an important man.
508
00:25:25,235 --> 00:25:27,406
He didn't have important-man matters
to attend to.
509
00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:28,757
Your dad...
510
00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:30,503
our dad...
511
00:25:30,971 --> 00:25:33,412
was just some guy ditching
his kids at a Sunday matinée.
512
00:25:33,562 --> 00:25:36,893
That's what Herrmann told me.
That's what he didn't tell you.
513
00:25:37,562 --> 00:25:40,118
He didn't want to hurt you anymore
than you had already been hurt.
514
00:25:40,697 --> 00:25:42,430
You sure didn't have
a problem telling us.
515
00:25:42,460 --> 00:25:43,178
Yeah!
516
00:25:43,290 --> 00:25:46,423
In my defense, you badgered me a little,
and considerable time has passed.
517
00:25:47,392 --> 00:25:49,553
I probably sound like some
horrible missionary showing up
518
00:25:49,613 --> 00:25:52,014
and telling the natives
they're worshipping a false god, but...
519
00:25:52,299 --> 00:25:53,383
you kind of are.
520
00:25:54,748 --> 00:25:56,448
He left three sons.
521
00:25:57,570 --> 00:25:59,619
There really isn't a good excuse.
522
00:25:59,756 --> 00:26:02,341
Did Herrmann tell you Ralston
wet himself when dad disappeared?
523
00:26:02,371 --> 00:26:05,708
It was years before we could perform
a disappearing act without using a mop.
524
00:26:05,961 --> 00:26:07,237
Why would you say that?
525
00:26:07,483 --> 00:26:10,174
I get anxiety-induced acid reflux
at the mere mention of magic.
526
00:26:10,204 --> 00:26:11,992
Ralston, you wet yourself.
527
00:26:12,572 --> 00:26:15,172
We're two grown men
with dad-related body-fluid issues.
528
00:26:15,202 --> 00:26:18,916
I can't suck lozenges for the rest of my
life, and you can't wear adult diapers.
529
00:26:18,976 --> 00:26:20,782
I learned to control
my bladder years ago.
530
00:26:22,109 --> 00:26:23,262
Good for you.
531
00:26:23,611 --> 00:26:26,298
I know my acid reflux
is just heartburn,
532
00:26:26,870 --> 00:26:28,294
and your heart's burning, too.
533
00:26:28,624 --> 00:26:30,545
Look at the way you're holding on
to that scarf.
534
00:26:30,575 --> 00:26:32,936
You're not clinging to Herrmann.
You're clinging to dad.
535
00:26:34,019 --> 00:26:35,864
Holding tighter
isn't gonna bring him back.
536
00:26:36,124 --> 00:26:37,893
It's not gonna bring
either of them back.
537
00:26:42,202 --> 00:26:43,366
Where's the rest of it?
538
00:26:43,396 --> 00:26:46,026
Wasn't it in that block of cement
with Herrmann's, now you don't note?
539
00:26:46,591 --> 00:26:49,497
Yeah,
it probably should've been, huh?
540
00:26:51,993 --> 00:26:54,729
The great Herrmann is dead.
He died from "Cementia"
541
00:26:54,759 --> 00:26:57,704
on stage with the rest
of this scarf around his neck.
542
00:26:58,007 --> 00:27:00,241
I knew I shouldn't have came in here.
I knew it.
543
00:27:00,271 --> 00:27:02,766
I should have took my ass home,
turned off my phone,
544
00:27:02,796 --> 00:27:05,102
and got up under the covers, but no.
545
00:27:05,368 --> 00:27:07,174
Someone switched the blocks.
546
00:27:07,204 --> 00:27:09,015
It's classic sleight of hand.
547
00:27:09,045 --> 00:27:11,413
Herrmann was that little ball
under the coconut shell.
548
00:27:11,443 --> 00:27:14,331
Someone shuffled the shells around,
and we looked under the wrong one.
549
00:27:14,597 --> 00:27:18,267
There were two performances
of "Cementia", so two blocks.
550
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:21,571
Killer shuffles the blocks, hides
the one with Herrmann's body in it, and
551
00:27:21,734 --> 00:27:25,107
everybody thinks the great Great just
disappeared into his disappearing act.
552
00:27:26,126 --> 00:27:28,173
And no body, no murder.
553
00:27:28,347 --> 00:27:30,293
Makes for a great urban legend,
though.
554
00:27:30,323 --> 00:27:32,915
How do you shuffle
a 500-pound block of cement?
555
00:27:33,262 --> 00:27:34,450
Forklift.
556
00:27:34,516 --> 00:27:37,089
Only one block was forklifted out
of the Conjurer's Castle tonight.
557
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,984
Which means the other one
is still inside.
558
00:27:39,014 --> 00:27:41,703
The switch had to happen somewhere
between the stage and the loading dock
559
00:27:41,733 --> 00:27:44,276
when people weren't watching
the blocks too carefully.
560
00:27:44,887 --> 00:27:48,545
Using metal detectors
to detect the metal of the shackles
561
00:27:48,575 --> 00:27:51,611
worn by the Great Herrmann
while performing "Cementia"...
562
00:27:52,277 --> 00:27:53,550
"Two for the show",
563
00:27:53,580 --> 00:27:57,073
featuring Olive Snook,
began their search at the loading dock.
564
00:27:57,103 --> 00:27:58,837
Well, I always loved
a good treasure hunt.
565
00:27:59,337 --> 00:28:01,985
The private investigator,
the pie maker and Chuck
566
00:28:02,015 --> 00:28:04,434
began their search under the stage.
567
00:28:04,464 --> 00:28:06,240
It might not be
the cement that killed him.
568
00:28:06,270 --> 00:28:08,692
We could chisel open that block
and find a murder weapon, like
569
00:28:08,922 --> 00:28:11,835
a Mojave rattlesnake
or a hidden hypodermic needle
570
00:28:11,865 --> 00:28:15,254
that the Great Herrmann unknowingly
injected himself with whilst contorting.
571
00:28:15,284 --> 00:28:18,315
Or we could chisel open that block
and find he drowned in cement.
572
00:28:18,345 --> 00:28:20,240
Well, when we do chisel it open,
573
00:28:20,270 --> 00:28:23,613
it's too bad Maurice and Ralston
can't talk to the Great Herrmann.
574
00:28:24,138 --> 00:28:25,995
They didn't get a chance
to say goodbye.
575
00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:27,975
The boohoo bosom done dried up.
576
00:28:28,005 --> 00:28:31,332
Well, my boohoo bosom
is plumping and brimming with milk.
577
00:28:32,628 --> 00:28:36,448
A small conversation can go a long way,
even under the falsest of pretenses.
578
00:28:36,478 --> 00:28:38,520
Have you been
crank-calling Lily again?
579
00:28:39,030 --> 00:28:40,216
Not recently...
580
00:28:40,815 --> 00:28:44,128
Although that does depend on
how you define "recently".
581
00:28:44,158 --> 00:28:46,026
Woman, don't you know
people have caller ID?
582
00:28:47,115 --> 00:28:50,233
There's something underneath
these floorboards.
583
00:28:55,394 --> 00:28:57,568
I give you "Cementia".
584
00:28:57,823 --> 00:28:59,690
Herrmann slid right off the stage
585
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,282
and dropped into
this strategically jackhammered grave.
586
00:29:02,312 --> 00:29:05,123
Out of all the ways to have your body
stashed, this one's not so terrible.
587
00:29:05,692 --> 00:29:07,584
Maybe the killer wanted
the great Herrmann
588
00:29:07,645 --> 00:29:09,571
to be part of
the Conjurer's Castle forever.
589
00:29:09,601 --> 00:29:12,779
If the killer cared that much, you'd
think he'd at least break out his trowel
590
00:29:12,809 --> 00:29:15,046
and make the thing look nice.
Look at those edges.
591
00:29:15,076 --> 00:29:16,659
He's got to fill all this in.
592
00:29:16,689 --> 00:29:19,199
Lord knows
there's enough cement in the house.
593
00:29:24,244 --> 00:29:26,603
Did someone just turn on
the cement mixer?
594
00:29:29,908 --> 00:29:31,833
Maybe it's Olive and the boys.
595
00:29:31,863 --> 00:29:33,294
Maybe what's Olive and the boys?
596
00:29:33,688 --> 00:29:36,422
- Whoever turned on the cement mixer.
- You found the Great Herrmann.
597
00:29:36,660 --> 00:29:38,424
Whoever dropped this block in there
598
00:29:38,557 --> 00:29:41,712
is back to make sure Herrmann is
part of the Conjurer's Castle forever.
599
00:29:41,867 --> 00:29:43,119
That's his killer?
600
00:29:44,912 --> 00:29:46,840
No, no! Fools rush in!
601
00:29:46,870 --> 00:29:48,064
We're not fools!
602
00:29:49,106 --> 00:29:50,265
Over there!
603
00:29:50,871 --> 00:29:52,647
They sprang like attack monkeys.
604
00:29:52,707 --> 00:29:55,232
I'll take care of them.
You take care of him.
605
00:29:55,963 --> 00:29:57,265
Do either of you have a gun?
606
00:29:57,669 --> 00:29:58,593
- No.
- No.
607
00:29:59,015 --> 00:30:00,335
I'm going with Emerson.
608
00:30:03,607 --> 00:30:05,820
Don't be going around chasing
murder suspects willy-nilly.
609
00:30:05,850 --> 00:30:08,162
What you gonna do?
Use your wonder-twin powers?
610
00:30:11,046 --> 00:30:12,253
Wait for me!
611
00:30:14,551 --> 00:30:15,670
- Emerson.
- What?
612
00:30:15,802 --> 00:30:16,673
In here.
613
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,139
Is he dead?
614
00:30:21,169 --> 00:30:22,376
That's the Geek.
615
00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:25,638
He eats glass and swallows
small animals. What's that up his nose?
616
00:30:26,043 --> 00:30:28,808
Maybe it's a small animal
trying to crawl to freedom.
617
00:30:35,655 --> 00:30:38,150
Oh, no, that's all the way up in there.
He's dead.
618
00:30:38,487 --> 00:30:40,152
Yeah, he's... he's...
he's gone.
619
00:30:44,165 --> 00:30:46,643
You killed Herrmann,
buried him in the floor,
620
00:30:46,673 --> 00:30:49,120
and then you snuck back in here
so you could seal the deal
621
00:30:49,211 --> 00:30:50,931
with some more of
your cement handiwork.
622
00:30:51,309 --> 00:30:54,333
But you got surprised by the Geek,
and then you killed him, too.
623
00:30:54,841 --> 00:30:56,302
Is that how you're gonna frame me
624
00:30:56,332 --> 00:30:58,410
after you beat me to death with
your metal detectors?
625
00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,714
I am an unarmed woman.
626
00:30:59,846 --> 00:31:02,225
Why don't you calibrate
those things to find your manhood?
627
00:31:02,255 --> 00:31:04,365
If you didn't kill anybody
and you ain't running 'round
628
00:31:04,395 --> 00:31:07,138
here burying bodies and disposing
of witnesses, what you doin' here?
629
00:31:07,462 --> 00:31:08,630
Packing.
630
00:31:09,011 --> 00:31:12,157
The universe killed Herrmann
to send me a message,
631
00:31:12,187 --> 00:31:15,201
and that message is that eight years
is long enough to wait for a carrot.
632
00:31:15,231 --> 00:31:18,779
Yeah, well, my associates is out digging
up that carrot you been trying to bury,
633
00:31:18,809 --> 00:31:21,193
and we gonna see what the universe
has to say about that.
634
00:31:21,453 --> 00:31:24,500
As Emerson Cod chiseled away
at his suspect,
635
00:31:24,530 --> 00:31:27,783
the pie maker and Chuck chiseled away
at the Great Herrmann.
636
00:31:28,987 --> 00:31:31,537
I live to amaze another day!
637
00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:33,255
No,
you live to amaze another minute.
638
00:31:33,285 --> 00:31:35,753
You've been crushed by
"Cementia's" deadly embrace.
639
00:31:35,783 --> 00:31:37,337
I was hoping that didn't happen.
640
00:31:37,367 --> 00:31:39,253
How am I talking right now
and not dead?
641
00:31:39,532 --> 00:31:41,173
- Magic.
- It's a family trait.
642
00:31:41,203 --> 00:31:43,021
Must have gotten that
from your father.
643
00:31:43,051 --> 00:31:45,396
And that's some potent kung fu.
644
00:31:45,426 --> 00:31:48,200
Herrmann, look, I know that asking
a magician to reveal the secret
645
00:31:48,230 --> 00:31:50,673
- behind his great escape is very rude.
- Then don't do it.
646
00:31:50,703 --> 00:31:52,016
Nobody likes rude.
647
00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:53,646
It could help us catch your killer.
648
00:31:54,937 --> 00:31:57,631
Magic man to magic man.
Plug your ears.
649
00:31:57,931 --> 00:31:59,956
Magic man to magic man,
650
00:31:59,986 --> 00:32:04,387
the Great Herrmann detailed
the facts of the escape that wasn't.
651
00:32:04,596 --> 00:32:06,238
It was not magic that
652
00:32:06,371 --> 00:32:10,275
got the Great Herrmann out of his box,
but a series of trapdoors.
653
00:32:10,785 --> 00:32:15,039
But a magnet concealed
in his shoe was not underfoot.
654
00:32:21,251 --> 00:32:24,298
Magnets in your shoes? That's
the secret to your greatest trick?
655
00:32:24,526 --> 00:32:27,926
I could've lied to you. Told you
it was force fields or telekinesis.
656
00:32:27,956 --> 00:32:31,727
Somebody snatched the magnets out
of my shoes while I wasn't wearing them.
657
00:32:31,757 --> 00:32:33,905
Do you have
any last words or regrets or
658
00:32:33,935 --> 00:32:36,879
something you'd maybe like
to say to Maurice and Ralston?
659
00:32:37,319 --> 00:32:39,313
Something I'd like them to have.
660
00:32:39,775 --> 00:32:41,632
My freezer has a false bottom.
661
00:32:41,662 --> 00:32:45,152
Inside, you'll find my magic book
of magic tricks and illusions.
662
00:32:45,285 --> 00:32:46,696
Give it to Maurice and Ralston.
663
00:32:47,009 --> 00:32:50,157
- I'd like to keep it in the family.
- Time for my next trick.
664
00:32:50,401 --> 00:32:53,285
With a bit of showmanship,
if you don't mind.
665
00:32:53,815 --> 00:32:55,371
Now you see me...
666
00:32:56,352 --> 00:32:58,773
There were supposed to be magnets
in the Great Herrmann's shoes.
667
00:32:58,803 --> 00:33:01,032
That's how he triggers
the trapdoor and escapes "Cementia".
668
00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:03,408
Someone stole the magnets
so he couldn't escape.
669
00:33:03,438 --> 00:33:05,881
After Herrmann died, there were
magnets in the Geek's stomach.
670
00:33:06,055 --> 00:33:08,092
- So what?
- Sew buttons.
671
00:33:08,458 --> 00:33:10,577
He ate the evidence.
The Geek's the killer.
672
00:33:10,607 --> 00:33:12,880
The Geek ain't the killer.
The Geek is dead.
673
00:33:12,910 --> 00:33:15,026
Black magic woman killed him.
674
00:33:15,695 --> 00:33:19,257
She took that dangling carrot
and jammed it in that damn fool's head.
675
00:33:19,287 --> 00:33:21,479
Stop saying that.
I did not.
676
00:33:21,509 --> 00:33:23,439
In fact, she hadn't.
677
00:33:23,932 --> 00:33:26,753
They did not just leave me
with a dead body.
678
00:33:37,856 --> 00:33:40,475
- Right now, I feel like I'm very calm.
- You are. You are.
679
00:33:40,505 --> 00:33:44,211
Thank you, and I want to stay that way,
but I need you to stay calm, too.
680
00:33:44,241 --> 00:33:46,449
- So what's our promise to each other?
- Stay calm.
681
00:33:46,479 --> 00:33:48,773
- Which means?
- No screaming?
682
00:33:48,977 --> 00:33:50,339
You're wonderful.
683
00:33:50,369 --> 00:33:52,263
I can't wait to let you go.
684
00:33:52,293 --> 00:33:54,259
Everybody can see you.
685
00:33:54,540 --> 00:33:56,179
Olive, are you okay?
686
00:33:56,881 --> 00:33:57,977
I'm calm?
687
00:33:58,007 --> 00:34:00,936
Hey, nerd, you need to get yourself
a bigger human shield or something.
688
00:34:00,966 --> 00:34:02,936
You hanging out all sorts
of places I could shoot.
689
00:34:03,304 --> 00:34:05,221
How about you just let
wee lady wee go?
690
00:34:05,621 --> 00:34:07,505
Well, I have a gun, too.
691
00:34:07,851 --> 00:34:10,237
I swallowed a pearl-handled pistol.
692
00:34:10,501 --> 00:34:13,146
I'm cocking the trigger
with my stomach muscles right now,
693
00:34:13,249 --> 00:34:16,649
and when it flies out of my mouth,
it's going to shoot you in the face!
694
00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:17,756
I did hear a click.
695
00:34:17,786 --> 00:34:19,692
Wait... It's a click-clicking.
696
00:34:19,722 --> 00:34:21,154
Oh, never mind. It's a watch.
697
00:34:21,257 --> 00:34:24,162
You ain't shooting
nobody in their face, Tums.
698
00:34:24,338 --> 00:34:26,159
You are not gonna get away
with murder.
699
00:34:26,262 --> 00:34:27,590
Ned, he's got a nail.
700
00:34:27,762 --> 00:34:29,331
The facts were these...
701
00:34:29,361 --> 00:34:32,034
The Geek, a.k.a. Gunther Pinker,
702
00:34:32,064 --> 00:34:34,761
saw a father in the Great Herrmann
703
00:34:34,791 --> 00:34:37,712
and a long and happy
future performing together.
704
00:34:38,824 --> 00:34:41,674
But Herrmann
did not see a son in him...
705
00:34:41,704 --> 00:34:45,194
Only a novelty act
whose novelty had run out.
706
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:56,360
Herrmann had conveniently arranged
his own funeral in "Cementia."
707
00:34:58,226 --> 00:35:01,255
The keys to his escape
were consumed.
708
00:35:02,383 --> 00:35:06,856
He made the Great Herrmann vanish
and replaced him with another cube.
709
00:35:06,886 --> 00:35:08,791
No body, no murder.
710
00:35:08,821 --> 00:35:10,857
He intended to return
with his trowel
711
00:35:10,887 --> 00:35:14,689
and seal the Great Herrmann's grave
with the very brand of cement
712
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,153
that took his life.
713
00:35:16,347 --> 00:35:18,421
I would have eaten
anything for that man.
714
00:35:18,597 --> 00:35:20,099
I loved him like a father.
715
00:35:20,129 --> 00:35:21,839
He shouldn't have called
your act cheap.
716
00:35:21,942 --> 00:35:26,023
That first beer bottle I ate for him
was a promise, a promise he broke.
717
00:35:26,322 --> 00:35:29,889
He turned his back on me,
abandoned me like I was... cheap.
718
00:35:30,284 --> 00:35:33,693
I was abandoned by my father when
I was 9. I hated him for leaving me.
719
00:35:33,723 --> 00:35:35,689
I wrote letters to my future self
720
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,486
telling future me to never forgive
my father and to always hold a grudge.
721
00:35:38,516 --> 00:35:41,401
Those letters were little,
angry time capsules.
722
00:35:42,503 --> 00:35:44,498
But being angry didn't help.
723
00:35:45,174 --> 00:35:46,713
Despite what he did to me...
724
00:35:48,367 --> 00:35:49,576
I still loved him,
725
00:35:49,678 --> 00:35:50,869
and...
726
00:35:50,971 --> 00:35:52,148
I wanted him back.
727
00:35:52,178 --> 00:35:52,929
Now!
728
00:36:05,486 --> 00:36:07,927
The Geek, a.k.a. Gunther Pinker,
729
00:36:08,136 --> 00:36:12,069
regurgitator of fish, frogs,
mice and now kittens,
730
00:36:12,099 --> 00:36:16,526
was arrested for the murder of
the Great Herrmann, a.k.a. Herman Gunt.
731
00:36:16,959 --> 00:36:21,190
When they were ready, twin magicians
Maurice and Ralston dealt
732
00:36:21,293 --> 00:36:23,276
with the loss of their magic dad,
733
00:36:23,306 --> 00:36:26,108
finding his book of secrets
where he had left it.
734
00:36:26,497 --> 00:36:30,934
But they knew there was someone who had
waited eight long years for that carrot.
735
00:36:30,964 --> 00:36:32,304
We'll make you a photocopy.
736
00:36:32,532 --> 00:36:35,575
And with it,
Alexandria the assistant
737
00:36:35,605 --> 00:36:38,123
would become the Great Alexandria,
738
00:36:38,153 --> 00:36:41,138
newest headliner
at the Conjurer's Castle.
739
00:36:42,231 --> 00:36:45,859
As for the pie maker,
he discovered a new side to magic.
740
00:36:46,105 --> 00:36:48,637
Magic was not just what disappears,
741
00:36:48,667 --> 00:36:51,681
but what reappears
when you least expect it.
742
00:36:51,882 --> 00:36:56,373
Emboldened with this new perspective
and free of the sting of acid reflux,
743
00:36:56,403 --> 00:37:00,479
the pie maker arranged a private
magic show for the girl he loved.
744
00:37:00,509 --> 00:37:01,564
Are you ready?
745
00:37:03,096 --> 00:37:06,653
Well, if we're going to a magic show,
I hope you've got your lozenges.
746
00:37:06,925 --> 00:37:08,420
Oh, sorry.
747
00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:10,823
You helped me conquer
my lozenge dependency.
748
00:37:11,142 --> 00:37:13,534
As terrifying as it is,
magic runs in my family...
749
00:37:14,327 --> 00:37:16,911
And I kind of like
being frère pie maker.
750
00:37:17,808 --> 00:37:21,811
It's a nice feeling to be able to talk
to the family you didn't know you had.
751
00:37:24,362 --> 00:37:25,880
Okay, you can look.
752
00:37:26,726 --> 00:37:27,872
Yeah?
753
00:37:28,772 --> 00:37:29,935
Okay.
754
00:37:43,304 --> 00:37:45,749
I want you to have
that same nice feeling.
755
00:37:47,122 --> 00:37:48,945
Do you want to talk to your mom?
756
00:37:50,007 --> 00:37:51,656
Are we gonna crank-call Lily?
757
00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:54,273
- In a way.
- Ding-dong-ditch?
758
00:37:57,512 --> 00:37:58,262
How?
759
00:37:58,561 --> 00:38:00,939
A small conversation
can go a long way,
760
00:38:01,115 --> 00:38:03,042
even under the falsest of pretenses.
761
00:38:05,073 --> 00:38:07,755
Okay, now that Vivian
has gone to bed,
762
00:38:08,903 --> 00:38:10,258
have you ever role-played?
763
00:38:10,663 --> 00:38:12,414
Oh, I've role-played...
764
00:38:13,176 --> 00:38:16,200
but never in a context I'd be
comfortable role-playing with you.
765
00:38:16,888 --> 00:38:18,718
Oh, no, not...
not that kind of a role-play.
766
00:38:18,748 --> 00:38:20,302
More Olives... Olive.
767
00:38:21,533 --> 00:38:25,106
This is a work-your-grooves-out
kind of a role-play,
768
00:38:25,167 --> 00:38:27,095
not get-your-groove-on.
769
00:38:27,341 --> 00:38:28,238
Oh, okay.
770
00:38:28,268 --> 00:38:32,047
You've told me things only me, you
and that nunnery know about Charlotte.
771
00:38:32,925 --> 00:38:34,157
You being her mother and
772
00:38:34,942 --> 00:38:36,926
- not being her mother.
- That again.
773
00:38:36,956 --> 00:38:38,306
Say, when you were a jockey,
774
00:38:38,336 --> 00:38:40,747
did you ride the horses or just
beat them after they were dead?
775
00:38:40,808 --> 00:38:43,523
I'm not talking about a dead horse.
I'm talking about a dead daughter,
776
00:38:43,553 --> 00:38:45,612
and that's an awful lot of weight
to haul around.
777
00:38:45,642 --> 00:38:47,315
You are harshing my buzz.
778
00:38:47,345 --> 00:38:49,412
Oh, I don't want to harsh.
I want to help.
779
00:38:49,442 --> 00:38:52,534
Help me, help you carry the weight.
780
00:38:52,564 --> 00:38:54,427
Oh, Lily, unburden yourself.
781
00:38:54,678 --> 00:38:56,833
If Charlotte were alive right now
782
00:38:56,863 --> 00:38:59,557
and you didn't have to worry
about Vivian settling your hash,
783
00:39:00,176 --> 00:39:01,854
what would you say to her?
784
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,644
Is this the role-play part
where you're supposed to be Charlotte?
785
00:39:04,748 --> 00:39:06,996
Yes, aunt Lily. It's Charlotte.
Don't you recognize me?
786
00:39:07,026 --> 00:39:08,576
You should get your eye checked.
787
00:39:11,373 --> 00:39:14,155
Charlotte,
there's something you should know.
788
00:39:19,138 --> 00:39:20,128
I'm listening.
789
00:39:21,901 --> 00:39:22,914
I'm your mother.
790
00:39:23,270 --> 00:39:24,082
Presto.
791
00:39:25,754 --> 00:39:26,751
Go on.
792
00:39:26,968 --> 00:39:28,786
Ask your sea of questions.
793
00:39:32,127 --> 00:39:33,255
She can hear me?
794
00:39:40,506 --> 00:39:41,506
There's so many.
795
00:39:42,535 --> 00:39:44,917
- I want to know everything.
- I want to know every...
796
00:39:45,093 --> 00:39:46,237
everything?
797
00:39:47,134 --> 00:39:48,331
Everything.
798
00:39:49,228 --> 00:39:50,634
Start at the beginning.
799
00:39:50,810 --> 00:39:53,486
Tell me about the...
the day I was born.
800
00:39:53,951 --> 00:39:55,947
Could you tell me
about the day I was born?
801
00:39:59,405 --> 00:40:00,989
I was at the nunnery.
802
00:40:01,019 --> 00:40:03,371
It was right in the middle
of mid-middle morning prayers.
803
00:40:04,258 --> 00:40:07,286
Sister Mary Mary came running with
a crucifix and a bucket of holy water.
804
00:40:07,316 --> 00:40:10,211
She had ideas about
the kind of spawn I was carrying.
805
00:40:10,810 --> 00:40:11,946
But...
806
00:40:15,009 --> 00:40:16,303
after you were born...
807
00:40:20,850 --> 00:40:23,516
even she could see
you were an angel.
808
00:40:26,329 --> 00:40:28,616
As the once-dead girl named Chuck
809
00:40:28,646 --> 00:40:32,983
had her very first conversation with
the mother she'd always thought dead
810
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,654
and felt her heart grow full...
811
00:40:43,460 --> 00:40:44,762
across town,
812
00:40:44,792 --> 00:40:49,083
Dwight Dixon was visiting
the dead daughter of his dead friend...
813
00:40:56,722 --> 00:40:58,885
and found her coffin...
814
00:40:59,186 --> 00:41:00,022
empty.
815
00:41:10,812 --> 00:41:12,842
Synchro:
Salomon & Gaillots
816
00:41:13,919 --> 00:41:15,610
Rereading:
Bruno & Toupack