Amaury Nolasco: FBI Agent Mike Alvarez

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FBI Agent Mike Alvarez

Kay Daniels: What is that?
Cameron Black: Well, it's magic. You see, I learned this trick when I was five. Keep your eyes on the card.
[he covers the card with his hand, and when he removes it, it's different]
FBI Agent Mike Alvarez: Oh, it's different.
Cameron Black: It's called a deck flip. See, if my hand hadn't been in the way, you'd have seen... this.
[he does the trick again, showing how it's done]
FBI Agent Mike Alvarez: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now you ruined it. I mean, you gotta warn us before you do that.

Kay Daniels: This is an active crime scene.
FBI Agent Mike Alvarez: Sir, you cannot be here.
[realizing who it is]
FBI Agent Mike Alvarez: You're Cameron Black. He's Cameron Black.
Kay Daniels: Yeah, I got that. What are you doing here?
Cameron Black: Looking for the proscenium. It's the perfect frame in which to view an illusion.

Cameron Black: I made a plane disappear on live TV. I know how they did it.
FBI Agent Mike Alvarez: He did. It was incredible. I must've watched it twenty times with my boys. I still have no idea how he pulled it off.

Cameron Black: Last night, someone performed a deck flip with your airplane. The plane was the top card, the smoke, the fire, all that, that was my hand, and the wreckage, all this, that's the reveal.
Kay Daniels: So you're saying that somebody swapped out a seven-ton airplane with fake wreckage in, what, minutes?
Cameron Black: Yep. They slid it. It was all on a platform. If you, uh, clear up some of this retardant, you'll find... grooves in the floor.
FBI Agent Mike Alvarez: We saw the plane explode.
Cameron Black: That was just pyrotechnics, a gas bomb to give you that nice, big fireball effect. The plane was already gone.
Kay Daniels: Now, Mr. Black, there is only one way in or out of this hangar. Last night, half my agents were blocking it.
Cameron Black: Illusion is misdirection. That is to say, forcing the audience to look one way while the real trick is happening someplace else.