Week 3 - Now You See Me

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
Dylan, for the record, mentalism, it's never actually been proven to be accurate.
Okay.
That is to say that it's not a science. It's, you know, it's more for entertainment.
Alright.
Just, just don't believe everything the guy says. That's all.
Please convey my deepest apologies to your colleague out there.
I'm really sorry about this whole Tranny Tuesday thing. I was out of line.
Tranny Tuesday.
Well, it's an arrangement he and his wife have, or might not have, if you believe everything
Agent Fuller is saying to be correct, but isn't there a proud tradition in the FBI of men wearing dresses?
No shame, Agent Fuller. .
Just having fun.
Was this your card?
No.
See, I knew you weren't a queen of hearts, lady, and I respect that.
The trick usually works better when I'm not strapped in here, but I understand protocol.
Okay, okay.
So, if you had nothing to do with it, then how did the playing card get into the board?
Oh yes, that would be, uh...
Hey, what do the kids call it these days?
Oh yes, that's right, magic.
Just answer the question, okay, smartass?
Alright. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
You can keep that. Don't share it with him.
Says here you are a mentalist.
What exactly is mentalism?
Tricks, mostly. Some science targeted guessing might be a most apt description, along with some intuition in the occasional...
Voices in my .
Sounds like you're fairly famous at one point.
You can even hypnotize people over the phone.
Some big tours around the US for a few years.
Two TV specials.
Glory days.
Then your brother slash manager disappeared with all your hard earned money.
Did you research, did you?
IRS audit back taxes.
You've had a long, hard slog back into the limelight, haven't you, Mr. McKinney?
Yes, indeed it has, and I do appreciate that trip down memory lane.
As far as I understand it, when the man from Paris put on the magical helmet, I guess there was something like that.
Listen to me.
If you didn't rob that bank, then you knew about it, which makes you an accomplice.
So if you want to walk out of here today, I suggest you start.
Okay, now you to me.
I'm going to ask you if there's a DA in the state of Nevada who'd be willing to make sense of this to a jury, then we have a show to perform.
New agent Rhodes have a drawing board to get back to.
Is this your first date?
What?
No, I mean, obviously you guys don't know each other well, if at all, but like there is a palpable tension in this room.
And before you get involved, you should consider the fact that she has a lot of big secrets.
And I know the first one is that this is your first time off the desk, isn't it?
You should have said something to him.
This is a weird way for you to find out.
You are literally begging to be arrested, you know?
If it means you would actually do it, then yeah, but you won't.
Because if you did, it means that you and the FBI and your friends at Interpol actually believe at an institutional level in magic.
The press would have a field day, and we'd be even more than we already are, and you guys would look like idiots even more than you already are.
Well, no, not you, but him, right?
Listen, you have what we in the business like to call nothing up your sleeve, and you know it.
Don't draw him in and then dump him because abandonment is a big area for him.
Mommy, daddy.
Ah, you have big daddy issues.
Okay, that's enough.
I'll tell you what, your average therapist is going to charge you $2,300 for this session.
Me, I'll take a tenor.
Okay, later, if you're feeling magnanimous, I'll still take a tenor.
You want to know something that's here before you?
My boss is murderers and thieves, and you know who put him there?
The guy who's sitting in this chair.
So I warn you, I can maintain my resolve much than you can maintain that phony arrogance.
And the instant that you even show the slightest crack in that smug facade, I'll be there.
I will be all over you like-
Like white on rice?
Sorry, that's unfair.
Let me warn you, I want you to follow.
Because no what you think you might know, we will always be one step, three steps, seven steps ahead of you.
And just when you think you're catching up, that's when we'll be right behind you.
And at no time will you be anywhere other than exactly where I want you to be.
So come close, get all over me because the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see.
I'm gonna nail you.
Something wrong with that , miss?
Oh, shit.
First rule of magic.
Always be the smartest guy in the .