Now You See Me - The Mystery of the Playing Card
Alma Dray:
So if you had nothing to do with it, then how did the playing card get in the vault?
Daniel Atlas:
Oh, yes. That would be...What do the kids call it these days? Oh, yeah, that's right, magic.
Dylan Rhodes:
Just answer the question, okay, smart-ass.
Daniel Atlas:
You can keep that. Don't share it with him. Um, as far as I understand it, when the man from Paris put on the magical helmet, I guess it was -
Dylan Rhodes:
Listen to me. If you didn't rob that bank, then you knew about it. Which makes you an accomplice. So if you wanna walk out of here today, I suggest that you start -
Daniel Atlas:
Okay, now you listen to me. Unless you think there's a DA in the state of Nevada who'd be willing to make sense of all this to a jury, then we have a show to perform. And you, Agent Rhodes, have a drawing board to get back to.
Dylan Rhodes:
You are literally begging to be arrested, you know that?
Daniel Atlas: [to Alma; back to Rhodes]
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 famous than we already are. And you guys would look like idiots even more than you already are. Well, not you, but him, right? You have, what we in the business like to call "nothing up your sleeve". And you know it.
Dylan Rhodes:
You wanna know who sat in that chair before you? Mob bosses, murderers and thieves. And you know who put em there? The guy who's sitting in this chair. So I warn you, I can maintain my resolve much longer than you can maintain that phony arrogance. And the instant that you even show the slightest crack in that smug façade, I'll be there. I will be all over you like -
Daniel Atlas:
Like white on rice? Sorry, that's unfair. Let me warn you. I want you to follow. Because no matter 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.
Dylan Rhodes: [lunges towards Atlas]
I’m gonna nail you!
Daniel Atlas:
Something wrong with that soda, miss?
Daniel Atlas: [grabs Rhodes' phone before the liquid can touch it]
Oh, shit. First rule of magic: Always be the smartest guy in the room.
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