Yes.
- And he's dead. - No, no!
He-he-he's coming back. He-he-he's digging his way out!
I'll take care of her now.
Jennifer!
Jesus.
Billy! Harry D'Amour.
Listen... Suppose I wanted to get into the repository at the Magic Castle?
There we go!
You've done something like this before?
I've had my moments.
- Hold that up. - Yup.
- They've gotta have this place rigged. - How?
It’ll be something hokey.
Whoa!
Let's have a look around.
Billy!
Butterfield's pal had this carved on his forehead.
Any idea what it is?
No.
What did I tell you?
It's so fuckin' hokey!
What have we got here?
- Get the files. - Fuck the files!
Billy... Get the files!
Go on!
Jesus!
I coulda lost my fuckin' hands.
That would have kept you out of the Magic Circle!
Which was presumably
the idea.
Why don't you take a look through these?
Go on, Billy.
These must be about Nix.
The Puritan?
Hey. Take a look at that.
A Nix specialty?
I don't know any of these tricks.
Maybe they're not tricks.
What did Vinovich say about walking the path between...?
Trickery and divinity. He's saying that all the time.
And he said that because he knew. That son of a bitch!
He'd seen these and he knew...
Knew what?
Harry!
Harry! Get it off of me! Where the fuck are you?
Hold it right there.
I said...
Hokey enough for ya?
I'm outta here, man.
Comin'?
Yeah. I'm comin'.
I can't let you in.
This is the way he wanted it.
No autopsy.
No embalming.
Nobody meddling with his body.
Flesh is a trap. That's what he used to say.
Flesh is a trap...
and magic sets us free.
And why did you come back?
I've been doing some digging.
What did you find?
Jennifer Desiderio, for one.
She threw herself in front of a car this afternoon.
Why don't you tell me the truth?
Nix ran some kind of a cult, right?
Some kind of a Charlie Manson deal?
It was more than that, I think.
- He was the real thing, wasn't he? - Swann said he could do stuff, yes.
Like?
He could levitate, juggle fire.
And he could... get into people's heads.
Make them see things.
- Terrible things. - What things?
I don't know.
And he taught some of this to Swann?
Yes, some of it.
So then Swann wasn't performing illusions.
He was doing magic.
Yes.
And you thought he should be using it to cure cancer instead of making millions?
Look, I told you...
I know - too much fame. That'd be enough to turn anybody's head, including yours.
Oh, fuck you!
You said you weren't with him for love.
- Well, I wasn't. - Then what?
What the hell was going on here?
- I was grateful to him. - For what?
Everything I had I owed to him.
And he loved me.
He couldn't always show it, but he felt it.
He thought Nix was coming back, didn't he?
Didn't he?
I can't help you unless you talk to me!
- You can't help me. - You don't know that!
- I was so afraid. - Don't be.
Nix can't hurt you now.
I know.
I was the one who shot him.
I was twelve.
Nix took me hostage to get Swann to come to him.
- And they all came. - Yeah.
Quaid and Jennifer and...
Swann and Pimm.
What was that?
Valentin?
Harry! Wait!
Valentin?
What the hell...?
It's him. It's Nix.
Dorothea! Stay there!
Find Valentin!
Find him and get him in here! Now!
This is sacrilege!
- Are you satisfied now? - No.
Don't worry. I'm not hurting him.
Looks like you're not a widow after all.
Sit down!
- You rigged the illusion to fail, right? - Yes.
You set up the fake body, yes?
Yes.
And then what?
Because I was getting too close to something or
someone, you called Swann?
No, first I tried to pay you off.
Was that Swann's idea?
It was mine.
I didn't want any more bloodshed.
That's why we did all this. So Nix would have no-one to come after.
Nix is dead and buried! What the hell is wrong with you people?
Haven't you seen enough to know that doesn't matter?
I want to meet with Swann. Face to face.
Why can't you just let this alone?
Let everyone think it's over!
Maybe he's right.
Maybe we should just let him stay dead.
(# Fauré Requiem: "In Paradisum")
Couldn't stay away, could ya?
Had to see who cried over you the most, huh?
You know,
a lot of people are gonna be really pissed off to find out you're still alive.
And they will, you know.
No matter how much shit you bury yourself under, you're...
You shouldn't have followed me, D'Amour.
How do you do that?
Now I'm gonna have to kill you.
I don't think so.
You need me alive.
Why? So you can fuck the woman I love?
If you love her so much, why did you widow her?
What a waste.
You can do shit most of us only dream about,
and you go around pretending it's just some trick.
Illusionists get Las Vegas contracts, D'Amour.
Magicians get burned.
Yeah, or murdered like Nix.
Oh... he deserved it.
Well, maybe he doesn't feel that way.
Maybe he's digging himself out of that hole you put him in right now.
That's what you're hiding from, isn't it?
I did it for Dorothea.
Yeah?
Now that I'm dead,
the spotlight's off her.
So Nix won't be looking for her.
I betrayed him.
But she shot him.
Now, if I'm Nix, that'd piss me off a little bit!
I don't know what else to do.
Help me!
Look...
If Nix is back from the dead,
then he is some kind of a god.
And he'll find you wherever the fuck you go.
But if he's just another phony Messiah,
then you can stage the greatest comeback in history!
Who's there?
Easy!
Easy.
I've sometimes thought that
if I'd had another profession...
I would have been a surgeon.
To be able to heal with one little cut.
No!
Say that those eyes of yours were troubling you.
- Please! - I could just... scoop them out!
No, don't!
Then tell me where Nix is buried.
I don't know.
No! Wait!
I'll tell you.
Oh, you'll do more than that.
Dorothea!
D'Amour!
What is it?
Did Dorothea know where Nix was buried?
N- no.
Did Valentin?
Yes.
Do you like the look of these?
I made them myself.
To set him free.
Why did you wait so long?
I didn't have the skill...
to resurrect him.
I had to teach myself.
That took time.
Think he'll be in a fit state to resurrect after 13 years?
If he was just a man,
like me, then no.
But...
he's not.
What is he, then?
Maybe he'll show you.
Anything?
Not yet.
- You have lied to me. - No, I swear!
This is the place Swann told me about.
- The rocks. I... - Five more minutes.
- Are you hearing me? - I'm doing my best.
What have you got there?
Fucker!
Butterfield!
He's in the corner!
Don't touch it.
It's him.
Oh, Jesus Christ!
Smell it.
He's coming! He's coming!
He will come! He will come!
Swann!
Help me!
Get out of the car.
Get out of the fucking car!
Swann!
D'Amour... he's got Dorothea.
- And Nix? - Yes.
- Don't bother about me. - Shut up.
We've already lost enough lives.
Please... accept... my apologies, D'Amour.
For what?
You're going... to lose one more.
No!
He's better off this way.
Nobody's better off this way.
You don't get it, do you?
This is where we're all goin'.
Do you wish him amongst us?
Yes!
Will you come unto him upon your knees?
Yes!
Be ready.
Listen...
You got everything you want. You don't need me.
No, but he will.
After what you did to him.
He'll want vengeance.
Christ in heaven!
My lord.
He's coming home!
He's with us!
Hold her!
Open your eyes.
He's with us! He's with us!
Where is Swann?
- He's dead. - No, he isn't.
I swear.
- Children... - Master?
Will you suffer to come unto me?
Jesus!
What the hell is goin' on in there?
At a guess, they just resurrected him.
Fuck!
I've come back to bring you the wisdom of the grave.
Will you hear it?
Yes!
Follow me!
Do I know you,
child?
Yes.
I do, don't I?
No gun this time, child?
Where is Swann?
I don't know where he is.
He'll come.
We have unfinished business,
he and I.
This is where we killed him.
Looks like you didn't try hard enough.
I... can't go any further.
You fucker! Huh?
- Are you ready for my wisdom? - Yes!
- Tell us. - Here is...
my wisdom.
Go! Help her.
You see, I escaped from the grave,
so I have to give something to the grave in return.
Yes. Show us.
Show us, Puritan.
I have to give something back,
so I'm giving you...
What's happening?
Go ahead, bleed! Bleed!
What have we done?
You're not...
worthy, none of you!
Fuck you!
Only Swann...
is worthy.
You just waited like lambs.
Well...
I am not your shepherd.
You're not Swann.
Who are you?
Oh, I know what you want!
Hold on!
Nix!
There you are!
Come on!
I've had a long time
to think about you.
Where did I go wrong?
And...?
I should have been honest with you from the start.
I wasn't born
to show people the error of their ways.
I was born...
to murder the world!
You can still help me do that if you want.
Why would I want to do that?
The lady has a new love
in her life. Your friends...
are all dead. No-one
can save you now...
but me.
- Come on! - We can't leave him there!
I'm not... going to!
Bitch!
Butterfield!
Will you help me?
- Yes. - You know I'll kill you
when we're done. I have to.
- Yes. - But until then,
it'll be just the two of us.
The way it always was!
Yes.
Wait.
You still feel something for that bitch.
Yes.
Will...
you...
never...
learn?
She's just flesh,
Swannie-boy!
I'll show you.
Dorothea!
Dorothea?
Where is she? Where did she go?
You've got Swann's disease.
You think that a little courage and a little love...
That it'll all be all right.
Tell me where she is
and I'll make it go away.
- Dig, D'Amour! - No!
- Touch the darkness! - No...
- It's been waiting for you. - No!
No...
Harry?
No...
Harry, it's not real.
Harry, listen to me.
Look at me!
You'll be OK!
There you are, child.
Come along, child.
What are you seeing now?
There.
Dorothea!
One...
last...
illusion!
What's it going to be?
- Fire, to burn out your eyes? - Run!
I'm sure Swann loved your eyes!
But you shouldn't have taken him away from me.
We were going to be together.
And when I finished with the world,
we were going to keep each other company
in the dark!
But I'm on my own.
We're all on our own.
The grave is lonely.
But living is worse.
D'Amour!
What the fuck are you?
A man who wanted to be a god.
And changed his mind.
We're going to be rotten shit from now on.
The car!
Can you raise me up like the car?
I'm going to show the world who's waiting at the end.
And I am willing to make...
despair.
Nix!
Is it finished?
I think so.
Run!
And the fire said to me,
it said to me...
Do you wanna see flesh...
with a god's eyes?
I was born...
to murder the world!
Flesh is a trap. That's what he used to say.
Flesh is a trap
and magic sets us free.
# Dancing in the dark
# Till the tune ends
# We're dancing in the dark
# And it soon ends
# We're waltzing in the wonder
# Of why
# We're here
# Time hurries by
# We're here
# And gone
# Looking at the light
# Of a new love
# To brighten up
# The night
# I have you, love
# And we
# Can face the music
# Together
# Dancing in the dark
# Dancing
# In
# The
# Dark
Visiontext subtitles: Paul Sofer
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