Plot “Now You See Me”

Someone gathers together four talented magicians-Daniel Atlas, Henley Reeves, Merritt McKinney
and Jack Wilder — in one apartment with drawings of an unprecedented Scam.A year later, under
the pseudonym "Four horsemen", they perform in Las Vegas under the patronage of millionaire
Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine). In the final number of the speech, they invite the client of a certain
French Bank from the hall and promise to transfer it to his Bank. During the focus, the owner
disappears, and the audience sees on the screen that he was transported to the vault with the money
and turned on the air duct, which sucked 3.2 million euros and poured them into the auditorium.

FBI agent Dylan Rhodes and Interpol agent Alma dray are assigned to investigate the robbery.They
arrest the magicians, but they can't prove their involvement in the missing money.Later, they meet
Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician and now host of a program to expose illusionists. Bradley
shows the agents how the "Riders" pulled off the robbery with tricks and manipulations, but refuses
to help them so that he can expose the illusionists on his own.

The next performance of the Four horsemen takes place in New Orleans. Tressler tries to bribe
Bradley, but is unsuccessful. In the final issue, the Riders hand over to the audience the money
stolen from Tressler because his insurance company refused to pay compensation to victims for
damage caused by hurricane Katrina. Rhodes tries to arrest the "Riders", but they escape with the
help of mesmerized spectators. Later, agent dray tells Rhodes about a secret society of magicians
called the "Eye", which uses illusionism to help ordinary people. Tressler, angered by the loss of his
fortune, hires Bradley to expose and humiliate the Four horsemen.

The FBI finds the horsemen's hideout in New York. During the assault, Rhodes confronts Wilder,
after a fight, he escapes in a car, but in the ensuing chase, his car flips over and explodes. Rhodes
finds a document with which he learns about the main goal of the illusionists-a warehouse with a
safe, inside which 500 million dollars of unpaid taxes from one firm, which is being monitored by
another FBI team. The FBI manages to intercept the safe, after which its agents go to the scene of
the next performance of "Riders" - 5 Pointz.When the agents open the safe, they see that it contains
not money, but balloons.

While in Paris, dray reads a newspaper and finds Rhodes next to him.She immediately guesses that
Rhodes is the son of Shrike, who has been plotting revenge for his father's death during the magic
trick all these years. Bradley exposed Shrike, forcing him to perform this risky trick; Tressler and
the Paris Bank refused to pay for Shrike's insurance policy; the firm that had stolen the safe with the
money made a notoriously unreliable safe for the trick, which killed Shrike.
A man in a hood secretly observes the performances of magicians. Those who have passed his
personal selection, find a Tarot card with the image of the eye on the back and indicating the time
and place. The map clearly means something to them, because all four of them come to the meeting.
From this moment on, Daniel, Henley, Merritt, and Jack become part of one ambitious project led
by a mysterious puppeteer.

A year later, they gather full houses. In Las Vegas, the "Four horsemen," as they call themselves,
invite a person from the audience on stage to participate in a stunt. The illusionists declare that they
will transfer the volunteer to a Parisian Bank. The man disappears from the scene and appears on
the screen in the middle of the vault. The magicians ask him to turn on the air duct and a second
later, bills begin to fall on the audience. Meanwhile, their French Bank's money is really
disappearing.

The FBI and Interpol can't prove that the illusionists are involved. Agents Rhodes and dray hope to
bring in a former magician, now a TV presenter-a whistleblower of tricks Bradley, but he has his
own interest in the case. Meanwhile, the "Riders" are circling their sponsor Tressler, effectively
distributing his fortune among the audience in the hall, getting even for the fact that his insurance
company did not pay money to the injured people. Once again, the" Riders " get away with it.

After learning what goal they have set for their next "charity" action, the security services try to
play ahead of the game, but they only get their hands on Bradley, masterfully set up by the "Riders".
Now he is ready to cooperate with the agents, but suddenly realizes that the magicians themselves
could not pull off such complex scams, they must have their own person in the FBI.

The" fifth rider " turns out to be agent Rhodes, whose father was also a magician and whose life
went downhill due to the actions of the very people who lost their money during the performances
of the elusive four. Now, having avenged his father with their hands, he confesses to the Horsemen
that he was their secret puppeteer.