Blackstone Detective - The Reluctant Buzzsaw

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The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest magician, Blackstone.

He tells you the inside story of the reluctant buzzsaw.

And right after the story, Blackstone will explain fix of magic that you yourself can perform.

Revealing the guarded secrets of the world's greatest magician.

And now to Blackstone's magic studio.

Welcome Mr. Iancot.

We will expect to you.

Why thank you, Blackstone.

I suppose you've come to have Blackstone tell you another of his magical attention.

But yes, I have, Miss Bratto.

But tell me something first.

Why do you have that tremendous buzzsaw over there?

Oh, they use that to cut me in half every night.

Oh, that's very...

Why?

But do you have to use such a big buzzsaw to slice it to chameleon, lady?

Well, we're always trying to improve our magical illusions.

Which reminds me of when we were first building this particular one.

It all happened while we were traveling through the south.

After the show, the boys put the finishing touches on the illusions.

I was going over at backstage.

When Rhoda rushed in, there was both of that.

Blackstone, Blackstone.

What is Rhoda?

Why is Rhoda excited?

Oh, I ought to be excited.

I was just coming out of the lunchroom when some men ran out of the bank across the street.

At this time of night?

When we sat right there, they were wearing masks and telling bags.

If they see you?

I don't know.

But when they drove away, I saw the license numbers.

They were calling.

And I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget it.

I have the piece of paper right here in my bag.

I'm nervous.

I can't find it.

Calm yourself, Rhoda.

So, give me the bag.

I'm going to find it.

Oh, God, what happened to you?

How did you fellows get here?

And who are you?

Have I mind?

Ask if those hands are both here.

If you don't, we'll let you have it.

Very well.

Well, that was easy.

What do you say, Jake?

I say the same thing, Clepper.

But I keep that Blackstone covered.

So, what he can't do, no slider hand,

with his mitts up in the air, can it?

You never can tell, Clepper.

Right after I scratch the magician, just keep reaching.

I have Jake find out within that chain's handbag.

Yeah, yeah, give me time.

There's nothing important in that bag.

No, we saw the damn light and something.

So, look for Hanca paper, Jake.

Yeah, yeah, Clepper.

You don't hear it, right?

What's on it?

Hey, it's our license number.

I think it's part of this.

So, why staying here?

This is part of our number.

But I don't think I remember it.

Well, we think you do.

What do I do now, Clepper?

Give us like a flood poisoning.

Don't be a dope.

What the cops on our neck will do is the smart way.

No murder is smart, Clepper.

You don't think so, magician?

Well, you'll find out different.

You'll bet you a little magician.

Clepper plays everything smart.

This is going to be very smart.

We'll get rid of the girl and pin it on Blackstone.

That's very foolish, Clepper.

People will try that sort of thing before.

And if you killed me,

nobody in the world would ever suspect Blackstone.

You don't think so?

Well, I see just what I need.

Get a load of that bus over there.

Hey, that's a big one, eh?

That's right.

I've got a big idea to go with it.

What's that, Clepper?

See that board line right in front of it?

Yeah?

Those two straps hanging on the post, yeah?

All right, Jake.

Take the girl and strap it to the board.

Then carry it right in front of the big bus.

So, wake up the life.

You can't do that.

One move out of you, Blackstone.

I'll let you have it.

I forgot that license number.

Really?

I said, I don't...

Wrap it, Jake.

Stop it, you...

Leave me alone.

Don't leave me alone.

We'll get rid of that, and then...

Don't, I thought I could remember something.

Get all of the rest.

I can't find a Jake.

Leave me alone.

Leave me alone.

You may depend on how you'll be sorry for it.

My Clepper, I think he's fighting.

Forget about those straps.

Yeah, and that makes it simple.

You can't go through with this, Clepper.

Go through it, what?

The bus saw?

We'll leave that to the bus saw.

Ready, Jake?

Yeah, am I?

All right, let me get this plank in front of this saw.

Once you've gotten down, get that saw started.

I got him covered.

Okay, Clepper.

I want you, Clepper.

I want you, you're making a great mistake.

You don't get the blame for this mistake, Blackstone.

Come on, and those papers will have a nice little headline.

Blackstone, famous magician,

lets beautiful assistant get sliced by a bus saw.

Nobody will believe it, Clepper.

No one day, everybody will just think

you were trying to know trick that didn't work.

Ready, what a sweat!

Haircuts, Clepper.

Let her go.

Oh!

Jake, Clepper.

Wait a time, y'all.

For it, ma'am, you're for it.

Take it a grip on yourself.

Yeah, yeah, I gotta get a grip on myself.

Gotta get a grip on myself.

Get back there, pick up your gun.

Just case the cops pay us a little visit.

The shoes on the other foot, Clepper.

We're going to pay a little visit to the police.

What do you mean?

Just look behind you, Clepper.

But drop your gun as first, Clepper.

I have you covered.

Hold it.

Clepper, Clepper.

That one of you is shorting half.

You mean the girl you thought you sawed in half?

No, you're clippin' at the same time.

But she's got my gun.

Yes, and I know how to shoot it, too.

So drop yours, Clepper.

Better drop it, Clepper.

Roder is getting impatient.

You win, what you should know.

That's my gun.

I'll keep them covered with triple gun, Roder.

Why, you get the police.

With pleasure.

Yeah, what you should know.

You win, but I like to know how that goes in one piece.

You'll have plenty of time to figure it out, Clepper.

Just about 20 years.

But why wasn't Roder sawed in half, Blackstone?

Because that was a new illusion, Blackstone was building.

That's right.

So are you woman half.

With a bus saw.

With a bus saw.

Without hurting her?

Yes.

Since then, I do it every show.

And does it always work?

I would say it does.

If it didn't, Broder wouldn't be here to tell you that it did.

It's like all of Blackstone's magic.

It never fails.

But doesn't it ever worry, Roder?

We'll never since that first try out

when we have those bank robbers as an audience.

And they are still wondering how it was done.

They asked me wondering, too, Blackstone.

Just as you did with those tricks, you showed us last time.

We'd like to see some more of them.

Good.

Well, here's one so easy it'll really pull you.

Well, that sounds intriguing.

What do you use?

These coins here in my fist.

Yeah, listen.

Now, what do I have here?

Buy some coins in your fist.

Good.

Do you know how many coins?

No, at all.

Well, I'll tell you.

I have three coins.

The value is exactly 35 cents.

But one of them isn't a nickel.

You said three coins were 35 cents, that's right.

But one of them isn't a nickel.

That's right.

I'll wait now a quarter and a dime.

That would be two coins.

But I have three, exactly three.

Three dime?

No, that would be only 30 cents.

And my three coins make 35 cents.

Well, I give up.

Let's see those wonderful coins.

There they are.

A quarter and two nickels.

Three coins that total 35 cents.

Which you said I have three coins.

But one of them isn't a nickel.

Certainly.

I was speaking of the quarter.

It isn't a nickel, is it?

Well, no.

Well, there you are.

Three coins.

But one of them isn't a nickel.

Only the other two are.

Catch on?

Say, that's a fooler.

Sounds like one thing, but it means another.

But you won't fool me like that again, Blackstomp.

Won't I?

Well, let's try.

Here we have six glasses.

Ordinary drinking glasses.

I'm going to set them in a row.

Six glasses in a row.

What next?

Now, rotor.

Start from the left and fill three glasses

from this beverage bottle.

Here's one.

And here's two.

And here's three.

Now, there you are.

Six glasses in a row.

The three of the left are filled with a finest beverage.

But the three of the right are empty.

Exactly.

Now, the trick is, you are to rearrange those glasses

so that every odd one is full and every even one empty.

You mean so that there will be a full glass

then an empty, then another full glass, another empty,

another full, finally, an empty.

That's right.

We must finish with the glasses alternating full and empty.

Why, that's easy.

If we move the one on the left and then the one on the right.

Wait a minute, rotor.

You're only allowed to move one glass.

Only one glass?

That's right.

Why, it can't be done.

That is the full, yes it can.

Suppose we let rotor try to figure it out.

I'll be back in a few moments to see how she's made up.

Oh.

And now, blackstone, no six glasses.

Well, there they are.

Six glasses.

The three on the left are full of a most enticing beverage.

And the three on the right are empty.

Yes.

Now you're to move one glass without touching any others

and make the glasses full and empty.

Ultimately, come left to right.

I just can't do a blackstone.

I've been trying and trying.

Oh, I'll show you how.

I pick up the middle glass of the three full ones at the left.

But where you going to put it?

It's not where I put that glass.

What counts is where I put the beverage it contains.

Oh, you mean you got it, don't you?

Not yet.

I'm going to pour the liquid from this glass

into the middle glass of the three empties on the right.

Now my original glass is empty.

So I put it right back where I picked it up.

Between the two full glasses at the left.

And there you have it.

Say that does solid.

Full, empty.

Say that's the one you poured from.

Full, empty, full.

That's the one you poured into.

An empty.

Say that's great.

I thought you'd enjoy it.

And I'm sure our friends listening

will also play it on their friends.

Now, until we meet again, this is Blackstone saying

good magic and goodbye.

You of us next time, when the world's greatest magician,

Blackstone tells us the story of the Emerald in the Fishbowl.

And explains more tricks that you, your son-of-can-for-fun.

Until Blackstone, the world's greatest magician.