Chapter 1: What is the Sky January sale about?
Oh, January. Sky January sale time. What? It's great. You get Sky TV with exclusive shows like A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Love a man in armor. Netflix with the Stranger Things finale and super reliable Sky Broadband powering it all. Sky TV, Netflix and Sky Broadband. Yep. 44 euro a month for 12 months in the Sky January sale.
I love January.
Offer ends February 4th.
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest living magician, Blackstone. He tells you the inside story of... The Voice from the Voice. And right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you yourself can perform. Reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest living magician.
The Voice from the Voice
The magic detective. Are you moving, Blackstone? No, why?
Whatever gave you that idea? It would take us months to move all this equipment of Blackstone. I hereby give notice, Blackstone. The day you move, I quit.
Then it's obvious I can't ever move. But what's that crate over there for? It looks like a big packing box. The one with the coil of rope attached to it? Yes, that's the one. Oh, that's the packing box that was haunted by the ghost of the great magician Bardini. Haunted?
Yep. Really haunted.
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Chapter 2: Who is Blackstone the magician?
What happens now? Well, just listen for a moment and you'll hear the great Bardini speak. I am the spirit of the great Bardini. Hey, let me out of here.
Let me out. Had enough?
You bet I have. Look, that box is haunted. I heard a voice.
Look, I mean, fun is fun, but that voice... You're acting exactly the way Rinaldo did.
The devil's Rinaldo, and what has he got to do with all this? Rinaldo was Vardini's assistant and the first person to hear the ghost speak.
Tell Don about it, Paxton.
Well, it all started, Don, when Mrs. Vardini, the widow of my old friend, came to see me.
He was murdered, I tell you, Blackstone. Murdered by his assistant.
But, Mrs. Bardini, your husband drowned to death in full view of a large audience. No one could have murdered him.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the haunted packing box?
But today... Rinaldo is doing a new act. He's to be nailed into a packing box, lowered from a 200-foot bridge into deep water, and then make his escape.
Can you arrange for me to look at the packing box before he makes his escape?
Why, yes, I think so.
And after that, I'd like to witness the escape.
Do you think you can find out if it really was Rinaldo?
I can try, Mrs. Bardini. I can try.
Mr. Blackstone, it is indeed an honor that you should come to visit my performance. Not at all, Reynaldo. I'm very much interested.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor to introduce Blackstone the magician, who has come to visit this performance of mine. He will join the committee on the platform in order to see that there is no trickery.
You will do that, won't you? I'll be glad to. Say, Blackstone, this act of mine is terrific, absolutely terrific. The publicity I get from this show today will make you and the other big guys look to their laurels, I can tell you. Well, it sounds pretty good. It is good. Say, you better get up there with the other officials, Blackstone. It's time to get started. Right.
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Chapter 4: What role did Rinaldo play in the story?
No.
No. But you must be. No one could hide in this packing case. And yet, your voice. You are hanging out over the river, Reynaldo. You plan to escape with the trick I taught you. But you will not escape. No, you will die just as I die. You are Bardini. You can't be. Oh, yes, I am. And I have fixed this packing box so you cannot escape. I will murder you just as you murdered me.
You didn't fix the case. I'll test it. I'll... You don't dare test it and you know it. If you open the crate now, you will fall to your death. And you know it.
Chapter 5: How did Mrs. Bardini seek help from Blackstone?
I won't give them the signal to lower. I won't push the handkerchief through the air hole. They will lower anyway in five minutes. That was the arrangement. And then, then you will die. Die. Help me. Die. Help me. Save me. I, why should I save you? Have mercy. You can save yourself. How? What can I do? In the crate you will find the pencil and paper I left there.
Write a confession and push it out through the air hole. No, not that. It is the only thing that will save you. Did he do it? Did you write the confession? Yes, and he pushed it out the air hole just as I told him to.
So it was you who was the voice of Bardini's ghost. That's right, Don. But how could that have been possible? The crate was made of single boards. Where were you hiding? Oh, I wasn't hiding anywhere. I was standing up on the committee's platform.
But how did your voice carry all that way? It didn't. But you talked to him. You see that rope on the top of the case? Yes. Well, it isn't a rope. It's a hollow tube that looks like one. I just spoke down that tube. Oh, so that was how it was done.
That's right. And Mrs. Bardini and I caught the confession as Rinaldo pushed it out of the air hole. It fluttered down near us and we grabbed it.
Well, there's only one more thing that I want to know, Blackstone. What's that, Don?
Why did Rinaldo kill Bardini? Well, as Mrs. Bardini said, he was terribly ambitious. He wanted to have Bardini's act for himself. And he couldn't do that while Bardini was alive. Because they were the only tricks he knew.
And he knew, too, that Bardini was leaving all his equipment to him in his will.
And so another mystery was solved by magic. Yes, Don. It was.
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Chapter 6: What is Rinaldo's new act and its risks?
That's what I want you to do.
So now I have three heaps. Each with the same number of cards.
Well, pick up the heap on the left... And deal three cards into the center heap.
Three cards from the left heap into the center.
Now lay down the heap on the left and pick up the heap on the right.
Lay down left heap, pick up right.
Deal three cards from the right heap into the center.
Three from the right into the center.
And now count the cards in the heap you're holding. Remember how many you have, but don't tell me.
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