Vanishing Act is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of a man found dead in strange circumstances following a magic act.
The opening shows two very different acts of illusionism, one by Miles Stone, a young escapologist and TV celebrity figure, and the other by The Great Carmine, an old magician who had lost his grip and nerve. While Stone...
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Vanishing Act is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames investigate the case of a man found dead in strange circumstances following a magic act.
The opening shows two very different acts of illusionism, one by Miles Stone, a young escapologist and TV celebrity figure, and the other by The Great Carmine, an old magician who had lost his grip and nerve. While Stone is doing a stunt where he is buried for over 30 days, Carmine is performing a trick where a pretty woman hides in a box and appearances are she’s being skewered with swords. But the acts takes on a new twist when both stunts go awry after Stone appears to become ill in the underground casket, and when the casket is opened, he is not in there. Simultaneously, Carmine opens his own magic box to find Stone in there, with seven swords stuck in his body.
During the investigation, Goren and Eames question Carmine, and find that his original...
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