Dynamo: Magician Impossible

Now, the last time we saw this man

he'd been walking water right outside this window.

Now apparently a couple of weeks ago, unbeknownst to us,

Dynamo took a trip to our studio to deliver a mysterious package.

I'm so excited. Can we open it?

Phil, look.

Right now, I'm gonna take you on a journey into my world.

Oh, my God!

In this episode, I head back to the UK and catch up with some old friends.

From the streets of London...

...to the set of This Morning,

I take my magic back to where it all began

and make one of the biggest predictions of my life.

Bloody hell.

My name's Steven Frayne, but most people

call me Dynamo.

- What's your name? - I'm Jess.

- Jess, and you are? - I'm Emma.

Emma. Nice to meet you, Emma.

- Jess, are you wearing a watch? - Yeah.

What time is it right now?

- It is about 2.35 PM. - 2.35 PM.

I want both of you to take your watch off.

I want you to think of any other time, yeah, in the past, yeah, from earlier today.

Both think of that right now.

- Yeah. - You got a time in mind?

Yeah.

Without looking at each other, I want you to set your watches to that time, yeah.

Don't let me see it, don't let each other see what you're doing.

Once you've done that, cover the watch face with your hand.

Now look, it's moving about.

Oh, my God! Oh, look at that!

Oh, what? (LAUGHING)

It was 9.18.

Show that. 9.18.

And show me yours. 9.18.

And you both put that time at random, yeah?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Oh, my God. That's freaky that.

On that face there.

Oh, God.

Oh, my God! Look at that.

How could he move them clocks there?

London seems to run at the speed of light,

with millions of people caught up in a never-ending cycle.

In the chaos, it's easy to take the most important things for granted.

Health, happiness, and the people close to us.

How are you doing, you all right? What's your name'?

- Brook. - Brook, and?

- Walther. - Walther.

I'm Dynamo. Where're you from?

- Denmark. - Denmark, and?

- New Mexico. - New Mexico.

There's slightly different accents there.

And how come you're in England?

- We're having a date. - Okay, that's all right, you know.

- First date? - Yeah.

Seeing as you're here I'm gonna do something special for you

so you can remember this moment, so come together a bit and...

Um... Let me see.

This looks about right.

Got it.

- That's something to remember the day by. - (BLEEP)

Thank you very much. (LAUGHING)

That's (BLEEP) awesome.

Lemme try this. Just come a little bit closer. Come in a little bit.

Hold right there.

Just stay where you are. Pose, yeah.

Did you see that? - Watch. Watch.

Oh, my God!

- (SHRIEKING, LAUGHING) - Oh, my God!

- That's spot on, right there. - (MAN LAUGHING)

- Oh, God, no way. - Oh, it's horrible.

No way.

- Wow. - I'm actually...

How did he do that?

it was the day of the Euro 2012 quarter finals,

and Genero had agreed to drive me to a secret location in north London.

I wanted to make a prediction on one of Europe's biggest sporting events.

This is Dynamo's, this is Genero.

- And we are... - You need to show your face on camera.

It's too close.

We are outside a shop, and we're gonna go into the shop,

and I'm gonna film what takes part in the shop.

- Okay. - What sort of shop?

- Can you level with me? - Well, I'm gonna place a bet on the Euro's.

- It's the quarter finals starting today. - Okay.

- I got a good feeling about this. - Okay.

So what I'm gonna do is,

follow you and film the whole thing for my own personal usage.

Hold it down, 'cause I don't think you're supposed to be filming that.

That's cool. I'll hold the phone like I'm Tweeting or something.

- It's a gonna au naturel. - All right, come on then.

So, yeah, here we go.

Hi ho. Hi ho, hi ho with Dynamo.

Are you even allowed to... Well, I'm sure you'll... I'm from the casinos and stuff.

Yeah, don't be too great with the camera in there.

Okay.

Italy to beat Germany? (LAUGHING)

This comes through, cousi, you gotta bring me in, you know that, right?

In the afternoon

I'd arrange to meet one of the most prolific musicians in the country,

Damon Albarn.

I met Damon back in 2006

at a Gorillaz concert at the Harlem Apollo in New York,

and now he'd invited me to pass by his London studio

to meet some of his friends and family.

So have you any money on you'? Any coins?

- A few, yeah. - Can I borrow some?

So I just wanna use... Let's see.

This one first.

Do me a favour, just write your initial on there.

And then if you wanna take the two pence and put your initial on there as well.

Okay.

Perfect.

I'll take the coin.

- So you can see both coins. Mmm-hmm.

Yeah. Watch.

It's like sunk in there. That's so cool.

It's now one coin.

- That really has sunk into the... - It has. Let's have a look.

It'll take a year to get that out.

That's kind weird, right? - Yes.

You know, that's two objects have kind of come together.

I wanna take it a step further,

'cause doing something like that with a small object is one thing.

- Mmm. - But I wanna try it...

You don't wanna fuse me into something, do you?

- Not you, don't worry. - (GIRLS LAUGHING)

I'm gonna try something with myself and I need one of you to help me.

Right, this. Just do me a favour and just stand behind me right here.

You might not be able to see this but it might feel weird, yeah.

Just turn toward me and just close your eyes, but hold your right hand up.

I want you to just push it against my back, yeah.

Right, and on the count of three, yeah, I'm gonna ask you to push forward.

Don't push me over, but just push hard into my back.

- All right? - Okay.

Oh, no, no, this is just gonna be insane.

Okay, one, two, three.

Push, push harder.

Harder.

I mean this is so weird.

You've got a hand print!

That's so strange.

Wow. - You don't...

I don't really know what I witnessed to be honest with you.

- I mean, did you see a hand? - I did see a hand print.

The hand print came out.

At one point I was quite worried that

Missy's hand was gonna come right through, and come out.

And I was like, my God.

- All right. - Oh, my God.

I'm not being funny, I don't know. He's freaky.

It was the morning after the Euro Championship quarter finals,

and I'd placed a £1 bet on the winners.

I needed to make sure my bet was kept safe, and I knew the perfect place.

- Morning, sir. - How are you doing, are you all right?

Have you come up for This Morning?

- Is Phillip in today? - No.

Great, all right.

I called the producers of This Morning

and told them I'd be delivering an envelope for Phillip Schofield.

I asked them to keep it locked away and not to tamper with it until I returned.

Give the letter to Brett and he'll give it to Phillip for you.

- How are you doing, mate? - All right. How are you doing?

I'm good, man. So basically I've got a package for Phillip Schofield.

- Okay. - It's important that he gets it, right.

And that it's delivered on today's date, 22nd June 2012.

Sealed.

I want to make sure that it stays sealed until I see him next.

- Fine. - So if you can keep it safe

and give it to him and tell him to keep it safe, that'll be perfect.

- It'll go straight to him, I promise. - Cool. Thanks very much.

As the quarter finals came to a close, eight teams became four,

and England crashed out on penalties, again.

The next day I headed to Camden Town in north London.

- How are you doing, ladies? All right? - Yes, thanks.

- What's your name? - Zara.

- Zara. - Elizabeth.

- Elizabeth. - Heleno.

- Puzzles. Do you like puzzles? Yes.

Let's see. Have you ever done the Rubik's Cube before? Or tried it?

- I've done one side. - You've done one side. It's hard, innit?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Tell you what, I'll take this one. Just mix that up for me.

And give it a real good mix up.

I'm doing it.

Yeah, that is... That is pretty mixed up.

Roughly, how long do you think it'd take to solve that?

Um, depends who it is.

- Depends who it is? - Yeah.

All right, how long do you think it'd take me to solve it?

- A minute. - A minute. That's optimistic.