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Tess instructs Celeste,
an angel new to human form, and takes her to a Las Vegas showroom to
see their assignment--Eric Weiss, an illusionist who calls himself
the "angel of death." The supervisor angel volunteers her jittery
charge to participate in his act, but Tess is dismayed when
Celeste... and her dog vanish. On a rampage, Eric fires his
assistant and yells at his agent, Andrew, who is hard pressed to
find another magician's assistant. Tess cuts Monica's vacation short
to fill that position. As the case progresses, the angels realize
that Eric's death wish is not merely an extension of his stage
routine. The pieces start to come together after he reluctantly
agrees to perform in Appleton, Wisconsin, his hometown and also the
hometown of Harry Houdini. There he visits his mother, an inpatient
in a psychiatric hospital. She asks Danny--Eric's real name--if he has seen his brother, Peter. He
recalls a tragic game of hide- and-seek before abruptly ending his
visit. Meanwhile, Monica unwittingly discovers Celeste but fails to
convince the wayward angel to turn herself in. During a performance,
Eric becomes paralyzed with fear upon seeing his doppelganger in the
audience. Her voice returns him to reality, but the illusionist is
shaken, convinced that he saw the ghost of his dead, twin brother.
Despite Andrew's and Monica's concern, Eric decides to attempt the
most dangerous escape of his career, which involves being locked in a
refrigerator and lowered to the bottom of a pool. Several minutes
elapse until Eric's brother, Pete steps forward, and Tess orders the
crane operator to raise the refrigerator out of the pool. Upon seeing
his twin, Eric bolts through the crowd and eventually returns to the
junkyard where his brother "died." Celeste appears and
reveals herself to the distraught entertainer. Monica joins the
apprentice angel, and the pair urge him to stop playing hide-and-seek
with his life. Confronting the painful memory of his brother being
trapped in a refrigerator, Eric learns that Pete did not die but was
kidnapped by their scornful father. The brothers share an emotional
reunion, and Celeste has successfully participated in her first case.
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