The Prestige · Film
Owens offers Borden a deal for his tricks
In prison, a solicitor for Lord Caldlow bids for Borden's secrets, dangles his daughter's future and hands over Angier's diary.
Alfred Borden's Best Moments
Every The Prestige moment featuring Alfred Borden, in story order. Played by Christian Bale.
17 moments · 36 min · by Favseen
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Borden sees through Chung Ling Soo's total devotion
After the goldfish-bowl trick, Borden explains the old magician lives his act every day, and Julia christens Angier the Great Danton.
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Never show anyone: Borden's lesson to a boy
A child weeps that the bird was killed; Borden brings it back and warns him that the secret impresses no one, only the trick.
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Julia drowns and Borden cannot say which knot he tied
The water escape goes wrong at the Orpheum, Angier breaks the tank too late, and at the funeral Borden admits he does not know the knot.
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Borden teaches Sarah the bullet catch, but not today
Borden shows his pregnant wife how the bullet catch works, says he loves her, and she tells him some days he does not mean it.
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Angier shoots off Borden's fingers at the bullet catch
A hostile crowd heckles Borden's act, a disguised Angier volunteers for the bullet catch and demands the knot before firing.
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The greatest trick Angier has ever seen
Angier watches Borden's Transported Man, calls him a dreadful showman, and vows to steal the trick while Cutter insists on a double.
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Olivia walks into Borden's workshop with Angier's secret
Sent as a spy, Olivia tells Borden the truth about who sent her and offers him Angier's drunken double instead of stealing his method.
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A humble admirer buys the drunken double a pint
In a pub, a disguised Borden flatters Root into bragging about his power over the Great Danton and warns him about trusting a double.
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Borden hijacks the New Transported Man on stage
Root comes out of the cabinet to a stranger's bow: Borden takes Angier's applause and the double's secret collapses in public.
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Buried alive: Angier demands the keyword
Angier digs up Borden from a staged burial and trades Fallon's life for the cipher keyword; Borden says the keyword is the method.
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Sarah demands no tricks, no lies, no secrets
Sarah tells Borden she knows what he really is and asks him to be honest; asked whether he loves her, he answers not today.
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Angier drowns below stage and Borden is sentenced
Borden slips under the stage, finds Angier locked in a water tank, cannot find the key, and is later sentenced to hang for murder.
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Lord Caldlow visits with Jess and unmasks himself
Borden's daughter arrives with Lord Caldlow, who turns out to be Angier; Borden gives up his secret and screams that the dead man is alive.
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Agony, not going home: the hanging and Abracadabra
Cutter corrects his sailor story as the machine is delivered, and Borden answers the gallows with a single magic word.
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The twin reveal: two men sharing one life
Borden explains the brother, the swapped turns, the halved loves, and tells the wounded Angier that sacrifice is the price of a good trick.
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The look on their faces: Angier's last words
Dying among the tanks, Angier says it took courage to enter the machine and that the point was always the audience's wonder; Cutter closes the trick.