Cutter explains the three acts of a magic trick
The opening narration lays out the Pledge, the Turn and the Prestige over a field of top hats and a birdcage demonstration.
Cutter
Every The Prestige moment featuring Cutter, in story order. Played by Michael Caine.
7 moments · 18 min
Cutter shows the judge a machine built by a wizard
Among the trial evidence, Cutter tells the judge Angier's machine has no trick and that the tank's lock was switched for a real one.
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.
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.
No one cares about the man in the box
Angier debuts his own Transported Man with a double, then sulks that the audience only cares about the man who comes out.
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.
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.