Friday the13th: The Series S1E6
Previously on Friday the 13th: The Series
Episode 6 "The Great Montarro"
Cursed object of the week: Houdin Box
Fahteem the Magnificent and a woman share a toast backstage before their show is about to begin. The man brings forth a glass for the lady but unbeknownst to her he adds a lil something something. She drinks as she is none the wiser. She is just totes honored that he chose her to help with his magician's act.
And he oop! There's a knock at the door and he rushes to answer it in which at the same time the woman passes out from the drug. He chastises the guy knocking at the door but luckily she obviously didn't catch that. Dude at the door has a update about their show with some last minute changes.
The show must go on. Fahteem is front and center in front of a lively audience while he introduces the final showstopper of the night: The cabinet of DOOM!
Meanwhile, there is a separate cabinet in which is where the drugged woman is placed. On stage Fahteem the Magnificent is introducing the audience basically telling them how gnarly of a death defying act this is. The assistant rolls out a dummy to give the audience a real example of how dangerous it really is. Of course, the dummy is hole-y.
While this is happening, the woman regains consciousness and freaks the heck out but she can't seem to escape. Poor lady is trapped.
Fahteem steps inside the on stage cabinet and WHOOSH! The walls of knives go right through the cabinet. He immediately steps out unharmed and welcoming the roaring applause from the audience.
The woman in the other cabinet, completely out of sight, is shown to have succumbed to the knives instead. BUT HOW DID SHE SUFFER THAT FATE IF SHE WASN'T ON STAGE?!?!? Riddle me that!?
Welp, after the show where everyone already left for the day, Fahteem is seen packing up shop when he catches the attention of an unseen person that ninja'd their way on stage. Fahteem sees the person motioning for the rope that triggers the wall of knives and pleads for that person to not touch it. But uhhhh they did. So now Fahteem is FahDEDz.
Over at Curious Goods, Jack reads the newspaper and wails in discontent of the late Fahteem and his "accident". Micki is dusting some shit while Ryan is...Ryan-ing away. Jack continues to read the newspaper as these events happened just 3 months prior.
Since Jack is something of a magic connoiseur, he knows all too well about Fahteem's reputation in the magic community. He gives Micki and Ryan a rundown on his rise to prominence from the aforementioned Cabinet of Doom trick. As he describes the machinations of the magic trick, the more they scratch their heads at it. When Jack reveals his birth name (as Fahteem was the obvious stagename) Micki thinks it sounds miiiiiighty familiar so Ryan whips out the Manifest.
Boom! His name is actually in there. Under #37492 he was sold a Houdin Box just 2 years prior. Jack proceeds to read the article that lowkey doxes the surviving assistant of his new place of employment so BAM Micki and Ryan are on the case to go seek the man out while Jack has a chat with some of his buddies in the magic community to see if they could shed some insight on Fahteem.
The assistant is stand offish, once reached despite Micki saying they would happily buy it back. He was not willing to help but he did snap at them when they were under the impression that he worked WITH him rather than FOR him, so he corrects them. After they leave, he immediately gets on the phone to relay an unseen voice about the visitors and to "deal" with them should they get too close.
Jack arrives to the invite-only Temple of Magic, where all the cool kids hang. The man in charge, Mr. Martin, is directing everyone who were practicing their acts and they skedaddle. He warmly welcomes Jack but unfortunately, he doesn't give any more useful information than he already knows.
Micki and Ryan meet up with Jack and get introduced to Mr. Martin. However, their welcome is shortlived as this is a closed set at the moment but warmly invites them the following night when the magic show goes live! Right before they leave, all three notice a man reprimanding a young meek woman. They take that as their que to GTFO.
Mr. Martin approaches the man to also inform them on the closed set rule. Dude scroffs "BAH! I AM a magician. I AM THE GREAT MONTARRO AND I HAVE COME TO GRACE YOUR CONTEST!" He even shows him the act he will use that he dubs "the coffin of blood". Mwahahahahah!
It is now night time and all 3 return to Curious Goods and wonder how the heck they will be able to track down who has the wooden box and how to retrieve it. So it makes sense that someone would use this cursed box to win a competition. Micki automatically suspects Montarro only because he was as dick.
Jack comes up with a great idea that they will infiltrate the competition. Since Jack is a magician himself, he will use that along with his assistants as a way to get backstage so they continue their investigation. Sounds a like a good plan, Jack!
Circling back to The Temple of Magic, Mr. Martin is both happy to hear him wanting to participate but dread at the mention of his act, which as Pendulum of DEATH! However, he is open to the idea but he has to audition like everyone else.
There is a lady doing an act on stage and she stares daggers at him when he talks shit to her. Man, that's the look I give my partner when he leaves towels on the floor after he exits the shower.
Anyways, Ryan goes to check out the prop room as he unloads Jack's magic-y stuff. He strolls around and ends up finding the box. Bingo and then slinks out of there.
The woman who was mean dogging the man before is next seen sliding a note underneath a door then casually walks away.
Jack is now practicing his magic escape jacket trick but my man is a little bit rusty. Little do they know that an unknown man is being a peeking tom. Oooooooooohhh. Ryan joins them to tell them what he found. Jack quickly realizes that his connections how plausible it could be that he was able to get his hands on Fahteem's houdin box when all his shit went up for auction. So he's going to see what more information he can find.
After the trio leave, the peeking tom comes in their room via a different entrance with a menacing look on his face.
Ryan and Micki are the dining room section of the Temple where Montarro is mad AF interpreting the letter as a form of blackmail now that he knows somebody is on to him. The young woman he is being so hostile with is revealed to actually be his daughter. Poor lady.
As soon as Montarro storms off, Ryan thinks it's a good idea to shadow him just in case he tries to get the spook on Jack.
Meanwhile Micki tries to befriend the daughter at her table. They make friendly chit chat in which she thanks her for her kindness. Micki tries to pry some information on her dad's trick but the daughter claims ignorance.
Jack reaches The Coffin of Blood thingy and makes a quick inspection but once he hears someone coming, he hids inside the motherfucking coffin!!! It's Montarro himself that enters the room with Ryan trailing right behind him who attempts to distract him. Montarro calls BS immediately when he says Ryan is following him. Ryan then tries to feign as a fan boy and asks for an autograph to avert suspicion. Well hey! He actually does give him an autograph lol.
Meanwhile, that doofus had his hand on the level that triggers the wall of swords and Jack being in the inside is freaking the fuck out! Shold Ryan pull that level, Jack be dedz.
Immediately relief when he lets go and excuses himself. Both do, actually which allows Jack to make his great escape.
When meeting back up with them Ryan is like whaaaa I didn't know you hiding IN there so my bad, bro! But there's bigger fish to fry here. Micki relays how deathly scared the daughter is and Jack says that there is literally no escaping that box coffin thingamajig and coupled with Montarro blatant paranoia, they are more convinced than ever Montarro is their man. Now, they just need to find that gosh darn Houdin box!!!
Auditions are almost up with Micki and Ryan all dressed and ready to go but can't find Jack and Mr. Martin is steaming mad. After both checked various places and circle back on stage, they find Jack! He's already in his magic attire, which also included his entire face being obscured.
Without skipping a beat, Micki is the voice of the act and starts her intro as Ryan and another man lay Jack on the ground and setting up where he would be ready to be lifted up from a rope. Micki continues to explain that Jack has 60 seconds to escape his straight jacket and unlock himself free before the burning rope gives way and plunge down to a floor of spikes.
The act is in motion and Jack seems to REALLY be struggling. Everyone looks in horror as he doesn't make it in time and the rope snaps sending up to a most gnarly death!!!!!!!!
Everyone is panicking the fuck out when Ryan decides to take the hood off and uhhhh it's not Jack. It was actually that peeping Tom from earlier!! WTF!!!!!
Jack immediately rushes on stage saying that he got locked in the closet by that game as he wanted his time to shine (I think!) They all looked down and see the key on the floor. It is sawed off! So someone actually wanted Jack dead!!!! Micki immediately suspects the mean dogging lady from earlier since Montarro is too easy of a choice, according to them.
However, right when they reach the lady's room, they find that she hung herself!!!! Even more weirder, it's not a she but a HE!!! The late Fahteem's former assistant as a matter of fact! So much shit going on here, bros!
Jack has a sneaking suspicion that this assistant did not commit suicide but was in fact MUR-TURD! Right when they were discussing, a random ass dude walks in and Homer's the fuck back out of the room which ensues in a chase where Ryan catches up with him.
The dude sings away saying it was all Bobby's idea. He said he was an unwilling participant so Bobby was the name of Fahteem's assistant who was salty as fuck that he never knew about the whereabouts of the box. So when he realized Montarro is the new owner of the box, he was actually the one who sent that note to blackmail him to be the headliners in exchange for their silence of the box. Or something like that, it's a little hard to understand. So this man they are interrogating had no active criminal part in this just that he would reap the rewards that that man was his magic partner.
Dude claims he didn't know how it worked and then literally TELLS them how it works LOLz. He continues to say that while the act is performed that somebody has to be inside the houdin box.
Durrrrrr.
All 3 are back in their room and are panicking because the show is about to start in less than 30 minutes so he scramble the heck to try to do a last ditch effort to prevent yet another tragedy.
Micki finds the daughter and she tries to persuade her to not to the show for fear of her safety when in pops the houdin box and Micki wants to urgently see it. After she lures her in there, she locks her inside the houdin box.
Uhhh not sure she can hear her but he drops the bomb that SHE is the real Great Montarro as she is the only one who facilitated the houdin box act and her father is clueless as fuck which is sad, really. The man really thinks he is such a big shot magician which explains who he is overly confident and shit talks his daughter....which by the way I'm sure that was an act so that SOMEONE would come to her aid and she can lure them like she did Micki.
It's almost show time and Jack and Ryan are extremely concerned as they can't find Micki therefore something is totally wrong! The daughter looks magically better now, not the battered daughter she was portrayed to be.
When the daughter walked away, Ryan notices sawdust on her back which they found traces of in the wig of the assistant. He remembers that he saw saw dust in the wine celler back when he was snooping around in the prop room. Both come to the conclusion that is where the houdin box is and they run the fuck over as they assume that is where Micki is held captive.
The Great Montarro and his daughter introduce the new act in front of a live audience. Ooooh sheeeeeeet.
Racing against time, Ryan and Jack run the fuck over and eventually find the houdin coffin but don't know how the hell to open it. Micki is yelling and pleading knowing exactly what her fate will be pretty soon. Jack smashes a glass bottle and tries to pry off the crystal sitting on top of the box and with a few seconds to spare, Jack triggers the door opening and Micki comes pouring out of the box in one piece. Whew!
Meanwhile, The Great Montarro is confidently ready to commence the act but right when the trio make it back to the front, is when he oop! The wall of knives come roaring through the box, killing him instantly.
Daughter is shrieking and wailing and holy fuck what a terrible sight.
Back at Curious Goods, Jack is humming to some bomb ass banger while enveloping Ryan in a chain while he is in a straight jacket to do a magic act of his own. After some silly banter, Micki starts the timer and walks away foreverrrrrr.
Episode 7 is next.
Guest Star: Graeme Campbell