Now You See Me 2 (2016)

Jesse Eisenberg: J. Daniel Atlas

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Quotes 

• J. Daniel Atlas : We are going out with a show people will never forget.

• J. Daniel Atlas : A magician's greatest strength is an empty fist.

  Dylan Rhodes : That is to say, the ability to convince a crowd that something is inside when really there is nothing

• J. Daniel Atlas : He is our leader, and he is our friend... Dylan Shrike

• Li : My grandmother wants to know, why plastic? Plastic is cheap.

  J. Daniel Atlas : Sorry. Yeah, we need plastic because we're... uh. We're going through a very sensitive metal detector, okay? So plastic, nothing. Metal...

  [Atlas waves his hands and makes alarm sounds] 

  J. Daniel Atlas : It detects.

  [Bu Bu speaks Mandarin, also waving her hands and mimicking alarm sounds] 

  J. Daniel Atlas : What did she say?

  Li : She said just because you're talking slowly and waving your hands, doesn't mean she can suddenly understand English.

• J. Daniel Atlas : [tying Lula's wrists]  Okay, come here. What is it that you want?

  Lula : I wanted to meet you. Everybody, really. I want to be a part of the Eye, okay? I said it. I do. And I want to use my magic for good, like you and Merritt and Jack especially. Oh, that's right. I know that Jack is alive. I know that he faked his own death. I am a huge fam of faking deaths. That was crazy!

  [Atlas finishing tying her wrists, and she slips the bonds immediately] 

  Lula : What is this? A trucker's hitch?

  J. Daniel Atlas : Yeah.

  Lula : It's terrible. Embarrassing.

  J. Daniel Atlas : [ties her wrists behind her back this time]  Okay.

  Lula : By the way, I am so sorry That Henley left you. Ow! God!

  J. Daniel Atlas : Sorry.

  Lula : That's actually a little better. You know what I heard?

  J. Daniel Atlas : What?

  Lula : About Henley? I heard that she got tired of waiting around, she lost faith and so she asked for an out, and the Eye gave it to her. But who knows, right? In matters of the heart, so difficult to tell. I mean, maybe she got sick of you. You ever think about that? Control issues? Maybe you just didn't tie her up tight enough. Ow!

  J. Daniel Atlas : [going to his phone for a second]  Here's what's going to happen. You're going to stay here and stop talking, and I'm going to make a phone call, and in about five minutes, some people are going...

  [he turns back to Lula, but she's disappeared]