mini heists or magic shows every few episodes

character interactions! fun magic!

one episode where Merritt and Jack get a new bunk bed from IKEA and the entire episode is them struggling to put it together

Dylan and Thaddeus do a small heist together but accidentally get seen at the end by like a bachlorette party and have to call Merritt to hypnotize them to forget about it and he’s like “yall are hardcore Eye magicians you can’t fix this yourself?” and Dylan goes “neither of us are mentalists, what do you want us to do, kill them?”

Danny is getting increasingly paranoid because everyone is acting slightly Off and it’s because they’re planning his surprise birthday party

Through a series of events, after staunchly refusing to do so the whole episode, Lula is forced to recreate her ‘hat out of a rabbit’ trick

Henley shows up like “I’m gonna jump in a crocodile enclosure for a thing, can you watch my kid for a bit?” And Babysitting ensues

another episode with Henley (perhaps multiple) where she participates in the latest heist/magic show but always makes it back to her house before the cops bust her like “what’s happening officer I’ve been home all day innocent blink” ala Antman and the Wasp. Other times she’s the tech person who hacks into stuff and monitors cameras

Dylan’s FBI ex-coworkers/boss are reoccurring antagonists. At one point after setting up a sting all episode, they fail to catch the Horsemen. What went wrong? The Horsemen used pigeons to communicate and avoid the trap

Thaddeus and/or one of the other Eye magicians shows up occasionally to be weird and cryptic and either cause problems or give vague, eventually useful advice (or both)

basically any era would work

pre nysm1 awkward get-to-know-you bonding

post nysm1 hjinks with Dylan maintaining his cover and the Horsemen screwing around

post nysm2 everything

even post nysm3

- She was 24 in NYSM 2 (Jack would be 22).

- She has ADHD.

- She's a touchy person (canon).

- She's bi.

- She makes comments when it isn't the right moment (canon) because there's a lot of stuff happening in her mind all the time.

- She comes from a dysfunctional family (canon) although she loves them.

- She's crafty but she lacks patience for some stuff, like painting her own nails.

- She's so talkative and social with people, but at the same time she doesn't have many friends because she's kind of "weird" for some people, or "too much".

- She's bad remembering people names and numbers, and she has discalculia. But she's good learning foreign languages.

- She's a nerd of random stuff.

- She's really good lying and doing improvisation (canon).

- She laugh when something shocks her.

- Horror movies don't scare her (because she knows how to do what they do) and she likes to use it as an inspiration for her magic tricks.

- She has a pattern recognition that allows her to know what could happen.

- She has a little of sensory issues with some food and clothes. She also has abandonment issues and trust issues.

- She doesn't want to be a mother in the future.

- She talks to herself all the time.

- She's more productive at evening/night, because she isn't an early bird person.

- She's chronically online.

- She has injured herself many times by accident while preparing her magic tricks, and she take photos of her own injuries to use them as a reference for her tricks.

hello i bring turkey to the dinner table

The biggest and most beautiful part of this in the movie to me though isn't even that moment, but the later one, when Atlas dives into the Thames to stop Dylan from drowning.

When Dylan revives, the very first words he says are to tell Atlas "thank you."

He is immediately looking for Atlas the minute he comes to and grabs his shoulder and thanks him for saving his life and when Atlas tries to brush it off as "the least he could do," Dylan rejects this excuse completely. When the rest of the team chimes in to turn the focus to Dylan's heroics, Dylan barely even registers them to thank Atlas again, assuring his protégé with his gratitude and with a look that it's okay, they're okay. There is nothing he blames Atlas for even while acknowledging that Atlas didn't have to save him and might well have had reason not to save him but still did. And I think Atlas realizes only then that there might be a universe where he chose not to save Dylan so that he could take his place, but that it definitely is not this universe because of course he wouldn't let Dylan die and I think after that moment there should never be a time where these two have anything less than the utmost trust and respect for each other.