Criss Angel Mindfreak

- Season 3

(2007)

To honor his father's memory, Criss attempts to levitate in the 800-degree light of the Luxor hotel.

In this episode, Criss lies on a bed of broken glass as a steamroller rolls over his body. Criss will also produce a beautiful woman from a box of merchandise. He performs street magic where he bends a quarter in his mouth and makes a card appear in a lit cigar. Special guest Jason Hervey from The Wonder Years.

After being locked in a mailbag, Criss will attempt to escape a caged truck filled with explosives as it races towards the edge of a cliff. Then he visits a golf course and shows off some golfing skills that even Tiger Woods would envy. He uses his unique powers on the fairways and putting greens, and shocks a group of golfers by levitating high over the course and the trees.

Criss takes some of the most ordinary objects and makes them the center of the most amazing illusions. He puts a beer bottle through an onlooker's stomach and moves his friend's eyebrow to his chin. Criss transforms a little girl into an adult woman and eats his pet mouse, shocking his friend Jamie Kennedy.

Criss' obsession with cars and motorcycles has been well established in previous episodes, and now Criss has some great, new illusions focused around his favorite hobby. Criss will highlight some of the sickest cars, trucks and bikes in his illusions.

Criss loves animals -- and loves to amaze us with his incredible animal illusions. Last season, Criss made an elephant vanish, and in this episode, he'll try to make the pachyderm reappear. Criss also visits Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden, where he turns a cage handler into a full-sized tiger, and transforms a full-grown dog into a cuddly puppy.

Criss prepares to be bound and dragged by an ATV while trying to escape in the Excalibur arena. Distracted by news of his mother's emergency heart surgery, Criss is unable to concentrate and faces the risk of seriously hurting himself.

This episode of MINDFREAK revolves around an alter ego of Criss Angel, a Traveling Salesman. Disguised as "Justin Case", Criss goes door-to-door and town-to-town amazing people with his bottomless suitcase, which he surprisingly retrieves items such as a ladder, a broom and a shovel.

Hang onto your seat, because Criss will be chained to the side of a parked car filled with explosives, and then try to escape before a second speeding car plows into him. Also, he'll make a chopper bike appear from nowhere in the middle of an empty parking lot.

In Season 2, Criss introduced viewers to some of the biggest scams ever perpetrated. This season, Criss reveals even more scams as he exposes psychics and divulges their secrets. He also shows techniques that card cheats use and other common scams when he sticks friends with the bill at a restaurant and appears to lose his expensive necklace.

Criss tests his endurance as he attempts to escape mental institution restraints while wrapped tight in sheets, strapped on a gurney, in front of a live audience. Criss also levitates a manhole cover weighing over 100 pounds. For the first time ever, Criss runs into some serious trouble attempting one of Houdini¹s famous water escapes.

The greatest and most famous magician ever, Harry Houdini, remains one of Criss Angel's significant influences. Criss pays homage to the master by recreating some of his most incredible escapes and fantastical feats, but with a Mindfreak twist.

Criss takes Sully from Godsmack¹s watch, and smashes it to bits with a hammer; he then produces that same watch, undamaged, to the relieved Sully. Also, Criss convinces Carrot Top that a trick has gone wrong and mistakenly chops off his finger. The episode culminates as Criss remembers his uncle who drowned as his car slid off the road into a watery ditch. In a tribute to his uncle, Criss is tied and locked in the trunk of a car as it is lowered into a lake. Criss must escape or face the same doom as his uncle.

Magic has always kept the kid in Criss very alive and this episode celebrates just that. Everyone's inner child will enjoy fun illusions like Criss¹ turning a young girl's toy doll into a real woman. Criss Angel himself will physically transform back into a child again on a crowded playground. Criss-mas comes early, when in a truly heartwarming finale, Criss dressed as Santa Criss, makes a crowd of disadvantaged childrens dreams come true. He and his band of elves with Johnny the Rude-Nosed Reindeer, produce a full truck of toys from nothing.

Criss takes Sully from Godsmack's watch, and smashes it to bits with a hammer; he then produces that same watch, undamaged, to the relieved Sully. More mayhem in the arcade when Criss draws a picture that starts talking to startled kids. Criss convinces Carrot Top that a trick has gone wrong and mistakenly chops off his finger.

In this episode Criss surprises and shocks his most fanatical supporters, referred to as "The Loyal". These fans discuss some of the craziest things they've done to meet him. Criss hosts a MINDFREAK style game show testing their knowledge of the MINDFREAK series and sends a lucky winner on a trip to Barbados.

Mentalism is the use of one's mind to conduct para-psychological activities such as telepathy and mind reading. Criss has certainly been well versed in these areas of psychology and takes his powers out into the public. First, he takes a shot at being a human lie detector, baffling the polygraph technicians, and later connects the thoughts of two playboy bunnies.

In front of the Luxor Hotel, Criss enables a random bystander to crawl through his body. In this episode, the viewer gets and insider's look into Criss' suite and his model train collection. Criss breaks and restores a restaurant patron's necklace leading up to the finale where we find Criss tied to the tracks of a speeding roller coaster. Will he escape or will the coaster pass right through him?

Taped live from the heart of New York City's Times Square, Criss Angel is shackled and placed in a see-through plexi glass container that is then sealed in cement and hardened into a block. In front of thousands, Criss is lifted over five stories in the air and given 24 hours to escape before the block crashes to the earth.

In this creepy episode, Criss attempts to bridge the world between the living and the dead when he becomes possessed and walks on the ceiling. In the rumored haunted Artisian Hotel, he interacts with the afterlife in front of a shocked group of observers and channels spirits to reveal private information about their lives.

The viewer experiences the mayhem Criss encounters on a daily basis. Amateur magicians attempt to sway favor with Criss, showing him their acts and hoping to secure guest spots on an upcoming episode of MINDFREAK. Illusions include Criss turning credit cards to cash, appearing from a table in the middle of a busy restaurant, transforming one girl into another, and smashing a spectator's video camera then restoring it right before their eyes. The climax of this episode will be a MINDFREAK crew party, celebrating Criss' mom's recovery from heart surgery. However, unlike...

Criss flies at Mach speed with the Air Force's # 1 elite Thunderbirds and makes 6 fighter jets appear from thin air on the runway.

Summer's here, so join Criss and the crew for a fun beach-filled day in Mexico. At a beach campfire, Criss casts shadows in impossible places. Criss establishes a psychic link with a dolphin, using the mammal to assist him in a card trick. He effortlessly links the beer can tabs of unsuspecting beach-goers and predicts a person¹s card using a sea-shell that hears more then just the ocean waves.

Inspired by those who attempted to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Criss is suspended hundreds of feet above the ocean in a barrel before being dropped. The barrel crashes to the sea. Will Criss survive?

Famous people reveal their Top 10 favorite Mindfreak moments, including the Steamroller, Walk on Water, the Woodchipper, Penetrating a Window, Burned Alive and others.

Magic adults will enjoy, but still okay for the kids. Criss will make a girl's dream come true as he magically changes her A-cup to a C-cup without any post-surgery recovery time. At the notorious Playboy Club, Criss predicts the mind of some Playboy Bunnies. Later, Criss finds himself at the Adult News Awards where he makes a woman's bra disappear with a single wave of the hand.