In Now You See Me, during the FBI investigation of the supposed bank robbery (the first trick of the Four Horsemen), they're all interrogated separately by Agent Rhodes in the usual plain grey interrogation rooms. But after they play their tricks on him, they end up getting released due to missing evidence.

But why were only the interrogations of Daniel and Merritt shown, and not those of Jack and Henley too? Were those scenes not in the script in the first place, or were they just cut from the movie later on? And why were they not shown? Was it just because they wouldn't have been as entertaining as the other two interrogations, or is there more to it?

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The interrogation scenes with Merritt did two things. They revealed how talented he was (and obviously still is) which made, among other things, their second trick more believable (where it was his mentalist knowledge that gave them Arthur's security information). He also set up the romantic sub-plot (which wasn't fully explored in the movie, but it was still there) which was later paid off at the end when Rhodes met Alma at the bridge.



Daniel: If it means you would actually do it, then yeah. But you won't... Because if you did, it means that you and the FBI and your friends at Interpol actually believe—at an institutional level—in magic. The press would have a field day... And we'd be even more famous than we already are, and you guys would look like idiots even more than you already are. [...] Listen, you have what we in the business like to call "nothing up your sleeve..." And you know it.




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