Deception
When his career is ruined by scandal, superstar Cameron Black has only one place to turn to practice his art of deception, influence, and illusion -- the FBI. Using every trick in the book and inventing new ones, he will help the government catch the world's most elusive criminals while staging the biggest illusions of is career.
- Metascore51
- 2018-2018
- 1 season
- ABC
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
When his career is ruined by scandal, superstar Cameron Black has only one place to turn to practice his art of deception, influence, and illusion -- the FBI. Using every trick in the book and inventing new ones, he will help the government catch the world's most elusive criminals while staging the biggest illusions of is career.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Mar 11, 2018 43 mins
Celebrated Vegas and TV illusionist Cameron Black takes big risks, as with an imperfectly prepared Houdini escape act, but always triumphs. One morning, he's arrested for the murder of a woman after a nocturnal car crash. He can only prove his innocence by revealing the actual crash driver: his secret twin brother Jonathan, whose innocence he believes but can't prove, only that the victim was switched, so it's jail. Cameron is determined to liberate Jonathan by helping the FBI, so he vows to demonstrate his illusionist skills' merits. He gets his chance when Mexican drug cartel boss Felix Ruiz disappears after the explosion of an airplane, which Cameron proves to be staged like a TV special he once did. While the FBI stumbles, his team makes the difference to track down the plane and the fiend, who gets away, so he comes up with a sting featuring his impersonation of the cartel's banker Dominic Guard.
Episode 2
Forced Perspective
Sun, Mar 18, 2018 43 mins
Cameron refuses to lose hope, like his cynical brother Jonathan in jail for a year, that he'll will enough FBI confidence to find the trickster illusionist cartel boss Felix called 'the sorceress' and prove Jonathan was innocently set up. He has a hard time preventing his team from resigning to sign up with a rival illusionist. This time he proves that Wisconsin student tourist Noah Hawthorne (19), whose water gun sprayed a fatal binary toxin onto Russian mob baron Sasha Sokolov's rogue lawyer was set up, believing to be recruited for a fake TV reality game show. He tricks deputy Mikhail Koslov to believe he's sprayed with the same to get the antidote formula and sets a trap for Sasha Sokolov, impersonating a key lawyer and faking an elaborate escape.
Episode 3
Escapology
Sun, Mar 25, 2018 42 mins
A master thief holds employee Joan hostage in the art museum after causing the alarm to lower the gates and plating explosives at priceless modern painting that may kill her too. Cameron accepts to outsmart the criminal illusionist after he blast one painting. Just in time, his team and Kay help him use the way in which twin Jonathan obtains in prison from a master robber who already got in and out of the museum. However they find museum staff and exposition owners suspicious and the criminal plot as convoluted as Cameron's solutions.
Episode 4
Divination
Sun, Apr 1, 2018 43 mins
When a psychic is murdered, Kay and Cam investigate only to learn she had a partner who's now on the run. Enlisting her help, Cameron and the team take down an international arms dealer.
Episode 5
Masking
Sun, Apr 8, 2018 42 mins
Cameron mobilizes his team and the FBI to work out the relationship between recent mural works of elusive, celebrated graffiti artist Bishop and oddly different thefts, now a church stain window. Prime suspect is Bishop's former rival turned gallery holder Switch, but he's killed by a bomb. Although disheartened about his prospects, Jonathan decides against escaping and helps from jail work out the complex code hidden in Bishop's murals. Cameron even goes undercover, posing as mural artist at great peril.
Episode 6
Black Art
Sun, Apr 22, 2018 43 mins
When Cameron's ex-girlfriend is robbed during Fashion Week, he insists on helping Kay with the investigation; the team find themselves in the middle of a high-speed chase.
Episode 7
Sacrifice 99 to Fool 1
Tue, Apr 24, 2018 43 mins
Cameron gets Jonaythan to solve the mystery woman's FBI-proof code. It indicates she's after a major robbery and the clues are in a Pokemon-like novel game launched in escape room style by her unsuspecting software business partner. Jonathan is abducted in a street trap, so the FBI lets Cameron out with an ankle device to go in and solve it, but she escapes. The clues indicate it's about the famous Lynx diamond, about to be auctioned as part of a Rockefeller collection. The house considers its security unbreakable, but Jonathan witnesses it being cracked only to be cruelly forced by the mystery woman to put innocent lives before catching her, yet each is up for a rude surprise.
Episode 8
Multiple Outs
Sun, Apr 29, 2018 43 mins
The FBI works with the Deception group to help stop the Mystery Woman from successfully committing one of the largest jewel heists in history. And, for the first time this season, viewers will have their perspective reversed and see how Cameron Black performs his greatest deception yet.
Episode 9
Getting Away Clean
Sun, May 6, 2018 43 mins
Eager to make up the FBI embarrassment in a previous case, Cameron 'insists' sneakily to take on the plea of NYPD officer Howie Maslin he wasn't passed out drunk but knocked down trying to arrest a murderer in a mini-market. Cameron proves the races were cleaned up expertly, only Kay still holds a selfish grudge. Jonathan meanwhile is targeted in prison as 'rat' and Gunter discovers father Black's grim inheritance in the magic cellar but prefers to keep it from the twins, fearing the mental effect.
Episode 10
The Unseen Hand
Sun, May 13, 2018 43 mins
Cameron Black must join a secret society of magicians, the Unseen Hand, which agent Kay and he suspect of major criminal activities, including bomb laying. He needs to resort to illusionist intrusion, executed in real time with his team, against an expert public. Meanwhile the team wrestles with what to tell him and Jonathan about what they found concerning their father and magic mentor.
Episode 11
Loading Up
Sun, May 20, 2018 43 mins
The Deception team is called on to help stop a spy from stealing top-secret military information, while Cameron is frustrated when someone from Kay's past comes back into the picture.
Episode 12
Code Act
Sun, May 27, 2018 43 mins
The Deception team goes up against the Mystery Woman in a battle of dueling deceptions. But just when Cameron thinks he finally has her, she will unleash her most game-changing twist yet.
Episode 13
Transposition
Sun, May 27, 2018 43 mins
Just when everyone is sure they finally have the Mystery Woman, she releases a game-changing twist.
