FX: Rollie Tyler (Brown) is the best special effects artist in showbiz. But this it not the studio seeking him out. It's the Justice Department. His assignment to fake the assassination of an important underworld witness. And after he pulls the illusion off, making the informant disappear Rollie is dumbfounded to learn that he's being pinned for the murder. Double crossed and now hunted by those who hired him, Rollie quickly learns that he can trust no one and that the only thing that can save his life is his unequalled mastery of illusion.

FX 2: Five years after his first deadly adventure, Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated electronic toys for a living. But when his girlfriend's ex husband (Tom Mason), a police detective, persuades him to devise an illusion to capture a serial killer, Rollie is once again lured into the lethal world of make believe. And soon, he finds himself trapped in a murderous maze of deceit and treachery in which he must depend on his ingenious tricks and his friendship with detective Leo McCarthy (Dennehy) to expose a terrifying underworld conspiracy but only if he can stay alive.