Sylvain Le Magnifique

Sylvain is invited to the Visiblement Vendredi set, a popular variety show. He does a few magic tricks, and gives an interview that covers his life and career. His rival magician; Barloute l'Étonnant watches the show at home with contempt. He asks Bernard, his assistant to find a television show for him to appear on. Back on Visiblement Vendredi the host; Patrick Mathieu invites Sylvain to a party at his. After saying 'no' multiple times, he offers Sylvain $100,000. Sylvain says yes.

Marc and Sylvain are eating in a restaurant. Marc takes an eternity to order, and continually annoys Sylvain and the waitress. Sylvain tries to talk to Marc about his dissatisfaction with how his career is going. He wants to work more, he wants to go back on tour following his breakup with Léa. Marc seems more interested in discussing the menu than his client's career plans. At the same time; Léa is organizing an open house, where everything possible goes wrong; from a fire in the oven while trying to bake cookies to destroyed curtains and a table. Léa calls Sylvain for help.

Sylvain meets up with Léa. He debates whether he should fix Léa's damage with magic. Léa is eternally grateful and grabs a beer with Sylvain. They sit and talk about their relationship and Léa's burgeoning career. She's discouraged-she finds that she isn't succeeding and wants to quit. Sylvain tries to console her and encourages her to embark on her own business. A man bursts into the house-it's his house. Léa was hosting an open-house in the wrong house. Once they're in Léa's car, Sylvain discovers that she is dating Jug Thibault. In an attempt to cheer up Léa; Sylvain invites them both to Patrick Mathieu's party. At the end of the episode, a mysterious figure arrives in Montreal. He takes a taxi to his hotel, and interrogates the driver about a "great magician". Once he checks-in, he turns on the TV and sees Barloute doing a magic trick on the TV show L'Épicerie. He's excited.

It's the night of Patrick Mathieu's party. Sylvain and Marc discover that Patrick has also hired Barloute for the evening, but at a lower salary ($8,000). Léa and Jug are also there, and Jug tells Sylvain where he got his nickname from. At the end of the episode we see the mysterious stranger in the streets of Montreal, searching for "the great magician". He passes in front of a theatre that has a poster advertising Barloute's show for the following evening. He steals the poster and stuffs it in his briefcase, that's full of dollar bills.

Patrick Mathieu's party continues. Marc; a little tipsily, reveals to Bernard that Sylvain was payed $100,000 to be there. Bernard doesn't come back. Jug invites Marc and Sylvain to a BMX competition the following day. Sylvain keeps drinking his gin and tonics, and starts spilling his heart to Léa. He reveals that he is still in love with her, and that it was a mistake to separate. Léa feels uncomfortable because Jug is at the party as well, and tries to leave as soon as possible. Sylvain keeps insisting that Jug and her stay so they can see his magic show. In front of everyone he makes Marc Seguin's painting of Patrick disappear. The crowd gets confused. Barloutte takes this opportunity to jump infant of the crowd-thinking he can steal the show from Sylvain-but his trick was even worse.

After the party, Marc and Sylvain grab breakfast before going to Jug's competition at the Olympic Stadium. Sylvain is sad and tells Marc about his discussion with Léa the previous night. He's now more confused than ever. Later on, The Stranger heads to Barloute's show, and requests to see him in his green room after the show. The two don't speak the same language-making communication difficult. The Stranger explains to Barloute that he comes from a distant land that was once free, but which has been under the influence of a bloodthirsty magician for five years now. He heard about a very powerful magician that was living in Montreal, and came here on a mission to bring him back to his home country to help fight the black magic. He even offers $100, 000 for this, but Barloute misunderstood, and thinks that he's trying to offer him $100, 000 to do a magic show on a cruise in the Maldives. He happily accepts the offer. Back at the Olympic Stadium, as Marc and Sylvain leave the show, we understand that Jug had an accident during his completion, he's alive-but lost his big chance to make it big.

Sylvain Le Magnifique's name is on everyones lips the following morning. It's on the front page of newspapers-he transformed Mont-Royal into a giant Boston cream pie donut. He is flooded with calls from journalists, who all want to know how he did it, but Sylvain is distracted by Léas silence. She isn't returning his calls. Léa was at Jug's bedside for a few days, but she finally confronts Sylvain. Jug claims that he saw a tornado forming in front of him on the track and that he panicked and dropped the handlebars, leading to his disqualification. Léa knows all too well that Sylvain is behind this, and that his ego could not bear to see Jug win, so he made this tornado appear. She is furious. Jug is traumatized and does not want to go back on a BMX bike, his career is in jeopardy and all this is the Sylvain fault. Léa forces Sylvain to go and explain to Jug that he was behind this, but doing so would reveal his secret to him. Sylvain regrets his gesture and goes to see Jug at the hospital and meets Bernard who had come to bring flowers for Jug. Bernard is fascinated by Jug. He calls him "authentic". Sylvain explains to Jug that he is a real magician and that he is ashamed of what he did. Jug, still a little in a daze, replies to Sylvain that he is a "real" BMX professional. Bernard was watching and heard this confession. Barloute and Bernard join the Stranger at the airport dressed in Hawaiian shirts, sunglasses and shorts. The stranger arrives a little angry. He shows them the newspaper from that morning and points out the photo of Sylvain and Mont-Royal. Barloute panics, he believes (understandably) that the Stranger wants him replaced by Sylvain. He quickly turns around and convinces the Stranger that he's a very powerful magician. Bernard bids them goodbye, and Barloute and the Stranger leave together for Douchebikistan.

Bernard goes to visit Sylvain-visibly angry. He tells him about the Stranger and the $100,000 contract he offered to Barloute in Douchebikistan. Bernard is very worried because he has not heard from Barloute for a week now and while searching the internet he found a disturbing article on a Buzzfeed-style website-"20 photos that prove that the Douchebikistan is under the influence of a dark wizard." In one of the photos we can see Barloute chained and frightened. Sylvain feels a shiver run through his body. Bernard tells him that he knows his secret, that he listened to his conversation with Jug and he explains to Sylvain that he does not know what to do, but that he has the impression that the Stranger was in fact searching for Sylvain; that he was indeed the "great magician" and not Barloute. He asks Sylvain for help. He is the only one who can do anything. Sylvain, caught up in his conscience due to the incident with Jug, accepts without hesitation. He must go save Barloute, he must use his powers and if he dies-so be it. He leaves hurriedly with Bernard. Marc, who came to visit Sylvain, sees them from his car; walk out of Sylvain's house and take Bernard's car. Intrigued and convinced that he is being betrayed and that Bernard is trying to steal his client, he follows them to the airport. Along the way, his curiosity and indignation grows. On the way Sylvain calls Léa to tell him that he is going to do something very dangerous-that he must go save Barloute. He wanted to tell Léa before leaving that he loves her, but he understands that he can not be together, Lea is touched and cries on the other line. Marc follows them to the airport and sneakily boards the same plane without being seen. The first season ends with this cliffhanger, Bernard, Sylvain and Marc en route to Douchebikistan.