 Angier meets scientist Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) and asks him to build him the machine he built for Borden. While waiting for Tesla to finish, Angier fully deciphers Borden's diary, which he discovers to be fraudulent: Borden confesses that Tesla has nothing to do with Borden's trick and how Borden ordered Olivia to give Angier the diary. Angier confronts Tesla, who admits to never building any teleporting device for Borden, but has successfully built a replicating machine for Angier, capable of reproducing animate and inanimate objects a distance from the original machine. Tesla departs, advising Angier to destroy the machine.
