20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Prestige
16. The Magic Fingers
After Angier's wife, Julia McCullough (Piper Perabo) drowns in a water tank illusion gone terribly wrong, he thirsts for revenge against Borden, whom he holds responsible for her death.
A small measure of his retribution comes when he boobytraps a bullet catch illusion that Borden is performing in a tavern, severing the first two fingers on Borden's left hand in the process.
Even though Nolan (and, as viewers will recall, Borden) went to great pains to erase the first two fingers on Christian Bale's left hand, there are still sequences in which his supposedly severed fingers appear. For example, they feature fleetingly in the scene in which he produces the key to a new house for his wife, Sarah and in the sequence in which he is writing down his magic tricks in jail before locking a prison guard (Jamie Harris) in his own manacles.