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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
22 September 2003We get an introduction to the Montecito (the casino where the story takes place), to the characters and their relationships, the casino slang (e.g. "whales") and so on.
29 September 2003The corpse of Greg an old friend of Danny is found, Senator Henderson visits the Montecito and "King Arthur" is the new special show act.
6 October 2003While Danny tries to find out the secret of Julian Kerbis who bought many chips but hardly even gambles, Big Ed stumbles upon his cousin in the casino. He is about to marry a girl he met few days earlier.
13 October 2003While Danny shadows a cheater, he sees him talking with a pretty familiar face. Mary is getting acquainted with a psychic who has a scary premonition. Delinda start working in the restaurant of the Montecito.
20 October 2003Delinda is drugged and nearly raped. Ed decides not to call in the police and starts looking for the perpetrator with the help of Danny. Mike Cannon has doubts about the true intentions of three MIT students.
Season 1, Episode 6: Semper Spy
3 November 2003Big Ed is going on a vacation and leaves Danny in charge. It isn't long before some strange problems occur.
10 November 2003Delinda gets conned with counterfeit chips. Danny falls in love with a girl he meets at the pool. Sam and Mary are doing their utter best to help some special guests.
17 November 2003Well-known singer Janet Ellis is opening her tour in the Montecito. Sandra Edelman, her head of security is a very good old friend of Big Ed and she's at the casino for a special reason.
1 December 2003Danny and Ed are busy taking care of Mr. Zhao and his two rather popular daughters. Mary is occupied with a wedding of 24 couples, while Mike saves a woman from certain death, but she doesn't seem too happy.
15 December 2003The Montecito is hosting the World Poker Championship and Mike tries to help a player in trouble. Ed and Danny are busy with the disappearance of magician's wife Vera and a major security issue at the swizzle stick collectors convention.
5 January 2004The Montecito is hosting the World Championships Boxing and Ed and Danny find an irregular pattern of betting on one of the matches. Meanwhile Mike, Nessa and Delinda find a sports bag with a lot of money.
12 January 2004A new security system is being installed in the Montecito and it isn't long before some problems are surfacing.
26 January 2004After a massive blackout in Las Vegas, Ed and the claustrophobic Mike can't get out of the security center, while Danny and Mary take the opportunity of being trapped in an elevator to argue about their friendship. In the casino, a murder is committed and Nessa and Delinda have to control Sam, who becomes psychotic due to an overdose of caffeine.
2 February 2004Danny finds a suicide note of a very lucky man. Ed has to deal with a clumsy employee. Sam gets romantically involved with a customer.
9 February 2004After the famous actor Jean-Claude Van Damme dies when he is filming a dangerous stunt in the Montecito, the security team has doubts about it being an accident.
16 February 2004Danny, Ed and Sam travel to the New Orleans Montecito in search for a gambler with a high debt, who is being sought by a criminal.
1 March 2004An obnoxious guest wins one million with his last money, then dies under mysterious circumstances.
15 March 2004An escaped murderer comes looking for Sam, Mary meets a high school enemy, Nessa is having trouble with Chelsea fans.
22 March 2004While Danny thinks of a reward for a vagabond who brought 10 grand back, Ed has suspicions his wife is unfaithful.
19 April 2004Nessa has a relationship with Bob, a floater, who tells he's got complete amnesia. Danny tries to find out who took illegal sexy pictures in the Montecito.
26 April 2004While a psychologist analyzes the Montecito team and the four ladies plan to break up a wedding, the surveillance team tries to solve a seemingly perfect crime.
10 May 2004Nessa gets approached by a man who is looking for a particular dealer and has a bomb on his chest.
17 May 2004Danny is recalled for active Marines duty. Mary gets an unexpected visit from her father. Ed is having a confrontation with an old mafioso about the casino.
13 September 2004
20 September 2004
27 September 2004Ed is framed for murder when enemies from his past resurface. Danny and Mike secretly intervene to investigate and take matters into their own hands. Meanwhile, Sam, Nessa, Mary and Delinda desperately attempt to find tenants for their new joint-purchased home, settling on what they think to be the perfect tenants, only to discover they've misjudged the situation.
4 October 2004
11 October 2004Danny has to babysit the child of one of his deceased mates in the army, but when the mother doesn't come back, he has to look for her. Meanwhile, Delinda, Mary and Nessa go to the desert to find the treasure of one of Sam's former lovers, but it won't be as easy as they think.
18 November 2004Nessa is stunned when a mysterious woman shows up at the Montecito with news that her father is alive and wants to communicate with her. She begins to question what Ed has told her of her father's whereabouts which leads her right into a trap that affects the whole casino. Meanwhile, when a video gaming convention takes over the hotel, Sam, Danny and Mike have to police fraudulent acts of plagiarism. Elsewhere, Mary befriends hotel guest, Hennessy Figueroa, who lost her husband after ten years of marriage and is desperate to keep his memory alive.
1 November 2004The Montecito sponsors its own American football team for the staff's kids, the Lancers, coached by able Danny McCoy, Mike and Delinda who actually believes fashionable uniforms are primordial. The arrival of casino owner Gavin Brunson seems to switch priority to him and his assistant whom he insists should learn the tricks from Nessa, who remains jealous of her clients, but after a boy-player isn't picked up his father is feared missing, and an accidental video indicates he's probably kidnapped...
8 November 2004Ed, Danny and Mike join forces with Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh and Det. Woody Hoyt of 'Crossing Jordan' to investigate the murder of a high-stakes gambler.
15 November 2004Ed uses his past connections and some old-school tactics to hunt down the man who stole a priceless work of art from the Montecito. His frantic search for the piece leads to an uncomfortable reunion with his former partner Jack Keller, who cannot be trusted. Danny and Mike are dispatched to deal with a fight between their tenants and find themselves smack in the middle of a lovers' quarrel. Sam puts together an exotic weekend for a young couple in love that ends with only Sam smiling.
29 November 2004Danny refuses a USMC courage-rewarding decoration 'for someone's death' and 'elopes', actually helped by the girls, to an exclusive Malibu resort to propose to Mary. They return early... . Mike freaks when he spots a single reflexion image of a presumably missing girl, because his family's in-living cousin Michelle Cannon disappeared aged 14, Ed helps him, using his FBI behavioral science unit skills. They find she may be with recently released criminal Chris Johnson, and Ed uses a police records contact... Delinda goes crazy with enthusiasm for the Polyphonic Spree, but has no musical skills to offer with her application to join.
6 December 2004Delinda takes a fancy to rodeo star Cody Barnes, but his horse Lucas gets stolen, so she makes Ed send Danny and Mike to help looking- and find she's part of the problem... Sam is told her earnings are substandard, even for a low period; she realizes 'small player' Alex Brooks's game is laundering when he turns up with $1,000,000 in cash, and learns it's from the Juarez cartel- Ed insists to be part of the FBI operation she volunteers for... Mike has his eye on a female engineer, but despite Danny's advice tries too hard.
3 January 2005Danny is called -in bed- with a ransom demand of $213,000 and wakes James; they have strict instructs never to give in. Ed is indeed kidnapped, and handcuffed in a bathtub by burly Brian Carlton Venturi, who expected to be remembered after getting fired three years ago, which ruined his life and cost him access to his daughter. Some crafty searching gets them close while Ed's attempt to negotiate or escape prove painful... Meanwhile an impulsive gambler accepts to marry just for the rings he believes to bring him luck, only to loose them in a fight between divorced owners of rival Elvis wedding chapels...
10 January 2005Chaos is set in motion when Danny and Delinda find a hotel guest who appears to have committed suicide. When Delinda investigates further, she suspects murder and dispatches Danny and Ed on a mission to find the killer which places Delinda in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Sam plays host to a tycoon who is obsessed with hygiene and threatens to leave the hotel when a strand of Sam's hair is found on his shirt. Elsewhere, Mike is reunited with his ex-girlfriend Nina from college who has a strange request for him.
17 January 2005Construction CEO Monica Wells is thrown out by Ed for extreme rudeness to the Montecito staff. She files a 'sexual' complaint against Danny, whom she in fact failed to seduce while he was off duty but brought her, more drunk the him, to her suit at Delinda's insistence. It turns out legal help won't suffice, this problem is in Ed's league. Meanwhile Mystique's cash-flow results in a lunch experiment which proves hard to sell to chef Gunther or the guests.
24 January 2005The Montecito is unexpectedly visited by three new major gamblers. Delinda and Nessa rival ruthlessly for hunky 'whale' James Riley's attention. Ed's CIA friend Lisa has barely arrived and there's already another sniper attack on her. Investigating proves even more dangerous. Martin Levson lost his money gambling and his wife to groupies, Mary babysits him to limit clientèle morale damage but overdoes it.
7 February 2005Tired about the bickering between his security and service teams, Ed uses a technique his boss once successfully employed: he makes them switch jobs for a while. While Ed takes Mike along to disprove at any cost the validity of a $271 red light ticket, with a comical twist at the end, Delinda 'takes his place' at a city meeting, which she turns from boring to death into nightclub style. Danny initially hesitates how to handle his former Las Vegas schoolfriend Kevin 'Jinx' Jergeson PR-wise, who used to have incredible bad luck but now keeps winning at roulette, then returns to the boys' security team to discover whether he's somehow cheating brilliantly. While Mary and Sam prove security really is a man's job and fall for sexy temptation worse then they reproached the boys, Nessa takes charge of Mystique, where her 'democratic' British pub night experiment against Gunther's grain soon wins over even the grumpy German chef.
14 February 2005None of the men thought of Valentine's day. Ed expected to be excused for jury duty, but neither the judge, who recently lost badly at the Montecito, nor the counselors object to a professional expert in gambling and security, both being essential to the case. Once on the case, he breaks the embargo rules, determined to prove the accused's innocence. Danny must check on big gambler, Bert Belinsky, who first bets against his wife's horse, then on it, while his wife uses the trips as alibi to hide her plastic surgery. Bert has asked for Mary's company, because her boobs bring him luck; his female company shamelessly gropes Danny's privates. Sam frantically avoids her rich husband Casey Manning, the only man who can play her at her own game.
21 February 2005Ed gets former Firm colleague Frank to help save a Montecito employee's illegal mother, Maria DiGiuseppe, who runs a restaurant, from racketeer Jerry Garret. However, Ed can only control his violent temper by promising him a date with Montecito math wonder Sarasvati Kumar, then gets to the boss behind the screens. After Sam encourages a new gambler, Danny and Mike clean up her mess when it turns out Eric Nesterenko is just an alias of youngster Kellen Phillips, who paid nobodies to cash in a fortune in chips for him to invest illegally in stock with Ron Redfield in San Diego. Delinda and Nessa rival for the attention of Fear Factor (dare game show) host Joe Rogan.
14 March 2005Nevada state Senator Billy Cole, relatively happily married son of the state's U.S. Senator and a Marines mate of Danny McCoy whose life he once saved, is received like royalty, but shows Danny photos of a maid kissing him, made to blackmail him out of political life. Dan finds the non-casino maid suspicious on surveillance videos and brings in help, but after a CD is delivered which the pictures came from, digital enhancement shows it's a 16 year-old, Mindi Distassi; even her parents lost contact three months ago, but a single call back-number is enough to follow the trace, and get surprising answers... Ed Deline is shown photos suggesting Sam Marquez may have contacts with a drug cartel, so he tails her personally when she brings a brown bag to a ghetto family... After decades of 'boring' living safely, actuary Dan 'Flamin' Clayman has sold all his possessions on e-bay and is now staking the full $180,000 at the Montecito roulette, big publicity but if he looses the casino will look ruthless, however he even has a manager, Sandy Schultz, who sets up deals greedily...
Season 2, Episode 20: Hit Me!
28 March 2005Ed Deline and Danny McCoy realize the casino is in trouble: the computer table to weed out mathematical players failed to spot Bill Healy; Adam Clemo and Mike Cannon find out it's being sabotaged by a gizmo operated by transmitter with a wide range. But how does it work? ... Sam Marquez looks out for the son of a recently deceased big spender and winner of $300,000 who came try his luck, without any experience, in dad's lucky green polyester suit. Sam tries desperately to get it cleaned after a bitch spilled red wine on it... Chrissy Potter is worried about her missing husband Grant, but his credit card is also used in the casino- by him, in other female company, but the reason is surprisingly painful...
25 April 2005Monte Carlo legend Estefan honors the casino with his presence, his whole party is into Goth living, like vampires. Gavin Brunson is considering to sell the Montecito. Delinda Deline gets a 'rumspringa' visit from her distant Amish cousin Seth, who experiences the wicked world in 48 hours... As if the geeks from a gadget convention didn't cause enough technological mischief, Danny McCoy finds computer criminal Vic 'Vid Kid' Kenner has slipped in; it takes persistent snooping to bare a lucrative conflict of interest...
2 May 2005Ed Deline tells Danny McCoy that detective Luis Peres has been killed in Irak, informs his loved ones together and tries to correct one of his cases, probably a miscarriage of justice against Richie Betts. Mike must help casino guest Mertens to a whore just before his wife's arrival, so he takes him to Kitty ranch, then is sent back to retrieve his wedding ring, in vain, then must try to get a replica stat. Mary Connel must testify in court against Johnny Moya; the County prosecuting officer turns out to be her romantic admirer Jake Porter; they find a way to spare Moya a strike three life-term. Porter helps Danny to crucial evidence...
9 May 2005Happy customer double $ billionaire Fred Puterbaugh returns to the Montecito announcing he wants to show his gratitude by taking Ed -he's busy, so Danny- shopping, but isn't content handing both 'trinkets' over $100,000, he decides to buy the Montecito... Talented magician Arnold Peters was to be thrown out for passing out fliers 'Ed Deline called me the best', inexact and totally out of context, but proves a great eye by catching on sight a crafty dice-cheater none of the staff was on to. With his honest $1,000 premium he shows apparent sports scores prediction talent, but his winnings get stolen in the hotel complex- Danny goes after the thief and his accomplice, while penniless Arnold gets a shot at two jobs in the Montecino... Sam must deal with a high-profile regular who pays for almost nothing himself but his bets, yet demands 'scam prices' for services to be dealt with ruthlessly..
Season 2, Episode 24: Centennial
23 May 2005Board key member Casey Manning offers manager Ed Deline a seat on the board of the Montecito after the take-over if he wins the buy-out from three competitors, to take part in a general make-over in light of the progressing Las Vegas competition, but warns his ex Sam that she'll have to become better to remain the 'new' Montecito's host; by his reputation most staff and even the building may be done away with; she offers him anything if he blows the deal off... Ed is told by an inept police detective that Nessa Holt's disappeared father Jackson sired a second daughter, Adanna from another family, who is in a London hospital, and insists to accompany her, but assures her dad must be dead, yet Ed knows there is more... Danny and Mike investigate a conspicuously behaving couple consisting of fake identity Mark George and Susan Welch, who was reported died in a car accident 16 months ago; they refuse a free luxury suite upgrade, carry a stolen gun but have a surprising explanation. Danny gets terrible news..
19 September 2005The new Montecito is finished and its new owner, a woman called Monica Mancuso, wants the old team back. However, most of them refuse to come back to the Montecito and have already found other jobs.
26 September 2005The Montecito experiences several financial perils. Ed Deline worries about chip cheaters who already got away with $1,200,000, and orders to divert owner Monica's attention -she hasn't even mastered the essential element of fun- to a gambler who seems to keep winning honestly, already for $300,000, while he and Mike trace all people plausibly involved, the manufacturing company and even the whereabouts of only five machines which could do the job, the takes drastic action... Meanwhile Mike and Danny close in on pick-pockets. Danny's accountant insists he should sell his late dad's house, which increased in value from almost nothing to about $1,500,000, and thus discovers a recent picture on pa's bed-stand with a woman he doesn't know at all.
3 October 2005Banned card counter Gabe 'Nice guy' Labrador claims he must win $2,000,000 or his kidnapped daughter will be killed, but the police believes he's pulling another stunt, like his staged death 8 years earlier. But Ed and Monica Mancuso give him the benefit of the doubt, so the boys follow the cash. Big winner Ben Carlson demands that Delaney takes his $600,000 winnings back to make a point that he disapproves of gambling in principal, but his other, abusive personality Ted Waters demands the cash; a third one, hedonist Carlos, is in control. Boston PD detective Woody Hoyt explains to Sam Marquez in intricate detail his day, how they landed in bed.
10 October 2005
17 October 2005Ed Deline is in no position to follow Dr. Hall's advice to take it easy on account of his blood pressure: he's the victim of identity theft, and his banker allowed the culprit to clean him out completely. Danny comes along trying to moderate the punches, but Lou Mosley is just a decoy, the actual brain makes them think again. Sam is hostile to Monica's new non-gambling income watchdog, and even worse to her half-brother Bobby, but her assumption he's still an immature parasite is challenged while colleagues milk him for embarrassing anecdotes. Mike borrows Ed's beloved Aston Martin for an all too adventurous date, which only Ed's name saves from turning into a disaster.
24 October 2005Danny McCoy finally has a buyer for his home, found by girl-friend Penny Posin, just like his late dad's last flame, Liz, who claims she was to be dad's bride. She hesitantly accepts the loan Danny offers to get her trough medical bills until her insurance pays, but isn't it all to good to be true? Monica's 'other income' manager Olivia Duchey's cheap orders keep making everybody's job impossible; so Ed takes on the bossy owner, who lets Sam off the hook if she tells her brother Bobby he's dumped.
7 November 2005
14 November 2005The Star of Kashmir, a splendid jewel, is going to be shown at the Montecito. Even though it's extremely expensive, Monica Mancuso reduces security measures at the exposition because she thinks the it wouldn't be properly admired if it's behind a glass case. However, when the Star of Kashmir is stolen, Monica asks Danny and Mike to retrieve it before that failure in Montecito's security is revealed to public opinion.
Season 3, Episode 9: Mothwoman
21 November 2005
28 November 2005Everyone in the Montecito is shocked after Monica's violent death. But Ed is specially surprised, since Monica chose him to make sure her last wishes would be fulfilled.
5 December 2005Casey Manning, the casino owner, has booked a porn convention but this is not exactly Ed's favorite crowd. Ed himself is in the new publicity spot shoots, with unnecessary personal complications. Casey's ex Sam's moaning finally wears his patience down enough to separate their assets and file for divorce. The national poker competition on TV is just the show for organizer Lance Marshall, but the Montecito boys won't accept an unknown schoolteacher outplaying the pros.
2 January 2006
9 January 2006The couple that has bought Monica's suite complains that it is haunted. At first the Montecito employees don't believe them, but a succession of strange events that are almost impossible to explain could be caused by the return of Monica as a ghost.
23 January 2006The Nevada gaming Commission questions Casey's license because of $3,000,000 missing from the Montecito books, from the last night before Monica bought the casino. Casey is cleared, Ed must find the thief helped by Danny, whose rough USMC instructor Sergeant 'Gunny' Burn shows up and 'enlists' himself on hotel staff. Meanwhile meteorology fan Mike's hero, the forecast presenter, works from the Montecito and needs a stand-in stat.
6 February 2006The Montecito may face a huge indemnification when a man states that a woman has drugged him and stolen one of his kidneys.
3 March 2006While Danny hosts Monica's immature heir Norma Pitts, they find half a human finger in her shrimp salad: a PR nightmare for the Montecito buffet. Ed tells Danny to keep her happy. Overhearing lawyer vulture Mira Schleich offers to get Norma 'damages', Danny promises to make her dreams come true, but apparently that includes him. The cameras recorded immigrant kitchen hand Miguel Hurtado axing his own finger. His cousin Raul was to find it and settle for $10,000, the coyote ransom for his sister Maria. Whale Grimaldi insists on another host than Sam, till she throws him out of the Montecito altogether.
10 March 2006When Danny catches chip thief Justin Frank, he claims to have heard a man intends to blow up the Montecito next Thursday, even if that tip doesn't get him a deal. FBI Agent Kent considers old-timer Ed's call pointless. Danny, Justin and undercover Mike trace the Egyptian bomber suspect, Farouk Naeem. New Montecito spa masseur Travis is a heavenly hunk, but allegedly also gives hot chicks highly appreciated 'intimate' services beyond appropriate, so Sam feels insulted as he handles her by the book.
17 March 2006
31 March 2006Ed fears recently released master thief Alex Avery is behind a recent theft wave. Danny and Mike are emotionally blackmailed to pose, for an animal charity, as eligible bachelors - with a twist. Mary jumps through hoops to get a good review. Ed himself is forced by his wife, Jillian, to take marriage counseling with Doctor Paul.
7 April 2006Danny has 'just sex' with Delinda, whose mother wants to 'finally' match her again with idealistic college boyfriend Dr. Derek Stephenson. Casey concludes from an incognito visit that the department chiefs must be 'taken down a peg or two' on a mandatory corporate retreat, and makes it desert camping and paintball, in two teams. Derek is allowed to stand in for Ed, who must fill a surveillance vacancy. He and the finalists investigate $2,000,000 missing.
28 April 2006Ed's wife has railroaded him to a horrible desolate spa. In his absence Danny must approve Dwight Stiles to play blackjack for $1,000,000 a hand. Accountant Sarasvati warns that's illegal without matching cash, so an armored car full is ordered. Alas, a fake team got the cash from the bank, quickly reloaded into a car, which is found with two corpses. Is there a link? and if so, who are the other accomplices? Meanwhile Delinda's dream doctor, Derek, delays his Bangladesh mission to propose.
5 May 2006Jeff McKee and his equally attractive wife Judy ask Montecito security to keep an eye on their spouses, but each plays a game. Delinda's acceptance to marry Dr. Derek Stephenson is questioned, especially by her mother, because it may mean following him on Third World medical emergency area missions. Ed handles the case of a petty sponger who claims to be cheated by a dealer and allows Sam to spend a weekend in his lodge, for once with a lover, Boston detective Woody Hoyt, but they can't enjoy it without TV or phone reach.
12 May 2006While Delinda starts doubting about her feelings as the day of her wedding approaches, Ed refuses to help a former CIA partner in a mission.
27 October 2006Picking up from where the last season left off, security realizes that a gun was fired in Ed's suite, as Danny and Ed's daughter realize they have deeper feelings for each other than either of them wanted to admit. Samantha realizes what trouble she's in when one of her high roller clients rolls into the hotel's beach front resort in Hawaii and rolls up a half a million dollar bill and threatens to leave it in her lap, along with the dead stripper in his room.
3 November 2006The mission laid before Ed comes to light, as he is picked to, once again, kill a man the CIA ordered him to kill 20 years earlier. Sam wraps up her issues in Hawaii with the help of Mike, and Mary goes off in everyone's face about Danny and Delinda's heated romance and the fact that no one told her about it.
10 November 2006Ed turns Samantha onto a guy who can help out her own paycheck by trying to retrieve some of the money that her high roller clients have skipped out on paying. Danny and Delinda discuss wanting to take their relationship to the next level. Mary decides to try her hand at stand-up comedy, and Ed tries to give someone a special birthday present.
17 November 2006The robbery of a rare violin from the hotel safety deposit vault seems to mix in with the murder of its owner which brings Jordan and Woody out from the Boston Police Department. Danny and Dalinda move in together and Mike is assigned to find a rat that's been missing and running around the hotel for some time.
1 December 2006Some crafty kidnappers put Dalinda in a box and bury her for a fifty million dollar ransom they're forcing out of Ed. Mary gets to choose a mascot, but ends up with several complaints from hotel guests. Guests at the casino include a couple of buddies who just won a lottery and are rather reluctant to wager any of it, opting instead to play a game of hide and seek in the casino, and a monk who's known for cleaning out casinos, one every seven years, and has picked the Montecito.
1 December 2006Just in time, Danny finds a way to deal with Ed's explosive foot-clamp. Delinda's kidnappers think he's dead and still hold her. The gloves are off, it's everything goes, even illegal means, catching them included. Tibetan Buddhist monk Soli Tendar keeps winning at casino's, but how? Can Sam tempt him or be enlightened? During a staff flu epidemic, Mary fills in lowly jobs.
8 December 2006After the kidnapping, Delinda is mean to Danny, who can't believe she even bags on his dancing. The $1,000,000 wedding package nobody expected to run is actually ordered. It includes singing by Wayne Newyton, who refuses since a bitter golf dispute with Ed. To Danny's horror the guest list includes 50 New Jersey mobsters, yet a diamond theft may not be their work. Sam hosts terminal socialite Sharkey Rosenthal, who partied with the big stars. Future MIT student Leo Pedowitz turns losing his virginity into a questionable business.
15 December 2006'Twas the night before Christmas, and all is not merry. When three kids are abandoned by their mom, a "strawberry." Meanwhile, a Christmas elf commits Grand Theft Auto right in front of a staffer's nose.
5 January 2007Danny worries a sex-toy might become a rival for Delinda. He also drops an obscenely expensive bottle of wine for a prestigious auction Ed and his new sommelier Phillip Corbin, but a security complication proves a far worse nightmare. The swimming pool is infested with topless crones.
12 January 2007Ed doesn't like the new husband one of the hotel's former employees brings out to the desert for a weekend, while Danny and Delinda agree to buy out their partners on the property that their tenant burnt to the ground.
19 January 2007When a report is filed by accounting, Danny and Mike look to Ed for a pat on the back, who only prompts them to work harder, and even bets them that he can do their job better than either one of them can. Mary tries to sell the last residence suite at the Montecido.
2 February 2007When the Gambling Commission receives what it considers too many complaints on Ed, the board forces him to attend Anger Management. Mike considers asking for a loan from Ed in order to buy his new condo. Danny searches for an employee who is in so much need of money that he's willing to gamble with his life. Dalinda feels the need to do something with her life, and Sam gets jealous when one of her high profile big spenders comes to town and wants to take Mary to dinner instead of her.
9 February 2007Ed, Danny, and Mike are forced to "steal back" an Egyptian mummy from someone who has diplomatic immunity. Meanwhile, Sam deals with her personal indecent proposal from one of her high roller clients who feels he can't get into an intimate relationship any other way, and Mary goes on the trail of someone well-known for stealing from his room when he stays at the hotel.
16 February 2007Danny sees red when a rich Arab seeks out Dalinda and attempts to make her his fourth wife. But the events surrounding his death become suspicious when firefighters find out the reasons behind his death. Ed also has problems getting out of bed after straining his back the day before on the golf course. And Sam takes a personal day when a long-time friend of hers gets out of bed after being in a coma for twenty years.
23 February 2007An unexpected death hangs a cloud over the company picnic, where the stakes have been raised between Ed's crew and the "back of house." Mary deals with her father's trial and Sam tries to land a big spender, stealing him from a rival casino.
2 March 2007Danny has worries from Wallace, who rips off his place after turning down the requested favor Danny owes him; Dalinda, who walked in on the guys while they were still in the place; Ed, for placing his daughter is danger; Mary, who, unknown to Danny, has bought a gun after her father was found not guilty for crimes against her and her step-sisters; and Sam, who has inherited the Montecido and is beginning to go power crazy. Meanwhile, Ed has his own plans for the casino, which does not include retiring like his wife wants him to do, and Mike meets an old classmate, who used to have a rather unique nickname for him.
Season 4, Episode 17: Heroes
9 March 2007Jillian questions Ed's priorities when she finds out he's trying to purchase the Montecido. Delinda questions Danny's priorities when he's more caught up in trying to prevent a friend from being returned to Iraq than sitting down with her and finding out she's pregnant. Mike finds out Sam's plight, and Mary takes steps in helping her step-sisters' plight.
28 September 2007The Montecito is in utter chaos along with the lives of the casino staffers. The murder of Mary's father may have closed a chapter from her past, but leaves everyone else wondering who actually shot him. The list of possible suspects quickly narrows when an incriminating cell phone video mysteriously surfaces. Back at the casino, Ed has the tough task of trying to figure out who robbed the Montecito and if it is an inside job. Meanwhile, Mike and his team are working overtime to solve the murder and robbery and are shocked at what the footage reveals. After barely escaping the explosion, Delinda finally gets the chance to tell Danny her secret. A kidnapped Sam proves to be a tough girl after all, when she tries to escape from her captor thousands of feet in the air. If that isn't enough for one casino to handle, they now have to meet the new mysterious Montecito owner, AJ Cooper.
Season 5, Episode 2: Shrink Rap
28 September 2007As Cooper takes over ownership of the Montecito in a rather unique fashion, Sam recounts the events surrounding the lives of her fellow co-workers, while in therapy, including Mike's attempts to figure out how a gambler is cheating and how Danny and Dalinda are getting along with the prospect of becoming new parents.
5 October 2007The race is on for Ed's old position when Cooper announces that he won't "give" the job to Danny. The Montecito's new concierge also appears, while Sam finds her way back to another therapy position and Delinda feels the pangs of motherhood in terms of gaining some unwanted weight.
