"Previously on Las Vegas." "Monica Mancuso." "I'm the new owner of the Montecito." "She married a Texas billionaire and inherited his money." "Well, what do they say, there's a new sheriff in town?" "You run this place without a deputy." "I quit." " You took Daddy's job?" " He quit, remember?" "I'm buying half this town, and I want you to be there at my side." "Gee, okay." " Have you fired all the employees I told you to?" " Hello, Danny." " Still interested in the Montecito?" " What do you have in mind?" "The place is ripe for a takeover." "Monica leveraged it to the brink." "I'll think about it, Danny." " You didn't think I'd find out?" " I'm trying to save the Montecito." " I'm trying to build an empire!" " At the expense of a lot of people." "Some day, this all will be" " Oh!" " Oh, my God!" " I'd like to bring you back as president of operations." "Danny, I'd like to promote you to head of security." " That's actually kind of a demotion." " When she died, strange things started happening." "There's no such thing as ghosts." "Maybe Monica came back from the dead to collect an unpaid bill?" "Even dead, that bitch is giving me a headache." "When's the Gaming Commission hearing?" "Uh, tomorrow." "Yeah, and we've had all of Casey Manning's financial records shipped in and indexed." "And his lawyers and accountants should be here in the morning." "You know, the licensing used to be just a formality." "Now this commission, they put on these miners' helmets and they crawl up your ass." "That's why I'm having, uh, lunch with that new chairman today." "Oh, a little recon mission?" "Well, it doesn't hurt to know what you're up against." "Excuse me." "Am I boring you?" " No, Mr. D." " Mike's been in a bit of a slump." "Uh-uh!" "I prefer to think of my social life as a series of cycles." " You see, last year was an El Niño for "El Mike-o."" " It rained women." " Listen, a slump" " Yeah." "Where is it that you're trying to meet these women?" "Uh, mostly here." "Never when I'm on the clock or anything." "Certainly not." "I understand that." "Maybe that's your problem." "You need a change of scenery." "I was hoping to get that today." "Today?" "Yeah." "Yeah, but first, you gotta go over there, and babysit that Channel 12 weather remote." "That's right." "Right." "Somebody call security!" "Want to get your hands dirty?" "Stop this guy!" "Oh, boy." " Security, pit six." " One of our guests took out a purse-snatcher." "Clear out, everybody, please." "Ain't that just like you, McCoy." "Show up two minutes late with your johnson in your hand." "That's my drill sergeant from the corps." "I like this guy already." "Gonna stand there flapping your lips, grandpa, or am I gonna have to haul this maggot to the Dumpster all by my lonesome?" "Up." "Hey!" "Mike Cannon, Montecito security and surveillance, this right here is" "Storm Reno." "I'm a big fan." "Hey, nice to meet you." "Now, the key is, when this red light goes on, my B.G. has got to be clear." "B.G.?" "Yeah." "It's TV talk for background?" "Back here, right?" "Yeah." "Nothing worse than wing nuts jumping up and down, waving their arms in my background while I'm on air." " Yes sirree, Bob!" " Well, Mike here is an expert in dealing with wing nuts." "Not only that, did I mention I'm a huge fan?" "Now what year did you go over to Doppler?" "Who do find more accurate, NOAA or the National Weather Service?" "And you gotta level with me here, Storm, are anomalous global climatological conditions just that or- Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Mike, right?" "Right." "I'm an ex-stand-up comic." "See, I read the words that that lady puts on that screen." "The truth is, I don't know diddly about the weather." "But, I do have some time to kill." "So, little lady, if you can point me towards the buffet?" "Sure, you just follow the signs through the casino to the right." " Great." " Hmm." "And this is why you never want to meet your idols." " Who's the suit?" " Some guy from the Gaming Commission." "Must be about Casey's gaming license." "Who's the hottest server you have working right now?" "I'd have to say Steve." "He has a nice, tight little ass." "Not a guy." "A female." "Are you thinking about switching teams again?" "I want someone to listen in..." " and report back to me." " What's going on?" "Anything to do with the Montecito's gaming license, or potential lack thereof, affects my bottom line." "You don't think they'll mind if some hot girl is hovering around them?" " Listen to what you just said." " How was your sea bass?" "Excellent." "Excellent." "Look, Ed, uh, we don't know each other from Adam, so I'm just gonna lay it out on the line right up front here." "I won't B.S. you, you don't B.S. me, okay?" "Yeah, that should be just fine." "Good." "Well, uh, two things right away." "One, I'm going to pay for this lunch." "Two, there's gonna be a problem with your license." "Listen, Casey Manning is clean as a whistle." "Plus, I did some independent background work on him myself." "We finished an audit of the changeover from the old Montecito to the new, and there appears to be some irregularities." "Anything you want to tell me before the official hearing?" "Tell you?" "What?" "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about." "The night the old Montecito was imploded, the casino did an unusually brisk business." "Yeah, right, right." "I mean, it was one of our best nights ever." "Between the cash drops on the floor, and the amount reported to the Nevada Gaming Commission... there's a discrepancy of 2.98 million dollars." "Well, it was more than likely an accounting mistake." "We've already reviewed your, uh, latest statement." "Nearly three million dollars went missing that last night." "Now I'm giving you a chance to get out in front of it, right here and now." "Are you suggesting we skimmed three million?" "Listen, in the spirit of frankness, Mr. Cavanaugh, that's a bunch of bull crap." "And, what the hell's that got to do with Casey Manning's license?" " He wasn't even the owner at that time." " As you say, Mr. Manning is squeaky clean." "The problem, Ed, is with you." "Me?" "And the Montecito management team at that time." "Now, if Mr. Manning would like a license, he can have one, with one caveat." "You and your people have to go." "You can put a couple of warm bodies up on the second floor overlook." "A little visible deterrent would cut this petty crime stuff down to zero." "Good to see you too, Gunny." "So, how long you on leave for?" "I'm not." "I'm out." "You're kidding." "You retired?" "What, you're the only one to walk away from the corps, McCoy?" "Fair enough." "So, what brings you to Vegas?" "Well, I'll tell you what I did." "I sent away for one of those Filipina mail-order brides" "The gal's gonna meet me here in Vegas." " You're kidding." " Of course I'm kidding, McCoy." "Geez, I'm on vacation." "So, uh, where are you staying?" "I don't know." "I just got here." "You're staying here at the Montecito, on the house." "I'm not taking charity from you." "You're buying the beer." "You kiddin'?" "Aye-aye, sir." "We're live in three minutes, Storm." "You okay?" "Yeah, does" " Does kung pao chicken have peanuts in it?" "Oh, you are having an allergic reaction." "Gosh darn diddly, if I didn't think those little things were hot little chilies." "It's all right." "In my case, it's not life-threatening." "It just makes it uncomfortable" "Take him to Sunrise Hospital." " I'm on it." " A minute, 30!" "Who's gonna do the weather?" "So, Casey would like to know the same thing I do." "How the hell did we not catch this?" "First I'd like to say how much I'm enjoying your new office." "Well, thank you very much." "And, as to the alleged discrepancy, I'm afraid it's real." "Real?" "How?" "I mean, how do we lose three million dollars?" "Miss Mancuso had access to the Montecito's financial records... even prior to the official transition between her regime and Mr. Brunson's." "So, uh" " I'm gettin' a headache." "What the hell does that mean?" "Another thing:" "How does the Gaming Commission get this year's books already?" " How did that happen?" " Because Monica was negotiating... to buy some of the properties in town, and she gave the Commission... all our records without notifying the accounting department." "Huh." "At first glance, the $2.98 million charge... against the casino was to be attributed to demolition expenses." "But when the Gaming Commission reconciled the books, it looked like we were skimming." "Like we used the demolition to rip off our own joint?" "Danny, get me all the video we have from closing night." " We don't have any of it." " What are you talking about?" "Why not?" "Because we busted a couple of dice cheats that night and in order to prosecute, we had to hand over all the video to the Gaming Commission." "All right." "Do me a favor." "Hurry up and go get it, okay?" "All right." "Are you deaf?" "What the hell is that?" "Put it on Channel 12." "That high-pressure ridge building over the Four Corner region... will definitely keep our skies clear and push those rain clouds way south." "But only until Thursday." "So looking at the five-day, we've really got a meteorological trifecta working- warm, windy, and just a little wet." "Storm Reno will be back tomorrow afternoon." "This is Mike Cannon, live, from the fabulous floor of the all-new Montecito Hotel and Casino." " Back to you, Leticia." " And, we're clear!" " Was I okay?" " You didn't say one thing that was on that screen." "Is that bad?" "You kidding?" "That was some seriously impressive... off-the-cuff B.S. you were slinging, right there." "Really?" "Um, do you want to get a drink?" "I'm working." "Well, unless there's a 4:00 news I don't know about, I'm pretty sure you're off." "Okay, Mike Cannon." "Let's see how you do when the red light's not on." "Eighty-one." "Eric Vanlandingham." "Hi, Eric." "How can I help you?" "We sent you guys some video that we're hoping to get back." "You, uh-You got some I.D.?" "Yeah." "Hmm, thought I recognized you." "You're the guy on the roof with Monica Mancuso." "Hmm, guilty as charged." "Not guilty, but, uh, that's- that's me." "Oh." "She really flew, huh?" "Yeah, she did." "That was something else." "Mm-hmm." "You got a date for that video?" "Oh, yeah." "I'll try and get it for you here." "Yeah, we were hoping to get it back right away." "It's kind of an emergency." "See any tapes or hard drives here?" "I was wondering about that." "Yeah, we digitize everything and send it to India." "Your video is in- Ooh, your video's in Bangalore." "You outsourced all the archives?" "I can have it streamed directly back to you in about 12 hours." "At least the video from closing night's still in archives, so" "Yeah, well that's good." "We can probably match the casino drops to the floor receipts, right?" " It's a start." "Hey." "Hey!" " Hey, ladies!" "You ready to do this thing?" "Uh, I got some stuff going on right now, Gunny." "I'm going to have to take a rain check." "I'm sorry." "Oh, no sweat, McCoy." "Point me in the direction of a cold beer, a jukebox full of Motown, I'm good to go." "Yeah, that sounds good." " Wait a second, we've got, what, like, 10 hours before that video comes in" " From India." "To be honest with you, I could use a drink." "We got Opus right across from check-in." "Uh, look, no offense, gents." "But that place is a little "officer's club" for an old fleet marine, you know what I mean?" "Damn sure do." "Yeah." "Hey, I got a place." "You'll like this." "Worm never could dance worth a damn." "Nah." "He's a hell of good kid, though." "He is a good kid." "Why did you leave the corps?" "I'll tell you what happens." "It's two days before I'm due to ship out with my unit for Iraq." "I walk into this little liquor store down in Oceanside." "Here's this weasel in there, he's got this pissant .38, clueless, he's waving it around." "Long story short, I make a move for the weapon, he triggers it, I take one right in the side." " I like your scar." " Yeah, chicks dig it." "What, you got shot?" "Yeah." "Looks like it went through and through." "Almost." "Little piece lodged in my back." "Can't they take that out?" "It's too close to the spine." "Docs are afraid it'll move." "The corps doesn't want to take a chance... on an old marine that might end up paralyzed." "Hey, Danny, we don't have any rules on spines in the Montecito, do we?" "Uh, I don't think we do." "Leanne, let's go." "Come on." "You're not the boss of me!" "Hey!" "Did the lady stutter, numb nuts?" "When's the last time you had a good bar fight?" "What the hell's the matter with you?" "I'm president of a major hotel and casino in Vegas." "Well, it's been a couple years." "How about yourself?" "A week ago Tuesday." "Well, I guess certain things can't be helped." "It's gonna be an honor, Colonel." "Danny!" "Give it to him." "Got him!" "Got him!" "Hold up." "Let's see what the old man does." "Hey." "Thanks, Cap." "Needless to say, you two are grounded." "I thought you were the weatherman, now you're a comedian." "Ah, word travels fast, even behind bars." " You guys busted up that bar pretty good." " You should have seen this guy!" "Oh, yeah?" "Gimme some of that" "What are you so happy about?" "Well, I'm just enjoying my day job." "You broke the slump, didn't you?" "What?" "So you did the weather, you met some chick, and you busted out, didn't you?" "Oh, man, what?" "Where's Burn?" "He showed up for work at 7:00 this morning." "Did one or both of you offer him a job?" "You mean that son of a bitch didn't even get arrested?" "Must have snuck out the back." "What happened to "no man left behind"?" "Where's all that crap?" "That-That doesn't count when the cops show up." "Did you offer him a job?" "I don't know, I may." "I don't remember much before the fight." "Car's over this way." "Hey!" "Hey, how ya doing?" "I tell you what." "That was a lot of fun last night!" "Hey, hey!" "If you were going to steal seven figures from this casino, where would you go?" "Cash or chips?" "Cash." "Cage." "Too many cameras, too many guards." "Hey there, boss." "Hey, Gunny." "Hi, Gunny." "Who's Gunny?" "It's a long story." "So where else would you go?" "This is about Casey's gaming license, right?" "Why would you say that?" "Knowledge is power, Danny." "Closing night, the old casino." "Where would you say the most money exchanged hands?" "There's money missing." "That's why Ed was having lunch with the Gaming Commission chair." "Is it between us?" "Of course it's between us!" "Yes." "There's money missing." "Almost three million in cash." "We may get fired." "We may get fired." "Me?" "Probably not you." "Probably not" "Closing night, come on, think." "Uh, closing night" "There was the fat blackjack game in the high-roller pit right before midnight." "K.C. Chae lost 5.3 million in cash in about 45 minutes." "You have this on tape- Did you remember who the pit boss was that night?" "Robbie Giarusso." "W-We're good." "Thank you." "Ed!" "You really like this girl." "How old is she?" "Where does she live?" "Delinda, it's just one date." "The main thing is, Mike Cannon is back." "Mike Cannon?" "Can I help you, sir?" "Actually, I think you can." "I'm Gary Kravitz, executive producer of the Channel 12 News." "Oh, if this is about Storm Reno, he went to the buffet on his own." "We got a very strong reaction to your appearance on yesterday's news." "Reaction?" "What kind of reaction?" " I'm sorry, who are you?" " Delinda Deline, Mr. Cannon's agent." "She is just a friend." "What kind of reaction?" "Well, we did some preliminary testing of your TVQ, and you outscored Al Roker." "Wh-What does that mean?" "Well, it means you're a natural, Mike." "We got a lot of complimentary e-mails from viewers." "Um, "The new weather guy is charming and informative,"Janis at Henderson." ""Great new weatherman, who is he?" Robin in Green Valley." ""Who's the fine brother doing the weather?" "It's certainly got warm in here."" " What was the sistah's name that wrote that one?" " Uh, Darnell in Summerland." " Darnell?" "Regardless, you connect with people, Mike." "And I'd like to offer you the weekend weather job." "What?" "Well, I have a job." " Do you get weekends off?" " Yes, he does." " Usually." " Well, listen, it doesn't pay a lot." " But you never know where it might lead." " He'll do it." " Wait, wait!" "I have to talk with my boss." " Listen to your agent." "Call me." "Move over, Al Roker." "Hello, Mike Cannon!" "Change the cards." "Bring me another drink." "And get this bitch out of my face." "Mr. Hartoonian, come on." "You're gonna make the poor girl cry." " She should cry." "She's a jinx." " All right, but the last guy who made her cry lost a million, five." "Didn't matter what casino he played in after that, didn't matter what game he played." "She put the malocchio on him." "The evil eye." "What should I do?" "Uh, tell her you're sorry." "Toke her out a little." "Your luck is going to change, Mr. Hartoonian." "I can feel it." "I'm sorry, dear." "Sometimes I get carried away." "Go ahead." "Twenty-one." "You see?" "What did I tell you?" "Beautiful." "The deck was getting rich." "I knew he was gonna hit." "You handled that very well." "Thanks." "You gotta let them think they control their own luck, you know?" "Good, good." "I need to ask you something else." "Think for a second here." "Closing night in the old place, do you remember if there was a player that took a big hit?" "We had this Korean guy playing twenty-one." "Lost almost five million cash- right before we closed." "Did that go into one drop box?" "No, no, two boxes." " The first one got full, so we had to change it out." " All right, good." "Incoming from India." "How long?" "I can't open the MPEG until it's finished downloading." "Hey, I hear you got offered the weather gig?" "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah." "And you should see the producer." "I ain't jokin', she's smokin'." "Well, it's only weekends, right?" "I mean, we could rearrange your schedule." " I gotta ask Ed first." " Ed already approved it." " Really?" " Yeah." " Yeah, so what does it pay?" " Not much to start, but the executive producer said it can lead to bigger things." "You gotta do it, man." "Those TV guys get all the play." "Seriously." "Hey, uh, file is done." "Go to the blackjack high-roller pit, right before close." " Mm-hmm." "Up on P3." " P3." "Now who the hell is that?" "You guys know that guard?" "Mm-mmm." " Got another angle?" " That's all we got." "Whoa!" "Monica!" "How could Monica get access to the floor like that?" "She didn't even own the hotel yet." "Ah, yes she did." "What?" "Look, she secretly bought it from Brunson right before the demolition." "I was the only one that knew about it." " Thanks for telling your security staff." " She asked me not to say anything, so I didn't." "Okay, maybe she needed untraceable cash." "For what?" " I don't know, for the payoff?" " Pay off who?" "It makes no sense." "The woman was weird." "She turned off all the alarms so she could twirl around with that sapphire around her neck." "Definitely crazy." "But she was rich." " Winona Ryder was rich, too." " No, I'm talking rich." "I mean, she didn't need the money, and people need motivation to do things, right?" "She had Robert Goulet serenade you on your driveway." " Yeah." " Then she fired you two hours later." "Now look, there's no doubt this broad was a hundred percent a wack job?" "Yeah." "She might have been a bitch, but I'm telling you what she wasn't." "And I'm gonna tell the Gaming Commission the same thing." " She definitely was not a thief." " Okay, I get it." " Get what?" " She made you executor of her estate, so now you're defending her." "Wrong, wonder boy, no." "I'm defending her because I know she didn't do it." "Come on." "Could you maybe tell us a Danny McCoy story?" " I should be getting back to my post." " Mm-mmm." "By my calculation, chow time isn't over till 1600, Sarge." " Yeah, he was a screw-up, wasn't he?" " Did you, uh, make him get down and give you 20?" " Did he have a nickname?" " Actually, we called him "Chips Ahoy."" " Really, "Chips Ahoy" McCoy." " McCoy used to get these packages of cookies at mail call, see." "And the drill is, every time a private gets cookies in the mail, everybody else in the platoon gets cookies, he gets none." "Those were from me." "He never said anything." " You're Mary?" " She's his high-school sweetheart." " Hold on, you have a Mary story?" " I gotta be going." "No, no, no!" "I don't think so, Sarge." "Spill it." "Okay, check this." "I keep gettin' reports... about weird noises in the barracks at night." "Nobody knows what they're about, nobody knows who's making 'em." " Go on." " So, one night I got the duty." "I take a flashlight into the barracks, I'm doing a rat check on the worms." "I figure it might be mice or something, I'll check it out." " This is gonna be good!" " It turns out it's McCoy, and he's making these kissy-kissy noises... and he's moaning', "Mary, Mary!"" " Over and over again." " Kissy-kissy noises!" " In his sleep." " Yes, ma'am." "It was beautiful." "I ran his butt right into the deck." " I bet you did." " That's the greatest story I've ever heard." "Archivist Vanlandingham." "Thank you, Commissioner." "Uh, let the record reflect... that the incontrovertible photographic and videographic evidence... provided by the Montecito security and surveillance team... clearly shows that the former owner of the Montecito, uh, Monica Mancuso, was entirely responsible for the monetary discrepancy." " Yes." " But, because of Miss Mancuso's untimely death, it seems we may never know the reason... why the money was removed unlawfully from the casino, or its ultimate whereabouts." "Is Mr. Manning present?" "Uh, no, he's in Europe, Mr. Commissioner." "But he wishes to convey his gratitude to the Gaming Commission... for its thoroughness, efficiency and courtesy during the, uh, licensing process." "Well, the committee thanks Mr. Manning for his kind words in absentia." "That said, I see no reason to delay the issuance... of a Nevada gaming license to Mr. Casey Manning." "Okay." "We're not through yet." "In addition, this board finds that... because Miss Mancuso was the owner of the Montecito at the time of the incident, no fault lies with the president of operations, Ed Deline, or the Montecito's security and surveillance staff." "Beautiful." "We're off the hook." " This, uh, hearing is adjourned." " Thank you." "Thanks!" "I'm sorry we suspected you guys." "No hard feelings, okay?" "Yeah, fine." "Listen, uh, I might need access to some additional Commission files." "On this matter?" "Yeah." "Ed, it's over." "You won." "Take yes for an answer." "It may be over, but we're still out three million bucks." "So I divided Monica's life at the Montecito into four geographic regions." "The casino floor, restaurants and bars, residential suites and miscellaneous- like the health club, iLounge, salon, et cetera." "Well, that's very organized of you." "But why?" "What are we looking for?" " Maybe we can spot her making a payoff." " Like we're gonna catch her walking across the casino floor... with three million bucks sticking out of her purse?" "There must be hundreds of hours of video here." "Thousands." "So you take those two, I'll take these two." "I suggest you start to fast-forward." " You comfortable?" " Very, why?" "It's just that these little chairs offer so little lumbar support." "Huh." " Just wanna clear the air about this office." " Okay, you mean my office." "Ed's former office." "Don't think you're gonna" "Why don't we split it?" "I mean, you can take the desk and all this glory right here... and I'll take this little sectional thingy over there." "But, uh, you don't need an office." "You're quitting to become a weatherman, no?" "That's how it's gonna be?" "That's what you said." "I get it." "Mm-hmm." "I'm just going on what you said." "See?" "That's just" "Are you gonna sit and be a big baby about this?" "I think, after all we've been through, you might wanna make a colleague and friend comfortable." "First it was Ed's office, then Ed quit, then it became my office." "Then Ed came back, then it wasn't mine anymore." "Can't I just enjoy it for a little while?" "Please?" "Thank you." "Yeah." "Go ahead." "Danny McCoy's office." "Danny, it's Sylvia from Housekeeping." "Hey, Sylvia." "There's a crazy man down here named Cockburn, harassing my housekeepers." " He says he works for you." " All right, I'll be right down." "Okay, fine." "You can have the couch and one of the chairs, and that's it." "We should probably put a phone on that table too." "Mariel from Portland?" "You call yourself a housekeeper?" "How about you lock your heels?" "How about you assume the position of attention?" "Let me see that feather duster!" "Uh, excuse us, ladies." "That is the sorriest gaggle of female individuals I've seen since we burned down that whorehouse at Pusan." " What the hell are you doing?" " We gotta get this place squared away." "You are not in the corps anymore." "Oh." "And civilians can't strive for individual excellence?" "You are security." "You're supposed to be on the floor." "McCoy, don't get your skivvies in a knot." "I'm doin' this on my own time." "I'm on my lunch hour." " Hear about the Gaming Commission hearing?" " Monica stole $3 million from the casino floor." "I heard she killed a guy." "Okay, that part you're making up." "But, it's not like she wasn't capable." "You know, I kinda liked Monica." "Aw, wait a minute." "Don't start with that again, all right?" "I saw her do some pretty nice things." "Like what?" "Okay." "An 18-wheeler pulls up and there's Monica talking to these two little girls." "Don't tell me, white slavery." "All right, I'll buy all the cookies you have- the whole truckload." "Thank you, Miss Mancuso!" "Thank you, Miss Mancuso." "Okay, but you have to promise me, this is our little secret." "Okay, sweet." "Listen." "I know a freak when I see one." "And that chick" "We're all gonna loosen up!" "was a freak!" "Oh, wait a minute." "You got something?" "Watch this." "Whoa!" "Wh" "Rewind that." "Okay." " Whoa!" " I thought that they hated each other." "Sometimes love and hate are about this far apart." " Maybe that's why he's been defending her." " But I just don't see it." "Unless, you know how people who act all authoritative on the outside, sometimes they have this secret desire to be dominated." " Right." " I bet you it went like this." "Say it." "I work for you." "I work for you, what?" "I work for you, boss." "That's better." "Now, go to work." "Or, maybe it was the other way around." "You know how Monica had to be the boss of everyone and everything?" "Maybe, behind closed doors, things went down a little differently, you know what I mean?" "That was incredible." "You ready to go again, tiger?" "Yeah, we'll go again, when I'm good and ready." "Here." "Put on the game, will you?" "Come on!" "Yeah, I don't ever want to talk about this again." "Agreed." "Delete that from the system." "Delete what?" " Delete what?" " Uh, Danny just got a "enlarge your penis" e-mail." "That's all you guys could find on here is some porno spam?" "Yeah, we, uh- We struck out on the video." "Now, I'm gonna tell you why." "Run that theft footage again." " So what happened?" " Monica stole the money, again." "No, that's-that's what the video shows." " What are you getting at?" " Somebody stole the money." "But it wasn't Monica." "Because that is not her." "One." "If Monica stole three million dollars, she would know that everybody would come looking for her, right?" "In this case, eventually, yes." "Right." "Two." "Who better to pin this on than a corpse?" "But we know that Monica had access." "Really?" "Why?" "Because you gave it to her?" "Three." "Exactly." "Come on." "Come on." "So, nobody knows that Monica's the new owner but me." "Right?" "Right." "I was the only one that wouldn't think her presence in the high-roller pits was suspicious." "So, here she comes." "She's got this bank bag." "She unzips the bank bag, right?" "Pulls out the box, puts it in, zips up the bag, and she walks away with the money." "In a security uniform, which she also had access to on our busiest night with all kinds of distractions." "Think." "I don't care if she's in a guard's uniform." "You see what I just did?" "I came in, I messed with the bag, I opened it up." "Maybe she said, "Excuse me," "How do you do," "Hi," "Kiss my ass." Maybe she says nothing." "But, this is a brand new face." "You saw the tape." "Did you see one person in that tape- a pit boss, a dealer, anybody- give her a second look?" "Why?" "Because it wasn't her." "Because it wasn't her." "But if the video was altered to superimpose Monica's face, it would have to have been done recently, right?" "Why?" "Because whoever did it had to have waited till she died." "And the only guy who had access and the ability to alter this video... is that little weasel at the Gaming Commission." "Vanlandingham." "Right, it's technically possible, but he would have needed help in India." "Unless-You fellas know what a mirror site is?" "A what?" "A mirror site." " Anyone?" " Yeah." "Yeah- Yeah, you know." "Well, basically a mirror site is where you download files when local sites are too busy." "Like this." "You can bounce files off the mirror and back to yourself." "So the video never was in India." "It was just sent around the world... to buy enough time to change it." "Okay, so this Van- whatever, he alters the video." "But that's just the cover-up." "Because to get the money, he needs an accomplice." "And an accomplice would have to be on the inside, right?" "Right." "You know that too?" "So, you think Monica was stealing from herself?" "She did do a lot of strange things." "Yes, she did." " Remember that bartender?" " You catch 'em, you keep 'em!" "Oh!" "Very nice." "Okay." "Here's the flip side." "So, Monica and I are walking through the casino, right?" "Arguing about something or other." "It's an absolutely ridiculous expense." "No." "As usual, you're being penny-wise and pound-foolish." "Spend money, send the jet for this guy, and he'll end up losing 10 times more..." " than it cost you to bring him here." " What if he wins?" "She leans down and acts like she's fixing her shoe," " but really, she's picking up a quarter." " You all right?" "Yeah, just fixing my shoe." "Ah." "People are complicated." "You know, at least she did things her own way." "Here's to complicated Monica." "To complicated Monica." "Hey, Mr. President, got a new office!" "So, how you been, Kenny?" "What is this, teak?" "I need to know if any of my floor people, any of them, owe money on the street." "No." "Okay, well nice seeing you, Kenny." "That wasn't the magic word, was it?" "Oh!" "That jog your memory a little?" "Okay, there was a guy last year." "Owed about a mil, if you count the vig." "Didn't I just ask you that?" "No." "See, you said owe, not owed." " Who?" " Stand-up guy, though." "He paid the whole tab, nine months ago" " One last time, dirtbag." "Who?" " Robbie Giarusso!" "She put the malocchio on him, the evil eye." " Is that the real video?" " Yeah." "Hey, how much of this went to Rob Giarusso?" "We split it down the middle, almost a million, five apiece." "How would you like it if yourjob got sent to India?" "Don't think it can't happen." " Victor Five, comin' down." " Copy that, Victor Five." "You got a minute, Robbie?" "Afraid there's nowhere to run, son." "Hey, Rob." "Who you got to screw to get a drink around here?" "The way you're beating us, Mr. Hartoonian, you should fix me a cocktail." "Your usual, coming up." "Good kid, Ed." "Let me get another vodka tonic for Mr. Hartoonian, two lime, please." " Hey, so, Monica really didn't do it?" " That's right, not guilty." "Does that disappoint you, Sam?" "Yeah, I'm always disappointed." "Told ya." "Oh, gee!" "It's starting!" "The most-watched nightly newscast in Las Vegas, with Leticia Aquiño, Michelle Tong, 12 On Your Side," " Ed Rodriguez, sports, and Mike Cannon with pinpoint desert Doppler weather." " And now, the Channel 12 News at 11:00." " Hello, I'm Leticia Aquiño." "We open today with some Wild West weather, and Mike Cannon is here to tell us all about it." "Mike?" "That's right, Leticia." "Some might say it's too early for snow on Mount Charleston, but don't tell that to residents of our local mountains, where folks woke up to eight inches of the white stuff." "But if you recall, that's not that unusual." "About 13 years ago, we had an early snowfall as well, so, I guess it's just happening again." "Amazing!" "He's hot!" "Attaboy, Cannon!" "Yeah!" " He was really good!" " He's so cute." "Where you going, "Chips Ahoy" McCoy?" " Excuse me?" " Remember when?" "Mary, Mary!" "Gunny, I don't" " I don't think that this is gonna work out." "They're letting me ship over, McCoy." "I'm back in the corps!" "That's great news." "What about the spinal thing?" "Waived!" "Some guy I met pulled strings with the commandant." "Some guy, who?" "Some guy I met in a bar." "Semper Fi, marine." "Ooh-rah, Lieutenant." "Thanks." "Well, the access log shows that you guys deleted some video from the system yesterday." "You're not supposed to do that without my authorization, right?" "Yeah, there was some extraneous material, so- pfft." "What the hell are you talking about?" "What did you erase?" "What?" " We know about you and Monica." " What?" " We saw you and Monica together." " Kissing at the door to the" "Wait, you guys think I was having an affair with her?" "No!" "Hold it, hold it!" "Take a breath!" "I'm gonna tell you what happened." "Okay?" "I tell her I gotta leave work early because it's me and Jillian's anniversary." "She asks how long." "I tell her 32 years, right?" "She says, are you telling me you haven't slept with another woman in 32 years?" "To which I reply, I haven't even kissed another woman on the lips in 32 years." " Wow." " She then says, "Happy Anniversary," snatches me, and plants one on me." "I mean, just grabbed me and planted one on me." "Now, uh, w-wait." "If I was going to have an affair," " it wouldn't be with the Wicked Witch of the West, all right?" " Right." "What am I explaining myself to you two guys for?" "You don't have to explain." "I've been telling him that it was nothing!" "We thought- Oh, what?" "I did." "Tell you what, though." "I'm gonna miss that broad." "Ow."