Las Vegas (2003–2008): Season 3, Episode 1 - Viva Las Vegas - full transcript

Yummy.

Stay down!
Move and you're dead!

This was the second smash and grab
on an Indian casino in the last 30 days.

Honey, are we still on for lunch?

Eddie, are we still on for lunch?

- What?
- What's the matter?

Um, guess it's just, um,
one of those days.

- In other casino news-
- Yeah, I miss her too.

This was the scene just six short months ago
when the jewel of the Las Vegas strip...

changed ownership and began
a major renovation.

The interior of the all-new
Montecito remains a mystery.



Every employee has been
sworn to secrecy...

and confidentiality clauses
were built into their contracts.

But we do know that
the all-new Montecito...

will have at least two entire floors
of residential suites.

With crews working around the clock,
it won't remain a mystery much longer.

The grand reopening of the all-new
Montecito is just days away.

Hey.
The V.I.P. guest list-

Danny, look, we really have to deal
with this at some point.

Please call me.
...complete with surprise
musical guests.

And for those of you
willing to wait in line,

the all-new Montecito will open
to the public and its V.I.P.'s at midnight.
Hey, Jake.

Breakfast is ready.

Yeah!

- Can I help you?
- Only if you're Danny McCoy.



I am.
Monica Mancuso.

I'm the new owner of the Montecito.

Yo, Mr. D.

- Hey, Mike.
- Been looking all over for you.

This place is unbelievable.
Right.

Hey.
Good to see you, man.

You too.
So, how you been?

Good. Good. Good.
You?
Good. Yeah. Great.

Um, see much of Danny?
Nah, he hasn't returned my calls.

I'd like you to come back
and work for me at the Montecito.

No, thanks. I've already got a job.
Well, kind of a waste of your
abilities, don't you think?

- If it's good enough for my dad,
it's good enough for me.
- I'll buy the company.

McCoy Construction
is not for sale.

So, what are you up to?
Uh, actually, I've been valeting.

Valeting? No "woo-woo"
on the road with Auntie Gladys?

Backup singers don't make much.
I can make a lot more as a valet, so-

I got ya. Come to think,
we could really use a good valet
here with your experience.

I was kinda itchin' to get
back in the surveillance room,
if you know what I mean.

Oh, my gosh.
Well, I'll keep that in mind.

Great. Look at you.

All right, I gotta fly.
I'm gonna be late for my shift.
All right.

- Good to see you, Ed.
- Oh, hey, Mike, Mike, Mike. Wait.

Yeah?
Come here. Come here.

Can you VideoIQ a guy wearing
a plastic- a clear plastic face mask?

Well, that's kinda hard. Obviously
the plastic distorts the facial features.

Although, theoretically,
it is possible depending on
the composition of the plastic...

and the refraction of light.

It really all depends
on the refractive index,

which is the ratio of
the speed of light in one medium...

to the speed of light
in a second medium when-
Please, just-

Yeah?
Yes or no.
Just yes or no.

Nah.
That's what I thought.

Check with ya later.
All right.

- New Montecito is sweet.
- Yeah, you'll love it outside.

That's funny.

I just met your boy, Danny.
Danny? Is he here?

No, I tracked him down.
Why would you track him down?

I like to take a real hands-on
approach to my business.

Walk with me, Eddie.

You should know that the only one
that calls me Eddie is my wife.

So tell me about Danny McCoy.

I guess you didn't get
my messages.

I've been busy.

I can see that.

- How's Jake?
- Fine. Good.

Jenny?

- That didn't work out.
- Sorry.

No, don't be.

Look, I gotta get back to work.

Look, Danny,
we have to deal with this.

Just take care of that.
Danny, we have to deal with your
father's house and his things.

What are you worried about?
Oh, just everything.

For one thing, those outside contractors
you hired the last minute so you can
make your opening date.

What's really bothering you?
Here.

A guy in a Halloween mask?

They robbed two casinos.

They robbed two Indian casinos
in another state. I know all about it.

Eddie, let me remind you, I spent millions
redoing the casino and hotel,

and you spent millions of my money
replacing the surveillance system
with state-of-the-art equipment.

I do appreciate that, but not only
do I have new state-of-the-art equipment,
but I also have a new crew.

So I'm asking you, please,
push the opening back two weeks.
No, no.

We open as planned, so I suggest you do
whatever you need to do to get us ready,

including convincing Danny McCoy
to come back to the Montecito.

Go around to the valet.
I got it.

- Jillian.
- Hi, Monica.

- Oh.
- Aw.

Have a good lunch.

What was that?

What was what?
What was that?

Well, she's new to Vegas and I-
Can't I be nice?

No. No, you can't be nice.
Not to a woman who won't listen to reason.

Ah, you mean she won't
listen to your reason.

I think Monica's
a really nice woman.

She's a woman that married
an 83-year-old man.

Well, maybe she loved him.
She was 25,
and he was a billionaire.

You know, Eddie, there are people
who questioned why I would marry you.

Well, your mother doesn't count.
Okay. Now I know why
Monica called me about you.

Hey. Monica called you?
What did you two talk about?
You and Danny.

What'd you tell her?
That Danny's like a son to you, and since
his father died, you haven't talked much.

What the hell did you
tell her that for?
Look out!

Son of a bitch!

- Sorry, Mr. Deline.
- Honey, what is it?

I don't know. Maybe, uh-
I guess it's Danny.

What, so your legs are broken?
Go see him.

Did you ever think that
maybe Danny's waiting for you
to ask him to come back?

Why is it so difficult
for men to communicate?
Will you just go get him?

Bring him back here before you drive
yourself and everybody else crazy.

Hey, I thought we were
havin' lunch.

Is Danny McCoy around?
Over there.

Thanks.

Look, Danny, I'm, um-
I'm really sorry about not making
your dad's funeral.

Nah, it's- it's okay.
And I'm sorry that I couldn't
help you out in London.

Yeah.

Anyway, um,

I, uh, need you back at the Montecito.
Ed, I belong here.

Danny, you don't think working here is,
you know, honoring your dad's memory?

McCoy Construction is the only
thing I got left of my family.
You know that.

With all due respect, Danny,
you are your family's legacy,
not this company.

Your family's at the Montecito.

Yeah.

Take a look at this.

These guys here, they robbed
two casinos in the last month.

Some serious firepower.

Well, I mean, I don't think anybody's
stupid enough to try this at the Montecito,
but- but-

Anyway, I got all these new people
workin' over there.

I really need, uh,
some people I can trust around me.

Uh, you, Mikey, Delinda, Sam, Mary.

What's happening with Nessa?

Well, uh,
her and her father and sister,
they gave them new identities.

And, um,

I don't even know
where she's at.

Okay.

Come on.

Before you say anything.
It's not how it looks.

- I needed some quick cash, that's all.
- Wow.

Get in.

Get in, quick.

We need you to start running that new
surveillance system through its paces,
make sure there are no problems.

Where are you going?
I gotta go round up the girls.

Good luck finding Sam.
Nobody's heard from her since she quit.

You know, Mary-
Yeah, I know.

I told them we were not able
to accept possession of the chips
until tomorrow at the earliest,

but, apparently, someone gave them
the wrong delivery date.

What else could go wrong?
Whoa! Heads up!

I had to ask.
You missed.

Moron.

Hmm, nice. Lock 'em in the cage, and, uh,
I want armed guards around the clock.

Make sure every chip
is accounted for.

Yes, Mr. Deline.

Danny, I want a complete check
on all the new Montecito employees,

and the construction crews,
top to bottom.

All right.
We need to run a complete check
on all the new Montecito employees...

and the construction crews.

Got it.
Top to bottom.

I hear you convinced Danny
to rejoin the Montecito.

Yeah, I did.
Good.

- Feel a little less nervous now?
- No. Not even a little bit.

We open as scheduled.

Hey, how's it goin'?

Yeah. Go ahead.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Whoo!

You look great.
Thanks. What are you doing here?
You're all dressed up.

I thought you were
working construction.
We need you back at the Montecito.

Oh. Daddy convinced you
to come back, didn't he?

No, I wanted to come back.
I don't.

Does your father know that?
I'm not speaking to my father.

Well, what do you-
what do you mean?

Do you know what it's like to have
Big Ed Deline breathing down your neck
every second of the day?

Yeah.

That's right. I forgot.
He did catch us in bed.

That was fun.
We should do it again some time.

Delinda, your dad wants you
back at the Montecito.

Then he should have come for me
instead of sending you.

He's not gonna be
very happy when I tell him.

I'm not too happy with him and how
he handled the situation with Nessa.

Okay. Okay.
What do I gotta do
to change your mind?

Well, there is that one thing
you used to do when we made love.

Besides that.
Nothing.

Nothing?
Nothing.

Okay. Well, if you do
change your mind-

I won't.

See you around.

Hey.

I was serious
about hooking up again.

Hey, uh-

Geez.
Harry Belafonte.

Ed, I know it's none of my business,

but what exactly happened
with Nessa and her father?

I'm sorry, Mike.
Um, it is, uh, none of your business.

- She never even said good-bye.
- Well, I'm sorry for that.

It's just that we were getting
pretty close, you know.

Kinda sorta thought that maybe
she and I could've been-

I don't know.

Yeah, I know.

She's never coming back, is she?

- I'm sorry, Ed.
- Yeah.

Hey, uh, take a look at this.

What do you make of this?
What do you got?

Well, it's a casino riverboat.

Riverboat? Smash and grab.

- One of the hardest things
for a casino to protect itself against.
- Yeah.

- Two casinos and now this, the riverboat.
- What are you thinkin'?

What?
No way they'd come here.

A couple of Indian casinos
and a riverboat are a piece of cake
compared to a Vegas casino.

Hi. Come on in.

Hey.
Did I come at a bad time?

No. No.
I just- I wasn't expecting
company, that's all.

Is Jake around?
Workin' late.

That's a nice white picket fence
you got outside.

Thanks.

So, did you just
come by to say hi, or-

No. I was actually wondering
if you knew where Sam was
or if you'd heard from her lately?

No. No, I haven't seen her or heard from her.
I don't think anybody has.

Okay.
Hey, can I get you
something to drink?

No, I'm fine.
How about something to eat?

No, I'm good.
It's no trouble, Danny.

Mary, I'm fine.

Hey, Danny,

you have to deal with
your father's house and his things.

I just- I can't bring myself
to do it right now.

I'll help.
Thank you.

Ed needs everybody
back at the Montecito.

I'm not coming back, Danny.

I'm happy here with Jake.

This new surveillance system
is incredible.

Twice as many cameras on the floor,
infrared and X-ray imaging,

instantaneous digital playback-
You finish running those employee
background checks that Ed wanted?

Yeah. A couple employment applications
for two members of our construction crew...

turned up questionable
Social Security numbers.
Questionable?

Yeah, uh, meaning the names
and numbers didn't match up.

It could be a mistake.
Not unless we got a couple of
dead guys working for us.

Robert Jones and Tim Nelson
have been dead since 1961,

yet somehow they both managed to work
on the surveillance camera installation crew.

All right, let's run a check
on every camera their crew installed.
Already did. Cameras all work perfectly.

Well, then check 'em manually.
There's over 5,000 cameras
in the Montecito.

5,003. You should start
right on the casino floor.
We're taking the Vegas club scene...

one step farther,
and I'm putting the velvet rope
at the front doors of the Montecito.

I want to make sure
that security's visible-
All these new faces.

It's weird
without the girls here.
Yeah, it is.

I want all of you to think of
the new Montecito as your home-
in fact, your family.

Now, let's make this
dress rehearsal a good one.

We have 36 hours until we open.

Anyone screws up,
I want them fired on the spot.

I want the line outside the Montecito
to be halfway down the strip
before we let anyone in.

There will be a line.
As a matter of fact,

I'm a little concerned
about some of those people
getting sunstroke out there.

Send some staff out to sell some
Montecito water and sunblock.

It might be a little better
publicity-wise if we gave them
the water and the sunblock.

Whatever.
Whatever.

Danny, nice to see you again.
Nice to see you too, Ms. Mancuso.

Monica, please.
Monica, this is, uh, Mike Cannon.

- Mike Cannon.
- Ah, the claustrophobic valet.

Former valet, and I have taken care
of that claustrophobia problem.
M.I.T., isn't it?

Yes.
Montecito's resident genius.

Well, I don't like to brag, but-
Then don't.

- I'm sorry. Did I hurt your feelings?
- Yeah.

- That better?
- No.

He's sensitive.
You know, Danny, I haven't
seen Samantha Marquez here.

That's because she's not here.

She seems to have disappeared
with all her clients,

which, I don't have to tell you,
means millions of dollars
to Montecito's bottom line.

I need those clients here on opening night.
Nobody has seen or heard
from Sam since she left.

Given your impressive background,
I don't think you're gonna have
much trouble tracking her down.

You don't know Sam. If she doesn't
want to be found, she won't be.
What is she, all of four foot nothing? Find her.

Even if I do find her, what if
she doesn't want to come back?
Then I'll poach her clients.

Every one of Sam's clients has been
in town over the last six months,
but none have played at the same casino,

which makes me think
that Sam's gone freelance.

Did you bring that thing
I asked you for?
Oh, yeah.

All you gotta to do is download this program
before the fire marshal does his final inspection.

And what this program will do
is completely shut down the alarm system.

Totally untraceable.
It'll look like a computer glitch.

So the fire marshal can't
sign off until we fix the problem.

All right.
All right?
So, uh, you sure you want to do this?

It's the only way I can get her
to postpone the opening.
Have you talked to her?

Are you nuts? Talk to her?
I tried to sing to her.
Well, maybe you should try again.

This is on you.
This isn't me.
Right.

Ah, looks like "Hot Tub" Herman's
back in Vegas for the weekend.

Besides the Montecito, there are
only two other topless pools in town.

And we know how Mr. Herman
likes his Taittinger, don't we.

Mr. Herman.
Danny.

Ladies.
Hi, Danny.

- Life is good?
- Great. Thanks. Yeah.

- I'm looking for Sam.
- You know, I haven't seen her, Danny.

Really? So you're working
with a new casino host now?

If I was, that would be between
me and my casino host, Danny.

Did your casino host tell you that one
of the ladies in the hot tub is actually a man?

Bye-bye.
Bye.

Were you just topless?

Nice. Don't mind me, Sam.
Go ahead and-

- What do you want?
- We want you back at the Montecito.

- Sorry to hear about your father.
- Thank you.

I would have come to the service,
but I'm not so good with funerals.

Thank you. I appreciate that.
Sam, we want you back.

That's a closed chapter in my life.
I said my good-byes.
I know you miss me a little bit. Come on.

Everyone else back?
Just me, Mike, and Ed so far.

I heard Mary finally
got her white picket fence.
She's happy.

You?
I'll be happy when we get all your clients
back to the Montecito's grand reopening.

That is not gonna happen.

The new owner will poach
every one of your clients.
Let her try.

She's probably already
in the process of doin' it.
Good.

That's right.
You better start makin' phone calls.
Yeah, I am making phone calls.

Hi, Mr. Miller, it's Sam.

Yeah, of course. I have you in
the best suite in Vegas as usual.

Uh-huh. You-

The Montecito?

Um, that would be no problem.

Okay, sir.
Okay, bye-bye.

Who's that?

Mr. Wu? Hi.
Uh-huh?

Right. Uh, yeah, um,
I'm sorry, sir.

The new Montecito suites
are, in fact, not bigger.

Well, I- I happen to know that-

Yes, sir. Absolutely.

Consider it done.
Okay. Bye.

If that bitch thinks she's gonna get away
with this, she has another thing coming.
Looks like she already has.

Let me explain something to you.
There is no way anyone is-
Hey, hey, hey. Welcome back, babe.

Look, you made my services
part of your sales agreement.

I'm not going to hang around
if you're not gonna listen to my advice.

I do listen to your advice,
but we open as planned.

Monica, you have to listen.

Why are you doing this to me?
I'm trying to help you.

Who are you working for?
Who am I-What?

Who is paying you to do this?
Steve Wynn? The Maloofs?

Monica, you're really startin'
to get a little paranoid here.

It's not paranoid if people
are actually out to get you.

Please, Monica-
I will lose everything
if we don't open on time.

Do you understand?

I will lose my one chance to prove
that I am more than just some woman
who inherited a bunch of money.

We have to open on time.

Ed, please.

Okay. It's against my better judgment,
but okay.

You're gonna wanna see this.

I found digital recording chips
in three surveillance cameras...

installed by two guys in our
installation crew, Jones and Nelson.

The recording chips are set
to start recording at 12:01,

one minute after
the doors open to the public.

Then they'll play on an endless loop,
and we'll have a blind spot on the casino floor.

These guys are planning something, Ed.
Something big.

We're just minutes away from the grand
reopening of the all-new Montecito.

The crowd is estimated
to be in the thousands.

When I say that I want someone
in a two-bedroom suite,

I actually mean that I want them
in the two-bedroom suite-

not a junior suite, not a one-bedroom suite,
but an actual two-bedroom suite.

Is there a problem?
Nothing a mallet to the forehead
wouldn't fix.

For you, or the desk clerk
you're berating?

You must be Monica.

You must be Sam.

Now, is it true that you screwed
your husband to death?

Let's just say he died
with a smile on his face.

Oh, you mean his face
or your face?
I'm gonna like you, Sam.

Oh.
You're smart.

In fact, I think you're a lot smarter
than most people give you credit for.

Most gold diggers would just-
You don't mind if I call you a gold digger?
Everyone else in town has.

Gold digger. Most women like you would
normally take the old billionaire's money
and run, but not you.

You actually plan on doing something with it,
and I applaud that.

I am curious about one thing,
however.

Exactly how did you manage
to manipulate Ed and Danny?

Why don't we just bring Jones
and Nelson in for questioning?

We haven't got anything on 'em.
All we can do is fire 'em.

We need to catch these guys in the act.

And I need to know who else
is working with 'em.
Sure they're not working alone?

I'm pretty sure. The location of this blind spot,
they're gonna need someone else.
Ed.

Yeah. Hold on, Mike.
Sure, Ed.

We might have to send security
up to the lobby. Sam just met Monica.

Oh, man. I'd pay to see that.
Oh, and I checked with
the Indian casinos and the riverboat.

None of 'em had blind spots
or endless recording loops.
You sure?

There's no connection between
our blind spot and the smash and grabs.
All right.

Hey, uh, Mike, do you have
VideoIQ on Nelson and Jones?

- We got nothing yet, Mr. D.
- It's time, Danny.

Open the Montecito to the public.

All right, Mike.
We're opening the doors.

Okay. Opening.
Welcome to the Montecito.

All right, everybody, here we go.

Ed, the continuous loop
has been activated.

Mike, we got a match.

Ed, we got 'em.
They're in the blind spot.
It's goin' down.

Nice try. We got 'em.

Oh, yeah! Nice!
Good going, guys.

Oh, yeah.
Yeah!

We're back.
We're back.

Nice!

Hi.
Hi.

Wow, look at you.
Hey, you.

Where's Jake?
He's workin' late.

Hmm.
Welcome to the all-new Montecito.

For those of you that don't know me,
my name is Monica Mancuso.

I am the new owner
of the Montecito.

I want to thank all of you
for being here,

and I'd like to introduce some
very special friends of mine,

Big & Rich and Cowboy Troy.

Yeah!

Hello, everybody, how you doin' tonight?
Make some noise!

We're Big & Rich.
Welcome to the Montecito, y'all.
Yeah!

Sweetie.
I'm not speaking to you.

Whoo!

So, what do we know about the new owner?
She married a Texas billionaire
and inherited all his money.

I heard he was like 80
when she married him.
83.

That's one way to earn your money.
She earned it too. He lived till 93.

Apparently, he was
a horn-dog till the end.

What the-

Danny, pick up your phone, man!

Danny.

Get on the ground!

All right, come on!
Load 'em up! Let's go!

Danny McCoy.

- Danny, we're bein' hit.
They're in the cage.
- What?

Danny, Danny.
Keep everybody away. Nobody gets hurt.

Do something. Are you gonna
let them walk out of here?

- Yeah, and get 'em a cab if I have to.
- We have to stop them. That's my money.

The money they're taking is a lot less
than the amount you'll get sued for
if someone gets killed.

All right, come on.
Where are we going?

Where are we going?
Please.

He's got a gun!

Why aren't you- Do something.

I got 'em on every monitor, Ed.
They're gonna get away.

They're getting away.
Will you relax
and watch the movie.

Watch the movie.

This is the Las Vegas Police.
You are surrounded.

Get out of the vehicle.
Get on the ground.

Get out of the car and lay down!
Get on the ground!
Put your face down on the ground, now!

Right now!
Let me see 'em! Let me see 'em!
Don't move!

Don't move!

Step back!
Get down! Down!

Clear!

Vehicle's clear!

I see you've met
some of Las Vegas's finest.
Thank you, officers.

No problem, Danny.
This is Montecito property.

You don't have any more
surprises for me tonight, do you?

Uh, none that I know of.

Okay. I'm gonna go back
and enjoy my party.

Have a good time.

How'd you know?

Ah, you know,
it was just a little hunch...

until I heard Monica ask
for that dress rehearsal.
Dress rehearsal?

Let's make this dress rehearsal a good one.
We open in 36 hours.

So, you figured the hits on
the riverboat and the Indian casinos...

were all a dress rehearsal
just from Monica's speech?

No, no, no. Not really.
I actually figured it out from
your schematic of the Montecito.

I found digital recording chips
in three surveillance cameras...

installed by two guys in our
installation crew, Jones and Nelson.

See?

When you did your surveillance camera
overlay, you got me to thinkin'.

I'm sorry, Ed, you lost me.
I looked into it,

and I found that the Indian casinos
and the riverboat...

were designed by the same team
that redesigned the Montecito.

Okay.
Now,
there were common elements...

in the layouts of the casinos
and the riverboat...

that fit perfectly into
the Montecito floor.

That's when you realized
they were all just dress rehearsals
for the Montecito's grand reopening.

Exactly.

- That's dope, Mr. D.
- Yeah it is, isn't it?

What, uh-What, uh-
What do you mean, "dope"?
What does that mean?

It's- It's a good thing.

Dope.
Dope is good?

You're not a dope.
What you did was dope.
I'm not a what?

I can't believe you haven't been
to your dad's house since he died.

Yeah.

You okay?

I never told him
that I loved him.

He knew.

- Got any twos, Rich?
- Go fish.

Son of a-

Boys.
Hey.

What's goin' on?
Who's winnin'?

Fred.
- Cha-cha-cha-cha!

Show-off.

We had a great opening night, Eddie.
Better than Wynn's opening night.

Ah, good for you.
If you think that's good, wait until
I reopen Mystique next month.

- I can't wait.
- Oh, gotta go.

There is a brunch in my honor. Apparently,
I'm very popular in Vegas this morning.

I'm not very good
at this Go Fish.
It's pretty tough.

Ed, Ed, Ed.
We got a problem.
What now?

The new Montecito chips,
they're counterfeit.

Ow.