So, tonight on Las Vegas, Danny McCoy forgot to sign for a money transfer and the Montecito had no cash on hand. When the patrons found out, the entire casino pretty much went ballistic and were one step shy of grabbing pitchforks and torches and attacking Danny. Yeah, that would never happen in the real world.

It's true that Las Vegas doesn't particularly care about whether their plots are based in reality or not, but in this case Danny was just having a bad dream. Not as bad as the bad dream about Cooper delivering Delinda and Danny's baby on the casino floor and having the child be far less Danny's than Mike's, but it was still a bad dream. That's what the man gets for winning the President of Operations job and sleeping on his couch all the time. I don't feel too bad though, he has to have a pretty good paycheck to go along with it.

Mike pushed the idea that Danny's dreams were actually a premonition, that Danny's life was going to go downhill, and fast. Mike's argument was based on the fact that not only did Danny's uncle, whom Danny had not seen in 20 years, show up drunk at the Montecito and start a fistfight, but also that a fire inspector came six weeks early to check the place out. Not really the strongest argument I've ever heard, and I don't go in for premonition stuff anyway, but if Mike says something I'm always interested.

However, those stories didn't particularly play out in favor of Mike's premonition theory. Every infraction the inspector found at the Montecito was minor and he left without creating a stir. Then, as for Danny's uncle, Danny had a wonderfully cathartic conversation with him and even invited the uncle over for dinner. It was so sweet and heart-warming and completely unnecessary.

On the other hand, Mike did have other things going for his premonition theory. Though Danny and Mike didn't know it, there were some truly nefarious doings happening at the Montecito. A man showed up in a laundry service company uniform, went to the bathroom, changed into a maintenance uniform that had been stashed in said bathroom, and then started wandering around the back halls of the Montecito. Oh yeah, and that guy arrived in a truck that was carrying a group of men in paramilitary garb who had big old guns too. Their end goal was, as with all groups of well-armed men on Las Vegas to rob the casino. I think too many people in the show's universe have watched, and wish to emulate, Ocean's 11 or Ocean's 13 (for whatever reason, I can't quite be sure, they all seem to stay away from Ocean's 12).

The paramilitary folks gassed the whole joint and put everyone on the floor of the Montecito to sleep just in time for the episode to end in fantastic "to be continued" style. Danny, of course, managed to stay awake longer than everyone else around him and successfully ripped the sleeve of one of the attackers and saw a tattoo on the attacker's arm. I wonder if that tattoo may prove to be the crucial clue that helps Danny and the boys figure out whodunit in the next episode.

Did I have other thoughts on this episode that didn't quite fit into the above discussion? Why yes, I did:

• Why does Cooper wear the same suit in every episode? I know that last week he claimed that he was wearing a new suit, and I believe that Selleck's wardrobe has many suits, but why do they all look exactly the same? Tom Selleck looks good in a suit, it fits him, but I'd like to see the suit change color every once in a while. And, I'm not counting the tux he had on at the end of the episode as a change, because that was a special occasion thing and not work garb.
• Right after Cooper started having Sam do ridiculous things for Wyoming man trying to win the car, it was obvious that the guy had a history with Cooper, right? We all picked up on that, yes? Why does the show try to put things like that forward at the end of the episode as a surprise? And, why didn't Sam pick up on the history? SPOILER ALERT Because, if she had, she may not have gotten fired at the end of the episode.
• Mike referred to Danny's uncle tonight as having done a "nickel stint in Arizona for aggravated assault." "Nickel stint?" Really? I don't see Mike as a "nickel stint" kind of guy. I see Mike as "dropping a dime" on people, "ponying up the dough," and betting "dollars to donuts" kind of guy, but not a "nickel stint" one.

As for me, I always put my money where my mouth is. See what I mean over at The TV and Film Guy's Reviews.

Comments

Whats going to happen with sam!!??
This was boring until the end.
Cant wait till next week and the uncle is so in on it.

? | Nov 17, 2007 3:54:11 PM | #

---

I totally agree about the bit with the uncle, totally unnecessary.

I think it was time for Sam to get her comeuppence, she's been asking for it for a long time.

Now if we can just get rid of Delinda.

TRICCIA | Nov 17, 2007 4:18:11 PM | #

---

Sorry to say this because she is one of my favorite characters, but Sam deserved to be fired. She has such an attitude. Cooper being the billionaire he is didn't get to where he is by putting up with disrespectful employees. I know when my boss asks me to do something-I do it if I want to get paid and continue to have a job!

annie | Nov 17, 2007 6:45:47 PM | #

---

This show may have finally just gone too far and jumped the shark. We are supposed to believe that the Montecito has awesome security, yet nobody noticed anything suspicious and just dropped the whole laundry truck investigation for a contest.

Why was that cowboy guy even allowed in the contest? His relationship with the owner of the casino is pretty shady and asking for trouble.

Playing the song "Mad World" at the end was pretty ominous, and the way Danny went to sleep was more like a death scene. Any chance all those people are dead and not asleep?

Don't even get me started on Delinda (doesn't she ever work?) Sam and Cooper. Argh. I used to like this show.

Bethany | Nov 17, 2007 8:36:30 PM | #

---

Sam knew the cowboy was a friend of Cooper's. She just didn't care. Cooper canned her because she was arrogant. Even when Cooper had Sam in his office and asked her to sit down-she wouldn't. I'm sure she'll be back-but for now she deserved what she got. It was a great episode-Josh did a really nice job.

| Nov 17, 2007 9:23:14 PM | #

---

Sam may be arrogant but she's not Cooper's personal servant. That cowboy was rude and patronising to Sam, I'm surprised Sam didn't clock him one sooner. Sam used to own part of the Montecito it's insulting to have her wet-nursing Cooper's rude friend. None of the other competitors got the kind of treatment Cooper was dishing out to his friend. The homeless guy who looks dead standing up didn't even take bathroom breaks! Cooper talks about respecting people regardless of their status but he showed neither Sam nor the other competitors the same respect the annoying cowboy got. I'm not surprised Sam's ticked off with Cooper, his following her around the other week lost her a new whale and he conned her out of her lucky dollar, now he's treating her as if she was a waitress. Sam consistently delivers with her actual job, Cooper has no business firing her because she doesn't want to put up with his friend's elegiousness. Cooper just doesn't like her, he can't get rid of her for doing a bod job so he uses his annoying friend instead.
I hope Sam hasn't left for good - my God, out of all the original women Delinda can't be the only one the writers like! She's got so appallingly annoying I can't bear to hear her whine about one more thing. You'd think no-one else had ever given birth.
Incidentally, did anyone even notice that Piper wasn't around this week? Please don't bring her back.
Why can't the Montecito lock down when there's a robbery in progress? All the security team did was watch - no-one rushed to the doors to make sure no-one escaped and that stupid laundry truck was still hanging about. The least Mike could have done was have someone else check on it.
When is Mike's auntie Gladys (Knight) going to come back if we must have singing at least let the Pips back into town. Now that's a relative I can get on board with not Danny's reprobate uncle coming back and calling him 'kid' and starting a fight. Why can't these people come back, apologise properly and get on with it instead of expecting an instant make-up? He starts a fight because "our troops were being disrespected" and yet he was dishonourably discharged - he couldn't have disrespected the troops worse - hypocrite. He's probably involved with the casino robbing too except he did pass out with all everyone else.

Sirius | Nov 21, 2007 2:08:16 AM | #

---

Post a comment

Name:
Email Address:	optional
URL:	optional
Comments: