Episode list

Danny is called -in bed- with a ransom demand of $213,000 and wakes Mike; they have strict orders to 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, ruining his life and costing him access to his daughter. Some crafty searching gets them close while Ed's attempts to negotiate or escape prove painful... Meanwhile an impulsive gambler decides to marry just for the rings he believes bring him luck, only to lose them in a fight between divorcing owners of rival Elvis wedding chapels.

Chaos 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.

Construction 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 than he, to her suite 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.

The 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.

Tired 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.

None 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.

Ed 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.

Nevada 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 loses the casino will look ruthless, however he even has a manager, Sandy Schultz, who sets up deals greedily...

Ed 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 a 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 to try his luck, without any experience, in dad's lucky green polyester suit. Sam tries desperately to get it cleaned after a woman 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.

Monte 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...

Ed Deline tells Danny McCoy that Detective Luis Perez has been killed in Iraq, 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 Connell 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.

Happy 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..

Board 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 a CIA agent from Langley 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..

The 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.

The 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.

Banned card counter Gabe 'Nice guy' Labrador claims he must win $1,000,000 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 Deline 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.

Besides his job and love life with Penny, Danny retains his late father's construction company. In order to let it build the golf course Monica wants, they must make crone Dottie Arkin, who lived there all her life, an offer she can't refuse, only to find a corpse buried in her garden, which ex-con mobster Nick Calabrini believes to be his missing uncle Seymour Magoon. A shower design flaw result in utterly embarrassing exposures. Ed's wife forces him first to organize a dog show, then daughter Delinda blackmails him to run Jilian's troublesome mutt in person. participating whale Trey Cooper reduces Sam to his great Dane's dog-minder.

Ed 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.

Danny 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 through medical bills until her insurance pays, but isn't it all too 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.

Remarks about Las Vegas's past evoke a dream in which Danny, Mike and the girls arrive in 1962 at the Jubilee, the later Montecito, with new boss Ed, a mobster. They not only take over but invent the modern all-in-one-site entertainment formula, combining casino elements gambling, hotel, restaurants and shops, in the process inventing their present jobs. That takes quite some convincing and arm-twisting, in the spirit of those days still using methods they now wouldn't even consider.

Despite FBI agent Portis's supervision, the Star of Kashmir, an Indian national treasure and the world's largest sapphire, is stolen from the Montecito vault hours before it's to be exhibited. Danny reluctantly chases three reputed jewel thieves against the clock rather then officially denouncing Monica herself, who wore it alone. A seemingly supernatural magician also makes a fascinating suspect. Meanwhile Monica's expensive attempts to convince Deline to resume his manager post backfire; until she names a surprised successor.

On his first day in Ed's job -some suggest wrongly he intrigued for it- Danny is beleaguered with requests he couldn't honor anyway: Monica, who showers Danny with perks and more, wants him to be her good 'boy', even to fire Ed's most loyal employees. Monica forbids Danny to act rationally against such threats as a big winner and a rain man from a local mental home. The funeral of casino entertainment king J.W. McKeller attracts all hostesses, as corps robbers after his black book. Finally Danny does what Ed expected, in the Montecito's interest, but is found out.

Everyone in the Montecito is shocked after Monica's violent death. But Ed is especially surprised, since Monica chose him to make sure her last wishes would be fulfilled.

Casey 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.