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Thank you, sir.

He'd just write a check like he was at market.

Bought a couple gallons of milk and a loaf of bread.

Except for the check was for $241 million and change.

You know, I don't even mind losing to a guy like that.

A big move like that takes a set of balls.

I mean, who the hell is this guy anyway?

work the back 40 in the morning, buy casino in the afternoon?

You know, this whole "wild west thing"... I mean, what is that?

Can't help but be a little intrigued.

Hell, for all I know, we're all getting fired.

Where's your beard?

Shouldn't you have a beard?

Uh, I suppose Freud had a goatee,

if that's what you're referring to, but.. i'm not a Freudian.

You said you came here to talk about something that happened on a plane.

Do you have any questions for me?

Do you want me to have questions for you?

How about if I just tell you what I wanna tell you?

And we get it over with?

How do you feel about that?

I don't feel comfortable talking about my feelings.

Hey. Are you worried about your parents?

Aren't you?

Look, if anybody can take care of himself, it's Ed Deline.

Am I gonna miss him? Yes. Am I worried about him?

No way.

Hello.

Are you sure we're not gonna hurt the baby?

The doctor says with a normal pregnancy we can keep doing it right up until my water breaks.

Oh, so we can do this for, like, another eight months.

Wow, they're growing.

- What? - The twins, they're getting bigger.

Of cours they're getting bigger. And this is only the beginning.

So, is this permanent?

- You don't like it? - I love it.

Them... You.

You, I love you.

this "becoming-a-dad thing" is gonna come with some perks I didn't know about.

They're definitely getting bigger.

It's almost a given that a woman's breasts increase in both

fullness and roundess, especially in their first pregnancy.

Did you know that a drop of breast milk in the baby's eyes cures congiuntivitis?

No, no.

How do you know so much about this?

How does Mike Cannon know everything?

He just knows, doesn't he?

We got a guy on a little streak of blank check on 23.

- How long's been Cooper standing there? - That was 2 hours.

What's he doing. Just thinking?

- Yeah, thinking about firing our asses. - No, we do a great job.

- Yeah, but he doesn't know that. - I'm sure I told him.

What's his story anyway?

A.J. Cooper owns the largest working cattle ranch in Wyoming. He's a rancher...

He was married.

We don't know what happened to her, there's no record of a divorce.

Really?

And there's no known children.

There's a four-year gap where he pretty much disappears from all public records

Then it picks up again.

Oh, wait, you're gonna love this: Marine Corp Veteran.

- Net worth somewhere north of two billion. - Marine, uh?

- Big job lines up nicely for you when you say it. - What are you saying?

Uh, president of operations. There's a sudden vacancy, or haven't you noticed?

Ed's not coming back this time, is he?

No.

So, Ed Deline left?

And your friend Mary disappeared after shooting her father?

Allegedly.

And... and Julianne Deline, that's Ed's wife, she left with him.

And what does this have to do with what happened on the plane?

Nothing!

- Mike, you might want to come in here. - Why?

You've been watching me on this thing.

Pretty much all day.

Mike Cannon, surveilance and security. Nice to meet you, sir.

- Cooper. - Uh, Mr. Cooper.

Just Cooper.

- Super. - How many cameras we got in the hotel?

5230.

- How close can you get? - Punch in, Shannon.

That's very impressive. Why are you watching this guy?

Uh, he's exhibiting some unusual betting patterns. He might be a card-counter.

Counting car isn't illegal, is it?

No, but...

It's just an advantage a player creates by perfecting a skill.

True, but if we let card-counters play in the casino every day,

the advantage could completely shift from the house to the players.

We'd be out of business inside of a month.

Let him play. See you at the meeting.

Looking forward to it.

What meeting?

- Hey. - Thank you.

- I'm never gonna get this place re-opened. - No, no, no, no. It's starting to look good.

Hold on one sec.

Danny McCoy.

- Cooper was here. - In surveillance?

- What's he like? - Hard to say. But he set up some kind of meeting.

Oh, mmm, well, nobody told me about a meeting. What meeting?

- That's what I said. - Okay, alright. Good.

What do you want?

I just wanted to tell you that I love you.

And to see if they got any bigger.

Since breakfast?

I'll make an omelette.

With my last nickel!

My last nickel! can you believe that?

How much did you win?

It says 400,000 nickels.

How much is that?

$20,000.

Ha ha! That's something, ain't it?

Can you believe that?

My last five cents! Yeah.

I guess it's true what they say. Anything can happen!

Yeah, boy!

So then we all get these mysterious text messages.

- The meeting. - The meeting

Hello.

I'm A.J. Cooper, and I just bought the place.

Mostly, I like what I see and I'm not the kind of guy to make changes just...

for the sake of change.

But...

it is no secret that recently...

business is off 20%.

So, that said,

some of you will stay and some of you will go.

I will try to make my decisions as quickly as possible...

to give those who are leaving some leave time to line up a new job.

- We're all toast. - I feel it.

- Hey Mike. - Hey Mr. Cooper.

Uh, Cooper!

Such a kiss ass.

Let's have some fun.

Close all the exterior doors. Nobody in or out.

- Mr. Cooper, Danny McCoy. Surveillance and security. - You work for Mike?

Fire regulations expressly forbid us from closing all the exists...

Well, it'll only be for a minute.

Organize these people here and have them give everyone on the casino floor..

$1,000.

- That's gotta be $2 million. - More like 3.

Anything can happen, Danny.

Right.

Let's, uh, go waste some money.

Anything can happen. We're just gonna hand out some money here.

No strings attached, 1,000 a person.

Why, Dr. Steve, do you want there to be strings?

Didn't you say you spoke to a friend about coming here?

Yeah.

Delinda.

Delinda Deline.

Town-and-country hot blond?

Also got put in a box?

Got buried alive in a coffin? Nothing?

Oh, you have that whole... patient-confidentiality thing. I have that with my client.

- What? - What?

- Did you see Vince Peterson again? - No!

I didn't see Vince Peterson again. I just can't sleep.

Food doesn't taste good to me.

- ... myself right now. - You think?

You pushed a guy out of a plane at 15,000 feet, Sam.

You killed a man on that plane.

What do you think, I came here 'cause I'm afraid to fly?

Yeah, it was pretty satisfying actually. Talk about closure.

I just wish I could've seen him hit the ground.

Listen...

I know you pride yourself of being tough and self-sufficient.

but this isn't something that you can handle alone.

I kinda wish Mary was still here. She would cry for me.

It'd be great.

You have to see someone.

- You know, I think shrinks are ridiculous. - No!

Listen to me. Listen.

I spent two days in a coffin. It doesn't just go away.

- Ever heard of PTSD? - You know I always use condoms.

- Post-traumatic stress disorder. - I don't have time for that crap!

We have a new owner. And he might just blow our asses out of the water. I have to get back to work..

Is it a whale for a million-million five. I'be right his ray.

Steve Levin.

- M.D. and P.h.D... - Promise that you'll go.

- At least he's a real doctor. - Promise.

Alright, i'lll go...

I'll go once.

Your boobs are huge.

You think this guy's a little crazy?

Who, Cooper? Yeah.

I think he just wants to see what we're made of.

Uh, I just hope he's not another Monica.

What does Sam always say? Rich people aren't crazy...

- Just eccentric? - Right.

Hey, congratulations, dad!

Hey, thank you, Patrick.

Guess what we got here?

What's this? Plane tickets? Where are you going?

- We! Where are WE going. Las Vegas is very... - Oh, right!

... UCLA Bruins in L.A. Remember that? ... trip.

I forgot. I got a lot on my mind, you know...

Uncle Mike understands, papa bear. He's got it all under control.

You've been talking a lot about your co-workers.

- So? - So, it's a defense mechanism.

Talking about your colleagues is ordinarily a way to avoid talking about yourself.

Okay Dr. , you wanna spare me the freshman year seminar? I'll get to it.

- He's still winning. - Is he a local?

Unlikely. He's got a room here.

People don't usually count cards in the hotel they stay in.

Dr. Eric Haber from Kansas City, cancer specialist.

- He's here for the oncology convention. - How much is he at?

140,000.

See how far back he pushes his chair, and he's sorta

leaning back? Maybe he's catching the dealer's hole card.

Mike, I don't think he's cheating.

But I do think he's counting cards.

Well, then, I need another reason to throw this guy out. Find one.

Excuse me.

- Hold on to this, you might have a surprise. - Thanks.

Excuse me? Hold on to this. You might have a surprise.

Thank you.

You okay?

I'm fine.

Hey, if you ever need to talk about anything...

Yeah, yeah, I'll tell Delinda and she can tell you.

Your co-wokers still care about you.

- So what? - So it's important to have a solid support system in trying times.

Please Dr. Steve, I'm trying to tell a story.

Excuse me, hold on to this. You might have a surprise.

- What do you think he's up to now? - I don't know.

Oh come on, don't tell me that you and Mike don't have about 200 cameras watching his every move.

- We don't. - You know, if that was me up in the surveillance

room, after he's left the men's room, I'd be at a table with the man having breakfast.

I'm still trying to figure out how I should approach it.

Just be honest with him.

Well, introduce yourself. "I am Sam Marquez.

My turn-ons are rich people, my turns-off are poor people."

Okay, well, laugh all you want you genius,

but there's a new sheriff in town and there's big Ed... interference.

By the way...

the odds are running ten to one against you.

Do you really think that we could get fired?

There's no "we" here. I mean, not me. I bring money into this place.

You however fall squarely on the debt side of the ledger.

By the way, if you want Ed's job, you gonna have to step up a notch.

Who says that I want Ed's job?

Oh, okay. You wanna play it that way?

Okay.

- Good luck. - Thanks!

You know how you give away an aston martin every time someone hits a jackpot down there?

- Yeah. - Well, I was thinking that you could give away

15 trucks for the price of a sports car.

Mike!

You might wanna move over just a little to your left.

Okay.

Anything can happen.

Anything can happen.

It's a new shoe.

Shuffle up.

Just go ahead and shuffle up.

Dr. Haber.

So... yes?

Mike Cannon, Montecito surveillance and security.

- Something wrong? - Maybe you can tell me.

All I can say is I'm on the luckiest streak of my life.

- Continue good luck here. - Thank you.

- Hey Danny! - Girl or boy?

- I don't know yet. - How's Delinda, she's still...?

- Yeah, yeah. Still pretty much projectile. - You'll be a great dad!

Thank you!

Hey, do you know what you'll have?

No, not yet.

Good. Keep it "old school".

Kid pops out, this is surprise.

Yeah, maybe we'll try that.

Trick is...

you gotta pick a name that is good for either sex.

Thank you, Francis.

Think about it.

Uh? It will.

Ok.

- Sharon thinks I'm gettin' a hang of it. - He's not bad.

His name is Eric Haber. He's an oncologist from the Midwest.

Looks like he's winning the bundle.

Good for him.

You think he's cheating. How do you know?

I guess he's kinda like riding a horse.

You gotta get a feel for it.

- Exactly. - Yeah, but you've ridden the horse wrong...

odds are you'll end up getting thrown.

Thank you, Obi Wan.

Why you're telling everyone I'm pregnant?

This whole place's already knows.

Not everybody is interested in our business as you think.

It's a great news, Delinda, people are happy for us.

Most couples wait at least..., three months.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You know as well I that keeping a secret in this place is like a ninth-grade summer school.

Page 153.

Have you informed human resources that we are having a sexual relationship?

Oh, come on, Dee.

Did you know that failure to do so is ground for dismissal?

We were together for almost a year.

And my father would have ripped off page 153 and tossed it in the trash.

I'm not kidding.

We have to figure out the proper way to handle this.

I mean, what's the new owner gonna say?

Congratulations.

They only make the best burgers here.

Oh. Mr. Cooper.

Hi, I'm Sam Maquez.

Hello.

- It's just Cooper. - Cooper.

I-I know you're new to the casino business, but listen

I also know that a man doesn't go from a cattle ranch to a series of spectacular profitable leverage

but learn a thing or two. Am I right?

Clear you're not a man who is risk-averse.

Do you know who I am? I am sure you've heard of me.

... host of Las Vegas for the past four years now and I used to own this place.

It was just for a week, but

I assure you I'm not one who would rest on my laurels.

You know what I mean, listen I have really great idea that I'd like you

to hear about. I have a new marketing plan for casino services

designed to double our net income from... and gaming within six months.

I-I'm not sure if you aware of the fact that I was your competition.

I put together a little group of whales in the LLC.

that fell apart at the 11th hour. That happens sometimes.

I mean, it doesn't usually happen to me, but...

I got tied up.

I think we'll just table marketing plan for right now, we can always talk about it later.

I'm sure you have about hundred people bending your ear all the time.

Wow, you're "Anything can happen campaign", that's really genious.

So...

It was really nice to meet you.

I'll just be walkin' around the casino, if you need me for anything.

Sam Marquez.

- And how that you feel that? - Uuh... when?

- After you were snubbed. - Snubbed?

The guy loved me.

Anyway. Remember how I told you that everyone's really excited about Danny and Delinda's baby?

- Hey! - Hey.

- Two hundred on "boy", you got it? - Good luck, bro'. - Thank.

Just everything else on the Montecito there's always more to it.

Give me a hundred on "girl".

... over seven pounds.

Please, just think about it. Ok, I owe you a big.

Alright--okay, thank you.

It's the fire marshall.

They heard about uslocking the doors.

Yeah, Bob Casey. He just told me...

They're considering a surprise inspection and maybe even shut us down.

- Wasn't he a friend of your dad's? - Yeah, they went to junior high together.

Don't be so sure.

You know what this is?

Your baby is a third of an inch long.

That's your baby.

You just ate your baby.

- This all thing isn't real to you, isn't it? - This baby isn't born until next year, come on.

Ah. Okay, okay, Danny.

Week seven: almost formed.

Fingers start to develop.

- See this tiny notches? - Mmm.

Eyes, ears, and nose start to appear here.

Over here, intestines.

I bet you didn't know that initially intestines start to form

in the umbilical cord and not inside your baby's body.

So meanwhile, we all get called to Cooper's new office for some secret meeting.

In anticipation...

of making a few key personell decisions, uh, I thought I'd...

clarify a few things.

Sam.

Let's see.

You were kidnapped,

locked in a trunk, then shuttled onto a jet which the kidnapper...

flew out of...

at fifteen-thousand feet.

- Are you Delinda? - Delinda Deline. Hi!

Hi.

Former boss's daughter, spent some time in a coffin,

and you're having Danny's baby. It is, Danny, right?

- Yeah. Danny. - Danny's baby.

But Danny, who was recently arrested on suspicion of murder,

used to be engaged to another girl who worked here until a few days ago

- and now she's a fugitive. - Right.

Because she's accused of killing her father.

- What about you, Mike? - Uh, well I guess...

I'm the normal one.

So by this time we're all completly convinced we're getting fired.

And if you ask me how I feel about that, I'm gonna sprint across the room and strangle you.

- How's going? - Pretty darn great.

You winning?

You can say that.

- Where're you from? - Wyoming, you?

Kansas city.

- What do you do? - I'm an oncologist.

I guess when you deal with life and death all day gambling isn't all that stressful.

I'll remember that.

- How about you? - I just bought the place.

- You're the owner of the Montecito? - I am.

Guess we both are lucky.

You know that old expression, "better lucky than good", well...

I always felt

that should be the other way around.

- You think I'm counting cards. - Are you?

Are you gonna throw me out?

Based on what I heard a few minutes ago you will ask thrown out of here.

I'd say "good luck", but "keep the good work"...

might be more appropriate. Nice meetin' you, Doc.

Nice to meeting you.

Are you crazy man who buyed the hotel?

I guess I am. I'm Cooper.

Ooooh, you bite the cuticles.

Well, I actually have been doing a little work outdoors.

No matter. I give you a mani-pedi and we talking.

I have a million great idea for you.

Wow! You big cow-boy!

Mike!

Oh... fudge.

Hands are like a field of the corn.

Look like a Iowa. If you build it, I will come.

- How long you work to, Polly? - Seven year.

Long enough to see lot of hot young girls turn into stinky old skank.

You know coming like a fresh young flower.

Now so stretched out down there like throwing hot-dog down the hallway, you know?

Vegas chew you up and spit you out like.

Thank you for sharing.

- I got a question for you. - Okay, you ask.

What do you think of my "anything can happen" campaign?

Oh, I think it very smart.

You know, I think you like to keep people off-balance.

And plus I think the montecito need a big makeover.

Like... Rosie O'Donnell.

Hey, Mike.

So that... A.J. Cooper is quite a guy.

So he's impressed you too.

You're dying to bounce me, but he won't let you, will he?

Fresh cards, coming in.

You know guys, I can count the new ones same as the old.

- Hey, Danny. - Hey, what's this?

Lamaze's classes are saturdays in pink and the parenting classes are sundays in blue.

Classes? I thought that we'd just wing.

Nobody just wings anymore, Danny. Parenting is a serious responsibility.

Oh, wait a minute, this is the weekend Mike and I are going to la for the unlv game.

But that's a pink and a blue.

- You gotta cancel.

- But, i...

I'll have this baby and you'll cancel.

He's up over a million.

What about his patterns?

In the 20 minutes after you switched the cards, he lost almost 200k.

Since the second time through the shoe though, he's won almost 80% of the hands.

Why would a card-counter do better after the shufflle, it doesn't matter.

Unless he's not counting, as he's marking.

What?

These are the cards that we switched out from haber's table.

Lay them out and look them over. I'm going to do a little research on the good doctor.

- There's a hole in my hotel. - Yeah.

I understand you knew the bomber.

Uh, Jason Scott.

He was a comrade marine, and yes, he was a friend.

A friend with a bomb. a bomb you didn't know anything about.

He made it from items he bought at the hardware store.

He was upset, but there's no way I could've known.

You're surveillance and security, you're paid to know.

I was helping a friend.

I reported it, I take full responsibility, but...

Given the circumstances and what I knew at the time, I would do it again.

i'm thinking about a bowling alley.

- Here? - Why does that surprise you Danny?

I'm looking for people who think a little differently.

how do you think... got to Las Vegas?

On a cow?

You're still mad about the basketball trip?

We can't just do whatever we want whenever we want anymore Danny.

I already told Mike that i'm not gonna go.

What're you doing?

Looking over some of your dad's old marketing plans.

You're not in my father's shadow anymore, baby.

- You gotta be your own man. - Hey, I am my own man.

Alright? With my own ideas.

From the internet!

Internet?

A.J. cooper doesn't want a bunch of stiff ideas Danny. everything he's done so far from...

Giving away money to driving cars through the casino

to building a bowling alley on the 37th floor, he wants people to have fun!

- He knows the money will follow. - I just can't afford to take

too many chances right now. I have a family to support.

- You know why I love you Danny Mc Coy? - Why?

Cause you're smart, and you're strong, and you're not afraid to make a goofball out of yourself.

It's gotta be fun. Come on.

- To the "p", to the "h", to the "u", to the "n". - Come On, get on your goofy foot come on baby.

- Are you you with me? - Yeah yeah.

Make the money for the family. That's right.

- We're gonna take the trip. - Where are we going?

We're going to funland, we're going to the land of fun.

That's right!

Going to funland. Looking them bounce, looking them bounce!

Baby on board!

oh, oh, I got it, I got it. i got it, I got an idea.

Ok, i'll be back late, don't wait up.

You okay?

- You go baby. - Okay.

Going to have fun baby.

So, while the ridiculous white-people dancing are providing an inspiration,

Danny rushes back to the Montecito to implement his brilliant plan.

Hey!

- Montgomery gentry! - That's right.

- You got 'em? - Yeah.

- Did you do all this? - Yeah. That was me.

- What the hell is it? - It's a... suitcase party.

Everybody packs one suitcase and at the end of the night we draw one ticket

and the winner goes straight from the dancefloor...

All the way to paris on the Montecito jet.

Wow. Yeah, I know. But don't people usually come to Vegas

because they actually want to be in Vegas?

Shut up.

- Anything can happen, Sam. - Okay...

Hate her...

Good luck.

Meanwhile, Mike still won't give up on the case of the card-candy doctor.

There's nothing on these cards. They're clean.

Listen to this.

Haber gave a speech at an oncology simposium in florence

last year on technetium labeled sulfur colloid.

Sounds riveting.

Well, it's a proper radioactive die used in cancer procedures.

It's invisible, unless it's viewed through a special lens.

Okay, alright, it's uh... it's almost midnight.

Thank you guys so much, i owe you big time.

Hey brother, just remember the deal, you have to name the baby after tee-roll.

- Yeah. - What if it's a girl?

- Troylee? - No.

Hey! Are you ready.

Okay, here we go, here we go.

And the lucky number is...

09560!

Come on up! Come on up!

They're going to Paris!

And we're not talking about Paris, Tennessee, you know?

Everybody raise their glasses...

Bon voyage!

Alright!

- 20 on boy, six in advance. - Thanks.

Hadn't you seen this yet?

Seems that everybody is more interested in this baby than danny.

He told me you wanted him to cancel his basketball trip.

And you think that's wrong?

I think uncle Mike just needs to help dad

put some priorities in perspective.

It just feels like he's not gonna take this babybseriously, Mike.

'Cause it's not real to him yet.

And it may not be until the baby is born.

And he wasn't close to his own dad.

Do you think he's worried he won't be a good father himself?

Not for a second.

Maybe you guys should go on that trip.

- Yeah. - Yeah, maybe.

He's not counting cards.

- How do you know? - Because you don't need to count

cards when you already know what the cards are.

he's got a die, a radioactive die on his fingers, and everytime he sees a card,

he marks the back, eventually he marked every card in a six-deck shoe.

He knows what the dealer's hole card is in every hand.

But how does he see the markage?

He keeps rubbing his eyes every few minutes, right?

Maybe he's tired, maybe his contact lenses are bothering him.

He's wearing contact lenses, but according to the

missouri driving license bureau his eyesight is perfect.

This just arrived this morning.

Shannon, freeze it.

This is the same coating as haber's lenses.

This is what he sees.

You've been up all night figuring this out.

That's the job, Cooper.

I'll call... and have them pick up haber.

and gaming control, they're gonna wanna see this.

Hang on a second.

So, instead of turning the doctor over to the cops.

Cooper steps behind the felt.

substitutes a new deck of unmarked cards,

and starts dealing.

- What's... what's going on. - Sit down doc.

Okay, a.j.

Make a bet.

I'll make a bet.

I'll make a bet.

More.

Okay.

Don't touch the cards.

Oh, you gotta hit that.

Make another bet.

from what we can tell...

it doesn't appear you have done that before at any other casino,

why did you hit that?

I know from experience that sometimes good people can lose their way.

I wanna believe that that's what happened here.

Now, if I send you to prison, you wouldn't be much good to anybody,

on the other hand,

i can't let you walk away with one million dollars of my money.

so, we're going to keep playing until you lose it all back,

every dollar.

And you're never gonna come back to this city. You understand?

I understand.

Go back to kansas city.

Save some lives.

So, that was it.

Another day at the Montecito.

Didn't you say something about everybody losing their jobs?

Yeah.

a lot of people say tall men who are also very handsome...

- is a stupid. - I hadn't heard that.

Oh, yeah, very common, but not you.

Thank you, Polly.

I like how your mind work.

Really? Anything can happen? Very good test.

See how worker react to unpredictable situations.

I guess in a way it was a test.

Oh, fingernail look better already.

I'm thinking about keeping all the department heads.

What do you think?

Oh, they're all crazy, but nice. And mostly, hard workers.

But you no fire.

Don't tell anybody.

Your secret is safe with me. I put in a vault.

so, this beautician is in effect the chief strategist

for the new owner of a multi-million dollar resort and casino.

No, she's a manicurist.

and you felt I needed all these back stories so I could

put your life in some sort of context?

Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like you're really starting to understand me. That's excellent.

now you're ready to talk about what happened on the plane?

Time's up.