This was a vintage Vegas episode, nice and fluffy, but funny as well.
Sam's handling of Lindsay Price's character was excellent because she also got the big boss in hot water for bringing in that hussy into the Montecito in the first place.
The MNF theme during the youth football games was hilarious.
The mini-motorcycle chase was pure Vegas zaniness.
Will we ever see that bar owner again?
Seeing Ed doing the hopping during the Black Eye Peas performance was LOL funny.
Some steals a Degas from a Montecito art exhibit, and Ed is hellbent on getting Jack (Alec Baldwin) to help him get the painting back before the police or insurance company finds out. Ed's storylines tend to border on caricature with his tough guy persona, but I did enjoy the right cross into Jack's kisser. I did get a small chuckle when Ed asked Danny and Mike if they had ever seen "The Godfather" in trying to make the point of "keeping your friends close, your enemies closer" is explaining why Ed was still dealing with Jack.
Mike and Danny have to deal with tenants that are trashing their property (co-owned by the gals as well), and the tenants are both named Steve, and are homosexuals, and the Steves thought that Danny and Mike were a couple as well, which led to quite a bit of protestations by Danny and Mike, funny stuff in seeing them so uncomfortable in that light.
Sam has to deal with a young whale who acts on the impulses of his lady friend (the impulsive nature isn't lost on Mary who finally makes a move on Danny which ends up in a storage closet). The lady friend was very hot until she opened her mouth, then the fantasy ended...abruptly, for both the whale and this viewer.
Overall, an average episode without enough laughs for me to consider it a really good LV episode.
Not sure what the writer was thinking, though... I mean, they seemed to spend the entire Danny-and-Mary part of the episode emphasizing that their lives were already thoroughly interconnected and that they had always counted on each other when things seemed at their worst and then... Mary breaks off the engagement? The hell? How does that make any sense?
Granted, the primary reason to watch Las Vegas is that every cast member not named "James Caan" is quite good-looking, but that was the sort of bizarre bit of character development I expect from weak Vegas rip-off North Shore.
I think Danny and Mary are still stuck in that time when they were 15, and haven't really progressed emotionally past that time in their lives. It never felt like there was a lot of passion, moreso, just comfort, when they hooked up.
Mike falls in love with a leggy lady engineer, (Ivana Milicevic) in town for an engineering conference. Mike has a hard time impressing her because of the many hats he wears at the Montecito: Valet/Surveillance/Engineer, and Ivana's character gives him the brush-off because she thinks Mike's really just a valet, but Mike stays persistent and proves her wrong because he feels she's the one. But his stalker-like background checks prove to be his downfall after she warms up to him.
Danny is stuck looking for a high profile cowboy's horse who got loose from his trailer. A little too much man-horse affection towards the conclusion of this subplot for me. Delinda did try to get to know the cowboy better, but she had no chance next to the horse, and neither did the cowboy's manager (I think played the same actress who's in a Dodge commercial playing a waitress who can't quite leave a diner on wheels, so the guy with the truck just hitches the dinner and drags her along, but I digress).
Sam appears to be caught up in a money laundering plan with a hotel guest, and it soon escalates with the FBI brought in and they use Sam as bait to take down a drug cartel. That subplot got a hasty shakedown resolution, but Ed assures Sam that he trust her, and then Ed turns around and has Sam tailed. Cue the mysterious music as the distrust levels rise.
Overall, a so-so episode, though Mike missed out on something pretty good. Doh!
I'm losing patience with this show. There is an endless supply of potentially interesting stories about what goes on inside a casino, and yet they seem determined to focus on events outside the casino. I don't need to see Ed (Caan) be smarter than the police and single-handedly solve a crime each week. I have CSI-Miami for that.
IMO, if this show is to succeed, the writers must go back to what made the show popular in the first place -- interesting/funny stories about gamblers and lots of gratuitous T&A at the pool.
Anyone else wince like they did in "Misery" when Ed was getting the crap beat out of him?
The Duran Duran story told in alternating cuts between Danny and Mary was funny, and yet, I have no idea which story was true, but Danny's spit-take with the peppermint schnaps might have been a give-away.
Otherwise, an average episode (and what was up with Mike knowing how to speak Korean).
I love LAS VEGAS as well, but am getting really sick of the lazy writing, as far as having one push of a button or impossible image analysis solve the mystery every week.
"We can't find out who [did something]. Let's look at the surveillance footage....okay zoom in on that....enhance it...go infra-red.....okay, now X-ray it.....reverse it....alter the perspective.....IT'S THE KILLER!"
Especially infuriating was last night's show, where a computer was used to remove the limp of a suspect, then use the resulting video to match the person's "gait"!!
I like the high-tech elements of the show, but they're fast moving into sci-fi territory with this stuff. How's about some old-fashioned gum-shoeing or shaking down of liefs for info?
How can you blame them though with the success of CSI? That's about as far from reality as one can get with forensic science. At least LV has eye candy! =)