Las Vegas - The show about the town not the town

(Characters from left to right: Sam, Mary, Danny, Mike, Ed, Delinda)

So I've found a new show to follow over the summer (is it still following if the show has already had its series finale and you're watching reruns on TNT?). "Las Vegas" originally was on NBC on I'm guessing Friday nights (it seems like a Friday night show) and is about a fabricated casino/hotel, the Montecito, on the Las Vegas strip (it was actually, I believe, at the Monte Carlo) and the main/head employees whose lives are affected by the Montecito and the other employees. This show has quickly become one of my favorite shows because it combines comedy, sarcasm, action, a hint of drama (okay more than a hint), and some romance to create the show that is perfect for every mood and everyone.

Characters (background info, basically if you read this you can start watching on Monday and know enough to follow the plot):

Ed Deline: Originally Head of Security eventually President of Operations Ed is the Godfather of the Casino/Hotel. He takes care of his people and investigates when shenanigans (i.e. murders, suicides, thefts, kidnappings, etc.) occur. Ed is an ex-marine and also ex-CIA so he has connections which enable him to get things done faster than any police department and sometimes even faster than the FBI, he also has a lot of enemies. Ed's government/foreign connections often get him and anyone involved with him into all sorts of shenanigans. However, he is very strong, and well trained in martial arts so although he may look like an old fart he most definately does not act like one. Father to Delinda (adopted father of sorts to Nessa) and wife to Jillian, although all of the heads of departments are like his children. Ed is my favorite President of Operations.

Danny McCoy: Danny is a Las Vegas local (he was born and raised there along with Mary who willbe discussed later and Luis who is a Las Vegas cop). His father owned a construction company and his mother died when he was young. Danny is/was a marine and has been deployed twice. The second time he was deployed he was sent on a top secret mission and only Ed knew where he was and what happened to him while he was there. When Danny comes back he proposes to Mary who sort of accepts for a while but (although it was her dream) eventaully declines. When Danny came back he was not the same person, he was impulsive and wasn't able to sleep. This change was due to the fact that while he was on his mission he and his team were ambushed and he was forced to call in an airstrike on top of himself and his team, he was the only survivor and although his actions saved many lives he refuses to accept the fact that he is a hero. This is made apparent when Danny refuses to accept the Silver Star that he has been awarded for his bravery. Danny is absolutely in love with Mary, has had a relationship with both Delinda and Sam (although he acts more like Sam's older brother) and is good friends with Nessa. He will do anything it takes to protect any of the girls (as was seen when he, under Ed's orders, tried to keep Sam in her suite while there was a murderer after her) Ed considers Danny a son and Danny considers Ed a father-figure. He is currently (as in if you start wathing on Monday) Head of Surveillance and Security.

Mary Connell: A local and Danny's childhood sweetheart. Mary's father was abusive, she spent most of her childhood with Danny and his family (she hid at his house for 21 days after running away from home). Danny told her father that if he ver touched Mary again he would kill him and reaffirmed his threat when Mary's father showed up at the Montecito. Mary loves Danny but cannot find a good enough reason to marry him (she thinks that he's not thinking it throuh, I say oh well). Mary is very nice which makes her somewhat gullible and gets her into trouble every so often. She is good friends with practically everybody at the Montecito and is who everyone goes to with their emotional problems (all other sorts of problems go to Ed). Mary is the 'sweetheart' of the Casino and is Head of Special Events (meaning she plans concerts, weddings, magic shows, etc.).

Samantha Jane Marquez: Sam is a freelance Casino Host who lives at the Montecito and puts on a show for not needing anyone and being heartless, but is really a generally caring person (deep, deep, deep down). She ran away from home (she was living with her grandmother) at 16 and witnessed a murder (the murder of her employer/boyfriend/billionare fellow) at age 17. When the murderer escaped from prison he came after Sam for two reasons 1)She testified against him causing him to go to jail and 2)she knew where her billionare beau had hidden solid silver bars (what he didn't know was that Sam had already collected said bars and locked them in a safe in her suite). Thanks to Danny and Ed the culprit was put bakc behind bars (where he eventually died) and Sam was safe. Sam doesn't truly trust anyone and cares mostly about her job because it is the only security that she has, she rarely puts down roots. Her job as a Casino Host is to keep the high rollers playing for as long as possible and to supply them with any luxury they might require that would cause them to stay and play longer at the Montecito. Lately she tried to help bust the Juarez Cartel after finding out that one of her whales (high rollers, you need to know that term in order for the show to make sense) was laundering money for them. This happened right after a big spat with Ed and so Ed does not entirely trust her. Anyway Sam eventually met with the head of the Cartel wearing a wire for the FBI and was almost killed in gunfight that ensued after the wire was discovered, luckily Ed was there to come to the rescue. Sam is an otherwise completley self-reliant person and can hold her own with just about anyone. Recently it was revealed that Sam was and is still married. She also seems to have an affinity for lying. (I think if you put her, House, James 'Sawyer' Ford, and Ben Linus in the same room only one of them would survive and my money would either be on House or Sam. I think the two of them would make the perfect couple as they both possess the same personality traits, but maybe that's just me.)

Mike Cannon: a physics/engineering genius Mike has a degree from MIT and originally worked as Head Valet at the Montecito due to a claustrophobia problem he had (this problem became quite evident when Mike freaked out during a power outage when he, Ed and Mitch (another security agent) were locked in the security room). Anywho Mike was promoted (demoted really as it was a pay cut) to a security agent when Ed decided that his MIT expertise were absolutely indespensible to the security team and were being wasted on the valeting. Mike has never to my knowledge been in an incredibly serious relationship because women apparently find his incredible smarts unappealing. Ed trusts Mike to help him solve all sorts of crimes and the like with his vast knowledge of all things mechanical. Mike is a computer/mathmatical/physics genius and these attributes allow him to do things that other people otherwise could not (use microscopic cameras to catch thieves and cheaters). Mike was recently responsible for resuing a young lady froma serial rapist/killer and also helped Ed get out of an unjust Traffic Violation ticket. Mike is Danny's best friend and is the closest thing that Danny has to a brother. The two get competitive at times, but make a hilarious and dynamic duo.

Delinda Deline: Delinda has a genius IQ which you would never guess from watching the show as she seems to insist on acting like an airhead. Every once in a while her genius shows when she helps solve a murder (as she did recently) or exhibits her wilderness survival techniques. Delinda runs the Montecito's restaurant/club the Mystique and therefore has to constantly put up with her chef's (Gunther) antics and predjudices. She is a fashion genius, but als very, very ADD. She and Sam are the two most kidnapped people on the show due to their contacts (Delinda's relationship to Ed and Sam's relationships to multiple millionares). She had a brief relationship with Danny at the beginning of season one but Ed quickly put the kabosh on that ater catching them in bed. Ever since then it seems that Delinda has a new boyrfriend every week. It was recently revealed that Delinda was married for a weekend and no one has seen her ex-husband since then (suggesting that Ed may have been less than thrilled). Delinda and Nessa grew up together and are practically sisters which means they also bicker quite a bit. Although Delinda may seem like a ditz she is actually brilliant, it just rarely shows.

Nessa Holt: Nessa is the Pit Boss at the Montecito and is a genius at all things invollving gambling. She can spot a cheater/card caounter from anywhere int the casino. She can also tell who is winning a game of poker simply by observing their behavior for a few seconds. Her father was a con man who was allegedly used and then killed by the CIA. It has been suggested that Ed was involved in her father's 'death,' but nothing has been confrimed. Ed has however raised Nessa ever since her father disappeared. I say disappeared because it would seem that her father has been to the Montecito to check up on Nessa quite a bit meaning that he is not acutally dead, but rather hiding in an untouchable country. Nessa is also capable of holding her own but can not stand to be on the outside of a secret. I think she has a little thing for Mike, but who knows. She is also competitive when it comes to who she and Delinda date. Danny has also promised to show her the sites of Vegas but has never gotten around to it. Not too long ago Nessa was payed a visit by a woman who seemed to know how to get Nessa into contact with her father. The woman actually turned out to be a thief, but was quickly caught by Ed, Mike, and Nessa. Since then Nessa has given up on finding her biological father as Ed has been more of a father to her than that man ever was.

I think that covers just about everything you need to know for Monday. Now that I have finished making the show sound like a cheesy soap opera I highly recommend that you watch it and judge it for yourself. As I stated earlier I think it has something for everyone to enjoy, but maybe that's just me (I doubt it though).