No sooner has the stylish action-adventure series
Las Vegas launched its first season than Big Ed DeLaine (
James Caan), head of security for Vegas' Montecito Resort & Casino, begins to question the wisdom of hiring former Marine Danny McCoy (
Josh Duhamel) as his second in command. This second-guessing comes about when Big Ed discovers Danny in the same bed with Ed's only daughter, Delinda (
Molly Sims), who is maître d' at the A-list restaurant Mystique. While Ed and Danny try to sort out their differences, they embark on a variety of life-threatening assignments, along with the other members of the security team and Danny's lifelong friend Mary Connell (
Nikki Cox), director of special events. Also lending a helping hand from time to time are a number of Montecito staffers, among them head valet/special events coordinator Mike Cannon (
James Lesure), aloof pit boss Nessa Holt (Marsha Thomason), and enigmatic casino hostess Samantha Marquez (
Vanessa Marcil). The security staff's responsibilities bring them in close contact with computerized cheating devices, corrupt politicians, phony psychics, (presumably) murderous magicians, high-profile boxing bouts, would-be suicides, dangerous sexual predators, contract killers, pickpockets, diamond thieves, pop divas, and, perhaps inevitably,
Wayne Newton -- not to mention a not-so-inevitable meeting with
Jean-Claude Van Damme. Season one ends with Danny re-upping with the Marines in order to fight in Iraq, and Mary reeling from an unpleasant reunion with her long-lost dad. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide