Montecito Casino
| Montecito Casino | |
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| Location: | Las Vegas, NV |
| Purpose: | Repair shop |
The Montecito casino is a casino ran and opperated by Mr. Linderman in Las Vegas, NV.
Notable Employees
Notable Visitors
- Niki Sanders
- Peter Petrelli
- Mr. Bennet
- The Haitian
- Miss Sakamoto
- Nathan's campaign manager
- A High roller
About
===Collision Hiro and Ando arrive in Las Vegas and Hiro is trying to figure out how to say "You are going to die in five weeks and New York is going to explode" in English so that Isaac will understand him. Ando tells him how to say it and offers to teach him how to say it phonetically. Ando's attention is quickly caught by a casino and he wants to do some gambling.
Niki and Micah are at the same casino and are escorted upstairs to visit Miss Sakamoto, Mr. Linderman's assistant, concerning the money Niki owes Linderman. She's told that he will forgive her debt if she does a "favor" for him. There's a politician from New York arriving and he wants Niki to keep him distracted.
Nathan arrives in Las Vegas and ends up literally bumping into Niki. They start to hit it off and eventually end up in Nathan's room talking. Nathan wonders out loud what it would be like to fly over the desert, not in a plane, but to really fly over it. While talking, Niki tells Nathan that her husband is a criminal and ran off and that she has a son, Micah. Nathan tells Niki that he's got a wife and kids. Nathan kisses her, but she tells him she "can't" and she ends up amicably leaving.
As Niki is waiting for the elevator she sees her reflection in the elevator door; half of it is normal, the other half is acting of its own accord. When the doors open one of Mr. Linderman's thugs grabs her and assaults her for not doing what she was sent there to do. He threatens her and her son if she doesn't go back. Suddenly Niki tells him, "Niki's not here anymore" and attacks the thug. As the elevator doors open the thug is knocked to the ground. Niki places her heel over the side of his head and tells him that if she threatens her or her son again, she'll put her heel through his skull.
Niki's alternate personality still in control, she heads back to Nathan's room. She strips down for him and The Symbol can be seen on her right shoulder blade.
Eventually Hiro catches up with Ando to find he's lost all but one dollar of their money. The last dollar is bet on a game of roulette, 26 black. Hiro tries to withdraw the bet, but the roulette dealer stops him. Hiro stops time and places the ball so that Ando will win. While he has time frozen, he also saves a glass that was in the process of being tipped over as someone bumped into a nearby waitress. Hiro expresses guilt in having used his powers to for monetary gain, but Ando compares it to Peter Parker (of Spider Man) selling photos of Spider-Man for money and Hiro seems to concede.
Hiro uses his power to manipulate Ando's cards while he plays poker, swapping his poor hand with his opponent's flush and winning. Afterwards they are both seen coming down an escalator in matching suits in a scene reminiscent of "Rain Man." At the bottom of the escalators they're met by men who throw them out of the casino and into the waiting arms of some thugs they cheated in poker. Ando, speaking in English, claims that Hiro has super powers and can defeat them all. Hiro, not understanding English, stands there smiling. One of the thugs punches Hiro in the face knocking him to the ground leaving Ando alone and scared.
Mr. Bennet approaches Niki and Nathan asleep in the same bed and tells The Haitian to "just take the one."
Trivia
- The ficitonal Montecito Casino which Hiro and Ando explore is the primary setting of the television show Las Vegas, also on NBC.