I didn't know he was going to propose, I knew he liked me but then most men do. I'm quite taken back by it all honey everything's happening so fast.

He didn't think I was good enough for his daughter. After all our families have been through together........ after all the help I've given him, he thinks...he thought I wasn't good enough. Can you believe that Chip?  I was good enough when he was taking money off me though wasn't I?

Who has been murdering rubber chickens?

Looked in the mirror lately

Ahh Scarlett get me a drink will you!

Honey? Do I look like a honey to you? Watch your mouth.

Just out of interest.....what would say if he did ask you?

Harry....could you hypnotise Spacebarlett into using her one brain cell effectively?

You obviously have no idea of the term IMPOSSIBLE!! Bet.... Honey...

You wanna session of Bet Black Style Hypnotherapy?

Sorry sugarpie. Well, Tommy's very rich due to his many...interests and he's just the kind of guy I need to protect me from that harsh world out there without my daddy so I guess I'd probably say yes 

Aww your just saying hat cos yu love me ain't ya.. Runs off......

Don't you fret none buddy. It's an insult to such a fine upstanding citizen in fact it's enough to drive a man to... wait...no..... you wouldn't, would you Tommy? 

Ah am still worried about the poor rubber chicken

Yes master..

*bows*

What would you like?

don't worry I believe it's got it's own show in Engerland at some place called Clacton-on-Sea

*seizes the moment*

*gets down on one knee*

Thud

Jen...... oh Jen..... my sweet trusting, innocent Jen....... you've no idea how long I've dreamt of this moment (nor have I cos my memory ain't that good)....... you don't have to worry no more...... I'll look after you, give you the best of everything I will, just you wait and see! You'll have a bigger casino than the Shiekh, more bras than Harry, bigger breasts than Harry and Vi put together (I know an excellent surgeon). You'll have it all babe.  

Jen Ewynn...........will ya marry me?

Course I wouldn't me old bud As annoying as it was, him trying to keep me away from my beloved Jen and all that..... he was still her old man at the end of the day, and my fathers friend..... like family really, and you don't do that to family do ya Chip?

Why how romantic!

And what a big rock...
Jen honey - grab that man before some other lady does..

      

Oh my.... Tommy.... you sure know how to take a gal by surprise. I don't know what to say...*eyes up expensive looking ring*....it's all so....sudden.. *eyes up ring again, it does look very expensive*. Oh Tommy... yes, yes I will marry you  oh I'm feeling all emotional 

Oh Jen

*wonders if it's too soon to feel her up*

Shall we do it Las Vegas style? I'm sure Al could slip us in for a quickie! I'll split the free chips with ya?

Hold your horses Tommy darlin you're getting nothing till I've got that incredibly expensive beautiful wedding ring on my finger 

Ah think it is so romantic.... out of all  this destruction and horror has come hope and happiness.

*wipes a tear away*

Jen honey your Daddy would be so proud .
Ah hope ah find me a man who loves me like that one day..

*restrains his horse*

Don't leave me waiting too long Jen.......ten minutes counts as a long engagement in this town hun

As I'm in a love fuelled good mood....... I'll happily answer your questions Mr Sholmes.

I financed the lot, I'm a generous man me. Especially to those I think of as family. It was all Rolands idea though....the plans for the Sweaty Palms I mean, and they were good plans too, he certainly weren't no "front man"! I may be generous and multiple brain cell challenged...... but I ain't stupid when it comes to business. I expect a good return, and under Rolands management I was gonna get just that with the Sweaty Palms.

And the best return ever is his daughters hand in marriage...... I'm happy with my investment Mr Holmes.

Makes me wanna puke

Gee Tommy You have style..* What a guy..* Sorry Scarlett sweety, I ran off in case Bet got me. For get the drink I have an act to do.. Hmmm *Thinks* How would you like Harry to cut you in half sometime or perhaps make you disappear on stage...?

Don't let us stop ya!! .. *Hands Bet a paper bag*

Soooo, Tommy and Jen are getting married, Scarlett wanted to give up gambling and Hary waffled on about smoking as he hypnotised her, Bet's tongue is as viscious as ever and some rubber chicken has opened up a theatre in Clacton-On-Sea....so I haven't missed much then?

Well congratulations on your impending nuptials Mr Gunn and thank you for answering my questions. 

so if I understand this correctly  Roland had no money but you had such faith in his abilities you bankrolled the whole operation and put Roland in as Manager. .so are you saying the Casino was in fact yours not Rolands or was it all a loan and the casino was Rolands on paper?

If it was a loan was it repaid and if not how will you get a return now that it has passed onto the Sheik via the bet [meaning Roland died broke in effect unless he had other monies elsewhere].. will your  repayment plan pass on too and how was it set up?  did you have shares or was it a percentage of the profits?

How angry did you feel that Roalnd was happy to take your money yet didn't think you were good enough for his daughter. .Did you really help him out more to keep close to Jen or because you thought it was a really good business proposition?

That's a pretty nice Diamond ring that you gave to Jen. .did you buy it locally or did somebody else source the Diamonds for you, Like Chip ?

Also waiting on Bet's answer to my query whether she felt Roland cheated her in any way, personally or professionally

Sherry do you feel there is unfinished business now that your newly found father has been cut short in his prime, leaving questions unanswered possibly, or had you resolved any issues you may have had with him, or was that what the row was about?   Also did your mother have any issues with him and did Roland pay her any child support as you were growing up?

*has no idea where these questions are going but is hoping everything will all fall into place eventually... or not  *

*stomps in*

You know what? That Shieeeeeekh Aleeeeeeg needs to employ better cleaners when he finally pulls his finger out and does something around here. There are bits of crap all over the casino floor!

 As Vi seemed otherwise engaged (by the sounds coming from her room it seems she was already hard at work being a scrubber ) I had to pick the rubbish up myself

I did find some interesting bits and pieces though........ a suicide note or two (really must check whether the punters in rooms 254 and 318 bothered to shut the windows after they jumped )......and this.......






Doesn't tell us anything we don't already know of course (thanks to the tendancy of drunks to tell you every god damn boring detail of their pathetic lives ), but it's nice to have a bit of confirmation.....and it makes you think doesn't it?

Roland must have abandoned that wet drip Smelly Skunk and her mother. Maybe she tracked Roland down to get her revenge....... to kill him?

Maybe I need to rename her Sherry Spunk?

One thing I will say is people leave a lot of things lying around that, if I were them, I would rather not have other people see.
Anyway, Sherry was abandoned as a child by her father, somehow she found out his identity, he must not be named on the birth certificate. She has paid a private dick to get the goodies on him while working at the Casino with the help of Jen. Then just as she acquires the proof  the guy dies. She is now ready to produce the evidence that could enable her to inherit some of what was his. She could be the killer, but OMG the terrible truth is revealed, the bet with the Sheik! If she killed him, what irony she has forced the loss of all that could have been hers!! She tossed the note away in anger

This to me sounds like providence.

You managed to think all that while under the influence of half a bottle of vodka?

I don't know whether to applaud or see how easy it is to push you over.

Harry  You thunked that up all by yourself??? Or do you know more than you are letting on??

How's Scarlett's 'therapy' going Harry? Is she managing to stay away from the tables? Have you managed to get her on her back yet??


Bet, maybe your boyfriend should come see Harry for help with his habit, you caould save a bit of face then...mind you, with a face like that, i'm not sure I'd want to save it at all....

Well ah know for a fact that the deal between Roland and Tommy was purely business and on a person level he couldn't stand Tommy!
He hated the relationship between them and marriage would have been "Over my dead body!!" to quote Roland....

Wel, that's interesting Al, I wonder if Tommy knows how Roland really felt about him? Does Jen for that matter? Is she prepared to marry a man her daddy hated? I wonder....

You gotta summat to say to me Elvis reject, you say to to me face.

Careful Tommy Dung!
This Elvis "reject" is a 10th level dan in Origami

I've been doing a bit of my own detective work.. So far the rest of you are like kinder garden cops

You have to look at it from the killers point of view. So far there is motive for a lot of ya's.

Take Bet.. A homicidal maniac, full of hate and disregard for peoples feelings, Someone hurt her so bad she snapped, tipped over the edge.. You know why? She was pouring what is left of her sorry life into the Casino. It became the only real love of her life. Then guess what. .She finds out about the bet, at first you would think she would want to ensure Roland won but slowly she began to find out what a 2 timing low life he really was, she realised the Casino was never going to be his. It was the Sheik or Tommy. So she figures the easiest to control is the Sheik a camel man who  will be off most of the time spending on more businesses and girls.. Tommy on the other hand is a dangerous business partner.. So she ensures the Sheik wins the only way her anger would allow it. She probably took pleasure in sticking the knife in again and again. Now she just has to make herself indispensable to the Sheik. Not a hard task for the Black death....