We begin with an overview of what happened. Ripley sang. Ripley danced. Ripley went and crapped his pants. Oh, that last one was because a former investor, Buddy Baxter was shot in the head, in Ripley’s office. This is not the way to open a Casino.

This week, we have more singing and dancing and Diane, like a dark horse, comes out of nowhere to compete with Peter Carlyle as my favourite character.

Holden Home: The local newspaper is delivered and one story just below the fold announces that the Viva, Ripley’s casino, is a bomb. It’s not da bomb; it’s more a fart in an elevator sort of bomb. It’s all over the internet that the Viva is bad luck (insert show cancellation joke here.)

June 10, 2007: Imagine as your humble recapper, sits at home, depressed that Hugh Jackman isn’t hosting the 61st Annual Tony Awards. Suddenly, during the commercial break, she hears the strains of one of her favourite songs, “Sympathy for the Devil” but the dominant voice is not that of Mick Jagger! Could it really be? Is she hallucinating? (Don't answer that!)

No, it really is Hugh Jackman singing and dancing during an advertisement. It’s a promise of Hugh Jackman being a regular fixture on her fall television.