The stakes are always high in Vegas. The champagne, the hotel suites, and the bright lights all culminate to one sacred endeavor: making money. The Plaza Casino & Hotel is no exception. From the pit bosses and waitresses, slot machine queens and high rollers, everyone’s out to get theirs—but now billionaire guest Buck Gribble is dead, leaving plenty of money and motives on the table. Scroll down to meet the suspects and start unraveling the identity of The Plaza’s Death Dealer

BUCK "ACE" GRIBBLE

Buck Gribble’s father died prematurely of a heart attack in 2003, leaving Buck in control of the second largest oil well in Texas at only 25 years old. Over the last twenty years, he’s grown the family business into one of the largest multibillion-dollar enterprises in the world. But he doesn’t believe in all work with no play. Several times a year, Buck saddles up to the tables at The Plaza to blow off steam and enjoy his role as the casino’s ultimate V.I.P., with all the privileges; this mostly includes losing thousands of dollars on the roulette table and harassing the staff to his heart’s content. Buck might be the terror of the dealers and cocktail waitresses, especially when his amaretto sour comes without his compulsory paper umbrella, but to the House and fellow high rollers his slicked-back blonde hair and alligator skin boots on the floor means gobs of money and a good time. Unfortunately for Buck, his time running The Plaza is about to come to an abrupt end.

Fix Kelly

Fix arrived in Las Vegas two weeks ago, and it’s only been looking up from there. When he was a kid, Fix always wanted to be a police officer like his father. He applied to the Chicago police academy on his 18th birthday, ready to take on the world...but when his father suddenly goes down for taking bribes after a tip from an anonymous informant, Fix abandons his badge in favor of the Windy City nightlife. After a few years of losing in poker and drinking too many free vodkas himself, he began working as a blackjack dealer in a sleazy club off Lake Michigan. He’s successfully worked his way across casinos in Chicago, and now Fix has decided that he's ready for the big leagues…or so he thinks.

Cheryl “Cherry” Davis

Cheryl didn’t become “Cherry” until she began cocktail waitressing on the Strip. It was a tip one of her future coworkers gave her during auditions. An alter ego helps keep work in the casino instead of at home. Her shifts begin at 8pm, but her days begin long before then: she cooks dinner for Bud, her mechanic husband, after his shift and before his nightly theremin lesson; lifts weights for 2 hours at Planet Fitness; meticulously applies layers of make-up; and writes entrance essays to engineering degree programs far away from Vegas. Cheryl chose marriage over college at 17, but after a few years of overdrawn bank accounts and coming in second to the theremin, she’s ready for a new life. Cheryl only needs a few more big money nights to pad her secret bank account before she can leave Las Vegas behind, but picking up this shift at the Plaza could end her journey before it even begins.

Virgil Poupon

Virgil often thinks moving to Las Vegas was a gigantic mistake. He arrived in Sin City sixteen years ago in the back seat of a Cadillac, his arms around his ex-wife Clarice. They were both from Slidell, Louisiana with dreams of making it to California; they got as far as the Strip before they ran out of money. Virgil took a job as a card dealer at The Plaza thinking it would be a temporary way of building up their savings before heading to Los Angeles. But a mortgage, three kids, and a divorce later, Virgil now spends his nights alone either supervising poker tables or smoking cigarettes in his studio apartment, working on his manuscript The Adventures of Detective Benoit Dauterive and the Pontchartrain Swamp Murders.

Layla Creed

The daughter of a lumber yard supervisor and a kindergarten teacher in Bangor, Layla Creed was raised with the notion that singing and dancing were not serious professions done by serious people. Still, she couldn’t shake the overwhelming need to be onstage. She had a hard time deciding where to focus her creative energy until one day in 1999 when she saw Tina Turner perform Proud Mary for the first time on a VH1 special. From that moment forward, she had one goal: perform Turner’s mega-hit for crowds across the world. Twenty-four years later, Layla is now struggling to keep hold of her career. Recently booted from the weekend schedule at The Plaza, she has to find her way into the spotlight again before she’s forced to give up the neon of Vegas and return to the icy grip of Maine.

Debbie Darlene Dunn

Debbie D. Dunn’s father moved their family from Delaware to Gainesville when he used his G.I. Bill allowance to study business at the University of Florida. At 23, seeking glamour and adventure, she left home for a condo in downtown Miami and hasn’t wanted to live anywhere else since. She’s been the Queen of Ocean Drive since 1965, throwing gigantic parties, never marrying, and always wearing something that glitters. However, after a recent string of failed romances, she’s decided to take a vacation to Sin City, and she’s doing it up right: shopping on the Strip, crab legs at the buffet, and slot machines at the MGM Grand, always with a cosmopolitan and a Virginia Slim in hand.