The One in Vegas, Part Two
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"The One In Vegas, Part Two" is the 24th episode of season 5 of the sitcom Friends.
[edit] Plot
The episode starts where The One In Vegas, Part One left off. Joey, who precipitated the mass migration to Las Vegas, works at Caesar's Palace as a costumed "atmosphere" character, trying to make enough money to get the film he was in (his "big break") back into production. Chandler and Monica, who came to visit Joey and celebrate their one-year anniversary, have had a huge spat over Monica's recent meeting of old flame Richard Burke over lunch. Phoebe (who precipitated the fight) is merely along because she doesn't want to be left out of a big trip like she was last time. Finally, Ross and Rachel are currently on an airplane flying west, angry with each other over recent reminders of their failed relationship with each other.
Phoebe counsels Monica to tell Chandler the truth: that she loves him and not Richard. Monica sets out to do so, but gets sucked into a craps game by accident and (of course) starts winning. Meanwhile, Phoebe sets Chandler looking for Monica to receive her apology, but when he finds the craps table, she is hugging a bystander in joyous celebration. Chandler turns around wordlessly, and the next time he passes the craps table, he's towing his luggage behind. Monica chases him down and apologizes, and he gives up his plans for going home ("Okay, this [suitcase] is empty." "Yeah, I wanted to make a dramatic scene, but I hate packing") and joins her at the craps table, calling the numbers she should bet on. He makes increasingly extravagant promises to the crowd, culminating in a bet to Monica: "You roll another hard eight... And we get married here tonight." After a commercial break, Monica agrees and rolls a four with one die, but the other goes wild and lands beneath the table... On-edge, showing a four on one side and a five on the other. "It's a four," Chandler decides. "I think so too," Monica agrees.
Ross and Rachel, on the other hand, are going through their own brand of romance. After inconclusive attempts to out-embarrass each other, Rachel falls asleep on Ross's shoulder during the plane ride, and Ross pulls out a pen and draws a beard and mustache on her face. Rachel, of course, doesn't know about it until they meet Phoebe and Joey in the lobby; she storms off to the restrooms, only to discover that Ross's decorations won't come off. Ross calls the pen's manufacturers, but they can't help; Rachel refuses to leave the hotel room ("Ross, I am a human doodle!") but still demands the Vegas experience, leading her to eviscerate Ross's mini-bar and leading Ross to "lose" to her repeatedly at blackjack. Eventually they both get roaring drunk, and parade happily around the casino in alcoholic equality: Ross with his face doodled on by Rachel.
Phoebe has to deal with a "lurker"—someone (in this case an elderly woman) who takes slot machines Phoebe has just abandoned and manages to land jackpots with them. She attempts to antagonize the woman into leaving her alone. Meanwhile, Joey discovers his "hand twin"—a man whose hands are identical to Joey's; this man immediately gets drafted into Joey's get-rich-quick scheming. Both of them are eventually thrown out of the casino.
The final scene of the episode finds Chandler and Monica at a Las Vegas wedding chapel: "One marriage, please!" They have to wait, however, as the chapel is currently in use. Finally, its occupants burst out in joyous celebration: Ross and Rachel, still with doodled-on faces, still roaring drunk, and now very legally married. They charge out into the night while Chandler and Monica stare.
[edit] Trivia
- The blackjack dealer whom Joey sees as his identical hand-twin is Thomas Lennon.
| Preceded by "The One In Vegas, Part One" |
List of Friends episodes | Followed by "The One After Vegas" |
