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BACKGROUND STORY
CHARACTERS:
TONY'S PALACE - Casino, The place it all happens.
Nick Spade
Private eye.
Tony
Trixie
Bruno
Victoria
Butler
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Owner of the casino and very content.
Works as a dealer, for Tony.
Tony's bouncer/ body guard.
Spider Lady from Europe.
Victoria's Manservant.
TIME LINE:
1900
Walter, a young wealthy playboy, and Mia, wife of the English Ambassador have a fling. They
conceive VICTORIA, a secret VICTORIA'S mother keeps. She doesn't tell him before he leaves,
never to see him again.
1911
TRIXIE'S mom dies giving birth to her. Tex is forced to be a single parent.
1915
Walter comes to town, meets TONY, and they become partners. They start the W&T PALACE,
a struggling casino. TONY then cheats Walter out of his half of the casino and Walter
disappears.
1917
Walter returns to Europe to find that VICTORIA'S mother has died and that VICTORIA has
grown up in a boarding school. VICTORIA looks amazingly like her mother. Walter can only
think of how much he loved Mia when he sees VICTORIA.
Walter changes his name to
BUTLER.
He tells VICTORIA that he used to work for her mom and she hires him as her
manservant.
BUTLER, trapped by the memory of Mia, does whatever VICTORIA says.
VICTORIA treats BUTLER like dirt ...as she does most everyone.
1919
Tex forms a partnership with TONY and they create the T&T PALACE. This casino thrives and
they become rich. TONY and Tex each get a tattoo on their arm that reads T&T PALACE.
TRIXIE is 8 and has a crush on TONY. TONY and Tex are like brothers.
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