Everything's Coming Up Aces

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
 ~ Will Rogers

Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He's a jaded local through and through. So nobody's more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter Perkins does the only thing he can think of:

He gets help.

From Alex Cheradon?

Wait a minute.

Alex Cheradon? What's he doing in Vegas?