Well, it's been a hard slog at times but finally got this finished. Thank you for the review!

EPISODE TEN: The House Wins

"Final call, place your bets now,"Emma called out. To Lexi, she spoke quietly. "Why are these guys still betting? They've lost every round."

"Guess some people just don't know when they're beaten,"Lexi replied.

The wheel twirled and the ball landed on red seven. Emma swiped the bets off the table to a chorus of disgruntled mutterings.

Nisha came over. "How are things?"

"House is up two thousand,"Lexi commented.

"Doing well tonight,"Nisha noted. She looked around at the crowd and raised her voice. "The casino will be closing in fifteen minutes, any last bets should be placed now."

Dan and Sutton were sat in a car outside the casino. "They'll be making their move soon,"Sutton noted.

Dan nodded. "Then we need to get ready to make ours."

Suddenly, there was a rapping on the window. Ethan was standing there, grinning broadly. "Dan! What are you doing here?" Then it seemed to occur to him just how incongruous the situation was. "Dan, really, what are you doing here?"

Dan paused. "Ethan, there's a lot going on here that you don't know about. You have to trust me."

Emma and Lexi had got their coats and were heading towards the exit. Nisha was standing by the entrance, in conversation with Officer Harry. "What do you think that's about?"Lexi asked. Emma just shrugged.

As they came within earshot, Harry suddenly turned towards them and stopped them. "Can I look inside your bags, please?"

Mystified, Emma and Lexi opened the bags…to reveal wads of bank notes.

Nisha gave a triumphant look. "I'd say there's about two thousand dollars there."

Emma and Lexi stood in the office, gaping in astonishment as Nisha outlined a story which seemed to bear no resemblance to reality. "Wheel Number 2 was rigged, you saw that. They were the ones operating it tonight, made sure there were high enough takings for them to steal."

Harry looked at the two suspects. "Anything to say?"

"I have,"announced Dan, as he walked in with Ethan and Sutton in tow.

"Dan, when did you get back?"Emma asked, bewildered.

"He'll tell us later,"Ethan answered.

"It was Nisha who rigged the wheel,"Sutton explained. "She's setting them up. She told them to use that wheel."

"Of course I did,"Nisha protested. "Well in advance."

"Nope, just a few hours ago." Sutton took out her phone and pressed a button and everyone present heard Nisha's voice "You and Lexi will be on Wheel Number 2. I don't want you working anywhere else."

Nisha stared at her in realisation. "That was you."

"Yep. All these years and you're still falling for it."

Nisha shook her head. "That doesn't prove anything."

"What about the money that was stolen before?"Dan asked.

"There wasn't any,"Nisha insisted.

"But you told me,"Emma protested.

"The police were looking into it,"Lexi added.

Harry shook his head. "We've had no report of a theft from here before tonight."

"That's because she didn't report it,"Dan replied. "It would have disrupted her plan too much. She was planning to use that money to set up Emma and Lexi…but I stole it."

"You..?" Nisha deflated, realising just how much she'd been played.

Emma looked at her in bewilderment. "Why would you do that?"

"Because of you and your stupid lying game,"Nisha snapped. "Back in high school, I thought I was dealing with Sutton. I knew how to handle her. But then you came along and humiliated me. I was supposed to get a tennis scholarship but when you beat me everyone pulled out. And now here I am, never went to college, running this place. You ruined my life!"

Dan looked at Harry, who stepped forward with handcuffs. "Nisha Randall, I'm arresting you for attempting to pervert the course of justice."

There had been reunions and explanations with Laurel and Jordan, Kristen and Peter, even Char and Justin, until it came down to the four of them in Emma and Ethan's flat: Emma, Ethan, Sutton and Dan. "So what was with all that sneaking around town?"Ethan asked.

"We couldn't let anyone know we were on to Nisha,"Dan explained. "You had to all react like you normally would."

"Plus it was more fun that way,"Sutton added.

"Including drugging me?"Emma asked, with more than a hint of disapproval.

"We had to keep you away from the casino,"Dan told her. "Otherwise Nisha would have set you up that night, and we didn't have enough evidence until we got the recording."

Ethan sighed. "Well, I guess Nisha got caught." He put an arm round his wife and smiled approvingly. "And Emma's been made acting manager. Going up in the world at last."

Sutton smiled. "So, all's well that ends well, huh?"

End of The Lying Game Season 6