e table. The PUNTERS place their bets. TWELVE 
               PLAYERS, nine men, three women. The FACES of the men, all 
               ages, intense, hopeful, fearful. Which of them is JACK?

                                     JACK'S VOICE
                         Now he had become the still centre 
                         of that spinning wheel of 
                         misfortune.

               A MAN'S hand spins the wheel. The ball is thrown against 
               the spin