After Alex Stark, who posed as successful businessman, goes missing, his boss tells the FBI ambitious, curious Alex was just the maintenance manager, and asked uneasy questions about the firm brass's presumed malversations. As he also was a high-roller, Jack decides to infiltrate the illegal poker. But his cover is soon blown, and Alex's all but innocent partner in crime Cynthia Neuwirth tortures him while hesitating whether to trust him as double agent, in the process explaining the racket Alex set up with her to pay off his mob bookie.
—KGF Vissers