Prison officer Mr Barrowclough visits Fletcher at the farm, and discusses with him the gambling and tobacco rackets run by another inmate, Harry Grout, hoping he will not get involved in such activities.
Although Fletcher assures him that he sees gambling as a "mug's game", he later speaks to Godber in the kitchen about joining in a friendly wager.
Shortly after Godber refuses to join in, prison officer Mr Mackay arrives and conducts a surprise search of Fletcher.
On a Saturday afternoon, Fletcher meets with inmates Evans, Heslop and Lukewarm in the prison's boiler house to play a game of snakes and ladders for bets.
That evening, Fletcher is left in disgrace with the Governor, who orders him removed from his job at the farm, suspends all his privileges for four weeks, and to be moved to a single cell over concerns his a corrupting influence.