And
part of that plan to assassinate/execute the retiring No.2, was to get No.6
involved. It was a question of credibility, without which the plan might
backfire......well it did, didn't it?
But No.6 is a cautious man, even if caution
in a man like No.6 seems so wrong. But why pick No.6 in the first place? I
would have thought that any plan which involves No.6 would be tantamount to
failure. No.1, along with the blonde interim No.2, the heir presumptive, must
have been of the opinion that No.6's word, and reputation, counts for something
in the village. However we all know what No.6 is like. He doesn't settle down,
and definitely doesn't get involved, unless it suits him. So why this sudden
care about what happens to the innocent citizens of the village? He's never
cared about them before!
But it can also be said, that No.6 is never
one to pass up on an opportunity, whatever that opportunity might be. So he
turns his attention to the imminent assassination/execution of the retiring
No.2. This must be prevented for the sake of No.51's father, for all the
citizens sake.
But what of No.2, who has just returned to
the village from a spell of leave - I mean what No.2 has ever left the village
to go on holiday before? But the point is, that when No.6 goes to pay No.2 a
call to inform him of an assassination plot against him............
"Number Six isn't it? I've been
expecting you" No.2 informs his visitor.
"I want to see Number Two" No.6
informs the man sat in the chair.
"I am Number Two. You've come to tell me
that there's a plot against my life, haven't you" says No.2.
And of course the conversation between the
two men continues. But the fact of the matter is, that for a man like No.2, who
has enjoyed such a long term of office in the village, has been such an active
and energetic No.2, so much so that he's allowed to take a spell of leave, No.6
doesn't recognise who No.2 is! No.6 is confused {and he's not the only one}
because he's reported one assassination plot to No.2, but not to this one. To
No.2 No.6 is a man who has "cried Wolf" too many times - he's a
jammer! But to have No.6 involved in such an
assassination/execution plot, must have been something of a calculated risk.
For No.6 does not assign his loyalties to anyone, other than that of his own
self-preservation. What does No.6 care for the little watchmaker? He's never
met him before! As for the mass reprisals against the innocent citizens of the
village for the false assassination of No.2, how did No.6 know what the villagers
administration would do? The trouble is, No.6 can never refuse a damsel in
distress, and the interim No.2, the heir presumptive knows, and plays on that
chink in No.6's armour.
Escape is not the game in It's Your
Funeral, more in the way of self-preservation, of both No.6 and that of the
citizens, to be saved from a village purge! Yes No.6 does get the detonator of
the bomb in the Great Seal of Office which hangs about the head and shoulders
of No.2, then about the shoulders of the new No.2. And eventually No.6 hands
the retiring No.2 the detonator, as it's his passport out of the village,
no-one would challenge it. So why didn't No.6 use the detonator as his passport
out of the village? Because who was there No.6 could trust to stop the new No.2
from removing the Great Seal of Office from his shoulders, as No.6 does, while
the retiring No.2 departs in the helicopter.
So mark this, and mark it well. If you have
any plan, any plan of any kind, and you want that plan to succeed. Don't, under
any circumstances, involve No.6 with it any way!
Be seeing
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