The moment No.6 is voted in as the new No.2 in the episode Free For All, No.6 begins to act like a dictator! He tries to force his will on the people....... he is in command, and will imobilise all electronic controls. Then the new No.2's voice is heard booming out across the village via the public address system "Listen to me, you are free to go, free to go, free to go. Obey me and be free." but it seems that the good citizens of the community do not want to be free, as no-one takes heed of No.2's words. The people simply just go about their daily business as though there had never been any elections at all!
Then as the new No.2's voice booms out over the village, in the central Piazza, and not so long having just walked up the steps to the Green Dome, stands the figure of the Prisoner dressed in his charcoal grey suit, which he wore on the day of his arrival in the village! Okay, it's obviously a piece of film footage from Arrival and reused in Free For All, but when I first saw this it got my imagination going. There was the alter-ego who turns out to be No.1 in Fall Out, who is now in No.2's office, having been elected as the new No.2, on the day of the Prisoner's arrival in the village. Is that enigmatic enough for you? Well I'm off to lie down in a darkened room for ten minutes!
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