In Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, No.6, whose mind is wrongly housed in the body of the Colonel, seems to have no memory of the Village. If he had, surely he would have tried to tell Sir Charles. But having thought about it, the Prisoner had difficulty trying to convince Sir Charles Portland of his identity!
So if the Prisoner has no memory of the Village, I wonder how No.6 gets his memory back so quickly at the end of the episode?
In the original script for Face Unknown, which was the working title of the episode, No.6's memory of the Village had been erased, and his mind set back to the day before his resignation, if memory serves. So really when No.6 wakes up on that operating table, the mind transference having been reversed, No.6 should still have no memory of the Village - surely!
Think about it. If the Village administration could re-set No.6's mind, back to square one that is, 'they' would have a huge advantage of knowing which methods work best against him. Wipe his memory one year, and again the next, and so on, indefinately.
I'll be seeing you.
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