The Prisoner's house was being made ready for him - the windows cleaned, the 'For Sale' sign removed, and an up-grade for the front door, so that it opens automatically just like No.6's front door to his cottage back in the Village. Perhaps the electronic front door to the Prisoner's house is in some way symbolic, symbolic because the Prisoner has been in the Village all the time. It is here all about us, we are living in the Village both physically and mentally.
The offer of ultimate power made to No.6, how genuine might that have been? Were they simply messing with No.6? Why bother to give him the alternative of leading them or go? I mean if they simply let No.6 go, then that means they've been wasting their time in all the previous 16 episodes, just to let No.6 go. Perhaps they were simply tempting No.6 by having both his home and his car made ready for him? I suppose we'll never know, since No.6 and his confederates intervened with a revolution of their own.
Perhaps the President thought the Village would be better off if No.6 were in charge, that he could find a better way for the Village, to show them the way. But is No.1 really the boss as No.6 suggested in Arrival? Or is he merely the figure head of the Village, with a powerful government or organisation behind him? Is he the alter ego of No.6, or Curtis the once Schizoid Man? I suppose it all depneds on one's persepctive on the situation.
It appears to me that No.6 was expected to go, to reject the offer of ultimate power, and return home, otherwise why bother to make ready his home and car? 'They' probably knew that he would be back, history has a way of repeating itself. And beside No.14 said of No.6 in A B & C that No.6 was going through an anguish pattern, living and re-living the moment of his resignation again, and again in his mind. And so it was, that at the end of Fall Out the Prisoner was about to resign all over again..............................
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