The Therapy Zone

“I wish it had been real”

                                 {Cathy/No.22 Living In harmony

    The episode Living In Harmony was probably the worst defeat for No.2, seeing as how it was accompanied by the death of two village personnel, No.'s 8 and 22. The one strangled to death, and the former having committed suicide.

    No.22's last words she was heard to utter were "I wish it had been real." Well their involvement was inevitable, how could it be otherwise, so the only question remains, just how much involved had No.'s 2, 8 and 22 become involved?

   Certainly at the end No.8 was just as jealous and homicidal as his character of the Kid. As for No.22, well she, in her character of Cathy, had fallen for No.6, and went to the length of not only helping the stranger break out of Jail, but also helping him get out of the town of Harmony. For this act, Cathy was put on trial, even though the Prisoner was only in protective custody!

   So if the character of Cathy had fallen for the stranger, then how much so had No.22 fallen for No.6? Those words "I wish it had been real" comes back to haunt us. And in so wishing, and if No.22 had survived, would she have pursued a relationship with No.6? And if he let her, might she not then help No.6 escape the village?

   Well that might have been a possibility, but any further deliberation on this matter could only be through pure conjecture, but I like to think that Cathy-No.22 might have done. But in any case, what evidence is there for No.22 actually being strangled to death? She might have only just passed out in No.6's arms. And No.8, that was not such a high balcony to have thrown himself off, and thereby committing suicide, people have survived falling from a greater height than that and survived. So perhaps No.8 wasn't dead, just unconscious.

   I haven’t read the script for Living In Harmony, as reading the Prisoner scripts is not something I care for. But I'm sure that the deaths of No.8 and No.22 was the intention.

BCNU