The Therapy Zone

Living In Harmony

   It was once suggested that the episode Living In Harmony should be placed in the running order of the Prisoner second from last, just before Once Upon A Time in fact. This is due to the idea that during Living In Harmony "they" are grooming No.6 for a position of authority offered to him during Fall Out, as Sheriff in Harmony.

   But surely the Sheriff had resigned his job at the beginning, just as the Prisoner had done. True the Judge was using every strategy to coerce the stranger in becoming Town Sheriff for Harmony, but the stranger resisted any such coercion. One can only resist coercion for so long, and so reluctantly he was forced to accept the position of Town Sheriff.

   It's one point of view I suppose, No.6 being groomed for a position of power. But really at the end of Living In Harmony we do actually learn the reason behind the episode "Fill him full of hallucinatory drugs! Put him in a dangerous environment! Talk to him through microphones. Give him love, take it away. Isolate him. make him kill, then face him with death. He'll crack. Break him, even in his mind, and the rest will be easy."

  Doesn't sound much like "grooming No.6 for a position of power to me!"

   Living In Harmony referring to the American frontier town of Harmony that is. Yet at the same time, is suggestive of an episode, two episodes previous, that of A Change of Mind where many of its citizens live disharmoniously in the village!

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