During the electoral episode of ‘Free For All’ after No.6 has been elected as the new No.2, he can be seen in his office in the Green Dome giving it "I am in command, obey me and be free, you are free, free to go, you are free, free to go. I will immobilise all electronic controls, listen to me you are free, free, free free to go, free to go." And as the new No.2's voice booms out around the village through the public address system, you can actually see the Prisoner standing on the central Piazza dressed in his charcoal grey suit of clothes.
The phrase used by the new No.2 at the end of ‘Free For All’ "Give my regards to the homeland" is suggestive that the village, wherever the village may be, isn't actually on home soil but on foreign soil, possibly friendly nation to the homeland.
Strange how No.6 is unable to communicate with No.58 in her own language, but soon gets to know her language for be seeing you, "Lye izeet azoon."
It has often been the question, why does it take 7 slaps of No.6's face by No.58 to bring him out of his seemingly hypnotic state, and what is the significance in that number? Well there is no significance in the number of slaps to No.6's face. 7 just happens to be the number of slaps it took. It could so easily have been 8 or 5.
Why didn't the citizens take advantage of their chance to escape in a controlled mass breakout initiated by No.6? Well this is a demonstration by the villages administration of the control they exercise over the citizens of the village. The poor brainwashed imbeciles that they are.
Moving away from Free For All for a moment. the little black box used in the episode The General to collect security-pass discs, is actually a "Magic Box." And a demonstration that the villages administration makes use of even the simplest of technology.
During the ‘Dance of the Dead,’ No.6 takes on the guise of a doctor, donning a white coat and spectacles, spectacles which he found in the breast pocket of the white coat. Strange how the lenses of the pair of spectacles suited No.6, that he could actually see through them I mean. It might have been that the lenses were weak, so as not to affect No.6's eyesight too much. Either that or they were McGoohan's own spectacles used as a prop, which would make sense.
True to form, No.6 cannot help himself from trying to order a mass breakout of the village by it's citizens once he has been elected as the new No.2. This even though No.6 must be aware that they knew what he would do if elected. Well the administration was prepared for this eventuality right from the start, No.6 was even warned by the manager of the Labour Exchnage that they knew what he would do if elected, to take control of the village and organise a controlled breakout. But No.6 took no heed of the manager’s words, learning nothing by the fact that the manager actually knew what he would do. No.6 is a stubborn fellow, and so the villages administration was not to be disappointed.
Be seeing you
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