The Therapy Zone

Checkmate!

    I am not usually bothered about the scripts for ‘the Prisoner,’ more interested in what we see on the screen that what might have been written in the original script. But I find it curious as to why after the night Number 8 {the white Queen} had made Number 6 his night cap of hot chocolate, she disappears, as we do not see Number 8 again which seems strange when you think about it. Her Not being amongst those attempting to escape. But then Number 6 had been looking for "reliable men!"

  Apparently the original script has Number 8 going aboard M.S. Polotka together with Number 6, and finding Number 2 sitting in a chair actually aboard M.S. Polotska, which it itself is quite remarkable, as the last we see of Number 2 is that he’s been tied up in his office, being watched by Number 6's fellow confederates! This means that Number 6 must have taken Number 8 with him on the pair of rubber lilos tied together with rope. This seems strange, when Number 6 doesn't trust her. But makes for fascinating thought as to what might have been if the changes in the script had not been made, as to why Number6 took Number 8 with him on that fateful night.

“Busy Potter?”

   Potter was John Drake's, or if you prefer, Mr. X's contact man in the episode ‘The Girl Who Was Death.’ Potter who should have been looking out for Colonel Hawke-Englishe, instead of pretty girls with long slender legs!

   Perhaps if Potter had been paying better attention of what was going on around then the Colonel might still be alive. But for this error Potter was sent to their form of Siberia, out in the cold cleaning shoes!

   Potter the shoe-shine boy, a job which he is even less suited to as he cleans Mr. X's suede shoes with a black brush! And worse, how the devil did a chap get such muddy shoes walking along a town's high street.... ridiculous as Potter might say. But putting a real downer on the job in hand for Potter!

   Potter was also Drake's contact man in the Danger Man episode Koroshi in a record shop there, and it was as Mr. X's - John drake's contact man - who he sent to the Magnum Record shop in ‘The Girl Who Was Death.’ Christopher Benjamin who played both Potters, is on record as saying that as far as he was concerned, both Potter’s he played, sere not the same character. The name merely coincidental them? Yet having said that, there is another Potter in ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,’ played by Frederic Abbott.

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