The Therapy Zone

If Only!

   "If he will answer one simple question, the rest will follow."

                                   {No.2. The Chimes of Big Ben}

   And to his credit No.2 did try to get No.6 to answer one simple question when preparing to pour out the tea "One lump or two?" he asked No.6. But No.6 wouldn't even answer this "simple question" "It's in my file" is as far as No.6 would go. But this No.2 was not the first to try this tack with No.6, No.2 tried it during his debriefing with No.2 on the morning of his arrival. It appeared that the Prisoner's time of his birth was missing from his file. "Well there you are. Now let's bring it all up to date." "Four thirty-one am, ninetieth of March nineteen twenty-eight." I've nothing to say. Is that clear? Absolutely nothing." and that's all No.2 got out of No.6, his time of birth!   He's a clever fellow that No.6. He wouldn't drop his guard with his own grandmother!

Did you know - Or Perhaps You Did!

   That if you watch the scene in the Prisoner episode ‘Arrival’ when No.6 is getting into, and out of the helicopter, in the background you can seen the smoke of the hotels' {Old People's Home} chimneys, going back into the chimneys! That's because the film of the Village Guardian was used in reverse for the series. It was easier to film the balloon going away from the camera than it was to film it coming towards the camera, and then use the film in reverse in the series to show Rover coming towards the camera, when it's actually going away.......or something like that!

Dance Of The Dead

   Seeing as how the French Revolution was raised in this episode, it might have been more in keeping if the Prisoner had been taken before Madame Guillotine! And during ‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ No.2 voiced his hope to No.6, that of the whole Earth as The Village. Because The Village is the blueprint for the future, an International community. Which is odd, because that is just what Europe has become since the outset of what was The Common Market, an International community. And that is what Napoleon Bonaparte wanted, a united Europe, an International community with France at it's head, and with one currency which some countries of Europe have as the one currency, the Euro, just as the Village enjoys one single currency, the work Unit.

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