The Therapy Zone

Information And Observation

   Apart from the 'Arts & Crafts Exhibition' of The Chimes of Big Ben, the 'Village Festival' for which Alison-No.24 was practicing her photographic technique on No.6, as well as her mind reading. There was 'Carnival' of ‘Dance of the Dead,’ the human chess matches of ‘Checkmate,’ and there was of course 'Appreciation Day' during ‘It’s Your Funeral.’ However these were not the only activities within the confines of the village which helped both to keep the citizens busy and entertained at the same time. There was also the 'Exhibition of Mime and Entertainment.' and on Wednesday August 15th a 'Folk Music Concert.' These two events are advertised on the notice board outside the Recreation Hall.

    On the morning of the Prisoners arrival in the Village he pays a call at the General Store. On the wall by the door is a cigarette machine. Later in Hammer Into Anvil this cigarette machine has been removed and replaced with a newspaper rack.

    No.6 called for a character witness during his trial during ‘Dance of the Dead,’ he suggested a man who he thinks he once knew. A man who is set to die and so is best suited to say the things which need to be said.... Roland Walter Dutton. What exactly it was that No.6 expected Dutton to say can only be open to speculation. But suffice to say that possibly No.6 expected Dutton to speak out against the regime of the village, in favour of No.6.

    The daily prognosis report carried out on No.6 requested by No.2 during the episode of ‘It’s Your Funeral.’ 6.30 am subject exercises daily with a walk around the village; daily subject climbs the bell tower-reason unknown, Subject eccentric.... it is possible he likes the view.7.30 am physical work using subject's home made apparatus. 8.15 am, the subject cooling off {water skiing}. 9 o’clock coffee at cafe and buys newspaper. 920.am subject will proceed to old people's home where he plays a game of chess - the game ending with an 11-move checkmate win by subject. He then humours other eccentric resident by sitting for portrait - or perhaps subject has an ulterior motive for doing so?

   This prognosis is all fine and dandy, because No.6 is a very active member of the community. But at the kiosk where No.6 buys a copy of the newspaper, a bar of soap, and a bag of candy for the little old lady. Can we really believe that No.6 actually buys a bar of soap everyday?

    During the episode of ‘Checkmate,’ No.6 breaks an aerial off one of the taxis, this as an aerial for the radio transmitter being built by the Rook. The point is, that radios are not permitted in the village, this according to 'The Rules' mentioned by No.2 in ‘Dance of the Dead.’ So how come village taxis are fitted with aerials? Unless of course each taxi is fitted with a two-way radio in order to keep in touch with the taxi base, as with any taxi firm.

    No.6 wasn't really drunk in the 'Cat & Mouse' during the electoral period of ‘Free for All.’ You didn’t really think he was... did you? Well where would he be able to get the alcoholic drink he was demanding from the waitress? His drunken state must surely be attributed to the side effects of the drug being used on him. And the drink he was given in the cave known as 'the therapy zone' finished him off, without damaging the tissue!

    The therapy zone was of course set up in the cave simply for No.6's benefit. This on the premise that No.6 would be taken there for an alcoholic drink by No.58. Which was not the case at all, simply to give No.6 another dose of the drug, to precise proportions, to see him through to the end of the election period.

   By the time of ‘Dance of the Dead,’ the still had long since been taken apart and removed. The cave having been laid bare.

  No.2 had been brought back to the village for the episode of ‘Once Upon A Time.’ He made a telephone call to No.6 and asked him "Why do you care?" What it was that suggested to No.2 that No.6 actually cared?  Because of No.6's reply "You'll never know!" Means neither will we!

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