The Therapy Zone

    During their, shall we say deliberations, No.2 found himself locked in the cage, with No.2 having found himself changed places with No.6, who then directs the Butler to unlock the door of the cage, which is something No.2 fears. "You're free!" No.6 tells him. "No, I'm No.2" he shouts with defiance. "You are number nothing!" No.6 sneers in reply.

   So what about this Number Nothing, if No.1 is the figure head for the village, Number Nothing would not actually be No.2, who No.6 described as being less than a number! But nothing is a number, nought or Zero, and that could be the collective members of the Assembly.

A Graveyard Littered With Numbers

    No.73 was driven to suicide by a sadistic No.2 in the episode ‘Hammer Into Anvil.’ There is a birthday greeting for No.6 it is from No.113 "Warmest greetings on your birthday. May the sun shine on you today and everyday." The only trouble is, for the Supervisor-No.28, is that No.113 was an old woman who died a month ago. And of course as No.6 walks the graveyard looking for a suitable number to sign his birthday message, we can observe the grave of both No.73 and 113.

   So I ask the question which I have never asked, or even contemplated before. Why should the dead retain their number as No.73 and 113 did? After all, doesn't that then make those two, and any other such number retained by the deceased, make that number obsolete for use by the living? To do so would mean duplicating any such number, along with any such file kept on any particular person or individual. only the photograph would distinguish between the dead and the living person or individual.

   In the village, I believe that the dead should have no number, only an unmarked grave. However having said that, previously the number 113 was used twice. Once by the reporter for the Tally Ho newspaper during the electoral period of ‘Free For All,’ and secondly by an old woman who died a month ago, and was never used since. Well as far as we know. So perhaps it is right for the dead in the village graveyard to retain their number. But wouldn't that mess up the Villages numbering system?

An Act Of Betrayal!

    After his escape from the village, and subsequent return to London during ‘Many Happy Returns,’ No.6 went running back to his ex-colleagues, and gave away all the information he had on the installation known as THE VILLAGE. I wonder how the Villages administration felt about this act of betrayal, how No.1 might react. Because after returning to those No.6 felt he could trust, he couldn't wait to shoot his mouth off about the village, whilst in the village No.6 wouldn't give anything away!

    I suppose it's all to do with the kind of environment which you are famlier with, in the company you are in, people who you think you can trust. And if that is the case, that No.6 could actually trust both the Colonel and Thorpe, meaning that they had no prior knowledge of the village. Then information supplied by their ex-colleague, together with the copy of The Tally Ho and that of No.6's navigational log, plus the photographic evidence are now in the hands of others!

   I wonder how the villages administration would react to this?

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