The Man Who Haunted Himself by our own reporter

 "Very good very good indeed. One of No.2's little jokes I suppose!"

"Who the devil are you?"

"I'm No.6"

"The devil you are!"

"No, I told you I'm No.6"

"But I'm No.6!

"Well we can't both be No.6"

    Of course they can't both be No.6. They know who they are, we know who they are by the blazers they wear. But No.6 is far more confident than No.6, and No.6 can't smoke No.6's favourite brand of cigar. He does smoke black Russian cigarettes and his favourite dish is flapjacks, "Flapjack Charlie is his name, spying is his game!"

   Of course they could be twins, there have been two pairs of twins in the village before, the electrician and the gardener. Then the photographer No.113b and his twin who works the Tally Ho newspaper dispenser.

   But no, its extremely unlikely that No.6 and No.6 are twins, No.6 would have mentioned it. Could one of them be No.1? Well that's more like it wouldn't you say. Ah, but No.6 dies at the end, suffocated by Rover, well according to No.6 anyway, which would mess up their meeting in Fall Out wouldn't it?

   The last remaining possibility is that No.6 is No.6's doppelganger. We all have one you know, someone out there who is an exact double of someone else, that would be No.12-Curtis posing as No.6 during The Schizoid Man. Just as well they were not wearing the same blazer, otherwise we would never have known!

your own reporter

Photograph from the Deaprtment of Visual Records