The Therapy Zone

    As the Prisoner is taken into that locker room by the Supervisor at the commencement of ‘Fall Out,’ the Prisoner puts a hand to the effigy that is wearing his own suit of clothes. Sometimes when I watch this it appears that at one point the Prisoner wants to strangle the life out of it. Memories of Curtis perhaps, or to kill his own identity. But of course I'm wrong. the Prisoner has no such intention, as he calmly unbuttons the black polo shirt.

   I'm of the opinion that the Prisoner used his fiancée Janet Portland. Why, well he had resigned his job, and hadn't told her, otherwise she would have discussed that with her father Sir Charles. And at some point in time the Prisoner had given his fiancee a receipt for a roll of film, which he expected Janet to keep in case of trouble. Then when the Prisoner returned to London he only went to her birthday party to retrieve that receipt for a roll of film he'd had transformed into transparencies - slides.

   Somehow I don't think his fiancée Janet Portland, rated very high on the Prisoner's list of priorities!

   I read in an old magazine article that when he was finally confronted with the truth - that he was No.1, the Prisoner seemed to go berserk, bringing destruction to the Village before escaping with Number two, the butler and the youth.

   Well in my opinion the Prisoner didn't go berserk. To me he appeared calm and calculating, in the way he set the countdown for the rocket, and the way in which he was instrumental in commencing a bloody and violent revolution.

  As I see it, it was No.1 who went berserk, charging about the control room, and screaming wildly, clambering up the ladder into the nose cone of the rocket, when having been confronted with the truth that he was No.6!

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