The Therapy Zone

Whatever Happened To?

Here in the 'Therapy Zone' we ask the question whatever happened to No.48, the rebellious youth who demonstrated his rebelliousness during his trial of 'Fall Out?' Well apparently his rebellious nature finally gave out and he began to settle down, finally finding his way and who went on to become Lord Etherly - Tarquin to his friends . 

    ‘Crossplot’ a 1969 film where Alexis Kanner is Lord Etherly who lives in a huge mansion set in acres of grounds. The film has very much the feel of the Prisoner episode ‘The Girl Who Was Death,’ indeed Lord Etherly takes on the disguise of Mr X, complete with false beard and whiskers, deerstalker and dog coat, the comparison between the two is unmistakable! There's a white Mini Moke being driven across Westminster bridge, an Alouette helicopter, and even a funfair chase as in The Girl Who Was Death. Further chase scenes are to follow, around the back roads of Borehamwood, Hyde Park, along Park Lane and round Marble Arch, all previous locations for Prisoner episodes.

  So from rebellious youth who we last see trying to thumb a lift along a duel carriage way, in either direction, because its not the journey that matters, it's the arrival! Finally accepted, settled down and became Lord Etherly -  Tarquin to his friends.

    The Therapy Zone

    Where you can sit back, relax and take and enjoy your favourite alcoholic drink. But No.2 wasn't really drunk was he, neither was No.6 for that matter. Carefully drugged to the exact proportions so as not to damage the tissue. But there was a curious thing No.2 said, and he said it with a sound of conviction in his voice after No.6 suggested that he doesn't approve. "Of the Village, to hell with the Village!" Well No.2 would be free to make such a statement as there is no surveillance in the Therapy Zone, which is set in a cave away from the Village, but did he really mean it, or was it just the drink talking?. A place where you can be an alcoholic in perfect privacy, just as long as you rejoin the flock in good time.

    So how does No.2 get hold of this alcohol, a drop now and again, just to keep the nerves steady? Because he claims that he is concerned about the election and what is going to happen to No.6. It is no wonder that No.6 had such an easy time in the village, well at least when compared to No.73 and Roland Walter Dutton he did. This because the majority of No.2's had his well being at heart, even though there were those who wanted to do further harm to No.6, they knew where the line was drawn and not to cross it.

    But I was writing about the alcohol aspect. Apparently the man living in the cave, a hermit, a scientist and brewer brews his brew, plays with his chalk as he works on formulae on the blackboard in another part of the cave. This scientist/brewer seems to have all he needs, a still, electricity, water, food. Table and chairs, a blackboard and chalk, a real cave from cave home, or is it all simply a set up for the benefit of No.6? I cannot think for one moment that anyone would be allowed to live outside the realm of the village as this scientist is allowed to do. After all the next time No.6 enters that cave it is empty, void of any previous occupation, you will have observed the paved flooring, and not a sandy base as would have been the case in its natural state. This when during ‘Dance of the Dead’ No.6 drags the body he found washed up on the shore into the cave. The body of course is that of a previous inhabitant of the village, where, how or from whom he obtained the radio which No.6 took from the dead man's pocket is anyone’s guess.

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