The Therapy Zone

    No.6 is described by the Colonel in the episode ‘Many Happy Returns’ as being "An old, old friend who never gives up." Well up until then he hadn't! Because up until Many Happy Returns No.6 had attempted to escape at almost any given opportunity. In fact the last time No.6 attempted to escape it was during the episode of ‘Checkmate,’ along with a number of reliable men. And did you know that the white Queen was originally to have gone aboard M.S. Polotska with No.6, with No.2 actually sat aboard the boat waiting for them. So No.6 and No.8 must have been aboard that pair of rubber lilos roped together! After ‘Checkmate,’ there is no opportunity for No.6 to try and escape, not that which we are privy to at least. Those which we are, mostly concern themselves with No.6's survival.

   For a man who is so determined to escape the Village, he doesn't try that often. In fact towards the end it is his survival which he concerns himself with most. in fact throughout the Prisoner, that which we are privy to, No.6 only attempts to escape on no more than six occasions. Mind you I should think that the ways of escape from the Village are somewhat limited!

   The moto along with the picture of the Professor on the white rosettes worn by students during the exams of The General is "UP THE PROFESSOR," a meaning which you can interpret anyway you choose.

Three Judges Preside Over The Trial of No.6

                                           and cut through the deadwood!

    There is a prosecuter-No.240 and defender-No.2, and one character witness in the guise of Roland Walter Dutton. This scene I have witnessed quite recently, but without the fancy dress of ‘Dance of the Dead,’ in the 1965 film ‘The Spy Who came In From the Cold.’ There was a question of whether or not Alec Leamas was in fact a defector or not, when the East German agent Munt was put on trial for being a traitor. Here again there were three judges presiding, a prosecutor and defender with Alec Leamas as a witness and the accused being East German agent Munt! The one difference being the minimalism of Communist East Germany and the gaiety and splendour of the Dance of the Dead.

The Spy Who Was Recruited Into the banking service!

   Well that's how Alec Leamas was recruited, into the banking service. He was the banker for many agents around the world, but especially in Western Germany during the cold war. Leamas would take on a false name, and in West Germany, mainly Berlin, set up a bank account in two false names, one his, and the other used by an agent. Leamas would then deposit a sum of monies into the account, after which the agent for whom the money was intended would use his or her false name to withdraw the said monies from that account using his or her false name for that bank account.

   You many recall how during the Prisoner episode ‘Once Upon A Time,’ it was demonstrated how No.6 was interviewed by the Managing Director, and recruited to go and work in a bank. Such a man with his talents would not be wasted in licking stamps. But he was just right, just right for them, and would be with them until death do us part. The bank was a cover of course, a cover for secret work. Perhaps the kind of work to which Alec Leamas was first recruited into, when he went working for a bank, as noted in John le Carrie's novel ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold,’ and later adapted into a film in 1965 starring Richard Burton.

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