No.2 of ‘A Change of Mind’ gave the suggestion that it might have been a question of time!
”In the majority of cases, when a certain No.2 has been given the unenviable task of gaining the reason behind the Prisoner's resignation, or to try and break No.6, the one thing each of these No.2's have is time. Time to get the job done properly, even if they do make a hash of it! So what's so different about No.2 of ‘A B and C,’ he hasn't even got a week! Even No.2 had a week for their deliberations during ‘Once Upon A Time’..... but three days!
I could possibly understand the reason for No.1 pushing No.2 so hard, if the episode of The General had proceeded ‘A B and C,’ because that was a complete and utter failure of No.2. Not only had he been completely out witted by No.6, but had lost the General in a puff of smoke and a series of short circuits, but both the Professor and No.12 had died. The one electrocuted to death by its creation, and the other electrocuted attempting to save the former. So really, with ‘The General’ being such a disaster for No.2, it should be highly unlikely that he would have been given a second term of office in the village, let alone be let loose on No.6! unless No.1 saw ‘A B and C’ being a different situation to ‘The General,’ giving No.2 a second chance.
So with A B & C proceeding ‘The General’ in the screening order, No.2 must have done something proceeding the commencement of the experiment we see being carried out on No.6 during the episode, something to which the viewer is not privy. Something which saw No.2 fall from grace, out of favour with No.1if you prefer. Something happened that forced No.1 to limit No.2's time for the experiment to just three days. What that was I cannot even find myself even to speculate upon, suffice to say that right from the outset, this No.2 was put under extreme pressure, the stress he was under did not aid the relief of his stomach ulcer, he had milk for that. But when under such stress, and so much pressure is being piled upon one man, it is no wonder that he is prone to make mistakes!
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Hello David,
ReplyDeleteI like those mind games.. Who knows, maybe one objective was to make sure that Number 2 would fail.. On the other hand we do not know how long it took to develop the drug or to boil the prisoners life down to A, B and C. Maybe Number 2 had had plenty of time until this day. And if they had assumed that Number 2 was right it could have been a matter of time to make sure they could catch A, B or C or whatever person the Prisoner was selling out to.
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Jana
BCNU
Hello Jana,
DeleteI enjoyed your comment. I had not thought about the time it had taken No.14 to develop her drug, it must have been a rush job seeing as she hadn't even had time to test it on animals. I mean how would No.14 be able to do that, test her drug on animals? Could she get into their dreams? And yes there is the time taken for the Prisoners whole life to be researched and computed. Mind you they knew everything about the Prisoner, so researching his whole life wouldn't have taken that long, seeing as the Village knew all about him.
As far as we know they never brought either 'A' or 'B' to the Village, perhaps they were not that important. But 'C', he was already there! Mind games indeed!
Very kind regards
David
BCNU