THEPRIS6NER

  So, Michael worked for Summakor as an observer. He spent all his time watching people, writing reports on them, and passed those reports on to the floor above his in the Summakor building.................Michael discovered what Summakor was doing, what he was doing in fact. That all the people he had been watching, writing reports on, he was actually selecting the people to be sent to The Village!...........So what did Michael do? He resigned............and then woke up somewhere in the desert as you witnessed at the commencement of Arrival............But I wonder how Michael can enter a building in New York and still be in

The Village.........unless both places are one and the same! But it's a difficult thing, when The Village is all in the mind, in the mind of Two's wife that is. The mind is a powerful thing, and M2's mind seem to be capable of anything.

    Homage continues to the original series in a couple of scenes, the church scene between Two and Six, and the times when the shopkeeper gets on the telephone to report the activity of Six, and later Two. But when the shopkeeper telephones the Clinic to report the man who is impersonating Two, whose voice does the shopkeeper hear? After all Two has just left his store..........probably a pre-recorded voice message made by Two before he left the clinic. The same way we see Two out and about The Village when Two is making his announcement about those who go about impersonating Two, that they are a danger to The Village!

    So, if Six and Two times Six can be one, they can defeat Two...............and that could have been the case in the original series when I think about it. The two Six's become one, and gain ultimate power over The Village.................I wonder how many Two's there have been since 1968, more then I've had hot dinners I wouldn't wonder!

   You know...................even though Two has deathly cold eyes, there are times when I look and see.........pain in Two's face. Pain? Yes, the pain he feels at having to keep his wife in an hallucinating, sedated state of mind, and all for the well being of the Village, and the community at large. Two must at times, suffer for that, even though he rarely shows his pain. No-one gets close to Two, unless Two wants them to!

   When it became the case that Six had a double, I predisposed that his name would be Curtis, I was wrong.................And when it was said that Two had an alter ego, I thought there would be Two Two's, Two and an un-Two as Two called himself. And that's the point, there never was an un-Two, both Two's were one and the same, "One of number Two's little games," it would once be said. But then when we had two shopkeepers, I thought it was being taken too far. But no, they went one step further than one step too far.....the shopkeeper was existing in two places at the same time. In the Store in The Village, and as the "access man" in the basement of the Summakor building! Twins, doubles, I'll just have a large one!

    Schizoid, and although it was enjoyable and perplexing the first time round, this time it was more a case of catching those things I missed the first time round. I was wondering that if two times Six and Six are one and the same, how come Six has the cut on his cheek? Obviously it's to help the viewer identify between the two, but all the same Six would have had to cut himself. and it must have come as quite a shock for Six to discover that he helped create The Village, that he is responsible for sending all those people to The Village, even if it was inadvertently.

    In the church when Six discovers Two just sitting there, Two wants Six to kill him, No.6 couldn't do it, and neither it seems could his predecessor! Because this scene is obviously acknowledging the scene from Once Upon A Time when No.2 wanted No.6 to kill him. And I liked the way Two looked up at the Penny Farthing hanging from the ceiling in the Go Inside Bar, and gave a slight chuckle. Two paying homage to the past, to what once was? I think so.

   Two, or was it un-Two, got a slice of his favourite cherry cake again. He enjoyed a cigarette with the Shopkeeper, and told 147, the taxi driver that he had no number, that he was a numberless traveller. This I think, Two was demonstrating his eccentric side to his character, and he knew what he was going to do, as the message about anyone going about impersonating Two should be reported immediately. And that's what the Shopkeeper did, both when Six came to see him about the receipt, and after he had shared a cigarette with Two. On the telephone immediately to report to Two at the Clinic. This is another homage paid to the original series, as when the Shopkeeper in Hammer Into Anvil, when he reports the activities of No.6 to No.2. And since when was Two driven about in a Bentley convertible? One of his guardians was going to drive Two in the car, but Two said "I'll walk today," Two riding in the Bentley convertible, something we obviously haven't been privy to! And there are no knives sold in the Village, such tools must still be against the law!

    So, is Summakor in New York, or The Village? I thought The Village, but it appears I'm wrong, because seeing as how Six entered the Summakor building in New York, and seeing as how he could see The Village, and two times Six, then the two towers are actually near The Village. And once Michael had discovered what was going on within Summerkor, he resigned, and was then thrown out and left somewhere out in the desert, which is how you first see Michael waking up in the desert at the outset of Arrival. But I'm still wondering what it was 313 was running from in that long, dark, steel tunnel of the Summakor building, and how she was able to enter a building with nothing on the other side of those glass doors. So there is surrealism in THEPRIS6NER!

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