The Therapy Zone

     If Number 6 had been accepted as a new Number 2, he might have attempted to dismantle The Village's infrastructure, administration and the like, to rip out the mechanics of The Village if you like. That final scene of 'Dance of the Dead' with the teleprinter, its mechanics having been ripped out, suddenly bursting back into life, is suggestive of what would happen if Number 6 had tried. The Village would survive no matter what!

   When the Prisoner was under surveillance in his London home, there was a camera behind the mirror. In the bathroom of his cottage in The Village, there’s a camera behind that mirror! Blimey, they really thoroughly copied his home, didn't they! What if all the other cameras were in the same places as in the London home, too?  Now there’s a thought!

   No 7 in The Village.....7 people attempted to escape in 'Checkmate.' There's that number again. It would seem there are more sevens in The Village than is dreamt!

   If No.1 is supposed to be the alter-ego of No.6, the darker side to his nature, then I should think that No.1 knew the reason behind the Prisoner's resignation long before he was brought to the village. But having brought the Prisoner-No.6 to The Village, perhaps for darker motivations, so as to break his alter-ego in No.6. So as to stop his resigning from The Village in the first place.

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