Beyond The Village!

    Imagine, having become disillusioned with the kind of work he was expected to carry out, John Drake finally resigned his job. Having found himself in dangerous situations, behind both the iron and bamboo curtains, and from time to time used by others so that they could achieve their own ends. Yes Drake was a capable and experienced agent working for Security NATO, then for British Military Intelligence, and from time to time as a “freelance,” secret agent. Might not such a man expect not to be allowed to resign his job? He might very well expect to be detained somewhere, as both the man and the information in his head to be protected. So John Drake having resigned from British Military Intelligence ends up being abducted, to wake up one day in The Village. Although there could be another way of looking at it, that John Drake didn’t resign, that he was not abducted, but was retired into The Village. And after being de-briefed, the knowledge he has extracted or protected, he could then spend the rest of his life in quiet, comfortable retirement, in complete security. After all there is a life span for such agents, the type of work they do on an almost daily basis, takes its toll on the individual. Even the best of agents can burn out, suffer mental exhaustion, or simply their luck runs out. Would Drake settle for that?

   A man of Drake’s calibre would be of use to The Village. After a spell of rest and recuperation, what would a man like Drake do in The Village? His talents would go to waste. So what better way to get Drake gradually back into the swing of things, than to serve him with a number of tests. If he wants to try and escape why not let him, even to encourage him to do so. See if he can turn any given opportunity to his own advantage, and show him that its his own people who are responsible for his current predicament! Let him escape, but at the same time keep Drake on a long leash, so it will be all the easier to bring him back to The Village. Ultimately to face him with the ultimate test, and then he, if successful, and being the better man he would be theirs! So as Cobb was released from The Village into the outside world, so too John Drake, once of Security NATO, British Military Intelligence, but a prisoner of himself, his past, forever then to be manipulated by The Village, no matter how far from its confines he found himself.

   However on the other hand, it might have been the case that John Drake being of  high moral virtue, learning to his disgust {perhaps he read a file} that his side had built an internment camp known as The Village. A place where people with a certain kind of knowledge or information, were sent to for imprisonment and interrogation. It might be that when Drake went to meet Chambers, late of the Foreign Office, with the intention of stopping him before the “big boys” found out, but it was too late. Chambers had gone! Perhaps Drake also “went,” having learnt of The Village, he decided to go there himself, ultimately to undermine it, expose it. But as it was his own side who were behind The Village, all Drake had done was to make a prisoner of himself!

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