Whilst other citizens such as the
Rook-Number 53 during ‘Checkmate,’ is at the hospital undergoing a medical experiment
at the hands of the doctor-Number 22, pictured here. As for the Rook-Number 53, well he’s being
used in an experiment based on Pavlov’s experiments with dogs, yes it was dogs and
not rats as suggested by Number2.
Dehydrated, Number 53 is taken into a room
where there are a number of water dispensers of different colours. The Blue
dispenser is wired up to an electrical supply, and when Number 53 touches the
tap he gets an electric shock! The other three water dispensers are of course
empty.
A
disembodied voice tells Number 53 that he’ll get water when he obeys! Then
tells him to go to the blue dispenser, but he is nervous to touch the tap. When he
does, Number 53 finds that the current of electricity has been turned off, and
via the tap and his plastic cup, begins to satisfy his thirst.
But there is yet more to come, as Number 8,
in some hypnotic trance, is wheeled into the examination room by a nurse.
Number 8 who is under hypnosis and believing
that she is in love with Number 6 and he with her. Also in a locket which
Number 8 believes to be a present from Number 6, because the locket contains a
picture of Number 6, but also a reaction transmitter. This transmits Number 8’s
emotions back to the Control Room, and when they have a whole range of Number 8’s
emotions - fear, happiness, dread, apprehension, joy, so on and so forth, which
will then be fed into the alarm system. If Number 8 has any apprehension, or fear
that she is going to lose Number 6, if he plans to escape for example, then Number 8’s emotions will send an alarm back
to control. Out of the two medical experiments, this second one is perhaps the
most unfeeling, just like the doctor performing the experiments!
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