“Might drop
his guard with children..hmmm! He might give something away.
“Well it was worth a try Number Two.”
“He
told them a …….he told them blessed fairytale. That one wouldn’t drop his guard
with his own grandmother!”
{Number 2 and Number 10 - The Girl Who Was
Death}
Was it, was it
really worth a try? I suppose anything is worth a try once. But really, who’s
idea was it to try and get Number 6 to open up to children? And was this the one
and only time, or was Number 6 something like Scheherazade?
They were definitely scraping the
bottom of the barrel with this one, and in more ways than one. They might just
a swell have forgotten about this idea the moment they thought of it, whether
the idea originated from Number 1, Number 2, both, or some external agency. However
judging by Number 2’s attitude at the end, he should perhaps guard his words
more carefully “Might drop his guard with Children” he seems to be criticising
his superior. But then Number 2 was only working with the tools he had been
give. As far as Number 1 is concerned they should have gone straight to the
ultimate test of Degree Absolute. But that never seemed to occur to Number 1 untail
afterwards. ‘The Girl Who was Death’ does give some light relief from what has
gone before, and for what is yet to come. More than that the episode does give
some little incite into the kind of work the Prisoner used to do before he
handed in his letter of resignation. He managed to save London from destruction by the rocket of a
mad scientist. I wonder how much the Prisoner was paid for the kind of work he
used to do? £10, £15 a week? And no medal at the end of it, not even a “golden
handshake,” possibly not even a thank you. Mister X the unsung hero! It’s no
wonder he eventually resigned!
Be seeing you
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