After handing in
his letter of resignation, the Prisoner returned to his home to collect two
suitcases, his passport, and an airline ticket. The question is, when did the
Prisoner purchase that airline ticket? At least by the day before he
resigned, which makes his act of resignation one of premeditation rather than a
spur of the moment thing.
In ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’
the Prisoner is returned to London the day before he was to have resigned
his job, and sometime after, he was to have attended his fiancées birthday
party, that of Janet Portland, which is what was supposed to have happened had
the Prisoner not been abducted to The Village. But then would it? I don't think
the Prisoner had any intention of attending his fiancée’s birthday party,
simply because of what we witness in the opening sequence. The evidence of the
Prisoner's passport and airline ticket is compelling, indicating that he was on
his way to London Airport.
It is highly unlikely that the Prisoner
intended to go and see Janet Portland before he left, because the evidence
suggests that he had not even told her about his resigning his job. Janet
Portland had expected to see him at her birthday party. What’s more, he had cynically
accompanied her the previous evening to her last dress fitting for the party,
knowing very well that he was not going to be there.
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