“I didn’t
think it would be like this.”
{Number 8 - Nadia Rakovsy - The Chimes of Big Ben}
Well how did she
think it would be like then? A Gulag in the middle of Siberia? A labour camp? Surely Nadia Rakovsky
was briefed about The Village, or if she was she wasn‘t told very much. And
yet….she wasn’t given a very good cover story, because at times it contradicted
itself. Number 2 told Number 6 that she had been brought to The Village
suffering from nervous tension that’s all, she was there to recuperate. And yet
she told Number 6 that she had committed no crime, that all she did was to
resign. Well that’s more like it, that way she hoped to play on Number 6’s
sympathies. After all he in The Village would be the one person to understand
her, seeing as he had resigned!
The name Nadia Rakovsky might be false, although Nadia is likely
to be her real first name. As agents usually use their first names. That way
there is no possibility of an agent not responding if he or she happens to hear
their real name, as they might if they are using a false name.
We cannot believe a word she utters. She never saw a file on
The Village. She doesn’t know the location of The Village. She is obviously
working for The Village, no matter her nationality. But she’s good, Nadia had
faith that the electricity running through the floor of the interrogation room
would be switched off in time. From that moment on Number 6 had this damsel in
distress under his wing. She suckered Number 6 good and proper. Nadia succeeded
where the maid and Number 9 in ‘Arrival’ failed! Nadia had Number 6 eating out
of her hand, because he thought she had information he needed, the location of
The Village! She was brave as well, no amount of briefing about The Village
could have prepared her for the encounter with the membranic Guardian!
Anyway the plan to extract the reason behind the Prisoner’s
resignation failed. If only Post 5 had his wrist watch set at Polish time and
not English time. At least that should have told Number 6 which time zone The
Village is in, which helps cut down the mystery of the location of The Village.
This leaves the only one mystery, to whom was Nadia Rakovsy going to report?
Not Number 1, that’s Number 2’s job. Most certainly not the Colonel, he was already
only too aware that the plan had failed. So it must have been some outside
agency, or department within British Intelligence, such as MI6, or one of the
other MI departments within Military Intelligence.
Be seeing you
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