On the day of his
arrival in The Village the Prisoner, at becoming annoyed with the constant
drone of piped music into his cottage, trampled a black loudspeaker underfoot.
Yet with the loudspeaker smashed to pieces, the music continued to play.
The Prisoner "How do you stop this thing?"
Number 66 {the Prisoner's personal maid} "We can't. It’s automatic."
Then towards the end of the ‘Dance of the Dead’ Number 6 rips out
the wiring of a tele-printer, which causes the machine to stop printing
whatever instructions were coming through for Number 2.
The only trouble is, that Number 6 can never win, and the proof of
that is in the restarting of the teletype, the wiring and paper of which lie upon
the floor, ripped out by Number 6!
Well in all probability the tele-printer had a back-up
system, and there was more than one loudspeaker in the Prisoner's cottage......
simple, fool proof. "Perhaps too simple, too fool proof" as Number 6
once said.
Be seeing you
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