The first person
to come face to face with himself, was Number 2, and it damned near broke the
man. Well it would, not only to come face to face with his other self, but to
discover that he was in fact ‘C.‘ However he rallied and began to speak
to himself, as he came to realise that his other self was the only person that
could help him. Because he had been given a white envelope by the Prisoner, and
Number 2 desperately urged his other self to open the envelope. And yet it was
to no avail. Number 2’s other self had been guilty of the same problem Number 2
suffered from, he underestimated Number 6!
Number 6 was next
to come face to face with himself, in the guise of Curtis. Where Cutis came
from we simply do not know, but we do know that he and Number 2 had once worked
together. After all on the taxi ride to the helicopter Number 2 told Curtis
{Number 6} that he had never seen him so strung up. Number 6 again comes face
to face with himself funnily enough in ‘The General,’ when he’s uncovering those
busts in the Professor’s house. The bust probably sculpted by Madam Professor
from photographs of the subject. I couldn’t see Number 6 “sitting” to have his
bust sculpted. He then came face to face with himself in the cloakroom in ‘Fall
Out,’ that full-size effigy of himself wearing his own suit of clothes. And
finally there is Number 1. The Prisoner’s self? His id against his self?
Curtis? Or simply another look-a-like, Number 6 treats Number 1 the same as he
does Curtis in ‘The Schizoid Man.’ Well he would have, had he been able to lay
hands on the man. But to do that would have been rather repetitive. And so in
the best tradition of villains and bad men, Number 1 suddenly has this
compunction to climb up a ladder, to gain the high ground. And yet in doing
that he has sealed his own fate. Or rather Number 6 sealed his own fate when he
sealed that hatch. One would think, judging by the way he treats Curtis and
Number 1, that Number 6 doesn’t like
himself that much!
Be seeing you
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