“In an
emergency we walk.”
{the electrician - Arrival}
Well that’s true
enough, the electrician came via truck when the lights in Number 6’s cottage
fused. But then, like the time the Prisoner trampled the loudspeaker under foot,
fused lights in a cottage didn’t really merit being an emergency. Now there was
a real emergency in ’Hammer Into Anvil,’ the time Number 2 was under the
impression that Number 6 had left a bomb hidden in a Cuckoo clock at the door
of the Green Dome. But the bomb disposal men didn’t walk, they came by
Mini-Moke, what’s more there was an irritating siren blaring out! Well it
wasn’t so much of a siren, more of a high pitched whining.
There have been other emergencies, medical emergencies with an
ambulance towing a Red Cross trailer behind it. The Red Cross in The Village,
that’s a laugh. Mind you generally speaking all the citizens are looked after
very well, especially the ones who resisted for so short a time. For them life
in The Village can be quite pleasant and charming, almost like being in
Shangri-La. For others, it’s a nightmare world, one from which escape is most
desirable. But escapes have been tried so many times, and as far as it is
known, no-one has never escaped. At least not until Fall Out. That evacuation
may well have come as a sudden shock to many. Their lives in The Village
brought to a sudden end by the order to evacuate. But never mind, the fabric of
The Village was virtually undamaged so soon after, everyone could have been
returned to The Village to get on with their lives once again. Well where else
do you think so many people could be put? They could hardly be left to roam
free, not with the knowledge they all had about The Village. To have Number 6
go shooting his mouth off about The Village is one thing, but to have so many
others at large would have been completely unacceptable. It would have been
nothing less than a tremendous breach in security. Somewhere would have to be
found to put all those people, and what better place than The Village!
Be seeing you
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