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Wednesday 1 June 2016
Cause And Effect!
Cause and
effect, the cause ZM73 {we cannot call him the Prisoner as yet, or Number 6}
having handed in his letter of resignation. The effect being his abduction to
The Village, or so we imagine, because we simply do not know that for a fact.
The matter of the Prisoner’s resignation might simply be coincidental, after
all he had been under surveillance for quite some time prior to his having
resigned his job. Remember that noise that sounded like a click, something in
the mirror, or was it over there? Yes over there too! The question is who was
watching ZM73, and why? The people he worked for? The Russians, or agents
working The Village? Number 6 wasn’t sure if it was his own people or not, so
how can we be? Number 6 did ask the
Colonel if he was sure they hadn’t got a Village. But the Colonel declined to
answer the question, which I feel only confirmed that he was sure they had a
Village, after all, the Colonel was
there in The Village. And by the end of ‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ Number 6 knew
it, and so did we the television viewer! The cause being that they wanted to
know why ZM73 had resigned his job, the effect to bring the Colonel to The
Village, causing the effect that when Number 6 arrived in an office he knew
very well in London, the Colonel and Fotheringay would be there to greet him.
Then a debriefing of ZM73 would follow, and the question of why he resigned
would arise, and then he would open up to a familiar face, the Colonel’s. And
he would, had it not been for the chimes of Big Ben striking eight just as
Number 6’s wristwatch said eight. The trouble was there is an hour’s difference
between Polish and English time. The cause being Post five had his wristwatch set
at English, and not Polish time. The effect being Number 6 cottoning on to
that, and thereby discovering the deception! The cause of one simple oversight,
affecting the outcome of a very elaborate plan. But the question should be
asked, how could anyone have foreseen Number 6’s wristwatch becoming
waterlogged, and asking for Post 5’s Karel’s wristwatch so that he could
time the journey? No-one could have foreseen that. But what effect might have
been caused if Number 6’s wristwatch had been waterproof? There would have been
no need for him to ask for the wristwatch of Karel’s. Yes the borrowed
wristwatch was set at English time, but might not the effect at the end have been
the same, as Number 6’s own
wristwatch being set at the same time as Post 5’s? Seeing as both men came from
The Village?
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