Number 42 is
very diligent, when approached by Number 6, his authoritative attitude
persuades him that Number 6 is a superior. So much so that if something’s
wrong, and he is not satisfied, he said he’d paint it again! It makes me wonder
that something was wrong with Number 42’s brushstrokes that his painting was
not up to specifications. In fact he had actually been told to paint the wall
again. How do we know this? Because later in the episode when Number 6 finds Number
42 the next day in order to give him the password “Tonight at moonset, Pawn to
Queen’s Pawn Six check,” 42 is still painting that same wall. Unless of course
Number 42 is either working to rule, or simply “spinning” the job out!
Personally I like to think that soon after Number 6 and the Rook had come by
inspecting his work, a proper foreman came along to inspect 42’s painting of
the wall, and finding it unsatisfactory was instructed to paint it again. That
really would have confused Number 42, to have had his work inspected a second
time, and so soon after the first!
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