He knew all the
time! Just like that time in ‘A B and C,’ Number 6 knew all the time, he had
been playing with Number 2. But of course during that episode there had been
clues along the way, Number 14 for one, that phrase she used, “We all have to
make mistakes, sometimes we have to.” And then the biggest clue of all, the
hidden laboratory in the woods. I’ve never been sure whether or not Number 14
consciously led Number 6 to that laboratory, thereby giving the whole game
away. But this time there doesn’t appear to be a clue as to what gave the game
away, certainly there was no clue in ‘The Girl Who Was Death.’ So when and how,
did Number 6 realize that in telling a blessed fairy tale to three children was
in itself another of Number 2’s plots to try and get him to talk, to give
something away? A more trivial question would be how did Number 6 become a
child minder? And where are the parents, so to need a child minder in the first
place? Oh well perhaps it doesn’t pay to examine episodes too closely, after
all ‘The Girl Who Was Death’ is a piece of escapism, fun, to be enjoyed for its
own sake. And yet the questions still remain!
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