Be Seeing You!

   “Be seeing you” is a parting greeting used in The Village, either with or without a salute, indicating that for citizens to be seeing each other again, is unavoidable, The Village being a close-knit community. Besides there is nowhere else to go!

    However with a number of exceptions;

    Three No. 2’s.

    The Butler.

    The Supervisor-No. 26.

    No.19 {or is it 56} the shopkeeper.

    No. 20 the manager of the Labour Exchange, later as assistant to No. 2 in ‘The Chimes of Big Ben.’

    No. 66 the ex-admiral.

    No. 250 a guardian in ‘the General,’ who later appears as Number 93, and again as a delegate of the Assembly.

    Numerous “ordinary” Village citizens in the background, but who help make up the community.

   There are a large number of characters who once seen are never to “be seen” again. Perhaps once they are used they are removed from the chessboard! Amongst their number are;

    The maid No.66 who attempted to extract some sort of information from the Prisoner by trying to play on his sympathies, and then with the use of emotional blackmail!
   No.9 who was assigned to No.6 as she had once been assigned to Cobb, but who was no more than a pawn in No.2’s game with No.6.

   The General.

   The little old lady No.38

   The doctor No.14 who used a new drug she had developed to get into No.6’s dreams.

   No.’s 113, 113b and 113c.

   No.24-Alison, who shared a mental link with No.6.

   Madam Professor

   The doctor No.40, the male equivalent to his successor No.22.

   Roland Walter Dutton, but it may be supposed that he went on to spend the rest of his life under medical supervision, seeing the state his mind had been left in from the doctor’s experiments.

   The doctor No.23, the female equivalent of her predecessor No.40.

   The maid No.21.

   The maid No.54.

   No.14 the ex-Count.

   No.8 the once white Queen.

   No.42 the painter.

   The Guardian working undercover as a gardener.

   The young woman working at the kiosk in ‘Hammer Into Anvil.’

   The man working at the kiosk who wouldn’t sell any sweets to No,36 because all her weekly allowance had been all used up!

   No.100

   No.36 who couldn’t go a day without her sweets.

   No.50 Monique.

   No.51 the Watchmaker, Monique’s father.

   No.118 the eccentric artist.

    No.42 who was suffering from depression, always in tears, but who became a member of the ladies sub-appeal committee.

   No.56 Chairwoman of the ladies sub-appeal Committee.

   I’m sure there are others who could be added to this list, but it gives the general idea. Of course one would not expect a character such as Monique, Alison, Number 8 {the white Queen} or Number 9 who both having once been at the centre of one episode to appear at the centre of another. But who might appear somewhere in the background with other Village citizens. Then again better continuity might have been gained had the doctor Number 40 who appeared in ‘Dance of the Dead,’ gone on to be the doctor in ‘Checkmate’ instead of Number 23.

   The reason for the ever changing face of Number 2 is known, so that it makes it difficult for Number 6 to strike up a relationship with any Number 2. Does that same rule apply for Number 6’s personal maids? As we never see any one of them more than once! As Number 6 once said “The maids come….and they go!” Almost with the same frequency as Number 2!

   During the dream of ‘A’ of ‘A B and C’ as Number 6 straightens his bow tie, having dealt with ‘A’ and his henchmen, he says “Be seeing you.” This could show a memory of The Village even in his dream, and why not? After all, any unpleasant memories of The Village had not been wiped from his mind, not like it was in ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,’ because he wakes up in his cottage in the Village after each of the first two experiments.

Be seeing you…….I hope!