What was behind the Prisoner known as Number 6’s
resignation? What reason could he have had? He was after all engaged to the
boss’s daughter, perhaps through that marriage he was looking to better his
professional prospects. So what went wrong? He certainly hadn’t told his fiancée
Janet Portland of his decision to resign his job, she had no idea. What’s more
he was doing a runner out of the country. Chambers had gone, and ‘A’ had made
world news when he defected to the other side, and that is perhaps the way
Number 6 would have gone had they not
got to him first! But really is that any reason to have ZM73 abducted to the
village? After all, if you can’t chuck up a job things have come to a pretty
pass, to quote Number 2. But I suppose it all depends on what job you did and
what you know. Perhaps his resignation had nothing whatsoever to do with it,
that Number 6 had been abducted to the village in order to make sure the
knowledge inside his head was secure, that he would not talk under any
circumstances.
But they need not have worried, Number 6 was still loyal, he still put a value on the Official Secrets Act he would have had to sign. So, in not extracting the information, Number 6 was in the village to have that knowledge protected. But if that’s the case why did the doctor in ‘Dance of the Dead’ try and extract information, but then again did he? After all he didn’t ask for details, just heading of files he had seen of projects he knew about. It seemed that the doctor was going to an awful lot of trouble for so little. But then they were used to that, so many elaborate plans and schemes, and for what? Precious little as far as I can see! They might have saved themselves a great deal of time and effort. What did it matter why he resigned, I stopped asking myself that question a long time ago. But I’m sure he must have agonized over that decision a long time, and after he had taken it, it must have given him much anguish after he had made it.
But they need not have worried, Number 6 was still loyal, he still put a value on the Official Secrets Act he would have had to sign. So, in not extracting the information, Number 6 was in the village to have that knowledge protected. But if that’s the case why did the doctor in ‘Dance of the Dead’ try and extract information, but then again did he? After all he didn’t ask for details, just heading of files he had seen of projects he knew about. It seemed that the doctor was going to an awful lot of trouble for so little. But then they were used to that, so many elaborate plans and schemes, and for what? Precious little as far as I can see! They might have saved themselves a great deal of time and effort. What did it matter why he resigned, I stopped asking myself that question a long time ago. But I’m sure he must have agonized over that decision a long time, and after he had taken it, it must have given him much anguish after he had made it.
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