The
television viewer is told, as No.2 told No.1, that he must risk either one of
them. Meaning that with Degree Absolute it must to be one or the other of them,
No.6 or No.2, that only one of then can leave the Embryo Room….alive! That
being the case, No.2 foresaw the real possibility of his own death. And in
reality Patrick McGoohan almost did kill Leo Mckern, at least that’s how it
looks on the screen, and such was Leo’s experience at the hands of McGoohan!
No.2 is a good man, he was a good man but the failure of ‘The Chimes of Big Ben’ was not
his fault as he told them earlier they were using the wrong approach, and yet
it was he who ultimately carried the can, no matter how much Nadia expressed it
in her report how No.2 had done his best. But there seems to be no rhyme nor reason
as to why No.2 should have to die, but then it was he who suggested that it had
to be either one of them. I realize that Degree Absolute is a recognized method
used in psychoanalysis, or at least No.6 recognized it as such. But having one
of them die does seem rather extreme. But was it No.2 who died in that embryo
room? I only ask in recalling the words of the Prisoner “Die
Six….die….die…diiiee!”
Because it
must not be forgotten that at some point in their deliberations, the patient
had changed places with the doctor, and it was No.6 that the Prisoner wanted
dead!
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