“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.
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!
