The Therapy Zone

“I wish it had been real”

                                 {Cathy/No.22 Living In harmony

    The episode Living In Harmony was probably the worst defeat for No.2, seeing as how it was accompanied by the death of two village personnel, No.'s 8 and 22. The one strangled to death, and the former having committed suicide.

    No.22's last words she was heard to utter were "I wish it had been real." Well their involvement was inevitable, how could it be otherwise, so the only question remains, just how much involved had No.'s 2, 8 and 22 become involved?

   Certainly at the end No.8 was just as jealous and homicidal as his character of the Kid. As for No.22, well she, in her character of Cathy, had fallen for No.6, and went to the length of not only helping the stranger break out of Jail, but also helping him get out of the town of Harmony. For this act, Cathy was put on trial, even though the Prisoner was only in protective custody!

   So if the character of Cathy had fallen for the stranger, then how much so had No.22 fallen for No.6? Those words "I wish it had been real" comes back to haunt us. And in so wishing, and if No.22 had survived, would she have pursued a relationship with No.6? And if he let her, might she not then help No.6 escape the village?

   Well that might have been a possibility, but any further deliberation on this matter could only be through pure conjecture, but I like to think that Cathy-No.22 might have done. But in any case, what evidence is there for No.22 actually being strangled to death? She might have only just passed out in No.6's arms. And No.8, that was not such a high balcony to have thrown himself off, and thereby committing suicide, people have survived falling from a greater height than that and survived. So perhaps No.8 wasn't dead, just unconscious.

   I haven’t read the script for Living In Harmony, as reading the Prisoner scripts is not something I care for. But I'm sure that the deaths of No.8 and No.22 was the intention.

BCNU

Many Happy Returns

   I wonder if it was intended for No.6 to leave the Village by taxi, after all that's why a taxi was left with the key in the ignition.....wasn't it?
    I know there are the mountains, but even so there was a large amount of open countryside. But then again the Mini-Moke was originally designed as an all terrain vehicle for the army, but performed well only on tarmac, or solid sand in the Village estuary!
   So perhaps with No.6 rejecting an overland escape, selecting to go by sea, may have come as a bit of a shock to those who are watching!
Be seeing you.

Village Observation

    You will have observed in the opening sequence of the Prisoner, that not always the actors voice is heard to be speaking during the opening dialogue between No.2 and No.6, as in the case of Patrick Cargill. It was intended for each actor to have his or her own voice used for the opening dialogue, but in the end it became a question of time, it would have taken too long.
    One further matter, during the opening dialogue of Dance of the Dead we hear the voice of Mary Morris as  No.2, yet in the film we see a man sitting in No.2's chair!
BCNU

Caught On Camera

    Doesn't suit him does it? I have a top hat very similar to this one worn by Pat, he didn't like being called Pat, and what's more I can carry it off better than he could!   Be seeing you.

Downright Daft!

    There are several scenes within the Prisoner series which comes under the heading of Downright Daft, like the one in Hammer Into Anvil when a bomb disposal man, having taken a Cuckoo clock apart, there having supposed by No.2 to contain a bomb and finds nothing but the workings of the Cuckoo clock. No.2 then turns up on the scene, and the bomb disposal man demonstrates his feelings towards the Chairman of the Village by tilting the wooden Cuckoo at him, the meaning is self-evident. The only question is, how did the bomb disposal man get away with such a gesture?    Be seeing you

Thought For The Day

    The hippie in Fall Out symbolises youth in rebellion against the establishment and, as in the closing sequence of the young man trying to thumb a lift first in one direction and then in another on a motorway, youth not knowing, or caring, in which direction it goes.                 {Series guidlines}

    Or as I see it, it's not the direction in which one goes, nor is it the destination that is important, it is the journey getting there that matters.
BCNU

Postcard From The Village

    Tonight, when the moon rises the whole world will turn to sliver. And yet, by dawns early light the Village turns to gold. I have been in Portmeirion in glorious sunshine, and baking hot weather. Then at other times Portmeirion seems to have a climate all its own, as it is raining all around on the hills, yet the Italianate Village remains dry. But where there are hills and mountains beyond, stormy weather is never far away, as once when staying in the Village, one day it rained so hard, and all day, that the streets of Pormeirion were turned into rivers!          Be seeing you