It may be
wondered why it is that the Ball for the Carnival was held in the Town Hall,
when other organised entertainment is held in the Recreation Hall? Well it
might be supposed that that would afford Number 6 the opportunity for him to
discover the body of the dead man he found on the beach, to find the body a
second time. But this time in a drawer in the mortuary of the Town Hall,
which should really have been in the hospital. But I suppose they couldn’t hold
the Ball in the hospital.
Anyway it afforded Number 6 the opportunity to go poking his
nose in where it wasn’t wanted. And so in order to make a foray into the depths
of The Town Hall he adopted the disguise of a doctor. Reads more like he should
be in the Hospital again! Going along a corridor only one door was left
unlocked, setting aside the door from which a woman in a white coat appeared
and gave the termination order to him. It was actually a pair of doors which
opened automatically for Number 6, and passing through he entered a room with
tables and green shaded desk lamps more akin to a library. There were also a
number of filing cabinets. Number 6 arrived at another door, less complicated,
seeing as the key to the door was hanging from a nail on a length of string.
Number 6 took the key, unlocked the door, and as he stepped into the mortuary
the overhead lights came on automatically. This is where Number 2 found Number
6.
It might be wondered how it was that Number 2 found Number 6
so easily. It might be due to surveillance, because one couldn’t allow Number 6
the opportunity to roam the halls of the Town Hall at large. But then again all
but one door was open to Number 6, all the other doors being securely locked.
So perhaps it was surmised by Number 2, that Number 6 would be found in the
mortuary, that being only the second door available to him. It might also me
surmised that Number 2 wanted Number 6 to find the mortuary, and the body lying
in the drawer, seeing as the only two doors available led him to the mortuary.
After all Number 2 was not slow off the mark to inform Number 6 of her plan for
the cadaver. That the wallet in the dead man’s pocket had been amended
slightly, that the dead man would be amended slightly. Number 2 wanted him to
know that his plan to get a message to someone, anyone in the outside World had
failed. Number 6 had planned to use the dead man in the same way one would send
a message in a bottle.
There was never any danger of Number 6 poking his nose into the
intricacies of the Town Hall. Well not until he reached inside that elaborately
decorated and furnished room, where he attempted an act of sabotage against the
teleprinter. But perhaps that was also allowed, seeing as the pair of doors,
previously secured against him, now opened automatically for him, allowing Number
6 to enter the room. And once again he resorted to good old fashioned brute
force, ripping out the wiring and paper. Seeing as the machine had a back-up
system, it seems that he can never win. But this had to be demonstrated to
Number 6, and so the reason for admitting Number 6 to that inner sanctum of
Number 2’s room.
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Thursday, 7 May 2015
Colonel Hawke-Englishe
Why was the scientist mad on destroying London? The reason is never given in the episode, only in the original script. The mad scientist was originally to have been a German scientist who in destroying London with his rocket, was seeking revenge for the defeat of Germany at the end of WWII.
So the scientist had a rocket, a German scientist possibly having worked with Von Braun on the V1 and V2 rockets during the war. He may also have known of the Manhattan project, even worked on the project. A man with such genius would not find it difficult to build a rocket inside a lighthouse. After all a lighthouse is just a tube, the same as a rocket silo is but a tube, well not exactly the same. There are certain logistical problems within constructing a rocket inside a lighthouse. But of course Professor Schnipps did go one further, the lighthouse was the actual rocket!
It may be wondered what kind of rocket it was. After all Schnipps had promised his daughter Bond street. His men Chelsea Barracks, and the Scottish Marshall Wembley football stadium. So presumably the rocket was armed with a neutron warhead, one that kills people, but doesn’t destroy buildings. But as Schnipps described London as lying entirely in ruins, it may be supposed that there is no logic to an insane mind! And after all it was only a fairytale wasn’t it, a fairytale interpreted from pictures in The Village Story Book.
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Quote For The Day
“There is
more harm in The Village than is dreamt.”
{Number 2 - Hammer Into Anvil}
Number 2 was a weak link in the chain of command waiting to be broken. He was afraid of his masters. He was afraid of supposed enemies within The Village, he didn’t know who they were, but he knew they were there. He probably meant Jammers, after all that’s what Number 6 was doing against Number 2, he was jamming. Creating non-existent plots which Number and his assistant Number 14 had to investigate. And in the end Number 2’s fear and paranoia made him afraid of Number 6, or should that be D6?
When I first watched ‘the Prisoner’ as a 12 year old boy, I thought Number 6 had escaped The Village during ‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ and I shared the Prisoner’s disappointment when he found he had hardly left The Village at all. But then that was only the second episode in the series, so common sense should have told me that Number 6 would never be allowed to escape The Village so early. Mind you by the time ‘Many Happy Returns’ came along there was more of a chance of Number 6 having escaped. But again I was to share Number 6’s disappointment. Yet Number 6 took his having been brought back to where he started almost a month ago very well, he even appeared resigned to the fact. And then by the time of ‘Hammer Into Anvil’ I remember thinking that this Number 2 had actually got it right, that Number 6 was a plant sent to the Village to test security, and check the efficiency of Number 2. And if found wanting, the result being Number 2 was then replaced. The idea being that it was Number 6 who set up The Village {Number 6 turning out to be Number 1} who then resigned his job in the full knowledge that he would be abducted to The Village. This was in order to test his own creation. To test its security, its methods, and to make sure that there could be no possible escape, thereby making himself a prisoner!
However if that is the case, then it would appear that something had gone wrong. Because more than to test Village security, to check on Number 2’s efficiencies, Number 6 goes much further than that. Upon seeing what he has become, when coming face to face with himself, Number 6 sets about bringing his creation down. To destroy it, wipe The Village off the face of the Earth. Something he promised to do long before the advent of ‘Fall Out.’
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{Number 2 - Hammer Into Anvil}
Number 2 was a weak link in the chain of command waiting to be broken. He was afraid of his masters. He was afraid of supposed enemies within The Village, he didn’t know who they were, but he knew they were there. He probably meant Jammers, after all that’s what Number 6 was doing against Number 2, he was jamming. Creating non-existent plots which Number and his assistant Number 14 had to investigate. And in the end Number 2’s fear and paranoia made him afraid of Number 6, or should that be D6?
When I first watched ‘the Prisoner’ as a 12 year old boy, I thought Number 6 had escaped The Village during ‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ and I shared the Prisoner’s disappointment when he found he had hardly left The Village at all. But then that was only the second episode in the series, so common sense should have told me that Number 6 would never be allowed to escape The Village so early. Mind you by the time ‘Many Happy Returns’ came along there was more of a chance of Number 6 having escaped. But again I was to share Number 6’s disappointment. Yet Number 6 took his having been brought back to where he started almost a month ago very well, he even appeared resigned to the fact. And then by the time of ‘Hammer Into Anvil’ I remember thinking that this Number 2 had actually got it right, that Number 6 was a plant sent to the Village to test security, and check the efficiency of Number 2. And if found wanting, the result being Number 2 was then replaced. The idea being that it was Number 6 who set up The Village {Number 6 turning out to be Number 1} who then resigned his job in the full knowledge that he would be abducted to The Village. This was in order to test his own creation. To test its security, its methods, and to make sure that there could be no possible escape, thereby making himself a prisoner!
However if that is the case, then it would appear that something had gone wrong. Because more than to test Village security, to check on Number 2’s efficiencies, Number 6 goes much further than that. Upon seeing what he has become, when coming face to face with himself, Number 6 sets about bringing his creation down. To destroy it, wipe The Village off the face of the Earth. Something he promised to do long before the advent of ‘Fall Out.’
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Ex-Number 2's
Have you considered what happens to ex-Number
2's once they've been replaced? There is evidence of at least two 2’s who were
allowed to leave The Village. One is observed to leave by helicopter, piloting
the machine himself. The other Number 2 admitted that he had been brought back
to The Village, and that’s what can also happen, they can be brought back for a
second term of office, or to preside over three trials which could amount to
the same thing.
One Number 2 is witnessed, having returned
to London, eventually returning into the fold of
the Establishment with the Houses of Parliament via the Peers entrance. While
it may be suspected that another was taken into care, taken to hospital and put
in a bed on the psychiatric ward. As for the other Number 2’s, another may well
have been admitted to hospital to have a surgeon operate on his stomach ulcer.
However having written that, perhaps Number 2 might have made better use of the
doctor-Number 14 {A B and C} in that she might have been able to prescribe
acid-suppressing drugs, such as H2-receptor antagonists, thus preventing the
need for surgery, and could lead to a cure. While other Number 2’s once their
term of office was over, might well have been absorbed into The Village
Administration, from which Number 2 might have been promoted. Although in one
case we know that a Number 2 was originally abducted to The Village as a
prisoner, because he said as much during his falling out in the final episode.
“It has been my lot, in the past, to wield
a not inconsiderable power. Nay I’ve had the ear of Statesmen, Kings and
Princes of many lands. Governments have been swayed, policies defined, and
revolutions nipped in the bud at a word from me in the right place and at a
propitious time. Not surprising therefore that this community should find a use for me. Not altogether by accident
that one day I should be abducted,
and wake up here amongst you. What is deplorable is that I resisted for so
short a time.”
So regarding Number 2, who is to say which
is which, how many of each, who came to The Village of their own free will, and
who was abducted against it?
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Thought For The Day
The use of children in ‘The Girl Who Was
Death,’ is a demonstration of the depths to which Number 2 will sink in order
to obtain the reason behind Number 6's resignation. Also it is a demonstration
of how Number 6 himself, can manipulate any given situation to his own
advantage, or turn against Number 2. Of course it is unknown whose children
they are, or indeed what the circumstances were which brought about Number 6
turning child minder!
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Monday, 4 May 2015
The Mystique of The Prisoner!
There are certain mysteries within ‘the
Prisoner’ that will probably remain a mystery. Although having said that,
because of the restored film of ‘the Prisoner’ and through ‘High Definition’
many visual mystiques of ‘the Prisoner’ have been solved.
Two such mystiques which I have attempted to
solve have to do with the machine. The first is the sheet of paper fed into the
machine by the Professor, which I have taken to be a page from the script for
‘The General,’ used as a prop. Or perhaps not, but the late actor Peter Howell
does appear to typing something on that
sheet of paper, but what was he typing? The machine itself looks like a
photocopier, well it is. It is in fact the Xerox 813, the first desktop printer.
As for the text on the sheet of paper, for
a while now I’ve been attempting to enhance the picture to the best of my
ability, but cannot actually read the text. But then I do not have ‘the
Prisoner’ in either ‘High Definition,’ or Blu-ray. However perhaps someone with
the series in either of those formats might be able to read the text, if clear
enough.
The second mystique is the text printed by
the teleprinter in ‘Dance of the Dead.’ The machine is actually working in the
scene, so it must be typing text sent from some place. However the text is even
smaller making it even more difficult to read! If the first is solvable, the
second may not be, as well as another subject I’ve been attempting to discern
for a while, but without success.
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