The Girl Who Was Death

    Not Sonia as credited, but Death, “My name is Death” the Girl told Mister X. And she did her best to kill him, but he wasn’t like the others, Colonel Hawke-Englishe for example. But yet he had Potter at his back, or so the Colonel thought. And what was the Colonel doing in the field anyway? It might have been expected for a younger man to chase the Girl to her father’s lair. It’s the same with the Colonel in ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,” perhaps British Military Intelligence was running out of field agents! But not one of them was of the same calibre as ZM73, or should I say John Drake? After all isn’t ‘The Girl Who Was death’ a glimpse of Number 6’s former professional life, or strike Number 6 for Patrick McGoohan, and you might be getting somewhere. After all I used to watch ‘Danger Man’ when I was a boy, and I’m sure there were many others like me, although for just as many, if not more he isn’t.

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Just Passing By!

    Just happened to be passing by were you when you saw your fiancés car parked outside his house? Just as well you were not just passing by on Saturday March the 18^th, you might have seen something worth seeing! Like your fiancé walking along Buckingham Place, all dishevelled, almost threadbare like some vagrant, a raggedy man. More than that you would see him approach his house, knock on the door to be met on the doorstep by a housemaid. Did your fiancé have a housemaid, or housekeeper? No, of course he didn’t, what he did have was a Lotus 7, but that’s now driven by a woman. That’s something else you would have seen had you just happened to be passing by on that particular day. As it is, you have a man, a stranger living in your fiancés house, and of the man you love there is no sign. He’s been away from you a year now, you don’t know where he went. You probably don’t even know that he resigned his job. I bet your father didn’t tell you that. What are the odds your fiancé didn’t tell you he was going to resign and then disappear, but one thing is for sure he wasn’t taking you with him! You asked this man who opened the door to you if he’s here, meaning your fiancé, to which the man replied “Yes.” Well in a way the man is right. You had best prepare yourself for a shock! It must have been a shock, to discover your fiancé in so much trouble, his mind wrongly housed in another man’s body. Now that’s something hard to take in and that’s a fact. And then what, after he attended your birthday party, and having retrieved the receipt from you, there he was gone from your life again. To lose a fiancé once is unfortunate, to lose him twice is rank carelessness! I wonder, after your fiancé gave you that message that only he could give you, did he........did he sit you down and tell you of what had befallen him? About where he had been, of The Village and everything that happened to him there, and who he suspected was behind his abduction a year ago? Because any woman would be desirous of an explanation, unless working for your father as he did.....ah but he didn’t, did he tell you of his resignation? But no, if I have this right, your fiancé was brought back to London on the day he was due to hand in his letter of resignation, all unpleasant memories of the past 12 months erased from his mind. So because of the sudden turn of events which had overtaken him, he never got around to resigning his job. So at this point he does still work for your father. I’m sure that he will be delighted to see his future son-in-law, or is it the Colonel returned?

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Teabreak Teaser

   In ‘Arrival’ the public announcement was made that ice cream was on sale, and that strawberry was the flavour of the day. Does that mean strawberry was the only flavour of ice cream on sale on that day, or is strawberry simply the recommended flavour of the day?

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Village Life!

    “Good morning all, it’s another beautiful day. Your attention please, here are two announcements. Ice cream is now on sale for your enjoyment, the flavour of the day is strawberry. Here is a warning! There is a possibility of light intermittent showers later in the day. Thank you for your attention.”
    “Did you hear that Number Fifty-three.”
    “Yes Number Thirty-seven, lucky I brought my umbrella!”
   “No I didn’t mean that, ice cream is now on sale, the flavour of the day is strawberry.”
    “Do they sell any other flavours?”
    “No, they just sell the flavour of the day.”
    “Pity.”
    “Why do you say that?”
    “I don’t like strawberry. What day to they sell mint choc chip?”

    “Is that your favourite flavour?”
    “Yes.”
    “Come to think of it, I like raspberry ripple.”
    “Who’s that chap?”
   “I don’t know, but he doesn’t look very happy.”
   “Perhaps he doesn’t like strawberry either!”
   “I know, lets go and have a cup of tea at the café, my treat.”
   “In that case we’ll have tea and toasted teacakes.”
   “And we can collect my umbrella on the way.”
   “No need, you can share mine.”
   “That’s very kind.”
   “Think nothing of it. Did you hear about Number One-four-seven?”
   “No.”
   “Well I’m not one to gossip as you know, but they say……….”
  

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Quote For The Day

    “Still time!”
                    {Number 2 – Once Upon A Time}

    During ‘The Chimes of Big Ben’ Number 6 once asked Number 2 if he was running out of time. On that occasion Number 2 said he couldn’t remember how many lumps of sugar Number 6 took. It’s in Number 6’s file, but Number 2 simply thought it would save time if Number 6 answered, and that if he answered that one simple question then all the rest would follow! But in the case of Number 2 in ‘Once Upon A Time,’ he was snivelling and grovelling on the floor, and was actually running out of time, as Number 6 as well as the time lock of the door counted down the seconds.
    “Thirty-five.”
    “Still time………..not too late.”
    “For me?”
    “For me!”
    “You snivel and grovel.”
    “I ask.”
    “You crawl.”
    “Yes look.”
    “To ask?”
    “Yes to ask.”
    “Why?......ask on, ask yourself!”
    “Fifteen.”
    “Why, why…please.”
    “Don’t say please.”
    “I say it.”
    “Don’t.”
    “Please I plead.”
    Nine….eight…..seven…..six did 6 die……. Then Number 2 himself counts down that last few seconds, because now he finally has run out of time…..five…. four…. three….two,…. one.”

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Caught On Camera!

    “What day is it?”
    “Wednesday I think, why?”
    “Haven’t we been here before?”
    “How do you mean?”
    “That’s not the Colonel getting out of the taxi is it?”
    “Isn’t it?”
    “No, it’s Number 6, on the day he arrived in The Village.”
    “Well what of it?”
    “This is supposed to be ‘Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, and it’s supposed to be the Colonel who has just arrived by helicopter. We’re in the wrong episode!”
    “How did that happen?”

    Footnote: The same scene from ‘Arrival occurs in another episode ‘The General,’ but is cut by 6 seconds!

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Living In Harmony

    Fancy living in Harmony stranger? Its not really his kind of town. In fact The Man With No Name has about as much dislike for Harmony as he does The Village, the townspeople can keep it! It’s then that the townspeople turn on the stranger.
   In ‘A Change of Mind’ there was much talk about disharmony amongst the citizens, and in Number 6’s case, we see what happens to him when he refuses to toe the line. He’s attacked by an angry mob and manhandled all the way to the hospital. In Harmony when The Man With No Name is attacked by an angry mob he’s put in jail under protective custody, after he angered the townspeople by insulting their town! It seems that these two episodes share a common denomination, that fact that disharmony is frowned upon!

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