The Prisoner

1967

Number 6: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign.

(Number 2 is describing the Village) Number Two: What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they'll see that this is the pattern for the future. Number 6: The whole world as the Village? Number Two: That is my dream. What's yours? Number 6: To be the first man on the moon.

Number Two: (about The Prisoner) He's an individual, and they're always trying.

(over the opening of each episode - Number 2 played by various actors) Number 6: Where am I? Number 2: In the Village. Number 6: What do you want? Number 2: We want information. Number 6: Whose side are you on? Number 2: That would be telling. We want information... information... information. Number 6: You won't get it. Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will. Number 6: Who are you? Number 2: The new Number 2. Number 6: Who is Number 1? Number 2: You are Number 6. Number 6: I am not a number, I am a free man.

Number 6: I am not a number. I am a person.

Number 6: Everybody votes for a dictator.

Charles Curtis: The only trouble with science is that it can be perverted.

The Professor's Wife: One learns only when the mind wants to and not at set times.

Labour Exchange Manager: Good, you are honest. That is of use. Honesty attracts confidence, and confidence is our core of our business. See how honest I am being with you?

Number 6: Bad habit of mine, playing with lighters. I'll probably start a fire one day.

The Professor's Wife: Construction arises out of the ashes of destruction.

Madame Engadine: Men always evade questions. All my husbands did.

Number 6: If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.

Ex-Admiral: We're all pawns.

Number 6: Last week, Number 14 was an old lady in a wheelchair. You're new here, and you're one of them.

Number 6: I also have a problem. I'm not sure which side runs this Village.

Villager: (first time line is spoken) Be seeing you.

Taxi Driver: It's very cosmopolitan. You never know who you'll meet next.

Number 2: (shouting) Why, why, why did you resign?

Number 6: Be seeing you.

Number 6: Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.

Number 48: Thanks for the trip, dad.

Woman: (Tearfully) How can you doubt me? Number 6: It's easy, and I'm waterproof; a little drizzle won't wash away my doubt.

Number 2: By the time we finish with him, he won't know whether he's Number 6 or the cube root of infinity.

Number Two: You shouldn't have interfered, No.6. You'll pay for this. Number 6: No. You will.

Number 6: I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it

Retiring Number 2: I can think of better ways to die. Number 6: And better causes to die for.

Observer: You're a wicked man. Number 6: Wicked? Observer: You have no values. Number 6: Different values! Observer: You won't be helped. Number 6: Destroyed! Observer: You want to spoil things. Number 6: I won't be a goldfish in a bowl!

Observer: (discussing The Village) This place has been going for a long time. Number 6: Since the war? Before the war? WHICH... WAR?

Maid: (the Prisoner's costume for a fancy dress ball - picked by others - is delivered) What is it? Number 6: My own suit, specially delivered for the occasion. Maid: What does that mean? Number 6: That I am still... myself.

Observer: Questions are a burden to others. Answers are prison for oneself.

(Postman delivers a letter) Postman: Special delivery. Sign your number here, Number Six.

Number 6: (referring to the chess game) Why do you use people? Chessmaster: Some psychiatrists say it satisfies the desire for power. 'the only opportunity one gets here. Number 6: That depends what side you're on. Chessmaster: (quickly) I'm on my side. Number 6: (quickly) Aren't we all. Chessmaster: You must be new here. In time, most of us join the enemy - against ourselves.

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