Two quotes from The Prisoner (2009)

Are you Six?

If I was 2x6, you'd know it by now.

Ah. Yes. What have I done? Sit with me. The world is not a pretty thing... when you look at it too close. We fell in love with atrocity. We make pornography and call it "news." A daily fix of horror. We think the coming disaster is going to be ecological is us, that the problem is political, but no, no. The great war is psychological. (points to his temple) It's in here. (makes gunshot sound) We've made ourselves into fat and fading and wheezing animals, educated in apathy, amused by cruelty. So, this. We make a new world. Something human. And yet, there is a whispering in my ear that tells me I was wrong, they were right and the savages, savages, savages had it right all along! I wanted you to come. I wanted you to wipe out my guilt. You were right. You are the way. Become hatred. Become vengeance. Yes, I respect that. Kill me. I see the logic in that. And I'm not afraid, at all, because we know, you and I, how it is to be human. We must submit to the beast in man. I tell you this because I know who you are. (turns around, notices the "Six" he is with lacks a scar) You are not Six. Can you still kill me, if you understand the purpose?

Yes.

Don't give him what he wants.

Oh, dear Six, you're too late.

If you do this, we are lost! He will take the thing that keeps him from owning us - our conscience.

Words change nothing! You hear me? Words change nothing!

I know that. I accept that. I have to accept you. Don't make us become the thing we fear. If we are one, then we can defeat Two.

One?

Come back.

To lose a child. There's nothing else like that.

Sir, if I'm aloud to say. I'm sorry about 11-12.

Yes, you are allowed because you know how it feels. Can I ask you... is what you feel... evil? I want it to stop. I want it all to stop. The madness of this world to stop.

Most days, I don't know why I live. I don't know why I breathe. I go on. I drive, I wait for that... black pit feeling in my guts to go away but it don't. No, it grows. That's what.

What if... what we feel, what happened to us is for a purpose? My son's death... I can only bear it if it gives me clarity. I had a dream last night.

A dream?

I dreamed clarity. All of it. Suppose your child's death gave you a place in Village history. Gave you, 1-4-7, the moral courage to act when the moment comes. To think of it as unthinkable, to do what cannot be done. You like Six, don't you? Trust him? Is he someone who can give us better Village, moral Village? Freedom within the prison? And when the moment comes, you will stand beside Six and you will call out, "Six... is the One."

The One?

The One.

Your time's almost at an end. If that is what you choose.

Let me out of here.

I see no locked doors. The Village is in all of us, Six. I know you. You want the Village in you.

No. I'm a free man.

More than anyone here. You love the Village.

No. I have to escape. Every breath, every thought I have is to get away.

Then why do you conjure up this to keep you here?

No. It's not true. I couldn't.

Look, Six. Look up! Look! Look at your fear. See what you create with it.

I won't believe in you. I will not believe. Let me go!

I have no power over you. I never did have. You know that, Six. If you truly want to go, you must find the open door, rather than the beast that keeps you here. So which is it to be, Six? The door, or the beast? Which does Six choose to see?

Let me out of here!

11-12 chose... he chose to kill himself because he thought he was a prisoner here. And so he was. Six here has told you the truth a thousand times. You are all prisoners!

How do we stop them? How do we shut the holes? You have to help!

How do we close the holes? I wish I knew. But I... I can do nothing and soon, we will all face the same abyss. (about M2/Helen) I can hear her. That's how life begins, crying out. I can see her. Blindly groping through the dark. If only there were some way back, but all we can do, my friends, breathe in... breathe out, more... Village. Breathe in - with me - breathe out! Come on! More... Village! Breathe in --

(throws a rock at Two) I hate you!

(recovers quickly) Breathe out! More... Village!

There must be something you can do.

(points to Six) Ask him! Six is the one!

Six. (looks to Six) Six is the One. We want Six. Six is the One. We want Six.

(speaking with the rest of the Villagers) Six is the One.

Six is the one we've been waiting for. Six will save us all! Six will save all of us!

(reaches Two) What are you doing?

In your left coat pocket. (Six takes several colored pills from his jacket) There's only one way to close the holes. We must find a dreamer. (looks to 313) Pity Six. Poor little Six.

(313 tries to take one of the pills) No.

Please. Let me. I want to. I know what I'm doing. (pause) For you. All of this. Until you find a better way.

Go on.

Too late.

Two little pills. A yellow one for you... and another for me. (holds up a grenade) Time to wake up, now. Six, I give you the Village.

It's called New York!

Manufactured.

Who are you? How do I get in? If I open my mind... Something's wrong here. I keep trying to prove I'm right. 93 found something.

It's the Village.

Do you think it would help me to tell you? He got away. Meddling with my mind. Ordinary people.

Be seeing you.

Nothing's real. Do you think I'm insane? Where is this place? I am not a number. I'm a free man! I want to get back to New York. I need you to help me... in some other life.