The Prisoner (2009) Season 1 quotes

Where is this place?

You're in the Village. Where else would you be?

I wish you wouldn't fight it.

Fight what?

Please. Let me help you.

I don't want your help, lady. I want to get the hell out of here.

Look, here's what's going to happen: I'm going to fetch you a cold drink, and then someone's going to take you home. You're a free man.

I'd like to speak to the American consulate, please.

Look. See how the sun makes it all glow? Kind of day that makes you glad to be alive.

Why are you keeping me here?

I see no locked doors.

They were after me.

Oh, sounds terribly ominous.

Why am I here? It has nothing to do with me, any of this. I've seen you before.

Really?

I want to get back to New York.

That's not possible. There is no New York. There is only the Village.

What is it you're suggesting? A hole in the sky? Aliens landing secretly in the night? Mysterious roads that lead beyond, beyond, beyond? A magic gateway, perhaps. Some portal leading into Never Never Land!

[pointing to areas on the map] You are here. That's the Palais Two — Wow being the appropriate word. Right there's the Clinic—

Where's the road out of here?

Oh, you crack me up, Six!

You've not seen me before.

No, sir. You I would remember.

I will find a way to escape! Hear me?! I am not a number! I'm a free man!

Perhaps therapy might work, yes? What do you say, Six? Give the talking cure a try.

Oh, you would like that, wouldn't you. Meddling with my mind.

What are you afraid of, Six? A glimpse into your psyche, discovering you were the problem after all?

I'm not afraid.

Good. The sessions are booked. A man with nothing to hide is a man with nothing to find.

(on a bus tour around the Village) Coming up on your left is the Village Museum of Modern Art, containing the famous painting of Crying 38-30, by 794. And then, coming up is one the highlights of the tour: the Clinic.

Every day is a sunny day in the Village.

You were right, of course. He is resistant to the possibility of revealing the Six inside.

And why is that?

He feels... alone.

Oh, yes.

He dreams of escape. He feels rootless.

And yet his roots are right here, under our feet. What ails the man?

He described... (straining to say the words)... a fishing trip.

Fishing? We like Six's fishing stories. Don't we, 70?

Some kind of fantasy.

Perhaps you'd do better trying to find the Two inside? Well, why not, since I'm here. I'd like to poke around. See what makes Two tick. (sits at the table across from 70)

The inside Two?

I'm curious. (makes whirling motion with his fingers) I want to know what's going on inside me. Let's start. My wife. I'm the reason she's the way she is.

Perhaps we should stay with the matter of Six.

I know I can trust you. I love my son. (fiddles with something in his hands) But I have thoughts... if he knew me, he'd truly know his father. He might not like me.

Do you like me, 70?

You are two.

We all love you.

But... (holds out a grenade)... do you like me?

(nervously) I don't really know you. What I do know is that you are a wonderful man.

Do you think I believe in all this psychology babble? "My mother sat me sideways on the potty when I was toddler so now I want to sleep with her?" Oh, grow up, man! Have you had sex with your mother, 70?

(nervously) No. Never!

Well, don't!

Two... if I might ask... if you don't believe in the value of the talking cure--

It's not necessary for me to believe. It is necessary for Six to believe.

Something happened... in you. A memory. Your fishing trip, perhaps?

Your brother?

Do you think it would help me to tell you?

I know it would.

(fast) 765 is in love with 23-30. 23-56 is pregnant to 46-5. Now, 913 had an affair with 23-30, so 765 is jealous of 23-30--

He's running rings around us!

(comes face-to-face with 70) I see your fear, 70. I've been watching you. You're a prisoner, here, just like me. But you don't want to know. Well, I refuse to become you.

Oh, 11-12. None of us can choose our family.

(on a gurney, in a straight jacket) He swam in the ocean! He tasted the salt water in his mouth. Felt the power of the waves. There is a way out of this place, no matter how loud you shout that there isn't!

You're the one who is shouting, Six. The louder a man shouts, the more profoundly he's wrong.

I'm not wrong. I'm telling you the truth. My brother is dead.

Can you hear the things he says about his brother... it hurts. Yes, only family can hurt us.

No. I didn't mean that. I didn't mean my brother.

Oh, Six.

I'm not a number. I am not a number. I am... I am...

Yes, Six?

My name is... Dammit. My name is... I am Six.

(nods to the two doctors, who pull the gurney towards the end of the hallway; looks to 11-12) He's Six.

I am Six!

(leaving) That's right.

I am Six! I am Six, you bastard! SIX!

Ah, thank you for coming, Six. 9-0-9 here is an undercover, one of our best. I thought you might've noticed that. I want you to work with 909, Six.

You think I'd work for you?

Oh, no, no, no, not for me. For them, for the people you would be watching. You pronounced so loudly your opposition to me, your disbelief of everything we stand for, they might trust you. We already have our suspects. And I know you want to make contact with Dreamers. I offer you the apparatus and expertise of our highly trained and well-financed undercover operations to do just that.

Why would you give me all that if it wasn't a trap?

Oh, my dear Six. It is a trap. You have such a high opinion of yourself, I wondered if you would be clever enough to turn this opportunity to your advantage. But still...

Everything you say is a trap. All right. Let's do it.

Everything is suspicious if you look at it properly. Everyone has secrets. No one is without guilt. We just have to work out what it is they're guilty of.