The Prisoner (2009) · Season 1
Who is Number One?
Ah, the oldest question in Village history. Go on, 1100. You tell him.
There is no Number One. There never has been, and there never will be. The concept of the Number Two is an act of humility. The title reminds us all that we are public servants. Even Number Two. No one is Number One.
(looking into a roach cam hole) It must be an undercover... someone with a roach cam. There's so many undercovers it could be anyone. Could be you.
Six. He's different. He's not like the other suspects. He has...
Yes, say it.
Conviction.
No harm has come to Six. He must survive. But he can suffer. Because work as an undercover must make him feel compromised. Has Six ever met up with my son?
11-12? Why would he be meeting with Six.
Youth is susceptible to wild ideas. Young blood craves rebellion as much as it craves sex.
11-12's spying on you? No.
No. No, of course not. Still, let's keep an eye on him. For his own protection.
I have a new mission for you.
Shouldn't we wait for 909 to get here?
He wasn't invited.
909's my new mission?
909 has made himself suspect. I have every faith in him as a conscientious undercover.
I know he's been spying on me.
Well, of course he has. But you've known that before, surely. It'd be a sorry state of affairs if he weren't.
Why has he become a suspect?
Something's changed. 909 is different. Don't tell me you haven't seen the fear in his eyes.
Fear's not guilt.
Yes it is. Fear is always guilt in disguise. I thought you were a man who understood human behavior. 909's fear must be investigated. Analyzed thoroughly.
What is it I'd be looking for?
Well, you'll know when you find it. Perhaps he's a Dreamer.
Why should I do it?
Because you need to keep up, Six. Give yourself a chance. He's watching you. Now you watch him. Do it, Six, because you want to. Because you must.
313. I didn't think you were coming.
Six. Okay, um... There are two kinds of viruses used in gene symmetry therapy. What it gave you, Six. It won't last.
313. I want you to be my friend.
(Two and 4-15 arrive in a Cadillac. Six watches 4-15 admiringly.)
Celebrate with me.
(313 kisses Six. The guests all react with surprise.)
What? What is it? What's happening?
Did he just kiss her? Is that what happened here?
(4-15 runs off into the desert. Six runs after her)
(to 313) You really are rather smitten, aren't you 313? What you will never know, of course, is whether your feelings are genuine, or... (walks away)
(Six finds 4-15 in the mountains. After an encounter with Rover, she collapses.)
What if we said - what if we promised each other we would always come back to this? We'd never let it go.
Lucy. Lucy?
Where am I?
We're in the desert, Lucy.
What did you call me?
We've met before. I know the feeling. This might not make any sense. You're called Lucy. We met in a place called New York. We had one night together.
I am 4-15.
Who are you?
I am 4-15.
Who are you?
I am Lucy. (crying) I'm Lucy. I'm Lucy.
Why did you do that, the blindness?
Because they knew if I looked at you, you would know. They sent me here... I came here to love you.
(4-15 kisses Six. He pushes her back.)
No! I'm cured of you! You tell me why you're here!
Two brought me here to love you. Two brought me here to break your heart. I'm glad you're cured of me.
(Six finds 147 standing over a sinkhole)
147.
I'm going to find my little girl, Six.
There's nothing down there. Nothing. If what you want is oblivion, then jump. Do it! If it's too much for you to bear, then go. But don't lie to yourself. Don't lie to your wife. You're not going to find your daughter. She's gone. Tell me you know that and you still want to jump. I can't accept that, my friend. I'll watch you go. You love your wife. Let's save her.
(Six pulls 147 away from the hole. As he does, 4-15 appears and, after sharing a look with him, throws herself into the sinkhole.)
(Six is fighting a duplicate of himself - 2x6)
Who are you?
You know who I am. You saw what Two did to 4-15 and you're just going to take that? What's the plan? Huh? Just stand there and shout at his door? Do you think words are going to change anything? I am who you were intended to be. I am vengeance. There is only one way. Kill Two. (punches Six, leaving a scar)
Impersonating Two is an act of treason. In the event of a Two impersonator arising, you must seek him out and apprehend him. This man will look like Two, but you will know he is not Two because he is not Two. He may appear in the Village in a disheveled state, which has elements of resemblance to Two. He may claim to be Two, but he is not, and he must be treated as who he is, which someone who is not Two. He is a danger to the Village.
Do you have cigarettes?
No. But would you like a map of the Village?
(beat) You sure you don't have cigarettes? Would you look?
We haven't had cigarettes here in eight years and five months.
If you don't look, how can you be really sure that you're right?
(37927 takes a pack of cigarettes from under the desk and lights one for Two and himself)
Guilty pleasures.
I didn't supply you with these cigarettes.
No.
I don't have them. I don't even know what they are. I'd forgotten they even existed. You came in here to buy a map.
I used to smoke in order to think.
You did? And are you thinking now?
I am. Sometimes...
Yes?
I think...
Yes, go on.
If I could choose a place I wanted to spend the rest of my life... a warm place, with no memory.
Just be careful what you say around here. People will report you as soon as look at you. Don't be different.
I wonder if we smoke to feed the guilt.
Speaking only for myself, I smoke for that fine, oaky flavor, with just a hint of lavender.
These things kill you, you know. The main health risks in tobacco relate to diseases of the cardiovascular system, in particular, myocardial infarction. Diseases of the respiratory tract, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. And asthma, and emphysema, and cancer - in particular lung cancer, and cancers of the larynx and tongue.
(beat) So I've heard.
Smoking is a kind of... suicide.
That's a bit philosophical... for a Thursday.
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.
(2x6 puts a knife to Two's neck)
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.
(2x6 disappears. Six leaves)
(Michael and a Janitor enter an office showing people from the Village on monitors)
These people. They're my subjects.
(notices 37927 on a monitor) Hey, that's me. Is that me? When did this happen?
(standing in front of a large monitor) How did this happen? I started this. I found these people and I put them into my reports. I did this.
(Lucy/4-15 appears on the monitor)
(on video) I'm sorry. I have to go. Nobody resigns from Summakor. Nobody. They're sending tickets for your execution, Michael, but they're calling it a promotion.
Someone's trying to get inside. (leaves)
(on video) There is a place. Another place. It's where they sent them. It's where they sent me. And you. Whatever you do, stay away of Summakor.
(The curtains of a nearby window open, revealing the Village on the other side. Michael, looking through it, notices Six - himself.)
(pounding on the window) Hey! Look up here!
(Six looks toward the towers, but sees only a flashing light and leaves the area)
Helen is a biochemist. She studies the mind. The depths of the mind. We all commonly accept the existence of the unconscious. Helen surmised that, if there are two layers of consciousness, then why not more? And if there are more, where are they, and what are they? What if we could go there? And what if we could take with us all these broken people and let them fix themselves? Nothing too clever. Just the simple virtues of life. Dignity and labor, sibling pride... family. Sufficient to rekindle their lost purpose here on Terra firma.
Your driver. He was one of these people.
Well, yes. And hundreds more like him. Michael, you found them. Your work in Summakor.
Spying on people.
No. Protecting them. Repairing them. We all need that. Helen was the first person ever in the Village. All those remarkable dreams. Every thought, every impulse within the Village resides here, in her mind. No children of our own. Her great heartbreak. Then we thought we... wondered if it were possible, if we went there, we could have a family.
(In the Village, 11-12 suffocates M2 with a pillow, causing Helen visible distress)
What goes on in that head? Of course, this was not the plan. (To Helen) Soon. Not long now. (whispers) He's here.
Rest assured, you will not go quietly. Horse-drawn carriage, the Village choir serenading you to your final resting place. No excuse for dry eyes. I'll see to that. Oh, it hurts, doesn't it? That once the lid closes on that fine glass coffin, the dance ends. There'll be no escape, Six. Not for you.
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.
I see. I'm wasting my breath.
Nobody signed up for this. None of these people asked to be fixed.
You mean, we should seek their permission?
[scoffs] I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down, I get up, I don't get up. I get lost. I make the same mistakes over and over. I have scars and wounds. Sometimes, when I can't... bear them anymore, I... I drink. You can't fix me. You can't fix any of us, you can't make us perfect!
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