The Prisoner (2009) Season 1 quotes

I know Six better than Six knows Six. He's in love with his own humanity. He adores the sweet smell of his own bright, shining conscious. Noble Six. He only wants to do the right thing. And that is what will give him to me.

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!

(repeatedly pounding a bundled up towel with a spoon) Don't look at me! Shut up! Shut up!

Michael

What is this?

Curtis

Everything has a price. The price of free will, Michael.

Michael

What's she doing?

I said, don't look at me! Don't look at me!

Michael

What's she doing?

Curtis

One never quite knows with Sara. Must be a dozen tales like hers in every parish. It is the experience of trauma. As a child, her terror was unspeakable.

Put it on your head. No!

Curtis

She's quite out of reach. Nobody can help her.

Shut up! Shut up! I'm sorry!

Curtis

We tried so hard to save her and for a time, she prospered, but lately, she's begun to resist the Village. And this is what she's condemned to. This prison.

Michael

There must be something you can do.

Curtis

Not now. Not anymore. Sara!

(stands) I said, don't look at me!

Curtis

Unless... One word from you... Help me. (Michael approaches Sara) Help me fix these people, Michael. You are the one. One word.

Michael

Sara. (holds out his hand) 3-1-3.

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.

There are people here. Good people. What they've lost. Funny, isn't it? Took me all this time to see how beautiful it is. What if... no. It has to be possible to do this the right way. Yeah, make a good Village. I think I could do it. I think we have to try. Whatever the cost.