Number Six quotes from The Prisoner

Number Six

I have a choice?

Of course. You can do as you want.

Number Six

As long as it's what you want.

As long as it is what the majority wants. We're democratic. In some ways.

No game is worth playing if you can't win. That's not very English, I know.

Number Six

Are you ... English?

I'm sad, Number Six. I thought you were beginning to...

Number Six

Give in?

Be happy. Everything you want is here.

Number Six

Everything's elsewhere.

What were you looking at?

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A light.

A star.

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A boat.

An insect.

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A plane.

A flying fish.

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Somebody who belongs to my world.

This is your world. I am your world. If you insist on living a dream you may be taken for mad.

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I like my dream.

Then you are mad.

Our legal system is unusual.

Number Six

No jury.

Three judges decide here.

Number Six

As in the French Revolution.

They cut through the dead wood, didn't they?

It's the rules. Of the people, by the people, for the people.

Number Six

It takes on a new meaning.

You're a wicked man.

Number Six

Wicked?

You have no values.

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Different values.

You won't be helped.

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Destroyed.

You want to spoil things.

Number Six

I won't be a goldfish in a bowl.

Number Six

[referring to the chess game] Why do you use people?

Some psychiatrists say it satisfies the desire for power. The only opportunity one gets here.

Number Six

That depends what side you're on.

I'm on my side.

Number Six

Aren't we all?

You must be new here. In time, most of us join the enemy... against ourselves.

Oh, that was a good move, wasn't it?

Number Six

I know a better one.

Oh?

Number Six

Away from this place.

That's impossible.

Number Six

For chessmen, not for me.

Number Six

Don't tell me you care?

Well, of course. We want you to be happy.

Number Six

Fine. Just, umm... give me a one-way ticket home.

Won't you ever give up?

Number Six

What do you think?

[about Number Six] Is he in for treatment?

Not yet.

Pity... interesting subject. I should like to know his breaking point.

Number Six

Well, you could make that your life's ambition.

[crying] How can you doubt me?

Number Six

It's easy and I'm waterproof; a little drizzle won't wash away my doubt. So don't try.

I only want to be near you.

Number Six

Everybody's near in this place. Far too near.

Do you think they'll ever release us?

Number Six

Let me know. I shan't be around.

We have things to discuss.

Number Six

About the girl you murdered?

Oh, never mind the girl. I want to talk about you.

Number Six

You're wasting your time. Others have tried.

Amateurs.

Number Six

You're professional. A professional sadist?

You are too strong. We'll see. "Du musst amboss oder hammer sein."

Number Six

"You must be anvil or hammer."

I see you know your Goethe.

Number Six

And you see me as the anvil?

Precisely. I am going to hammer you.

I know who you are.

Number Six

I'm Number Six.

No. D6.

Number Six

D6?

Sent here by our masters to spy on me.

Number Six

Sorry, I don't follow.

Oh yes. I've been on to you from the beginning. You didn't fool me.

Number Six

Perhaps you fooled yourself?

What do you mean?

Number Six

Just supposing for argument's sake that I was planted here?

By XO4.

Number Six

XO4? Very well, by XO4. What would have been your first duty as a loyal citizen? Not to interfere. But you did interfere. You have admitted it yourself. There is a word for that. Sabotage.

No!

Number Six

Who are you working for, Number Two?

For us, for us!

Number Six

That is not the way it's going to sound to XO4.

I swear to you...

Number Six

You could be working for the enemy or you could be a blunderer who's lost his head. Either way you've failed.

You destroyed me.

Number Six

No.. you destroyed yourself. You destroyed yourself. A character flaw. You were afraid of your masters. A weak link in the chain of command waiting to be broken.

Don't tell them... don't report me.

Number Six

I don't intend to. You are going to report yourself.

[taking the phone] I have to report a breakdown.. in control. Number Two needs to be replaced. Yes, this is Number Two reporting.