QQueen
Oh, that was a good move, wasn't it?
I know a better one.
QQueen
Oh?
Away from this place.
QQueen
That's impossible.
For chessmen, not for me.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Don't tell me you care?
Well, of course. We want you to be happy.
Fine. Just, umm... give me a one-way ticket home.
Won't you ever give up?
What do you think?
PPsychiatrist
[about Number Six] Is he in for treatment?
Not yet.
PPsychiatrist
Pity... interesting subject. I should like to know his breaking point.
Well, you could make that your life's ambition.
QQueen
[crying] How can you doubt me?
It's easy and I'm waterproof; a little drizzle won't wash away my doubt. So don't try.
QQueen
I only want to be near you.
Everybody's near in this place. Far too near.
QQueen
Do you think they'll ever release us?
Let me know. I shan't be around.
We have things to discuss.
About the girl you murdered?
Oh, never mind the girl. I want to talk about you.
You're wasting your time. Others have tried.
Amateurs.
You're professional. A professional sadist?
You are too strong. We'll see. "Du musst amboss oder hammer sein."
"You must be anvil or hammer."
I see you know your Goethe.
And you see me as the anvil?
Precisely. I am going to hammer you.
SISign in shop
Music begins where words leave off.
I know who you are.
I'm Number Six.
No. D6.
D6?
Sent here by our masters to spy on me.
Sorry, I don't follow.
Oh yes. I've been on to you from the beginning. You didn't fool me.
Perhaps you fooled yourself?
What do you mean?
Just supposing for argument's sake that I was planted here?
By XO4.
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!
Who are you working for, Number Two?
For us, for us!
That is not the way it's going to sound to XO4.
I swear to you...
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.
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.
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.
Who are you?
WSWatchmaker's Daughter
I'm a number, just like you. Does it matter which?
How'd you get in?
WSWatchmaker's Daughter
The door was open.
Always is... to them, isn't it?
WSWatchmaker's Daughter
But I'm not one of them.
No. What do you want?
WSWatchmaker's Daughter
Help.
Go to the Town Hall. The Citizens' Council promises help and advice for everyone.
WSWatchmaker's Daughter
Their Citizen's Council.
As far as I'm concerned, what's theirs is yours.
WSWatchmaker's Daughter
I am not one of them.
No... no one is.
WThe Watchmaker
You refuse to understand. What I'm doing is for a principle. We are in this prison for life, all of us, but I have met no one here who has committed a crime. I protest in a manner they cannot ignore.
Some other way, then--not by an act of murder.
WThe Watchmaker
Assassination.
Call it what you like--the important matter is that the entire Village will be punished.
WThe Watchmaker
Maybe it is what they need to wake them up, to shake them out of their lethargy. To make them angry enough...
That's assuming they survive the punishment!
RNRetiring Number Two
Tomorrow, after I've handed over office, I'm to be assassinated..
For "assassinated," substitute "executed."
RNRetiring Number Two
Since it's arranged by my own people, you mean.
You don't mind?
RNRetiring Number Two
Of course I mind. It's just that... well, I never thought it would happen to me.
It never does--to anybody. But it can be prevented.
RNRetiring Number Two
Preventing is only postponing. You never understood us, Number Six. We never fail!
RNRetiring Number Two
The Seal is the ceremony.
It's hollowed out, it's packed with explosives.
RNRetiring Number Two
And before I hand it over to my successor...
It will be detonated by radio.
RNRetiring Number Two
I can think of better ways to die.
And better causes to die for.
[to the new Number Two, firmly shaking his hand so he can't leave] Yes, and so the great day is nearly over. Went off rather well, I thought. Better than planned. And now you can look forward to your own retirement. And I'm sure they'll arrange something equally suitable for you when the day comes.
[Number Six and Number Two both look up as the helicopter carrying the retiring Number Two flies away -- Number Six releases his hand]
Be seeing you. ...Won't I?
CMCommittee Member
It is the duty of this Committee to deal with complaints.
Complaints?
CMCommittee Member
Your complaints.
Well done. I have several.
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