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S1 E15

The Prisoner · Season 1, Episode 15

Number Eight and Number Two in “Unfinished Business”

NENumber Eight

I didn't expect him to come for hours.

I told you he was different. I knew it wouldn't work. [sarcastically] Fill him with hallucinatory drugs, put him in a dangerous environment, talk to him through microphones...

NENumber Eight

[interrupting] It has always worked and would have this time...

But it didn't, did it? Give him love, take it away. Isolate him. Make him kill., then face him with death. He'll crack. Break him, even in his mind, and the rest will be easy. I should never have listened to you.

NENumber Eight

It would have worked if you had kept your head and not created the crisis too soon.

How could I control it? Tell me that. You said yourself we would get involved and do what we would in the real situation.

NENumber Eight

Then don't blame my method, just your own damned lack of self-control.

It's alright for you. I have to answer for this failure. [notices Number Twenty-Two crying] It seems I'm not the only one who got involved.

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