The Prisoner (TV Series)

Free for All (1967)

Eric Portman: Number Two

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• Number 6 : You don't approve.

  Number Two : Of the Village?

  Number 6 : Yeah.

  Number Two : To Hell with the Village. Cheers.

  Number 6 : Cheers.

• Number 6 : Elections? In this place?

  Number Two : Of course. We make our choice every 12 months. Every citizen has a choice. Are you going to run?

  Number 6 : Like blazes, the first chance I get.

  Number Two : I meant run for office.

• Number Two : Good people, it is my pleasure to present to you the one and only Number Six!

  Crowd : Rah!

  Number 6 : I am not a number. I am a person.

  Crowd : [laughs] 

  Number 6 : In some place, at some time, all of you held positions of a secret nature, and had knowledge that was invaluable to an enemy. Like me, you are here to have that knowledge protected or extracted.

  Number Two : That's the stuff to give them.

  Number 6 : Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages.

  Number Two : Keep going. They love it.

  Number 6 : The rest of you have gone over to the side of our keepers. Which is which? How many of each? Who's standing beside you now? I intend to discover who are the prisoners and who are the warders. I shall be running for office in this election.

• Number Two : Certainly, I'll warn them, not to damage the tissue.

• Number Two : I warned you not to make it too strong, we musn't damage the tissue.

• Number Two : [on Number Six's phone and TV screen]  Do you fancy a chat?

  Number 6 : The mountain can come to Mahomet!

  [his front door opens to reveal Number Two] 

  Number Two : Mahomet?

  Number 6 : Everest, I presume.

  Number Two : I've never had a head for heights.