The Prisoner
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The Prisoner was a controversial 1967 UK television series, starring Patrick McGoohan, created by McGoohan and George Markstein.
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Recurring quotes
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Intro
- Number 6
- "Where am I?"
- Number 2
- "In the Village."
- Number 6
- "What do you want?"
- Number 2
- "Information."
- Number 6
- "Whose side are you on?"
- Number 2
- "That would be telling...we want information...information...information!"
- Number 6
- "You won't get it."
- Number 2
- "By hook or by crook, we will."
- Number 6
- "Who are you?"
- Number 2
- "The new Number Two."
- Number 6
- "Who is Number One?"
- Number 2
- "You are Number Six."
- Number 6
- "I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!"
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Number 6
- I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.
- Be seeing you
- I am not a number, I am a free man!
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Various villagers
- Be seeing you.
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Various Number 2's
- Why did you resign?
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Episodes
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The Arrival
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Number 6
- I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own
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Number 66
- The Ex-Admiral (to Number 9 [an observer]): We're all pawns, m'dear.
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Sign
- Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.
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Free For All
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Dialogue
- Number 2
- Are you going to run?
- Number 6
- Like blazes, the first chance I get.
- Number 2
- I meant run for office.
- Number 6
- Whose?
- Number 2
- Mine, for instance.
- Number 6
- You have a delicate sense of humour.
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Number 6
- The Butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart.
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The Chimes of Big Ben
- Note: This dialogue is continuous and is presented so that the reader may grasp the characteristic exchanges between Numbers 2 and 6.
- Note: Key phrases and quotes are boldfaced.
Number 2 (to dictation device not on-screen):
- File: Number 6, section forty-two, subsection six, paragraph three - Add "Sense of humour: Strong and unimpared." (Number 2 turns off dictation device; Butler finishes setting table for breakfast; to Butler) Thank you. That will be all. (Butler exits) I can never remember: One lump or two?
Number 6:
- It's in the file.
Number 2:
- Yes, as a matter of fact, yes. But it would save time if you would just answer.
Number 6:
- Why? Are you running out of time?
Number 2:
- (Makes "tsk tsk tsk" sound; looks in Number 6's file) Does not take sugar. (Light laugh) Frightened of putting on wieght?
Number 6:
- No. Nor of being reduced.
Number 2:
- Oh, that's excellent - I am glad you're here. You really are a model--
Number 6:
- But I don't run on clockwork.
Number 2 (stern):
- You will, my dear chap. You will. (Hands Number 6 cup of coffee)
Number 6:
- You think so? (Takes coffee from Number 2)
Number 2:
- Do you still think you can escape, Number 6?
Number 6:
- Oh, I will do better than that.
Number 2:
- Oh?
Number 6:
- [I'm] going to escape and come back.
Number 2 (confused):
- Come back?
Number 6:
- Escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it, and you with it.
Number 2 (with annoyance):
- Oh!? (Reactivates dictation device; Number 6 pours himself more coffee) Subsection six, paragraph four - Add "On the other hand, persecution complex amounting to mania..." (Number 6 retrieves several sugarcubes from sugarbowl) "...paranoid delusions of grandeur." (Number 2 takes notice of Number 6 adding three "lumps" of sugar, contradicting the contents of Number 6's file) Don't worry, Number 6. You'll be cured. I'll see to it. No more nightmares. If you have so much as a bad dream, you will come... whimpering... to tell it to me. Whimpering!
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