Along with "Schizoid Man", this is my favorite Prisoner episode. The series for me reached its apex with these two shows.

I've just watch the DVD of this ep. Here's a few comments and nits:

15 minutes pass before any lines of dialogue are spoken in this episode. And the first words are in German! No. 6 does not say anything until about 22 minutes into the ep.

This is the second time that Six builds a raft in the series. The first time was in "The Chimes of Big Ben".

This is also the second a black cat is shown in the series. The first time was in "Dance of the Dead". On both occasions the cats appear, No. 2 is a woman.

Mrs. Butterworth appears in the DC Comic mini-series.

As the episode starts, No. 6 attempts to turn on his shower and bathroom sink. But no water comes out. The implication is that there is no more running water in the Village. However, when Six looks outside, the courtyard fountain is clearly working.

That brings up another point. Six was in need of a shave when he woke up. When he gets dressed to explore the now deserted Village, he is shaven. If there's no running water in the Village, how do he shave?

In the Village store, Six writes on the counter "I.O.U. 964." "964" what? Work units? Is he displaying his sense of humor here? He's planning on escaping. Unless he expects to come back to the Village, there's no way he's going to make good on the I.O.U.

Interesting, that while the Village is multi-national (and thus multi-linguistic),the Tally Ho! is always shown published in English. Wonder if there are versions in other languages available?

That wasn't too bright of No. 6 to leave the two German gun smugglers locked in a room with a box full of machine guns. He's lucky they didn't use one of the guns on him. Then again, why doesn't Six take one of the guns himself? It would have made subduing the smugglers easier.

In "Arrival", I think we're told that Number Six' cottage in the Village is meant to duplicate his home in London. Judging by this ep, it doesn't look like it. (Actually, even in the opening credits, when he's packing, his flat looks different than what we see in the Village.)

Six told Thorpe and The Colonel that he's never been elected to the Town Hall council. No, but what about being elected to No. 2 in "Free For All". Doesn't that count?

Before Six left the Village, the black cat had knocked over a tea cup and was sitting atop one of the tables near the land boat. When Six returns to the Village, the cat is still sitting on the same table by the china. Did it sit the whole time (one day) that No. 6 was gone?

Also upon Six' return, the courtyard fountain is not functioning. At the beginning of the ep, it was.

What was the point of this ep? The Village does not try to find out why Six resigned. It's almost like they were giving a birthday present, a day of freedom from the Village.

Of course, given what happened to Six in "The Chimes of Big Ben", the Village is lucky Six went to London. Were I Six, I'm not sure I'd consider London safe.

The point was probably to show him that even if he does escape they can just bring him back, so he might as well give up trying.
Why do you think he was only away for one day? It's made clear that he was on the sea for a lot longer than that.

One of my favourite bits in this episode is when Number Six sees the policeman and the 'Rover' music is played.

Great. I'm gonna have to rewatch this ep. All I can tell you Number 11 is that the internal information in this episode indicate that only a day has passed.

Be seeing you.

Then only thing I can tell you Number 11, is I suffered a brain fart. I think I meant to say that Number 6 was gone a month. Which makes the cat being exactly where we last see her all the more strange. Sorry to take so long in getting back to you on this.

Be seeing you.

Angelo Muscat is not credited as the Butler on this ep.

Great episode. One further nit to this episode. He chops down the tree with what looks like a pretty standard sort of axe you would buy in a shop, as in, the kind that are forbidden by the rules, as in, the sort of thing he had to make HIMSELF in an earlier episode. Didn't look like the same one.
The way of returning him to the village was very lucky. Good thing the pilot was a good shot, and the winds were favourable.....

I'm presently contributing after doing research on and becoming increasingly fascinated with "The Prisoner" series. To date, I'm heavily immersing myself in the late-night Friday showings of each episode on Channel 13.

Georgina Cookson (Mrs. Butterworth--and I don't mean the syrup) appears twice in the series. Once in "A, B, and C" as a liaison for Number Six with "C" and again as the female Number Two in this episode. Is this a coincidence, double-casting, or an allusion to a link between these seemingly "different" characters?

Georgina Cookson additionally appeared in an episode of "Danger Man," and other actors in this series were notably used in multiple roles. Was this intentional?

Here's something else to ponder: in "A, B, and C," Number Six had complete control over his final oneiric escapade via the party and meeting the different "investors." He engineered the dream sequence to specifically mislead Number Two and his assistant to implicate the party's host and a masked Number Two to be the buyers of secret intelligence. Here's the thing, though: the person Number Six decides to steer him toward "C" he chooses to be a particular woman. That woman is Number Two in "Many Happy Returns."

Referring back to my previous paragraph, it did strike me that it is highly plausible that Number Six was actually asleep and washed ashore this entire time. In other words, the Village, being abducted, etc., was all his "stream of consciousness" autistic fantasy. However, the photographs of the Village, being returned to the Village, etc., disproves this theory. This might've been a good way to conclude the series, since such endings were still quite rare during this point in filmmaking history.

I gather by the calculations on Number Six's "days" of travel that they accurately pinpointed the Village to be somewhere off the coast of Spain. Doesn't Number Six now know where he is and can in fact computate how to escape and lead the PROPER authorities back to obliterate the Village?

Oh, and another thing I must ask. Is the Colonel depicted here actually supposed to be the same Colonel from "The Chimes of Big Ben"? Either way, yes or no, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I mean, if the answer was yes, then WHY would Number Six trust him? If no, WHY do all these Colonels work for the Village? It's pretty clear that Number Six's agency/organization has more problems with internal security threats than contending with formger agents defecting to Russia.

Computate and formger agents? I must've been reading the dyslexic dictionary. I meant, respectively, compute and former agents.

Here's to the serial hypocorism! I am Number Null Set (:

To expand on what I was proposing for this episode, wouldn't it have been interesting if Number Six had awoken off the coast of England and discovered that he was sent on a special mission that submitted him and his mind through such unpleasant circumstances that the Village, Number Two, etc., was his psychological construct of escapism? In other words, it would've been that, like a veteran soldier turned POW, Number Six returns to society but can't acclimate back to his original life a la Rambo or The Hunted. There's nothing after him, but he's grown paranoid and suspicious of all people, places, and things. It's just a thought. This might've been what Patrick McGoohan intended for the message to be with "Fallout."

It's unclear whether or not this Colonel does work for the Village.

It seems to me it would be difficult for the black cat to exert enough force to break the teacup without knocking it off the table.

Also upon Six' return, the courtyard fountain is not functioning. At the beginning of the ep, it was. – Benn

It looks as if the fountain may be functioning, but at a very low level.

Presumably Number 6 was in radio contact with London HQ while he was searching for the Village by plane, so doesn’t that mean they can find it on their own now and prove its existence or rescue the inhabitants?

D. Stuart speculated about the entire series being a dream (a “psychological construct of escapism”) and that maybe McGoohan was trying to show this in “Fall Out.” My personal theory is that the Village was real; his escape (in “Fall Out”) was the dream (or wish-fulfillment “fantasy”), which resulted from the Village finally breaking Number Six.