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.

I very much enjoyed this episode, despite its resemblance to the episode "Hammer into Anvil." It also featured one of the most attractive women yet who made an attempt at employing Machiavellian means to get Number Six to expose his secrets.

How was this episode like "Hammer into Anvil?" I don't see a resemblance.

When No. 6 is told go into the Council chamber for the first time, the door closes as he approaches it for some reason.

The first time No. 86 puts the drug in No. 6's tea, as she turns around, she sees No. 6 clearly watching her. Yet it never seems to occur to her that he knew it was drugged. Otherwise, she would have kept a closer eye on him.

After No. 6 ruins the social group meeting, the others call him "Rebel! Reactionary!" Aren't those contradictory terms? I understood that a reactionary is a member of the establishment trying to protect the status quo. A rebel would be trying to protest or overthrow the establishment.

No. 2 seems to watch No. 6 in his cottage quite a bit in this episode. Yet somehow he missed No. 6 dumping out the drugged tea.

When No. 6 is showing No. 86 how to make tea, a closeup shows her taking the sugar out of the cupboard. A farther-away shot immediately following shows her taking it out again.

Some time after No. 6 undergoes the social conversion operation, No. 6 walks outside and asks another man who had the procedure whether he feels different. At the beginning of that scene, No. 6 encounters a Villager who suddenly turns and walks the other way. They were avoiding No. 6 before the operation, but there's no reason to do it after he's been converted. I guess that guy was just Unmutual.

After No. 6 ruins the social group meeting, the others call him "Rebel! Reactionary!" Aren't those contradictory terms? I understood that a reactionary is a member of the establishment trying to protect the status quo. A rebel would be trying to protest or overthrow the establishment. - Nove Rockhoomer

However, as this is the Village, I was that was the point - that the two contradictory be used together. Many aspects of the Village resembled Wonderland, so I wouldn't be too surprised that they would call No. 6 by the mutually exclusive terms.

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