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. I resign.
[
Number 2 is describing the Village]
Number Two:
What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they'll see that this is the pattern for the future.
Number 6:
The whole world as the Village?
Number Two:
That is my dream. What's yours?
Number 6:
To be the first man on the moon.
Number Two:
[
about The Prisoner] He's an individual, and they're always trying.
[
over the opening of each episode - Number 2 played by various actors]
Number 6:
Where am I?
Number 2:
In the Village.
Number 6:
What do you want?
Number 2:
We want 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 2.
Number 6:
Who is Number 1?
Number 2:
You are Number 6.
Number 6:
I am not a number, I am a free man.
Number 6:
I am not a number. I am a person.
Number 6:
Everybody votes for a dictator.
The Double:
The trouble with science is that it can be perverted.
The Professor's Wife:
One learns only when the mind wants to and not at set times.
Labour Exchange Manager:
Good, you are honest. That is of use. Honesty attracts confidence, and confidence is our core of our business. See how honest I am being with you?
Number 6:
Bad habit of mine, playing with lighters. I'll probably start a fire one day.
The Professor's Wife:
Construction arises out of the ashes of destruction.
Madame Engadine:
Men always evade questions. All my husbands did.
Number 6:
If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.
Ex-Admiral:
We're all pawns.
Number 6:
Last week, Number 14 was an old lady in a wheelchair. You're new here, and you're one of them.
Number 6:
I also have a problem. I'm not sure which side runs this Village.
Villager:
[
first time line is spoken] Be seeing you.
Taxi Driver:
It's very cosmopolitan. You never know who you'll meet next.
Number 2:
[
shouting] Why, why, why did you resign?
Number 6:
Be seeing you.
Number 6:
Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.
Number 48:
Thanks for the trip, dad.
Woman:
[
Tearfully] How can you doubt me?
Number 6:
It's easy, and I'm waterproof; a little drizzle won't wash away my doubt.
Number 2:
By the time we finish with him, he won't know whether he's Number 6 or the cube root of infinity.
Number Two:
You shouldn't have interfered, No.6. You'll pay for this.
Number 6:
No. You will.
Number 6:
I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it
Retiring Number 2:
I can think of better ways to die.
Number 6:
And better causes to die for.
Observer:
You're a wicked man.
Number 6:
Wicked?
Observer:
You have no values.
Number 6:
Different values!
Observer:
You won't be helped.
Number 6:
Destroyed!
Observer:
You want to spoil things.
Number 6:
I won't be a goldfish in a bowl!
Observer:
[
discussing The Village] This place has been going for a long time.
Number 6:
Since the war? Before the war? WHICH... WAR?
Maid:
[
the Prisoner's costume for a fancy dress ball - picked by others - is delivered] What is it?
Number 6:
My own suit, specially delivered for the occasion.
Maid:
What does that mean?
Number 6:
That I am still... myself.
Observer:
Questions are a burden to others. Answers are prison for oneself.
[
Postman delivers a letter]
Postman:
Special delivery. Sign your number here, Number Six.
Number 6:
[
referring to the chess game] Why do you use people?
Chessmaster:
Some psychiatrists say it satisfies the desire for power. 'the only opportunity one gets here.
Number 6:
That depends what side you're on.
Chessmaster:
[
quickly] I'm on my side.
Number 6:
[
quickly] Aren't we all.
Chessmaster:
You must be new here. In time, most of us join the enemy - against ourselves.
Number Two:
I'm the boss.
Number 6:
No. One is the boss.
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