“You’re kind of strange, Six. I like it.”
As The Prisoner, Episode 4, “Darling,” begins, there’s a lot going on in The Village: Strange holes are appearing, No. 2 is putting pressure on 313, and No. 6 has been invited to a matchmaking service.
No. 6 is matched with 415, a blind woman. She seems familiar to him. In fact, she seems an awful lot like the woman he met after he resigned.
No. 2’s son visits 313. He wants to know what’s in the pills his mother takes, and asks, “Is Six crazy?”
No. 147’s daughter disappears into one of those “ambience anomalies.” No. 2 tells No. 6 the child is gone. Villagers are urged to keep pigs as a way of convincing them they can make a difference.
This time, it looks like 6 really is dreaming; he’s in a lab unconscious, as 2 talks with 313 about betrayal. The real and surreal are still to be sorted out, though.
This modern cautionary tale about the manipulations of science has a twisted fairytale ending, a nod to strange stories like “The Girl Who Was Death” in the original.
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
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