The final episode begins immediately after the previous one, Once Upon A Time. Number 2 (Leo Kern) is dead and Number 6 is about to meet Number 1.

Number 6, the bald operations manager, and the butler descend by elevator to a lower level of The Village. Someone says, “We thought you would be happier as yourself,” as an unseen individual fondles a dummy resembling Number 6. The trio walks through a tunnel lined with jukeboxes playing the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love. They come to a doorway bearing the words “Well Come”.

 Read the rest of this entry (1203 words await you)

This episode brings back a previous Number 2 (Leo Kern, from Chimes Of Big Ben) in a last-ditch effort to extract the precious information from Number 6. This Number 2 is belligerent from the get-go, ordering the diminutive butler around, informing a superior that he’ll do things his way, and asking Number 6 via video screen: “Why do you care?”

 Read the rest of this entry (822 words await you)

A book is opened to a drawing of a cricket game. We then cut to an actual match, with a woman (Justine Lord) dressed in white as a spectator. She replaces the ball with an explosive device, and on the next pitch, the player is killed by the ball’s explosion.

 Read the rest of this entry (1092 words await you)

This episode of The Prisoner has a western theme - beginning with the opening credits. Number 6 resigns by tossing his “Marshall” star on the desk of his boss. He tries to get away, carrying his saddle, but is captured by a group of cowboys, who carry him away on horses and dump him off in the town of Harmony.

 Read the rest of this entry (776 words await you)

This episode is unique as Patrick McGoohan barely appears. We begin during a slide show presentation to the Colonel, a blond, nondescript man. They’re looking in vain through a series of slide show images for a secret message pointing to the location of “Seltzman”.

 Read the rest of this entry (811 words await you)

A distraught, hospitalized woman, cruelly interrogated by Number 2, leaps out a window to her death. Angered, Number 6 vows to make Number 2 pay. This more violent Number 2 threatens Number 6 with a sword, promising to “hammer” our favorite prisoner.

 Read the rest of this entry (658 words await you)

Number 6 is exercising at his hide out in the woods, when two villagers accuse him of being antisocial. A fight ensues. Due to his violent behavior, he’s summoned to appear before a “council.” A public acknowledgment of his shortcomings is requested. The council intimidates Number 6 to make him confess. He refuses and walks out applauding himself. Upon exiting the building, various Villagers ignore him, walking in the opposite direction as he approaches.

 Read the rest of this entry (1123 words await you)

A girl sneaks into Number 6’s apartment. Number 6 immediately doubts her, believing she’s been sent by Number 2 for some nefarious reason, which she denies. But of course, she has been sent by a new, youthful Number 2.

 Read the rest of this entry (855 words await you)

Number 6 wakes up to discover The Village completely abandoned - presenting yet another opportunity for escape. He takes a bunch of photographs (to show the folks back home) and builds a raft to escape by sea. A black cat cracks a cup as Number 6 makes his way onto open water.

 Read the rest of this entry (727 words await you)

Number 6 is practicing ESP - holding up cards with symbols on them - with another prisoner who can read them, Number 24. She takes a picture of Number 6 holding up some of the cards.

Number 2 sets a most diabolic plan in motion. While asleep, number 6 is tranquilized and carted off by the now familiar medical experts. He then awakes in a strange room to find his appearance changed - he now has a mustache and dark hair. His new identity is Number 12.

 Read the rest of this entry (766 words await you)