The Prisoner

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 Two:
[about The Prisoner] He's an individual, and they're always trying.

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.

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.

Number 6:
If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.

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.

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.

[Postman delivers a letter]

Postman:
Special delivery. Sign your number here, Number Six.

Number Two:
I'm the boss.

Number 6:
No. One is the boss.

[first lines]

2nd Woodland Man:
[to Number Six] Training for the big break?

1st Woodland Man:
Why not use the Village Gymnasium?

[last lines]

Villagers:
[chanting, as they chase Number Two] Unmutual! Unmutual! Unmutual!

[Number Six lets Number Two see a track mark on his wrist. Number Two does not react]

Number Six:
Anyone who had nothing to hide would ask where I got it.

Number Two:
Where did you get it, Number Six?

Number Six:
In my sleep.

Number Six:
Oh, you must be restless. Perhaps you need a checkup.

Number Six:
I have a favorite doctor.

Number Two:
Really?

Number Six:
Number Fourteen.

Number Six:
This is a dreamy party.

Number Six:
I wasn't selling out. That wasn't the reason I resigned.

Madame Engadine:
Men always evade questions. All my husbands did.

Number Two:
Your drug failed!

Number Fourteen:
No. *He* succeeded.

Number Two:
I suppose you're wondering what you're doing here.

Number 6:
It had crossed my mind.

The New Number Two:
Good day, Number Six.

Number 6:
Number what?

The New Number Two:
Six. For official purposes, everyone has a number. Yours is number six.

Number 6:
I am not a number. I am a person.

The New Number Two:
Six of one, half a dozen of another.

Ex-Admiral:
We're all pawns, m' dear...

Taxi Driver:
[first time line is spoken] Be seeing you.

Taxi Driver:
It's very cosmopolitan. You never know who you'll meet next.

[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:
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 Two:
[to Number Six] Sooner or later you'll tell me. Sooner or later you'll want to.

Number 6:
You still have an independent mind... There are very few of us left.

2nd Psychiatrist:
Cat

Number 6:
Dog

2nd Psychiatrist:
Rain

Number 6:
Shine

2nd Psychiatrist:
Desk

Number 6:
Work

2nd Psychiatrist:
Hope

Number 6:
Anchor

2nd Psychiatrist:
Anchor?

Number 6:
The Hope and Anchor. It's a pub I used to drink at.

2nd Psychiatrist:
Tree

Number 6:
Leaf

2nd Psychiatrist:
Home

Number 6:
Away

2nd Psychiatrist:
Return

Number 6:
Game

2nd Psychiatrist:
Love

Number 6:
Game

2nd Psychiatrist:
Game?

Number 6:
Tennis

2nd Psychiatrist:
Table

Number 6:
Chair

2nd Psychiatrist:
Ship

Number 6:
Shape

2nd Psychiatrist:
Red

Number 6:
Sail

2nd Psychiatrist:
Free

Number 6:
For all

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.

Town Crier:
A proclamation: All citizens take notice that carnival is decreed for tonight. Turn back the clock. There will be music, dancing, happiness, all at the carnival, by order.

Number 6:
Never trust a woman, even the four-legged variety.

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.

[first lines]

Sir Charles:
Cipher, coding, optics, film labs, computers, experts in every field, and yet we're still left with 36 rather dreary and badly photographed color shots. Yet I'm convinced they contain the clue we want. Have you tried superimposing?

[last lines]

The Prisoner:
The good doctor's mind now inhabits a body perhaps not to his liking - the colonel's. Dr. Selzmann had progressed more than any of us had anticipated. He can and did change three minds at the same time. He is now free to continue his experiments in peace.

Seltzman:
You overlook one thing: sentimental people are sometimes stupid. Very stupid.

Number Six:
Who else could have given you that message?

Janet:
Nobody but...

Number Six:
Couldn't you say, "Nobody but you"? I need your faith.

Janet:
Nobody but you.

Cafe Waiter:
[In Austria] Welcome to the village, Sir. What would you like to order?

Seltzman:
For once, I am dictating!

Number Two:
Heil!

[first lines]

Supervisor:
We thought you would feel happier as yourself.

[last lines]

The President:
Contact! Control! Confirm contact priority! Contact priority! Emergency! Contact control! Contact control! Emergency! Contact! Contact control! Emergency! All personnel! Takeover! Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate, evacuate! Evacuate! [over the loudspeaker, again and again] Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate!

Number Six:
Young man!

Number Forty Eight:
Give it to me again.

Number Six:
Don't knock yourself out.

Number Forty Eight:
Give me the rest.

Number Six:
Young. Man.

Number Forty Eight:
I'm born old.

Number Forty Eight:
The bones is yours, Dad! They came from you, my daddy.

The President:
Confess. Now you're hep.

Number Forty Eight:
Hip, Dad. Hip.

The President:
Confess.

Number Forty Eight:
And the hip bone...

The President:
Confess.

Number Forty Eight:
And the thigh bone...

The President:
Confess.

Number Forty Eight:
Shin bone, knee bone...

The President:
Confess.

Number Forty Eight:
Backbone, all yours, Dad.

The President:
Confess.

Number Forty Eight:
Knee bone...

[song "Dem Dry Bones" swells; the President and the assembly clap to the music and appear very agitated]

The President:
Guilty! Read the charge!

Former Number Two:
New allegiances. Such is the price of fame and failure.

Number Six:
I...

assembly:
[drowning out Number Six] I, I, I!

Number Six:
[stops, slams the gavel, waits, then starts over] I...

assembly:
[again drowning out Number Six] I, I, I! I, I, I!

Number Six:
[again slams the gavel, waits, and starts over] I...

assembly:
[again drowning out Number Six] I, I, I! I, I, I! I, I, I!

Number Six:
[again slams the gavel, waits, and starts over] I...

[This time Number Six presses on with his speech for about 30 seconds, and the assembly drowns him out the entire time with chants of "I, I, I!"]

Number 6:
Elections? In this place?

Number Two:
Of course. We make our choice every 12 months. Every citizen has a choice. Are you going to run?

Number 6:
Like blazes, the first chance I get.

Number Two:
I meant run for office.

Number 6:
They say, "Six of one and half a dozen of the other." Not here. It's Six for Two and Two for nothing, and Six for free for all for free for all! Vote! Vote!

Number 6:
You don't approve.

Number Two:
Of the Village?

Number 6:
Yeah.

Number Two:
To Hell with the Village. Cheers.

Number 6:
Cheers.

Number 6:
I am in command, obey me and be free!

Number Two:
Good people, it is my pleasure to present to you the one and only Number Six!

Crowd:
Rah!

Number 6:
I am not a number. I am a person.

Crowd:
[laughs]

Number 6:
In some place, at some time, all of you held positions of a secret nature, and had knowledge that was invaluable to an enemy. Like me, you are here to have that knowledge protected or extracted.

Number Two:
That's the stuff to give them.

Number 6:
Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages.

Number Two:
Keep going. They love it.

Number 6:
The rest of you have gone over to the side of our keepers. Which is which? How many of each? Who's standing beside you now? I intend to discover who are the prisoners and who are the warders. I shall be running for office in this election.

[Number 113 is interviewing Number 6 for the Tally Ho newspaper. Number 113b is taking pictures]

Reporter:
How are you going to handle your campaign?

Number 6:
No comment.

Reporter:
[writing] "Intends to fight for freedom at all...

Photographer:
Smile!

Reporter:
...costs." How about your internal policy?

Number 6:
No comment.

Reporter:
"Will tighten up on Village security."

Photographer:
Smile!

Reporter:
How about your external policy?

Number 6:
No comment.

Reporter:
"Our exports will operate in every corner of the globe." How do you feel about life and death?

Number 6:
Mind your own business.

Reporter:
"No comment."

Number Two:
Certainly, I'll warn them, not to damage the tissue.

Number Two:
I warned you not to make it too strong, we musn't damage the tissue.

Number Two:
[on Number Six's phone and TV screen] Do you fancy a chat?

Number 6:
The mountain can come to Mahomet! [his front door opens to reveal Number Two]

Number Two:
Mahomet?

Number 6:
Everest, I presume.

Number Two:
I've never had a head for heights.

Number Fifty Eight:
[Number Six has been savagely beaten and dragged into Number Two's office to find that Number 58 is the new Number Two] Will you never learn? This is only the beginning. We have many ways and means, but we don't wish to damage you permanently. [Number Six stares at her] Are you ready to talk? [Number Six doesn't answer, but only stares at her]

[first lines]

Number Two:
Why did you slash your wrists, Seventy-Three? Aren't you happy here? You're not being very cooperative, my dear.

Number Seventy-Three:
There's nothing I can tell you.

[last lines]

Number Two:
[on the phone] I have to report a breakdown in control. Number Two needs to be replaced. Yes, this is Number Two reporting.

Number Two:
You shouldn't have interfered, Number Six. You'll pay for this.

Number Six:
No. You will.

Number Two:
Du musst amboss oder Hammer sein.

Number Six:
You must be anvil or hammer.

Number Two:
I see you know your Goethe.

Number Six:
And you see me as the anvil?

Number Two:
Precisely. I am going to hammer you.

Number Two:
You shouldn't have interfered, No.6. You'll pay for this.

Number 6:
No. You will.

Number Six:
These records. I'd like to hear L'arlesienne.

Shop Assistant:
Ah yes, the Davier recording. There's no-one to touch him for Bizet. It takes a Frenchman.

Number Six:
I'd like to hear them all. How many have you got?

Shop Assistant:
Six.

Number Six:
May I have them?

Shop Assistant:
Very well, but they're all the same.

Number Six:
I doubt it.

Number Six:
[Number 6's bogus note to his superiors] To: XO4. Ref your enquiry via Bizet record. N? 2's instability confirmed. Detailed report to follow. D6.

Number Six:
[On phone] Hospital. Psychiatrics. Head of Department, please.

Psychiatric Director:
Yes?

Number Six:
Ah doctor. What's the status on our friend?

Psychiatric Director:
What friend?

Number Six:
Your report on Number Two?

Psychiatric Director:
Number Two? What are you talking about? Who is this?

Number Six:
I understand. You don't want to talk on the telephone? Probably very wise. Never mind. I'll be seeing you later, hm?

Number Two:
I know who you are.

Number Six:
I'm Number Six.

Number Two:
No. D6.

Number Six:
D6?

Number Two:
Sent here by our masters to spy on me.

Number Six:
Sorry, I don't follow.

Number Two:
Oh yes. I've been on to you from the beginning. You didn't fool me.

Number Six:
Perhaps you fooled yourself?

Number Two:
What do you mean?

Number Six:
Just supposing for argument's sake that I was planted here?

Number Two:
By XO4.

Number Six:
XO4? Very well, by XO4. What would have been your first duty as a loyal citizen? Not to interfere. But you did interfere. You have admitted it yourself. There is a word for that. Sabotage.

Number Two:
No!

Number Six:
Who are you working for, Number Two?

Number Two:
For us, for us!

Number Six:
That is not the way it's going to sound to XO4.

Number Two:
I swear to you...

Number Six:
You could be working for the enemy or you could be a blunderer who's lost his head. Either way you've failed.

Shop Kiosk Girl:
Good day sir.

Number Six:
Yes, I'd like to insert a personal ad in the next edition.

Shop Kiosk Girl:
Certainly. What is it?

Number Six:
I have it here. "Hay mas mal en el aldea que se sue?a". It's a sort of private joke between myself and a friend.

Shop Kiosk Girl:
Nine words. That will be three units please. That word "el aldea". Doesn't it mean "village"?

Number Two:
You say Number Six put this ad in?

Number Fourteen:
Yes, I checked as soon as I saw it.

Number Two:
"Hay mas mal en el aldea que se sue?a". There is more harm in the Village than is dreamt of.

Number Fourteen:
He's laughing at you. Let me deal with him.

Number Two:
He's a plant. If anything happened to him, our masters would know who is responsible.

Supervisor:
And here is a personal announcement for Number Six, it is from Number 113 and it reads "Warmest greetings on your birthday. May the sun shine on you today and every day".

Number Six:
You were saying? Something about a hammer?

[first lines]

Supervisor:
At last.

[last lines]

The Prisoner:
[to the new Number Two] Yes, and so the great day is nearly over. Went off rather well, I thought. Better than planned. And now you can look forward to your own retirement. And I'm sure they'll arrange something equally suitable for you when the day comes. Be seeing you.

Retiring Number Two:
I can think of better ways to die.

The Prisoner:
And better causes to die for.

[first lines]

Mexican Sam:
Welcome to Harmony, stranger.

[last lines]

The Kid:
Get away from me, Judge, get away! Don't hit me no more, don't hit me no more - no - no more!

[last lines]

Mrs. Butterworth:
[walking in with a birthday cake] Many happy returns.

The Prisoner:
[to a gypsy] Where is this?

The Prisoner:
You must think I'm crazy.

Mrs. Butterworth:
Who isn't these days?

Number 6:
I know every nut and bolt and cog, I built it with my own hands!

[first lines]

Number Two:
[shouting at the butler] Wait! Remove it! I told you to remove it!

[repeated line]

Number Two:
[to Number Six] Why do you care?

[repeated line]

Number Two:
[to Number Six] Why did you resign?

Number Two:
Why did you resign?

The Prisoner:
For peace.

Number Two:
For peace?

The Prisoner:
Now let me out.

Number Two:
You resigned for peace?

The Prisoner:
Yes. Let me out.

Number Two:
You're a fool.

The Prisoner:
For peace of mind.

Number Two:
What?

The Prisoner:
For peace of mind!

Number Two:
Why?

The Prisoner:
Because too many people know too much.

Number Two:
Never!

The Prisoner:
I know too much!

Number Two:
Tell me.

The Prisoner:
I know too much about you!

[last lines]

Supervisor:
What do you desire?

The Prisoner:
Number One.

Supervisor:
I'll take you.

Number Two:
I'll kill you.

The Prisoner:
I'll die.

Number Two:
You're dead.

Number Two:
Society is a place where people exist together.

The Prisoner:
Yes sir.

Number Two:
That is civilization.

The Prisoner:
Yes sir.

Number Two:
The lone wolf belongs to the wilderness.

The Prisoner:
[to No. 2] Why don't you resign?

Number Two:
Why did you resign?

The Prisoner:
I didn't accept. Why did you accept?

Number Two:
You resigned.

The Prisoner:
I rejected.

Number Two:
You accepted before you resigned.

The Prisoner:
I rejected.

Number Two:
Who?

The Prisoner:
You.

Number Two:
[the Butler has had to knock out Number 6 when he tried to strangle Number 2] I'm beginning to like him.

Number Two:
[Near the end of Degree Absolute, the Butler has obeyed Number 2; to Number 6] He thinks you're the boss now!

The Prisoner:
I am.

Number Two:
I am Number Two!

The Prisoner:
You are Number Nothing!

[first lines]

Woman Over Loudspeaker:
Good morning, good morning, good morning. And what a lovely day it is. Rise and shine, rise and shine! Before our program of early-morning music, here are two announcements. The long-range weather forecast is that the fine spell will continue for at least another month. Your local council - and remember it is *your* local council, democratically elected by you - have decided to organize a great new competition. Can you paint? Can you draw? Can you model in clay? If you can, then your day is just six weeks today. More about this later, but now: music.

[last lines]

Nadia:
You were right about him.

Number Two:
I told you.

Nadia:
Don't worry. It was a good idea, and you did your best. I'll stress it in my report.

Number Two's Assistant:
He'll crack.

Number Two:
Perhaps. One tiny piece at a time. I don't want a man of fragments!

Number Two's Assistant:
He doesn't even bend a little.

Number Two:
That's why he'll break. It only needs one small thing. If he will answer one simple question, the rest will follow: Why did he resign?

Number Two:
Do you still think you can escape, Number Six?

Number Six:
Oh, I'll do even better than that.

Number Two:
Oh?

Number Six:
Going to escape and come back.

Number Two:
Come back?

Number Six:
Escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it, and you with it.

Number Six:
You Russian?

Nadia:
Estonian.

Number Six:
Russian.

Nadia:
We don't think so.

Number Two:
If I turn her over to you, you'll do some woodwork for me, is that your deal?

Number Six:
The best you'll get.

Number Two:
Ha ha! You really are the limit, Number Six!

Nadia:
You really know what I want? To hear the chimes of Big Bill.

Number Six:
Big Ben.

Nadia:
I'll never call you anything else.

Number Six:
Good night, Nadia.

Nadia:
Good night, Big Ben.

Number Six:
Big Bill.

Number Six:
I risked my life and hers to come back here, home, because I thought it was different. It is, isn't it? A bit different?

Colonel J.:
Let's start at square one, shall we? First, why did you resign?

Number Six:
It was a matter of conscience.

[Big Ben is chiming]

Colonel J.:
Question one, why did you resign?

Number Six:
I resigned because, for a very long time I s... Just a minute. Eight o'clock.

Number Six:
Would you like to explain to me how a man in Poland came to have a watch showing English time when there's one hour's difference?

Colonel J.:
Maybe he was slow.

Number Six:
I'll bet he was.

[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 6:
I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it

Number Two:
Don't worry, Number Six... you'll be cured. I'll see to it. No more nightmares. If you have so much as a bad dream, you will come whimpering to tell it to me. *Whimpering!*

Number Two:
[they are having tea in Number Two's office] I can never remember... one lump or two?

Number Six:
It's in the file.

Number Two:
Yes, as a matter of fact yes! But it would save time if you would just answer the question!

Number Six:
Why, are you running out of time?

Number Twelve:
What was the Treaty of Adrianople?

Number Six:
[looks a bit puzzled, but answers automatically] September... 1829.

Number Twelve:
Wrong. I said "What," not "When." You need some special coaching.

[Number Six is listening to a tape recorded by the professor]

Professor:
[on tape] The General must be destroyed.

Number Two:
What was the question?

Number Six:
It's insoluble by man or machine.

Number Two:
What was it?

Number Six:
W, H, Y, question mark.

The Professor's Wife:
One learns only when the mind wants to and not at set times.

The Professor's Wife:
Construction arises out of the ashes of destruction.

Number Twelve:
You don't believe it? A University-level degree in three minutes.

Number Six:
It's improbable.

Number Twelve:
But not impossible.

Number Six:
Nothing's impossible in this place.

Number Twelve:
Number Two offered you a deal. Don't you trust him?

Number Six:
I don't trust Number Two. I don't trust you. I don't trust your tame Professor.

Number Twelve:
Who do you trust, Number Six?

Number Six:
I trust me.

Number Twelve:
Join the club.

[first lines]

The Prisoner:
Busy, Potter?

Potter:
[disguised as a shoeshine boy] It's our form of Siberia.

[last lines]

The Prisoner:
Good night, children... everywhere.

Potter:
It was so damned unsporting.

The Prisoner:
It certainly wasn't cricket.

Killer Karminski:
Take it easy sir, will ya? Me face is me fortune. You might knock it back into shape.

Sonia:
Mountaineering rope. It would hold an elephant.

The Prisoner:
I must remember that next time I go climbing with one.

[the Prisoner drinks a beer and then learns that it had been poisoned]

Barmaid:
Same again, sir?

The Prisoner:
No thank you. One of those is quite enough. Brandy.

[the barmaid serves the brandy]

The Prisoner:
Whiskey, vodka, Drambuie.

[the Prisoner drinks the brandy and the barmaid serves the other drinks]

The Prisoner:
Tia Maria, Cointreau, Grand Marnier.

[the barmaid continues serving drinks and The Prisoner continues drinking them]

Barmaid:
Sir, you'll make yourself sick.

[the Prisoner goes to the restroom, presumably to throw up]

Number Six:
Is there any event you haven't entered?

Alison:
Only the pole vault, but I might.

[Alison knocks over a bottle, giving Number Six a bruise under his fingernail]

Number Six:
A mortal injury, wounded for life.

Alison:
Couldn't it just mean we're simpatico?

Number Two:
You have a unique physical advantage.

Number Six:
Physical advantage of growing a mustache overnight?

Number Twelve:
Where'd they get you, a people's copying service, or are you one of those double agents we hear so much about these days?

Number Twelve:
When they come to film my life story, you've got the part.

[Number Six picks up a cigar with his left hand]

Number Twelve:
You'll have to learn how to smoke it right handed first. [offers Number Six a lighter]

Number Six:
And you how to light a cigar. [lights the cigar with a match]

Number Twelve:
Why don't we settle this like gentlemen?

Number Six:
You're claiming to be a gentleman too?

Number Twelve:
Very good, very good indeed. That line is worthy of me.

Number Two:
It's uncanny. Number Twelve has caught the man's whole style.

Supervisor:
In Haiti we'd say he's stolen his soul.

Number Twelve:
If ever you do challenge me to a duel, your safest bet will be battle axes in a very dark cellar.

Number Twelve:
Make up your mind, are you orthodox or southpaw?

Number Twelve:
Must be confusing for it, not knowing which one of us to bite.

Number Two:
What was your purpose in coming here?

Number Twelve:
I had none. I'll go away again if you like.

Number Two:
What were you doing in the recreation room?

Number Twelve:
Teaching that synthetic twin of mine how to shoot and fence.

Number Six:
Your boy is dedicated to his work.

Number Two:
I told you he's a tough nut, Number Twelve.

Number Six:
Number Six.

Number Twelve:
The trouble with science is that it can be perverted.

Number Six:
I am the original. He is the economy pack.

Number Two:
The general's not going to behead you.

Number Six:
We won't know until I've reported to the general, will we?

Number Two:
Report to the general? That's a new one.

Number Six:
Well I don't mean report to him personally. For Pete's sake, you know what I mean.

Alison:
It's not often one gets a second chance.

Number Six:
There are no second chances.

Alison:
There are sometimes, for the lucky ones. If I had a second chance, I want you to know that I wouldn't do it again.

[last lines]

Number Two:
Susan died a year ago, Number Six.

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 Six, who was convinced by Number Two that he is in fact Number Twelve and that he should impersonate Number Six, is waiting in Number Six's house for "Number Six" - actually, Number Twelve. Number Twelve enters the house, whistling a tune, and pretends to be stunned to see "Number Twelve" - actually, Number Six - waiting for him, since they look exactly alike]

Number Twelve:
What the devil...?

[Number Six approaches Number Twelve]

Number Twelve:
[chuckles] Oh, very good. Very good indeed. One of Number Two's little ideas, I suppose? Where did they get you? A people's copying service, or you're one of those double agents we hear so much about these days?

Number Six:
[not amused] Since you've gone through so much trouble, the least I can do is... offer you a drink.

Number Twelve:
Scotch.

[they enter the lounge]

Number Twelve:
I take it, I'm supposed to go all fuzzy around the edges and run off into the distance, screaming "who am I"?

Number Six:
Probably, I have no idea.