Number 6 (Prisoner)

Number 6 is a male television character who features in The Prisoner.

Biography

Original

Number 6 was the name given to a man who was the central focus of the organization behind the Village. They wanted to know why Number 6 had resigned from his job as a secret agent, but 6- who quickly rejected the numerical designation (but never revealed what his real name was)- was completely uncooperative. He resisted constant attempts to break him, tried to escape on a regular basis, and later, began trying to subvert the Village itself. Many of his efforts were focused on defeating Number 2, his chief tormentor, and seeking Number 1, the Village's mastermind.

In the end, after killing the last known Number 2 in a battle of wills, he met Number 1, finding the mysterious leader to be himself. Number 1 escaped in a rocket, possibly destroying the Village, and Number 6 left with a resurrected Number 2, an individual known as the Butler, and the rebellious Number 48. Dropping them off at various locales, Six then drove off to parts unknown.

Number Six and several other residents appear to have escaped the Village. Later on, Angelo Muscat entered Number Six’s house in the City of Westminster, and the door of the house automatically opening and closing like that of his house in The Village. (Episode: Fall Out)

Notes

• Number 6 was created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein where he was portrayed by actor Patrick McGoohan in the original The Prisoner series.
• Much speculation abounds about the possibility that Number 6 was actually John Drake of the spy series Secret Agent- a character played, like Number 6, by The Prisoner series creator Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan denies this, but series co-creator (of sorts) George Markstein confirms it. So it's ambiguous as to whether that theory is actually truth. It is, however, widely accepted as true.

In other media

Comic Books

• In The Prisoner: Shattered Visage, Number 6 appeared in the 1988 non-canon story written by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith and published by DC Comics. Set 20 years later, former secret agent Alice Drake came to be shipwrecked on the shores of the Village and encountered an aged Number Six. This sawthe decades-old conflict unfolding between Six and Number Two with secret agents in London have their own plans regarding the intelligence mine that is The Village, as well as the secret lying at its very core.

Appearances

• The Prisoner:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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