The Prisoner (TV Series)

Hammer Into Anvil (1967)

Patrick Cargill: Number Two

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

  Number Six : No. You will.

• [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.

• 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.

• [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, No.6. You'll pay for this.

  Number 6 : No. You will.

• 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.

• 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 sueña". 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.