The Prisoner (TV Mini Series)

Episode 1: Arrival (2009)

Ian McKellen: 2

Quotes 

• 2 : What were you doing in the mountains, 6?

  6 : I was... I was lost. I mean, I have no idea how I got here. What did you call me? This... look, something's wrong here.

  2 : Yes, you are wrong, 6.

  6 : Do not call me that. I am not 6.

  2 : Show me your ID papers.

  6 : Well, I don't have any papers.

  [finding an ID card in his pocket, he throws it onto the table] 

  6 : Well, you just put them there.

  2 : You were seen in the mountains. What have you done to 93?

  6 : I don't know anything about 93.

  2 : Where is the old man?

  6 : You can't do this to me. I don't care who you are. Do you hear me? Now, I wanna get back to New York.

  2 : That's not possible. There is no New York. There is only the Village.

• 11-12 : Why is 6 so convinced there is another place?

  2 : Well... because for people like 6, life is not enough. The simple life. They want to escape it.

• 6 : I'd like to speak to the American consul, please.

  2 : Look, see how the sun makes it all glow. Kind of day that makes you glad to be alive.

  6 : Why are you keeping me here?

  2 : I see no locked doors.

  6 : Well, they were after me.

  2 : Ooh. Sounds terribly ominous.

• 2 : [finding 6 searching 93's cabin]  Can you see, 6, how I might wonder why you're here if, as you claim, you know nothing about 93?

  6 : I came here to find out who this man 93 is.

  2 : And now that you're here, do you see what he was? A drunk. A fool.

  6 : Maybe he drank because he found the lie of this place unbearable. He knew what I know. The Village is not all that there is.

  2 : What is it you're suggesting? A hole in the sky? Aliens landing secretly in the night? Mm, a mysterious road that leads beyond, beyond, beyond? A magic gateway, perhaps? Some portal leading into Never Never Land? Take a look outside, 6. People going about their lives. Strolling in the sun, sitting together in the park, or anywhere where they might choose to sit together. They take a scooter ride, go dancing, enjoy a beer in the cafe while they gaze about the Village. Contented. Hopeful. Every day above ground is a good day. The problem is in your mind.

  6 : Well... I want out.

  2 : You've tried that. There is no "out". There is only in. Now, you can go on tormenting yourself if that's what you want. Or you can stop.

  6 : If 93 were no more than a drunk... a fool, as you say... then why were they chasing after him? Shooting at him? Because 93 found something. And if he can do it, I can.

  2 : I pity you, 6. You refuse to open your mind to the possibility that you're wrong.

  6 : If I open my mind, you'll take it away from me.

  2 : We might. But we will always give it back.

• 6 : What's going on?

  2 : You know what it is, 6. 93 deserves a decent burial.

  6 : You didn't find his body. 93 is gone. He escaped. He found the way out.

  2 : If 93 found the way out, 6 can convince himself that there *is* an out. 6 must try to escape because 6 knows there is nothing to escape from. In his mind, in his soul, 6 knows that 6 is 6.