The Prisoner (TV Mini Series)

Episode 1: Arrival (2009)

Ruth Wilson: 313

Quotes 

• 6 : So, this guy at the hospital. He wants to know where 93's body is. Why? That's not a delusion. That's happening here right now.

  313 : If you did see 93.

  6 : Is that why they set me free? To let you loose on me? The caring, sharing doctor with the big, beautiful eyes and the nice girly smile. Soften me up, get me to talk.

  313 : Of course you doubt me. You doubt everything, but that's not you speaking, 6. That's your condition.

  6 : My condition is that I'm being held here against my will.

• 313 : You were talking to someone.

  6 : You shouldn't listen to other people's conversations. It's rude. How come you're interested in my life back there if it doesn't exist?

  313 : Of course I'm interested. I want to help you with these delusions.

  6 : I can't leave here, can I?

  313 : Why would you want to leave? Why would you even think such a thing?

  6 : All right, doctor. My delusion is I met a woman the other night. And I invited her back to my apartment.

  313 : Did she come back? To your apartment?

  6 : I don't know.

• 6 : [waking up in the hospital, he recognizes 313 from the nightclub]  It's you.

  313 : And I thought you just wanted to dance with me.

  6 : How long have I been here?

  313 : Well, you've been sleeping a while.

  6 : I thought I was dying. What's happening to me?

  313 : I wish you didn't fight it.

  6 : Fight what?

  313 : Please, let me help you.

  6 : I don't want your help, lady. I wanna get the hell out of here.

  313 : Look, here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna fix you a cold drink, and then someone is gonna take you home. You're a free man.

• 6 : I need you to help me.

  313 : Oh, uh, let's dance first.

  6 : I don't know how I got here.

  313 : You've never been to Club More? Are you okay?

  6 : What the hell is going on?

  313 : Hey, hey, hey.

  6 : Where am I? The whole place?

  313 : You're in the Village. Where else would you be? Are you sick or something?

  6 : I must be. I can't seem to get a hold of any of this.

• 6 : A hundred billion stars. Over and over, billions of galaxies. And that is just what we can see. Can you honestly tell me that the Village is all that there is?

  313 : Of course not. Has to be life out there somewhere. Perhaps another village. Oh, it's, um, 400 billion, by the way.

  6 : Look at me. Isaac Newton, Galileo... Plato, Socrates... Karl Marx, Groucho Marx... Darwin. Surely, Darwin. Kennedy, Bob Dylan, David Beckham. Who invented the telephone?

  313 : Oh. Uh...

  6 : Alexander Graham Bell. The light bulb?

  313 : 5-12.

  6 : Everyone says it was Thomas Edison. It was Joseph Swan. Where do these names come from, these memories? I was taught this stuff by a lady named Mrs. Radcliffe, my teacher. Now, where does that come from?

  313 : Now, tell me about Mrs. Radcliffe.

  6 : You're humoring me.

  313 : Tell me anyway.

  6 : Okay. She had a big blue nose, skin like a crocodile. She actually looked more like a man in a dress. Not just a man, but a boxer.

  313 : Wow, I like her already.

  6 : Do you know what a crocodile is?

  313 : Are you trying to trap me?

  6 : Yes. No. Yes. Are you trying to trap me?

  313 : Yes. Yes. No.

• 313 : 6, wait.

  6 : Why are you calling me that?

  313 : Well, I think that it suits you, 6. I like it. 6, where do you think you're going?

  6 : Going home.

  313 : You won't get far. Is there nothing I can say that will make you wait?

  6 : You could tell me the truth. What the hell is this place?

  313 : You're one of us. That's the truth.

• 6 : [313 deals with victims of an explosion]  What is it? Terrorists? Some kind of resistance? Tell me.

  313 : You should've stayed away from her.

  6 : So, what are you saying? Are you saying this is my fault?

  313 : Look, I...

  6 : No, you tell me. Damn it. What's the matter with you?

  313 : Don't you see? There's sweat coming out of every pore of my body. I'm scared. Look, um... sometimes, not very often, something like this happens. Everything goes back to normal. Things, they settle down. They do it for us. Just, please, don't make things worse.