PRISONER, "FALL OUT" Deleted scenes and continuity.

[KapStuf]

Just my opinion, but all these people insisting that 6 is 1 are missing the point. When 6 sees 1, he sees 6. 34 would see 34, and so forth. There's no mastermind controlling it all, there's just the great mass of society impacting on each individual. None of us are free, because none us is alone.

If McGoohan was trying to say anything, I think that's what it was. As to whether he was right, that's a whole other issue.

[DaveyC95]

Leo McKern had a heart attack such was the stress of filming the episode, it was that stressful because the pace was frenetic. And Alexis Kanner repeating himself over and over again like he was psychotic. Sad he died young. I mean this was all before my time. But watching it as a kid on Channel Four in the 1990's it was the most bizarre, Orwellian thing i had ever seen.

[bederrick]

"shooting his on id into outer space" hits the nail on the head..! he finds that No. 1 is Him... as others have pointed out, in the prelude, he asks: "who is No. 1?" and the response is "You are No. 6" - It should be "You are, No. 6!" So it's him. Sorta existentialist, huh? Yet the first glimpse, though, is of an ape... perhaps we're all prisoners of our own base human nature?

[ProjectFlashlight612]

@bederrick There are clues scattered around the series that 6 is 1. As you say, even the opening spiel contains a huge clue: "Who is Number 1?" can be read as "You are, Number 6". Crafty, eh? Do Not Foresake Me Oh My Darling contains the line: "It will all be one in the end." 6's home in London is Number 1 Buckingham Place, and then there's 'Six of one, half a dozen of the other' in Arrival.

[rkinsey64]

I love that on the mantle appears to be a bust of Napoleon during Kenneth Griffith's interview! I'm certain that's pure coincidence! I know he was supposed to be a different character, but had they filmed the copter scene when he escapes (he clearly does since they show the copters taking off) , it woulds have been a nice nod to have had Justine Lord be his pilot!

[dumbbo1]

I always wondered why Number 2 got a shave and haircut in this episode.

[stadioazteca]

it was a fantastic series but it did lose its way towards the end...the budget ran dry and that probably had a lot to do with it...Fall Out is way up its own arse I'm afraid

[ProjectFlashlight612]

Fall Out is perhaps the most accurate depiction of a drug experience ever composed by a man who never took LSD or smoked pot in his life. [McGoohan drank hard liquor and smoked tobacco, but that's it.] Acid's 'ego death' experience is replicated in 6's rejecting the part of himself that was Number 1. 6 shoots his own id into space, quite literally. It's my belief that 6 was driven mad at the end of the previous ep, and Fall Out is just his insane hallucination. Speedwritten burn-out genius.

[MELONMOVIES]

@ProjectFlashlight612 sorry i accidentally thumbed down :( but great point!

[Scyllax]

@ProjectFlashlight612 It's not that abstract. Patrick McGoohan said on television in the 1980's that he had ulcers from fighting the system. (The prison world wants you to subjugate you and censor yourself, usurping your own spirit for its own ends as, in the end, Winston Smith loves Big Brother or as Number Six is Number One.) When the door opens automatically and the butler enters The Prisoner's home at the end, it means the whole world is governed or directed by the prison's wardens.

[DMSProduktions]

@ProjectFlashlight612 Its possible, however I think 6 had a breakdown and thru some sort of fugue state, denied his true position and job (ie #1 of the spies exile) so ended up a Prisoner of him self in his own village. He lived in denial of who he truly was. It wasnt until Fallout that he came back to his senses and realises who he really is, but make the conscious (this time) decision to reject his former job of prison master.

As they say 'who is number 1? You are, Number 6' Told every ep!

[macroyer1]

I think that Patrick Mcgoohan said that after the ending he had to 'flee' to the US. He said that people were even more confused and it didn't end the way the wanted. He said a lynch mob would have strung him up.

[TubeofDestiny]

@macroyer1 Teaching hundreds if not millions of people deep and complex things about themselves, about the human nature, is a risky job :D A lot of them didn't understood what was behind the "number 1", they kept asking him who was the Great Evil one, they couldn't accept that most dangerous thing was themselves... that's why he moved away for a few months, to let these people forget about it and go back to their everyday lifes...

[yapira3d]

lol at nearly killed himself KILLED HIMSELF

[glutusmaximus]

The last episode Fall Out must have been written under the influence of LSD or some similar shit as you could not think that one one up without the help of a heavy mind bending drug

[DAZZAMAGOO]

yeh they say patrick went slightly mad making it. you can see why lol

[lovetoeatallthefood]

Brilliant! "there was a theme... in his own sort of thinking. It may have escaped some people."

Got to love the British gift for dry understatement :)

[tsarbomba1]

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[Pmg6portmeirion]

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[TubeofDestiny]

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