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The Prisoner- What's It All About ? ( a complete guide)
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkman" data-source="post: 314225" data-attributes="member: 23715"><p><strong>13. DO NOT FORSAKE ME OH MY DARLING </strong>- the episode without McGoohan, made whilst he was away filming Ice Station Zebra. He returned to appear in a couple of scenes after the rest was in the can.</p><p></p><p>In an atypical teaser before a modification of the standard opening sequence (different music, the usual Number 6 / Number 2 dialogue is absent), two men sit in the office of a senior intelligence officer named Sir Charles. They are analyzing photos by way of seeking clues that will lead them to locate a missing inventor named Professor Seltzman (later revealed to have developed a technology that can switch two people's minds into one another's bodies). They are unsuccessful.</p><p></p><p>A man referred to only as "Colonel" arrives at the Village and only then learns from a new Number 2 that his mission is to trade bodies with Number Six, using Seltzman's system. Number Six had been the last agent to have contact with Seltzman. After the swap, Number Six (now in the Colonel's body, and retaining only his pre-Village memories) awakens in his old London apartment and soon sees an unfamiliar face in his mirror. His fiancée arrives and, of course, fails to recognize him. He prudently restrains himself from enlightening her. Despite the shock, he realizes what has been done to him, maintains his cool, and sets about to regain his own body. After a visit to his former superiors (the most senior of them, Sir Charles Portland, previously seen in the teaser) avails him nothing, he attends his fiancée's birthday party. There, he retrieves an old photo lab receipt from her, which he had given her in pre-Village days. He implies his true identity to her and she seems to almost understand, as Sir Charles (her father, by the way) had not seemed willing to do. With the retrieved photos back at his flat—they had previously been developed by Sir Charles' minions, and then returned to the shop, it seems—he uses an alphanumeric code system based on Seltzman's name to select certain photos which, projected together and viewed with a special filter, reveal the location of Seltzman. This turns out to be (the fictitious) Kandersfeld, Austria, to which Number Six promptly travels. Seltzman is believed—at least by Number Two and his superiors—to have perfected the reversal of the mind swap process. This is exactly what Number Two wanted, and, Number Six having been followed, both men are gassed into unconsciousness and returned to The Village.</p><p></p><p>The restoration of the identities, however, takes a final unexpected twist: Seltzman agrees to oversee the switchback, but actually does a three-party switch: the body of Number Six gets his mind back, the mind of the Colonel is transferred into the body of Seltzman, who then dies, and Seltzman transfers his own mind into the body of the Colonel, and then leaves on the helicopter before Number Two knows what is happening.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JAh-6swhHgo/UJP1lHKlmhI/AAAAAAAARuk/2AuqgxVXdiU/s1600/The+Prisoner+-+Episode+13+-+Do+Not+Forsake+Me+Oh+My+Darling.avi_snapshot_10.21_%5B2012.11.02_16.11.13%5D.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eDc7a8iPjNA/T-qZEBfGUcI/AAAAAAAAF3s/bJbSiiwu-UE/s1600/prisonerdonotforsake.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BRSyJ2xj5PI/UJP1r92N0XI/AAAAAAAARu8/ZBfBkvG0rWA/s1600/The+Prisoner+-+Episode+13+-+Do+Not+Forsake+Me+Oh+My+Darling.avi_snapshot_45.08_%5B2012.11.02_16.15.37%5D.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.midnightonly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Do-Not-Forsake-05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34957[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34958[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]34971[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34972[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkman, post: 314225, member: 23715"] [B]13. DO NOT FORSAKE ME OH MY DARLING [/B]- the episode without McGoohan, made whilst he was away filming Ice Station Zebra. He returned to appear in a couple of scenes after the rest was in the can. In an atypical teaser before a modification of the standard opening sequence (different music, the usual Number 6 / Number 2 dialogue is absent), two men sit in the office of a senior intelligence officer named Sir Charles. They are analyzing photos by way of seeking clues that will lead them to locate a missing inventor named Professor Seltzman (later revealed to have developed a technology that can switch two people's minds into one another's bodies). They are unsuccessful. A man referred to only as "Colonel" arrives at the Village and only then learns from a new Number 2 that his mission is to trade bodies with Number Six, using Seltzman's system. Number Six had been the last agent to have contact with Seltzman. After the swap, Number Six (now in the Colonel's body, and retaining only his pre-Village memories) awakens in his old London apartment and soon sees an unfamiliar face in his mirror. His fiancée arrives and, of course, fails to recognize him. He prudently restrains himself from enlightening her. Despite the shock, he realizes what has been done to him, maintains his cool, and sets about to regain his own body. After a visit to his former superiors (the most senior of them, Sir Charles Portland, previously seen in the teaser) avails him nothing, he attends his fiancée's birthday party. There, he retrieves an old photo lab receipt from her, which he had given her in pre-Village days. He implies his true identity to her and she seems to almost understand, as Sir Charles (her father, by the way) had not seemed willing to do. With the retrieved photos back at his flat—they had previously been developed by Sir Charles' minions, and then returned to the shop, it seems—he uses an alphanumeric code system based on Seltzman's name to select certain photos which, projected together and viewed with a special filter, reveal the location of Seltzman. This turns out to be (the fictitious) Kandersfeld, Austria, to which Number Six promptly travels. Seltzman is believed—at least by Number Two and his superiors—to have perfected the reversal of the mind swap process. This is exactly what Number Two wanted, and, Number Six having been followed, both men are gassed into unconsciousness and returned to The Village. The restoration of the identities, however, takes a final unexpected twist: Seltzman agrees to oversee the switchback, but actually does a three-party switch: the body of Number Six gets his mind back, the mind of the Colonel is transferred into the body of Seltzman, who then dies, and Seltzman transfers his own mind into the body of the Colonel, and then leaves on the helicopter before Number Two knows what is happening. [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JAh-6swhHgo/UJP1lHKlmhI/AAAAAAAARuk/2AuqgxVXdiU/s1600/The+Prisoner+-+Episode+13+-+Do+Not+Forsake+Me+Oh+My+Darling.avi_snapshot_10.21_%5B2012.11.02_16.11.13%5D.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eDc7a8iPjNA/T-qZEBfGUcI/AAAAAAAAF3s/bJbSiiwu-UE/s1600/prisonerdonotforsake.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BRSyJ2xj5PI/UJP1r92N0XI/AAAAAAAARu8/ZBfBkvG0rWA/s1600/The+Prisoner+-+Episode+13+-+Do+Not+Forsake+Me+Oh+My+Darling.avi_snapshot_45.08_%5B2012.11.02_16.15.37%5D.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.midnightonly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Do-Not-Forsake-05.jpg[/IMG] [ATTACH type="full" alt="MV5BMGFjODk5NDEtYjgxMy00OTBjLWI5MDEtMzIyMWFjNmEyNmE2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjQ5NzQ4NjM@._V1_FMjpg_UX1...jpg"]34957[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="screen-shot-2019-07-16-at-9.15.14-pm-e1563326192370.png"]34958[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]34971[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]34972[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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