(Episode 6 – “A, B and C” & Episode 7 – “The General”)

I fully stand by my assessment of the episode “The Chimes of Big Ben” being the episode where The Prisoner Blew the Hatch. Since then, the show’s continued to get better. What I especially admire about The Prisoner is that it doesn’t try to be something it’s not. There’s no secondary or even tertiary plots thrown in to confuse or bore the hell out of us. No romances, no parallel character plots to follow. It’s just about Number Six and how he’s trying to get the heck out of The Village, while the Guardians try to extract information out of him.

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(Episode 4 – “Checkmate” & Episode 5 – “The Chimes of Big Ben”)

I have to admit that, going into “Checkmate,” I wasn’t digging this show. I loathed to hear the awful “music” again, and … well, that’s about it. The music really is that bad. Fortunately I seem to have gotten somewhat used to it and have somehow allowed myself to ignore it for the most part.

After hearing basically the same episode intro for the fourth time, I’m finding myself analyzing it more. The show opens the same way, with Number Six (we never know his real name, at least not yet) racing in his cool-ass car to what is presumably his boss’s office to resign. Thunder booms and awful music plays over whatever he’s ranting about to his boss, he walks out in a huff to his car and speeds off home. There, he’s packing his things for what looks to be a getaway somewhere tropical, someone gasses his flat and he passes out. Then he wakes up in The Village and we hear the same dialog again and again (from Wikiquote):

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