Recap -- The Prisoner 1.01 "Arrival"

prisonerAn announcement is made personally by 2 over the city loudspeakers, which tells them that they discovered 93's body. 6 returns to the cafe, and convinces 554 to come with him to his apartment. 554 tells 6 that 93 said they were prisoners in the village, and shows 6 her drawing of the Statue of Liberty, which she claims to have dreamed. She tells 6 that she thinks there are others who have dreams like that as well.

2 takes pills to his comatose wife, dropping them into her mouth. She shows some awareness, at least with her eyes. 11-12, their son, walks in, asking 2 why 6 doesn't think that the Village is all there is. 2 simply replies that for people like 6, all there is is just not enough.

6 visits the cemetery, and is met there by 313. He tells her to lay down beside her, and look up at the stars. The stars are proof that there is more that exists than just the Village. He then begins to list of famous people, from Karl Marx to Groucho Marx. 313 is unfamiliar with any of them, and she does not know that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and the telephone. 313 tells 6 to instead talk about the woman he met earlier.

He does, and has a flashback. The woman tells him her name is Lucy, and she eventually agrees to come back with him to his apartment after some minor flirting.

He suddenly awakens in his apartment, and hears a passing funeral for 93. Exiting his apartment, he controns 2, who angrily tells him off. He returns to the cafe, where 147 offers him a ride a little too eagerly. 6 declines, instead entering the cafe. Upon exiting, he begins hearing transmissions from Brooklyn breaking through the ambient music playing on the portable radios nearby. Suddenly, the cafe behind him explodes, knocking him out.

A series of clips follow, including one strange one of 554 addressing the camera, saying, "I put a pillow on his face and snuffed him out like a candle. Now he's dead." We're led to believe that 6 did not see this, or if he did, he didn't remember it upon waking.

He wakes up among debris from the explosion, and runs to 554's side. She tells him that 93 told her to "follow the towers," referring to the crystaline towers he'd seen earlier. As 554 begins to succumb to her wounds, 6 is pushed away by medics, who take her back to the hospital. 313 tries to save her, but 554 dies. 6 chases after 313 and asks her what happened, and 313 tearfully replies that sometimes events like this just happen, though they don't happen very often.

6 runs to 2's house and begins yelling at him from behind the gate. However, 2 sits calmly in his dining room, and though he can hear 6's cries, he just ravenously eats the cake that 147 gave him, gluttonously eating slice after slice after slice, gleefully grinning.

Giving up, 6 decides to heed 93's advice and run to the towers. He makes it to the desert, but as he approaches a cliff near the towers, a large white ball rises above him, and slowly falls over him, pushing him down against the ground and into blackness.

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