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Patrick McGoohan and Leo McKern in The Prisoner (1967)

Patrick McGoohan: Number Six

The Chimes of Big Ben

The Prisoner

Patrick McGoohan credited as playing...

Number Six

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  • Number 6: I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it
  • Number Two: [they are having tea in Number Two's office] I can never remember... one lump or two?
  • Number Six: It's in the file.
  • Number Two: Yes, as a matter of fact yes! But it would save time if you would just answer the question!
  • Number Six: Why, are you running out of time?
  • Number Two: Do you still think you can escape, Number Six?
  • Number Six: Oh, I'll do even better than that.
  • Number Two: Oh?
  • Number Six: Going to escape and come back.
  • Number Two: Come back?
  • Number Six: Escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it, and you with it.
  • Number Two: If I turn her over to you, you'll do some woodwork for me, is that your deal?
  • Number Six: The best you'll get.
  • Number Two: Ha ha! You really are the limit, Number Six!
  • Number Six: Would you like to explain to me how a man in Poland came to have a watch showing English time when there's one hour's difference?
  • Colonel J.: Maybe he was slow.
  • Number Six: I'll bet he was.
  • [Number 2 is describing the Village]
  • Number Two: What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they'll see that this is the pattern for the future.
  • Number 6: The whole world as the Village?
  • Number Two: That is my dream. What's yours?
  • Number 6: To be the first man on the moon.
  • Number Six: You Russian?
  • Nadia: Estonian.
  • Number Six: Russian.
  • Nadia: We don't think so.
  • Colonel J.: Let's start at square one, shall we? First, why did you resign?
  • Number Six: It was a matter of conscience.
  • Nadia: You really know what I want? To hear the chimes of Big Bill.
  • Number Six: Big Ben.
  • Nadia: I'll never call you anything else.
  • Number Six: Good night, Nadia.
  • Nadia: Good night, Big Ben.
  • Number Six: Big Bill.
  • Number Six: I risked my life and hers to come back here, home, because I thought it was different. It is, isn't it? A bit different?
  • [Big Ben is chiming]
  • Colonel J.: Question one, why did you resign?
  • Number Six: I resigned because, for a very long time I s... Just a minute. Eight o'clock.

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