The Prisoner, a reinterpretation of the 1967 British cult classic, follows Michael, who after resigning from his job finds himself inexplicably trapped in The Village, a town where people have numbers instead of names. Michael (now called "Six") struggles to hold on to his identity as he engages in a battle of wits with The Village leader, Two. Michael wakes in the desert, disoriented and unsure of where he is. At the sound of a gunshot and barking dogs, he goes to the aid of an old man who is running from armed pursuers. Michael carries the old man into a cave, where, with his dying breath, the old man asks Michael to hide his body and tell someone named 554 that he got away. After burying the body, Michael follows a light in the distance and arrives in a small town. Michael hails a cab and asks the driver to take him to a train station. "This is The Village," the confused driver tells him, "and I do local destinations." Michael jumps out of the moving cab and walks into a crowded nightclub, where a woman asks him to dance. At the sound of barking dogs, he runs back out to the cab. Unsure of where to go, he asks to be taken to 554. "Now you're talking," says the driver, who identifies himself as 147. Michael finds 554, a young waitress at the local Solar Cafe, and tells her the old man got away. 554 identifies the old man as 93, but is hesitant to get mixed up in any trouble. Dogs appear and chase Michael to a nearby rooftop, where he gets a fleeting glimpse of a New York street before flashing back to The Village. At the approach of a man wearing a fedora, Michael faints and falls off the roof. Michael has a bizarre dream that he’s trapped, but wakes unharmed to find a doctor named 313 – the woman from the nightclub – tending to him. 313 tells him she wants to help him accept reality. “I’m going to fetch you a cold drink,” she says, “and then someone is going to take you home. You’re a free man.” Michael is taken to see a mysterious man named Two. Michael demands to see the American consul and to be returned to New York, but Two – who calls Michael "Six" – tells him that's not possible: "There is no New York," Two says. "There is only The Village." Two wants to know what Six did with 93's body, but Six remains obstinate. Six is driven to his Village apartment – labeled "6" – which is almost identical to his apartment in New York. The next day, Six notices two towers looming in the distance. Determined to find a way out, he purchases a map from the shopkeeper, steals 147’s cab and drives out to the desert. The action cuts to New York where Michael sits alone at a diner. A woman approaches and asks to borrow Michael's cell phone, claiming to have lost hers. They flirt with each other and Michael invites her back to his apartment. The action returns to The Village. 313 approaches Six, who is passed out in the desert. Driving him back to The Village, she asks Six who he was talking to while he was unconscious. "I want to help you with these delusions," 313 says. At home, Two gathers pills from a cabinet and carries them on a tray upstairs. 147 and his wife, 21-16, are summoned to The Village Clinic for having escorted a newcomer (Six) to The Village. Six goes to 93's apartment looking for clues. He finds a drawing of Big Ben in London, but is interrupted by Two, who again asks where 93's body is hidden. Six goes to 554 for an explanation of the drawing. After seeing it, 554 tells Six it was from his other life – “before The Village.” 147 and 21-16 report to the Clinic, where Two awards them medals for services to The Village. Two asks 147 his impression of the newcomer, and 21-16 presents Two with a cherry cake. Throughout The Village, a public broadcast announces that 93’s body was discovered in the sand dunes. In the Solar Café, Six presses 554 for details about 93. He takes her to his apartment, where she speaks of 93’s dreams of his other life. “He started saying things – that we’re prisoners here,” she says. 554 claims there are others who dream, and shows Six her own drawing culled from a recurring vision – the Statue of Liberty. At Palais Two, Two feeds pills to a woman who appears to be asleep in bed. His son 11-12 enters, and asks Two why Six believes there is another place. "For people like Six, life is not enough," Two says. "They want to escape it." Six visits an empty grave at The Village cemetery where 93 will be buried. 313 approaches, and the two discuss Village history. 313 asks Six about the woman he dreamed of. Back in New York, Michael tells the woman he resigned today. She tells him her name is Lucy. The next day, Six crashes 93’s funeral. He tells the mourners that there is another place outside of The Village and that 93 found a way out. “If 93 found the way out,” says Two, “Six can convince himself there is an out. Six must try to escape because Six knows there is nothing to escape from.” Six heads to the Solar Café to see 554, but is stopped by 147, who tells him he’ll always be there if Six needs him. Moments later, the cafe explodes. Clinging to life, 554 tells Six that 93 told her to "follow the towers." 554 dies at the hospital. Six asks 313 if the bomb was an act of terrorism. 313 begs him to stop meddling. Distraught, Six goes to the gates of Palais Two. "I will find a way to escape," he screams. "I am not a number. I'm a free man!" Six runs into the desert toward the towers, but is stopped by an enormous white hovering ball – Rover. Read more...
Episode Guide
Episode 1: Arrival Next
The Prisoner, a reinterpretation of the 1967 British cult classic, follows Michael, who after resigning from his job finds himself inexplicably trapped in The Village, a town where people have numbers instead of names. Michael (now called "Six") struggles to hold on to his identity as he engages in a battle of wits with The Village leader, Two.
Michael wakes in the desert, disoriented and unsure of where he is. At the sound of a gunshot and barking dogs, he goes to the aid of an old man who is running from armed pursuers. Michael carries the old man into a cave, where, with his dying breath, the old man asks Michael to hide his body and tell someone named 554 that he got away. After burying the body, Michael follows a light in the distance and arrives in a small town.
Michael hails a cab and asks the driver to take him to a train station. "This is The Village," the confused driver tells him, "and I do local destinations." Michael jumps out of the moving cab and walks into a crowded nightclub, where a woman asks him to dance. At the sound of barking dogs, he runs back out to the cab.
Unsure of where to go, he asks to be taken to 554. "Now you're talking," says the driver, who identifies himself as 147. Michael finds 554, a young waitress at the local Solar Cafe, and tells her the old man got away. 554 identifies the old man as 93, but is hesitant to get mixed up in any trouble.
Dogs appear and chase Michael to a nearby rooftop, where he gets a fleeting glimpse of a New York street before flashing back to The Village. At the approach of a man wearing a fedora, Michael faints and falls off the roof.
Michael has a bizarre dream that he’s trapped, but wakes unharmed to find a doctor named 313 – the woman from the nightclub – tending to him. 313 tells him she wants to help him accept reality. “I’m going to fetch you a cold drink,” she says, “and then someone is going to take you home. You’re a free man.”
Michael is taken to see a mysterious man named Two. Michael demands to see the American consul and to be returned to New York, but Two – who calls Michael "Six" – tells him that's not possible: "There is no New York," Two says. "There is only The Village." Two wants to know what Six did with 93's body, but Six remains obstinate.
Six is driven to his Village apartment – labeled "6" – which is almost identical to his apartment in New York.
The next day, Six notices two towers looming in the distance. Determined to find a way out, he purchases a map from the shopkeeper, steals 147’s cab and drives out to the desert.
The action cuts to New York where Michael sits alone at a diner. A woman approaches and asks to borrow Michael's cell phone, claiming to have lost hers. They flirt with each other and Michael invites her back to his apartment. The action returns to The Village.
313 approaches Six, who is passed out in the desert. Driving him back to The Village, she asks Six who he was talking to while he was unconscious. "I want to help you with these delusions," 313 says.
At home, Two gathers pills from a cabinet and carries them on a tray upstairs.
147 and his wife, 21-16, are summoned to The Village Clinic for having escorted a newcomer (Six) to The Village.
Six goes to 93's apartment looking for clues. He finds a drawing of Big Ben in London, but is interrupted by Two, who again asks where 93's body is hidden. Six goes to 554 for an explanation of the drawing. After seeing it, 554 tells Six it was from his other life – “before The Village.”
147 and 21-16 report to the Clinic, where Two awards them medals for services to The Village. Two asks 147 his impression of the newcomer, and 21-16 presents Two with a cherry cake.
Throughout The Village, a public broadcast announces that 93’s body was discovered in the sand dunes.
In the Solar Café, Six presses 554 for details about 93. He takes her to his apartment, where she speaks of 93’s dreams of his other life. “He started saying things – that we’re prisoners here,” she says. 554 claims there are others who dream, and shows Six her own drawing culled from a recurring vision – the Statue of Liberty.
At Palais Two, Two feeds pills to a woman who appears to be asleep in bed. His son 11-12 enters, and asks Two why Six believes there is another place. "For people like Six, life is not enough," Two says. "They want to escape it."
Six visits an empty grave at The Village cemetery where 93 will be buried. 313 approaches, and the two discuss Village history. 313 asks Six about the woman he dreamed of.
Back in New York, Michael tells the woman he resigned today. She tells him her name is Lucy.
The next day, Six crashes 93’s funeral. He tells the mourners that there is another place outside of The Village and that 93 found a way out. “If 93 found the way out,” says Two, “Six can convince himself there is an out. Six must try to escape because Six knows there is nothing to escape from.”
Six heads to the Solar Café to see 554, but is stopped by 147, who tells him he’ll always be there if Six needs him. Moments later, the cafe explodes. Clinging to life, 554 tells Six that 93 told her to "follow the towers."
554 dies at the hospital. Six asks 313 if the bomb was an act of terrorism. 313 begs him to stop meddling.
Distraught, Six goes to the gates of Palais Two. "I will find a way to escape," he screams. "I am not a number. I'm a free man!" Six runs into the desert toward the towers, but is stopped by an enormous white hovering ball – Rover.
Next Episode: Harmony
Six lies unconscious in the desert. The sight of a seagull flashes him back to a childhood memory of a trip he took to the beach with his brother. A man
named 16 wakes him.
In the Village Clinic, Two asserts that 16 is Six’s brother. When Six denies it, 16 produces
a picture of the two of them as boys. Two suggests Six go to
therapy.
At 16′s house, 16′s children are overjoyed to see their Uncle Six. 16′s wife prepares Six his favorite meal, and the family enjoys an episode of The Village
soap Wonkers. 16 begs Six to attend therapy. “I just want my brother back,” he says.
In Palais Two, 11-12 spies on Two while he feeds the sleeping woman more pills.
In New York, Michael tells Lucy, the woman from the diner, that he watched her use his
phone. He knows she didn’t make a call.
Six attends a therapy session with 70 and his alter-ego, Shadow 70. He tells the two
therapists in attendance that the seagulls in the desert reminded him
of a childhood trip to the beach with his brother. They called it “the edge of the world.”
313 intercepts Six as he’s leaving the Clinic. Six asks her if she took anything out of his
pockets. She denies it.
Six is welcomed back to work at the Escape Sightseeing Bus Tour. He gets to work driving on the Village Tour while 16 provides commentary on the
sights. Six notices one of the passengers, a woman with a winking eye, watching him.
In the Clinic, Two checks in on Six’s progress. 70 reports that as predicted, Six is resistant to therapy. Two scoffs at the idea of “therapy babble,” but
maintains, “It is not necessary for me to believe. It is necessary for Six to believe.”
When the tour bus moves out into the desert, Six spots an anchor submerged in the sand. 16 shrugs it off as a desert folly. He takes Six to an abandoned
train station, reminding him they used to play there when they were children. They called it “the edge of the world.” Six admits the ruins feel familiar.
Lucy admits she lied — she didn’t really use Michael’s cell phone. She was trying to pick him up in the diner. Michael thinks it curious they met on the night
he resigned from his job. Lucy says it’s a coincidence.
On another sunny day in The Village, the tour bus stops at Palais Two, where Two makes a surprise appearance and boards the bus. Two announces he’s
there to award a lucky family a holiday trip to Escape Resort: The winner is 16.
Later, Six catches 313 looking at the sketches of Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty that she took out of his pocket. She tells Six she likes the idea of
another place, and apologizes for lying.
Michael tells Lucy he worked at a company called Summakor, observing security footage and collecting data on people.
That night, 11-12 asks his father about his childhood — he can’t remember it. Memory is fickle, Two tells him, but he should never doubt his family.
Six has another dream about being on the beach: A young Michael helplessly calls after his brother as he walks into the ocean.
Six takes 313 to the ruins and tells her that he feels a strange connection to the place. Following his instincts, he uncovers an old box with a note he wrote
as a child. 313 holds it as proof The Village is real. Six claims it’s a trick, but now he’s not so sure.
Michael begins to tell Lucy why he resigned from Summakor: He noticed people – “too many people” – changing. When Lucy presses him for details, she
admits that she too works for Summakor. “You think you resigned,” she tells him. “They still control you.”
The winking woman from the tour bus tells Six she’s heard sounds from the
ocean in the desert. 147 drives the two into the desert to search for it, but to no
avail. They’re interrupted by the sight of a Village bus headed to Escape Resort without Six.
16 and his family wait at The Village Bus Depot. When Six finally arrives, they decide to drive themselves to the resort. On the way, Six eyes the towers
and drives toward them. He’s struck with a violent vision of the ocean while Two, sitting on the bus, asks, “Do you know the way?” The vision shifts: Six is now
tied to a post while Two places a grenade in his mouth.
Six snaps out of it; 16 begs him to get a grip. Confused, Six apologizes for the way he’s been acting and accepts 16 as his brother. “I’m not your brother,”
16 whispers.
At Escape Resort, 16 explains that “they” made him lie. He doesn’t know what they want from Six, but it has something to do with the “Other Place.” 16 is
afraid of what they’ll do to him. “We’ll get out first,” Six promises.
16 joins Six and the winking woman on a search for the ocean. When they finally discover it, 16 gleefully runs into the water. Six calls after him to stop, but
it’s too late: Rover attacks.
Six brings 313 back to the ocean, but finds only more sand dunes. He returns to break the news of 16′s death to his family, but they are distracted by
Wonkers. Six starts to shout as Clinic workers restrain him.
In the Clinic, Two laments that Six has completely lost control of himself. “Poor Six,” he says.
“I am not a number,” Six protests. “I am… Six.”
