The Prisoner (TV Series)

The Chimes of Big Ben (1967)

Patrick McGoohan: Number Six

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Quotes 

• 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.