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Subject: Prisoner correspondence (1)  (SPOILER)
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 10:58:02 EST
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The following is summarized from correspondence I have had with Dave Iannucci
about The Prisoner, which we felt would be of general interest.

From: lanl!ihnp4!allegra!sjuvax!iannucci (iannucci)
To: allegra!ihnp4!lanl!dspo!tallman

> To Dave Iannnucci:
> I have a request.  Due to an error in programming my VCR, I only
> got the first half hour of the episode "The Dance of the Dead". Would
> you please mail me a synopsis of what happened? The suspense is terrible.

        Guess what?  That is virtually the only episode that I do not
remember well! I remember certain things that happened, but I don't 
remember what the crux of the plot was or what the outcome was.

> About the mobile Village concept - it would certainly be possible 
> to have a number of copies of the Village in different places in the
> world. They could drug Number 6 at night and move him. It is easier to
> believe this than that his sense of direction was so bad that he would
> suspect nothing while directing the pilot with maps in "Many Happy Returns". 

          Ok, I suppose there could be multiple Villages (not something that 
*I* would be inclined to accept, but ...), but I don't see what you're getting 
at Re: sense of direction being bad, etc.  I don't understand your point.
The way I understand this is that the Village is REALLY in U.K., and that 
its being in Lithuania is only a hoax perpetrated upon him by his old
colleagues (maybe against their will). He is navigating, but the pilot
is just ignoring him and taking him to the real Village.

> By the way, the pilot reveals his face before dropping #6, and it is
> definitely the "milkman" (whose face is shown as he gets out of the truck).

    Thanks for the confirmation.

> But my theory is still that all the events are a paranoid fantasy of
> the Prisoner. He literally is Number One, and a part of his mind is in
> control of what he is doing to himself.  Then there is no problem with
> a mobile Village - places often move around in dreams.

       You're saying this is all a dream? Could you be more concrete?
I don't see all the details of how this works.  Is it really just a dream
from which he will wake the next morning?  Or is it something more? A waking
delusion....? Or what? 

  Listen, these things should be posted to the net.
                          BCing U.
                                  Dave Iannucci @ SJU
 

C. David Tallman - dspo!tallman@LANL  or {ucbvax!unmvax,ihnp4}!lanl!dspo!tallman
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico  -  (505) 667-8495
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C. David Tallman - dspo!tallman@LANL  or {ucbvax!unmvax,ihnp4}!lanl!dspo!tallman
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico  -  (505) 667-8495