The Prisoner (1967–1968)

Patrick McGoohan: Number Six, Number Twelve

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• Number 6 : I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

• Number 6 : Be seeing you.

• Number 6 : Where am I?

  Number Two : In the village.

  Number 6 : What do you want?

  Number Two : Information.

  Number 6 : Whose side are you on?

  Number Two : That would be telling. We want information... information... information!

  Number 6 : You won't get it!

  Number Two : By hook or by crook, we will.

  Number 6 : Who are you?

  Number Two : The new Number Two.

  Number 6 : Who is Number One?

  Number Two : You are Number Six.

  Number 6 : I am not a number; I AM A FREE MAN!

  Number Two : [laughter] 

• Number 6 : I am not a number. I am a person.

• Number Two : I'm the boss.

  Number 6 : No. One is the boss.

• Number 6 : Everyone votes for a dictator.

• Queen : [Tearfully]  How can you doubt me?

  Number 6 : It's easy, and I'm waterproof; a slight drizzle won't wash away my doubt, so don't try.

• The Double : The trouble with science is that it can be perverted.

• Number 6 : If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.

• Number 6 : Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.

• Number 6 : Last week, Number 14 was an old lady in a wheelchair. You're new here, and you're one of them.

• Number 6 : I also have a problem. I'm not sure which side runs this Village.

• Number 6 : Bad habit of mine, playing with lighters. I'll probably start a fire one day.

• [Alison walks into Number Two's office where they are two Number Sixes. The real Number Six approaches her] 

  Number 6 : I am the original. He is the economy pack.