It's Your Funeral
| "It's Your Funeral" | |
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| The Prisoner episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Robert Asher |
| Written by | Michael Cramoy |
| Original air date | 8 December 1967 |
| Recurring/Guest appearances | |
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New Number Two – Derren Nesbitt |
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New Number Two – Derren Nesbitt
Watchmaker's Daughter – Annette Andre
Number One-Hundred – Mark Eden
Retiring Number Two – André van Gyseghem (no accent in on-screen credit)
"It's Your Funeral" is a television episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. It was first broadcast on 8 December 1967. In this episode, a young successor to Number 2 plots to assassinate the retiring Number 2 and ensure his own success.
Number Six is awakened one morning by a young woman, Number Fifty, who tells him an assassination is being planned and asks him to help her prevent it. He does not believe her, thinking that she's working for Number Two. Number Two monitors the scene. Later that day, Number Six meets another prisoner who tells him about jammers, people within the Village who concoct false assassination plots, which Control is obliged to investigate. Number Six is told that Control has a list of these people and ignores their warnings.
The following morning, Number Two has a meeting with the Computer Attendant (Number Eight) and Number 100. The Computer has plotted Number Six's daily routine. When Number Two learns that Number Six will be attending his weekly kosho workout that morning, he realises everything is going to plan. Number 100 is sent to the gym and replaces Number Six's watch with an identical one, which is broken. Number Six thinks his watch has stopped and takes it to the watchmaker (Number Fifty-four) to be mended.
While the watchmaker is in the back room mending his watch, Number Six notices a detonation device that can be operated by radio. As he leaves the shop, Number Six meets Number Fifty again and learns that she is the watchmaker's daughter. He also learns that the watchmaker is planning to assassinate Number Two. Number 100 assures Number Two that the watchmaker is thoroughly indoctrinated to want to assassinate Number Two.
Now believing the story, and realising that if the assassination is successful, the whole Village would be punished, Number Six goes to inform Number Two of the plot. Number Two, secretly filming their meeting, tells Number Six that the watchmaker is a jammer and Control is not concerned about him. He asks Number Six to find out how they intend to kill him, as it will give him a good laugh.
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