The Prisoner/It's Your Funeral

It's Your Funeral
Season 1, Episode 11
Airdate	December 17, 1967
Written by	Michael Cramoy
Directed by	Robert Asher
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The Prisoner — Season One

It's Your Funeral is the eleventh episode of the first season of The Prisoner. Number Six becomes a pawn of the interim Number Two's assassination plot when a young woman stumbles into his house for help foiling it.

Starring: Patrick McGoohan (Number Six)

Guest Stars: Derren Nesbitt (New Number Two), Annette Andre (Watchmaker's Daughter), Mark Eden (Number One Hundred)

with Andre Van Gyseghem (Retiring Number Two), Martin Miller (Watchmaker), Wanda Ventham (Computer Attendant), Angelo Muscat (The Butler), Mark Burns (Number Two's Assistant)

and Peter Swanwick (Supervisor), Charles Lloyd Pack (Artist), Grace Arnold (Number Thirty Six), Arthur White (Stall-Holder), Michael Bilton (M.C. Councillor), Gerry Crampton (Kosho Opponent)

Plot Overview

A woman enters Number Six's home to wake him up, but he quickly disarms her and figures her to be part of the enemy. She asks him for help, but he suggests that she go to town hall and seek their help. He opens the door for her to leave, but she collapses on the floor because of a drug given to her by Number Two without her knowledge. This was done because the supervisor's plan to have her walk in and ask for help was bound to fail and Number Two needed a work-around. When she comes to, he hears her out and asks that he help her foil an assassination. He's as stubborn as ever and she storms out, offended that she has been branded a liar.

Concerned with how slowly Number Two is working, the powers that be demand that he speed up his plan. He orders an activities prognosis on Number Six in order to further analyze how that he can get Number Six in on his plot. During this procedure, an eccentric painter tells Number Six that the jammers, which the woman from earlier mentioned, are a group of people who make up phony plots in order to send the government into a pointless frenzy. He also mentions that these jammers are archived and their plans disregarded.

During Number Six's workout, an agent of Number Two sneaks into the locker room and replaces his watch with an identical broken one. Discovering that his watch has suddenly stopped, Number Six heads to the watchmaker's shop to have it fixed. While the watch is being repaired, he fiddles with an odd device that's taken away from him by the suspicious watchmaker. After leaving the shop, Six runs into the woman from before, who believes that he's figured out that the watchmaker is part of the jammers. Of course, Six didn't know that he was part of the group or that he is her father. He also lets her in on the fact that he knows that the device is a remote control for detonating a bomb and that he's become interested in her plot. Of course, this is just another move from Number Two's game. He expects Six to warn him that he's the target for assassination soon.

Six and the girl, Monique, attempt to convince the watchmaker to stop his mad plan for murdering Number Two, but he stubbornly refuses. Instead, just as Number Two supposed, Number Six heads to warn who he believes to be the target of the assassination. Number Two explains the him that the watchmaker is simply a jammer trying to muck up the works of the government. He considers it to be a joke and Six storms out of the office. That night, Six and Monique sneak into the watchmaker hut to find the explosives in a large insignia to be worn by Number Two during appreciation day.

The next day, Six heads to Number Two to tell him the method of his demise and finds a new man in the office of Number Two. He claims that Number Six has warned every Number Two that has served in his interim of a plot of extreme violence, an act which Six has only done once. As proof, Six shows several clips of actors pretending to be Number Two responding to clips recorded of Number Six's previous threat. Number Six suggests that someone wants to fool Number Two into believing that he's a jammer and leaves. The retiring Number Two watches Number Six and Monique put together their realization that the man wearing the pink jacket is working with the stand-in to commit the murder. Number Two requests a recording of the incident with Number Six and his successor, but the man refuses, causing him to realize that everyone is working towards his assassination.

At the appreciation day festival, a man delivers his speech to the crowd before Number Two hands the seal over to his successor. Meanwhile, Number Six and Monique attempt to find her father, who is holed up in the bell tower. They race to his position as the ceremony takes place and stop him from activating the device. Number Two takes it away and heads down the tower where he meets Number 100. The two fight with each other over the device and the retiring Number Two hands over the seal without incident. Number Six hands over the device to the retiring Number Two so that he can use it as his "passport" out of the village since Number Two doesn't dare act while the bomb is strapped around his neck.