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The Prisoner
"The Seltzman Connection"
Audio Drama
Written by Nicholas Briggs
Directed by Nicholas Briggs
Released November 2019 |
Number 6 at last meets Professor Seltzman and learns of his
macabre technology.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Number 6
Number 2
Operations Controller
Prof. Jacob Seltzman
Potter (dies in this episode)
Janet
Control
Danvers
Kate Butterworth
Herr Müller (buggy driver)
Marcus Gray
Rover
Didja Know?
The Big Finish version of The Prisoner is an
audio drama reimagining of
the classic 1967 TV series of the same name.
The series can occasionally be heard on the
BBC Radio website.
This episode has some elements in common with
the original TV series episode
"Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling".
Didja Notice?
Number 6 and Potter fly to
Kandersfeld, Austria in their mission to track down
Prof. Seltzman. This is the same town Number 6 found Seltzman in
in the original TV series episode
"Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling".
Kandersfeld is a fictitious town that, in the original TV
episode, appeared to be located in the Tyrol region of Austria,
north of Innsbruck at the border of Germany.
After pulling a gun on Number 6 and
Potter, Marcus Gray says to them, "It seems you've met your
Waterloo."
This is a reference to the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, where
Napoleon met his defeat at the hand of the forces of the Seventh
Coalition. Variations of the phrase "met your Waterloo" have
been used in popular culture ever since to suggest an
individual's final ignominious defeat.
Potter is shot and seemingly killed by
a gunshot from Seltzman, but he mysteriously returns to health a
couple days later in
the following episode
"No One Will Know".
Seltzman uses his technology to
impress the memories of a bomber pilot in the war into Number 6,
memories of the bombing of Dresden to be precise.
Dresden is
a city in Germany that was bombed by U.S. and British forces
near the end of WWII, destroying the city center and killing
thousands of civilians.
Instead of only being able to transfer a consciousness from one
human body to another as in
the original TV series episode
"Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling",
here Seltzman is able to store it in a cube for an indeterminate
time, transferring to a body and back again as needed.
Number 6 sees what must be thousands
of consciousness storage cubes in the possession of Seltzman and
the Powers-That-Be.
At the end of the episode, Number 6 finds his consciousness has
been transferred into the body of
Kate Butterworth/Number 2 and he makes what he believes is an
escape from the Village. Meanwhile, it seems that someone else's
consciousness is inhabiting Number 6's body, possibly Number 2
or Number 1.
Memorable Dialog
don't say it.mp3
I know more than I'm telling.mp3
the truth is in the Village.mp3
you cannot shoot the truth out of anyone.mp3
it isn't my Village.mp3
the Village is the answer to everything.mp3
Janet is something of a romantic.mp3
that's rich coming from you.mp3
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