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The Prisoner
"Darling"
TV Episode
Written by Bill Gallagher
Directed by Nick Hurran
Original U.S. air date: November 15, 2009 |
6 is made to participate in the Village's computerized
matchmaking service to find a mate.
Read the
summary of this episode at IMDB
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
6
Lucy/415
313
11-12
2
132
(mentioned only)
2831
(mentioned only)
897 (mentioned only)
43-26
(mentioned only)
968
(mentioned only)
29-44
147
21-16 (147's wife)
832
Didja Know?
This episode gets its title from the episode of the original
series, "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My
Darling".
Didja Notice?
The computer at the Modern Love Bureau at 2:56 on the DVD is
from Village Electronics.
The following individuals are found to be no match for 6 by the
Modern Love Bureau computer's blink match technology: 132, 2831,
897, 423-26, 968.
6 tells 415 he'd like to get to know her "tonight", just as his
alter-ego Michael said to her (Lucy) in
"Arrival".
The holes that form in the ground when M2 is awake in the
Village are referred to as "ambiance anomalies".
The powers-that-be tell the Village residents that each home
will be given a pig, as scientific studies have proven that swine breath
helps to fight
ambiance anomalies. Posters about it even go up around town!
Possibly, the pigs are an oblique reference to George Orwell's
1945 artistic-political novel Animal Farm, in which barnyard
animals overthrow the human owner of the farm, led by the pigs.

At 31:56 on the DVD, the hole in 147's back yard is now filled
in. How did it get that way? A deleted scene featured in the
bonus material of the DVD shows a team of Village workers
putting a tent over it; they must have filled it in or
"repaired" it somehow. But, if this is the case, why is there
another, unfilled hole near the end of the episode which 147
threatens to jump into in his despair over the loss of his
daughter and accusations of his wife? M2 has been depicted as
having awoken again, so why would any holes be left unfixed?
At 45:14 on the DVD, a restaurant behind Michael in New York is
called Orange Marmalade, with the slogan "Everyday opulence".
This is actually a restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa, where
the exterior New York scenes of the series were shot.
An advertising sign on top of a New York taxi at 45:15 shows an
address on Avenue of the Americas.
Avenue of the Americas is Sixth Avenue in the New York City
borough of Manhattan.