When Number 6 and
Monique go to see her father in order for Number 6 to try and make him see
reason, if he is still able to do so.
Number 51, the
watchmaker, asks Number 6 if his watch has stopped again, but its running fine.
Monique tries to talk her father out of the anarchist plot against Number 2. He
thinks she sees him as a madman. She begs her father to give it up for her
sake, using emotional blackmail. But he’s a stubborn, and determined old man,
who is sick of his daughter’s begging and whining, and there’ll be no more of
it, no more. What Number 50 is doing is for principle, he sees that they are in
the prison of The Village for life, all of them, but he has met no-one in The
Village who has committed a crime. He is going to protest in a manner they
cannot ignore. Number 6 suggests some other way, not by an act of murder. But
Number 50 sees it differently, assassination! Number 50 can call it what he likes,
the important matter is that the entire Village will be punished. But maybe it’s
what they need to wake them up, to shake them up out of their lethargy, to make
them angry enough to fight. Always assuming they survive the punishment. Number
50 tells Number 6 and his daughter that they’ll never understand. But Monique
tells her father that it is he who doesn’t understand. But the watchmaker must
get back to his work, he must be ready……”Must get on with my work.” That line
is one of my favourite lines from the whole series, I always think of it to
myself when I’m at my busiest…………must get on with my work!
Be seeing you
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