The Prisoner (TV Mini Series)

Episode 6: Checkmate (2009)

Lennie James: 147

Quotes 

• 2 : To lose a child, there is nothing else like that.

  147 : Sir, if I'm allowed to say, I'm sorry about 11-12.

  2 : Yes, you are allowed, because you know it feels. Can I ask you... is what you feel, you... want it to stop, you want it all to stop? The madness of this world to stop.

  147 : Most days... I don't know why I live. I don't know why I breathe. I go on, I drive, I wait, and I... I wait for this black pit feeling in my guts to go away, but it don't. No, it... it grows, sir. That's what.

  2 : What if... what we feel... what's happened to us, is for a purpose? My son's death... I can only bear it if it gives me clarity. I had a dream last night.

  147 : A dream?

  2 : I dreamed clarity. All of it. Suppose your child's death gives you a place in Village history, gave you, 147, the moral courage to act when the moment comes. To think what is unthinkable, to do what cannot be done. You like 6, don't you? Trust him? Yes, he's someone who can give us better Village, moral Village... freedom within the prison. And when the moment comes, you still stand beside 6. And you will call out that 6 is the one.

  147 : The one?

  2 : The one.