The Prisoner: British television series
The Prisoner is a 1967 UK science fiction-allegorical television series about a man who is kidnapped from his London home and awakens in a secret location known to its inhabitants as The Village, where he is known only as Number Six, where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
How ALL the episodes started:
Number 6:
Where am I?
Number 2:
In the Village.
Number 6:
What do you want?
Number 2:
Information.
Number 6:
Whose side are you on?
Number 2:
That would be telling. We want information... information... information.
Number 6:
You won't get it.
Number 2:
By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6:
Who are you?
Number 2:
The new Number 2.
Number 6:
Who is Number 1?
Number 2:
You are Number 6.
Number 6:
I am not a number, I am a free man.