The Prisoner

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as the Village.

A new Number Eight named Nadia arrives in the Village, and together she and Number Six plot their escape.

Number Two believes that Number Six resigned because he was going to sell out. Using dream manipulation, Number Two tries to determine which one of three possible candidates Number Six was dealing with.

Number Six runs for the office of Number Two.

Number Six wakes up with a new identity: now he’s Number Twelve. Worse, Number Two asks him to impersonate someone—Number Six. But the new Number Six is more like him than he is.

An instant learning process becomes the Village’s latest fad. but Number Six is sure that Number Two is using it as a brainwashing tool.

Number Six wakes up to find the Village totally deserted.

Number Six comes across a body that has washed ashore with a radio. After sending the body back out to sea, he tries to use the radio to get rescued.

Inspired by a large chess board with people taking the place of the game pieces, Number Six formulates a new escape plan with some compatriots.

Number Six vows revenge and goes after a sadistic Number Two after he drives a fellow Village resident to her death.

Number Six hears of an assassination plot against Number Two, but it’s the new Number Two doing all the plotting against the retiring Number Two.

After a brawl, Number Six is declared “unmutual” and is made to think that he has undergone “instant social treatment.”

With his mind transferred to another body, Number Six wakes up in his London flat and can’t convince his colleagues who he is. He takes off to Austria to find the one man who can help him, the person whom Number Two wants him to find.

Number Six finds himself in the middle of a Wild West version of his imprisonment.

Back in London, Number Six is trying to track down a crazed scientist who is protected by his homicidal daughter.

Because all other attempts to break Number Six have failed, Number Two decides to engage him in a game where one of them will end up dead.

After witnessing the trials of Number Two and Number Forty-Eight and meeting the president of the assembly, Number Six escapes during the chaos that follows.