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The Prisoner

THE PRISONER: Episode 5

50m

“The Schizoid Man”
Directed by Pat Jackson • 1967 • United Kingdom
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Jane Merrow, Anton Rodgers

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.

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