![]() The sentence is “death”: the outside world will be given evidence that he died in an accident at sea. No.2 discovers him and escorts him back to the Carnival where she puts him on trial to answer to his nonconformity. While sneaking around the Town Hall, No.6 discovers that Dutton has been sentenced to death. She is dressed as Peter Pan, his maid (Denise Buckley) as Queen Elizabeth, the doctor as Napoleon, his observer as Little Bo Peep, and the town crier (Aubrey Morris of A Clockwork Orange) as a Roman emperor. Just as he shoves the body off, he discovers his old friend Roland Walter Dutton (Alan White), who has been held prisoner in the Village for much longer than No.6, and has been given 72 hours’ freedom for a chance to reconsider a chance for peaceful conformity in the Village before he “ceases to exist.” No.6 attends the Carnival dressed in the costume given him by No.2 – his own suit. Later he sends the body off in a life preserver, bundling with it information about the Village – including his own hand-drawn map and his ID card – hoping that it will lead to rescue. No.6 steals the radio and listens to transmissions in different languages, but his observer and No.2 catch him with it. ![]() One day he discovers a dead body washed up on the beach with a small radio in his pocket. No.6 also forms a bond with a stray black cat. 240 (Norma West), who has actually been assigned as his “observer” and feels her cover is blown. He ignores her suggestions and settles on a young woman, No. ![]() She makes preparations for a costume-themed Carnival at the Town Hall and encourages No.6 to pick a date. But the new No.2 (Mary Morris) wants to take a more subtle approach. The nights of No.6 are spent undergoing extreme experiments on his mind by a doctor in the Hospital, No.40 (Duncan Macrae), with the goal of extracting the reason for his resignation. ![]() DANCE OF THE DEAD First UK Broadcast: Novem | Written by Anthony Skene | Directed by Don Chaffey ![]()
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