History Recap / ThePrisonerE11ItsYourFuneral

* ContinuityNod: The retiring Number Two asks what use it could possibly serve to make Number Six doubt his own memories. Ironically, "make Number Six doubt his memories and identity" was the entire plot of "The Schizoid Man".

* ContinuityNod:
** The doctored footage of Number Six includes cameos by the Number Twos from previous episodes "Dance of the Dead" and "The Chimes of Big Ben".
** The retiring Number Two asks what use it could possibly serve to make Number Six doubt his own memories. Ironically, "make Number Six doubt his memories and identity" was the entire plot of "The Schizoid Man".

* AIIsACrapshoot: Much of the younger Number Two's plot involves precise calculations of Number Six's behaviour, which the Village tracks using intelligent computers. When the computer predicts Six will purchase sweets, Two refuses to believe it because Six never eats sweets... only for Six to buy a bag of sweets for an upset elderly woman who'd run out of her own credits to buy a bag, proving the machines calculated ''every'' possibility.
** When Number Two asks if the machines' performances could be verified, he's told the computers refused to give their own estimates. "They'll be wanting their own unions next," he jokes.
* BluffTheEavesdropper: Some of the prisoners ("jammers") mess with their captors by making up and spreading false stories about plots and conspiracies so that the people in charge will have to put some effort into figuring out whether any of their surveillance reports indicate a real threat.

** The plot has to use Number Six -- a known figure who isn't a Jammer and still viewed as trustworthy even by the wardens -- to confirm the Jammer's threat is real, and yet in such a way that the retiring Number Two won't believe it so he'd still go through with the ceremony.

* CryingWolf: Deliberately invoked by the plotters. When Number Six tries to warn about the assassination plot (believing that the incoming Number Two is the target) the plotters film his warning. Then they doctor the video, [[ManipulativeEditing creating footage]] of Number Six warning ''every'' prior Number Two of assassinations that never came to pass. They show this to the retiring Number Two--the actual target of the assassination--to make him dismiss the warnings as meaningless scaremongering.
* DamselInDistress: How the young Number Two tries to involve Number Six in his plot, by sending a worried young woman -- a "Jammer" -- to warn him about her father's plan to kill someone. Subverted in that Number Six knows full well the Village is listening in on everything and that they should already know about it, and so refuses to help.

* DoNotGoGentle: The retiring Number Two, upon realizing that the plot to kill him is real, [[DespairEventHorizon initially gives up]] because he knows that his enemies will get to him sooner or later. Number Six ([[spoiler:after securing an escape for Number Two]]) talks him out of his despair--if Number Two is going to die no matter what, he should at least make it as hard as possible for his killers.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: The implication behind killing the older Number Two: he's been with the Village so long he knows far too many secrets about the organization.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: After receiving the warning from Number Six about a plot to kill him, the older Number Two asks an aide to replay the video clips of Six's other similar warnings to the other Twos. When the aide - who's in on the younger Two's plot - nervously slips up to reveal those tapes really didn't exist, the older Two confronts him by wondering how that aide even knew which ones the older Two was even talking about. The aide's fearful silence [[OhCrap confirms for Two]] that ''there is a plot against him'' but it's his own Village masters (he thinks) behind it.
* MindScrewdriver: An attempted one -- this episode attempts to explain the regular changes in Number Twos by suggesting that they're all temporary replacements for a permanent one, and generally depicts the workings of the Village as much more of a "naturalistic" bureaucracy and prison camp than other episodes. However, the later episodes go right back into enigmatic allegory.
* TheReveal: This episode implies there are multiple Number Twos running the Village at the same time, each of them overseeing a particular operation or handling affairs while a supervising Two is away on other business.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Much of the younger Number Two's plot involves precise calculations of Number Six's behavior, which the Village tracks using intelligent computers. When the computer predicts Six will purchase sweets, Two refuses to believe it because Six never eats sweets... only for Six to buy a bag of sweets for an upset elderly woman who'd run out of her own credits to buy a bag, proving the machines calculated ''every'' possibility.

** Displayed in a minor fashion when he helps out an old lady desiring for a bag of sweets.

** The plotters have to wreck Number Six's watch to force him to go to the watchmaker directly, and see for himself the bomb pieces to make him understand how serious the threat is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What Number Six fears will happen if the watchmaker succeeds in killing Number Two: That the Village would punish every prisoner--even the innocent--in a way to discourage any future assassination attempt.

* WhoShotJFK: This episode includes a lot of references - hidden and overt - to the Kennedy assassination in 1963, including a grassy knoll.[[note]]The release of the Warren Report in 1964 did not convince a number of people, and conspiracy theories about shadowy government types being behind it were well in vogue by 1966-67 when this series was filmed.[[/note]]

* CryingWolf: Deliberately invoked by the plotters. When Number Six tries to warn about the assassination plot (believing that the incoming Number Two is the target) the plotters film his warning. Then they doctor the video, creating footage of Number Six warning ''every'' prior Number Two of assassinations that never came to pass. They show this to the retiring Number Two--the actual target of the assassination--to make him dismiss the warnings as meaningless scaremongering.

* DamselInDistress: How the young Number Two tries to involve Number Six in his plot, by sending a worried young woman -- a "Jammer" -- to warn him about her father's plan to kill someone. Subverted in that Number Six [[GenreSavvy knows full well the Village is listening in on everything]] and that they should already know about it, and so refuses to help.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: After receiving the warning from Number Six about a plot to kill him, the older Number Two asks an aide to replay the video clips of Six's other similar warnings to the other Twos. When the aide - who's in on the younger Two's plot - nervously slips up to reveal those tapes really didn't exist, the older Two confronts him by wondering how that aide even knew which ones the older Two was evening talking about. The aide's fearful silence [[OhCrap confirms for Two]] that ''there is a plot against him'' but it's his own Village masters (he thinks) behind it.

* WhoShotJFK: This episode includes a lot of references - hidden and overt - to the Kennedy assassination in 1963, including a grassy knoll.[[note]]The release of the Warren Report in 1964 did not convince a number of people, and conspiracy theories about shadowy government types being behind it were well in vogue by 1966-67 when this series was filmed.[[/note]]
* YouKnowTooMuch: The implication behind killing the older Number Two: he's been with the Village so long he knows far too many secrets about the organization.

* CryingWolf: Deliberately invoked by the plotters. When Number Six tries to warn about the assassination plot (believing that the incoming Number Two is the target) the plotters films his warning. Then they doctor the video, creating footage of Number Six warning ''every'' prior Number Two of assassinations that never came to pass. They show this to the retiring Number Two--the actual target of the assassination--to make him dismiss the warnings as meaningless scaremongering.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The incoming Number Two's complex plot to kill the retiring Number Two. [[spoiler:The plot requires the older Two to be wearing the Seal containing the bomb, but Number Six stops the triggerman long enough that the Seal ''has'' to be placed on the younger Two as part of the ceremony, turning himself into a hostage for Number Six who then gives the trigger to the older Two who can then escape with it.]]

** So they set up a frustrated "Jammer" - a known trouble-maker among the population - to commit an act of violent protest that "would send a message" that the Village wardens can't ignore: killing the outgoing Number Two during a public ceremony.
** The plot has to use Number Six - a known figure who isn't a Jammer and still viewed as trustworthy even by the wardens - to confirm the Jammer's threat is real, and yet in such a way that the retiring Number Two won't believe it so he'd still go through with the ceremony.
** The plot also has to have the younger Two put himself in harm's way - in proximity of the rigged Seal - so to avoid suspicion.
* DamselInDistress: How the young Number Two tries to involve Number Six in his plot, by sending a worried young woman - a "Jammer" - to warn him about her father's plan to kill someone. Subverted in that Number Six [[GenreSavvy knows full well the Village is listening in on everything]] and that they should already know about it, and so refuses to help.

* DisproportionateRetribution: What Number Six fears will happen if the watchmaker succeeds in killing Number Two: That the Village would punish every prisoner - even the innocent - in a way to discourage any future assassination attempt.

* MindScrewdriver: An attempted one - this episode attempts to explain the regular changes in Number Twos by suggesting that they're all temporary replacements for a permanent one, and generally depicts the workings of the Village as much more of a "naturalistic" bureaucracy and prison camp than other episodes. However, the later episodes go right back into enigmatic allegory.

* WhoKilledJFK: This episode includes a lot of references - hidden and overt - to the Kennedy assassination in 1963, including a grassy knoll.[[note]]The release of the Warren Report in 1964 did not convince a number of people, and conspiracy theories about shadowy government types being behind it were well in vogue by 1966-67 when this series was filmed.[[/note]]

** The plotters have to wreck Number Six's watch to force him to go to the watch-maker directly, and see for himself the bomb pieces to make him understand how serious the threat is.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The incoming Number Two's complex plot to kill the retiring Number Two. [[spoiler:The plot requires the older Two to be wearing the Seal containing the bomb, but Number Six stops the triggerman long enough that the Seal ''has'' to be placed on the younger Two as part of the ceremony.

** There are factions among the Village's prisoners who are trying to rebel, but they're divided between the harmless "jammers" and the more serious forces wanting to strike a serious blow against their wardens.

Number Six suspects that the transfer of power to a new Number Two is the subject of a terrorist conspiracy, and is faced with the choice of whether to accept a fellow rebel's tactics.