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Eleventh broadcast episode of The Prisoner, where Number Six foils ... ahh, that would be telling!

"It's Your Funeral" is a television episode of the British science fiction-allegorical series, The Prisoner. It was first broadcast on 8 December 1967. In this episode, a young successor to Number 2 plots to assassinate the retiring Number 2 and ensure his own success.

Memorable Scenes

Number 6 and watchmaker's daughter try to dissuade her father
The Watchmaker (addressing daughter): You refuse to understand. What I'm doing is for a principle. We are in this prison for life, all of us, but I have met no one here who has committed a crime. I protest in a manner they cannot ignore.
Number 6: Some other way, then—not by an act of murder.

The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "It's Your Funeral" as of 9 Jul 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.