- Number 6: You don't approve.
- Number Two: Of the Village?
- Number 6: Yeah.
- Number Two: To Hell with the Village. Cheers.
- Number 6: Cheers.
- Number 6: Elections? In this place?
- Number Two: Of course. We make our choice every 12 months. Every citizen has a choice. Are you going to run?
- Number 6: Like blazes, the first chance I get.
- Number Two: I meant run for office.
- Number 6: They say, "Six of one and half a dozen of the other." Not here. It's Six for Two and Two for nothing, and Six for free for all for free for all! Vote! Vote!
- Number Two: Good people, it is my pleasure to present to you the one and only Number Six!
- Crowd: Rah!
- Number 6: I am not a number. I am a person.
- Crowd: [laughs]
- Number 6: In some place, at some time, all of you held positions of a secret nature, and had knowledge that was invaluable to an enemy. Like me, you are here to have that knowledge protected or extracted.
- Number Two: That's the stuff to give them.
- Number 6: Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages.
- Number Two: Keep going. They love it.
- Number 6: The rest of you have gone over to the side of our keepers. Which is which? How many of each? Who's standing beside you now? I intend to discover who are the prisoners and who are the warders. I shall be running for office in this election.
- [Number 113 is interviewing Number 6 for the Tally Ho newspaper. Number 113b is taking pictures]
- Reporter: How are you going to handle your campaign?
- Number 6: No comment.
- Reporter: [writing] "Intends to fight for freedom at all...
- Photographer: Smile!
- Reporter: ...costs." How about your internal policy?
- Number 6: No comment.
- Reporter: "Will tighten up on Village security."
- Photographer: Smile!
- Reporter: How about your external policy?
- Number 6: No comment.
- Reporter: "Our exports will operate in every corner of the globe." How do you feel about life and death?
- Number 6: Mind your own business.
- Reporter: "No comment."
- Number Two: [on Number Six's phone and TV screen] Do you fancy a chat?
- Number 6: The mountain can come to Mahomet!
- [his front door opens to reveal Number Two]
- Number Two: Mahomet?
- Number 6: Everest, I presume.
- Number Two: I've never had a head for heights.
- Number Fifty Eight: [Number Six has been savagely beaten and dragged into Number Two's office to find that Number 58 is the new Number Two] Will you never learn? This is only the beginning. We have many ways and means, but we don't wish to damage you permanently.
- [Number Six stares at her]
- Number Fifty Eight: Are you ready to talk?
- [Number Six doesn't answer, but only stares at her]