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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brudewollen" data-source="post: 23709" data-attributes="member: 2274">This opening reminds me of one episode of the classic show "The Prisoner," the episode is called, "Many Happy Returns."  It would be hard to describe the show in total, but basically the title character is a former James Bond-like secret agent who, upon his retirement, was kidnapped to a "prison" which is set up like a small village community.  In the Village he is only known as #6 (everyone has a #, the higher the #, the higher in society you are...more or less...there are about 300 people there).  The various #2's, the leader of the village, who is a different person in every episode, always have new plans to "break" him.  They want to find out why he retired because they think he has some sort of important secret.  The Prisoner's goal is to escape The Village and he also wants to find out who #1 is.Anyway, one episode starts with #6 waking up to find The Village entirely deserted.  He uses this as his chance to escape and succeeds.  He goes back to his former home and meets the woman who now rents it.  She's very helpful to him and, as a side note, he notices that his birthday is the next day...she offers to bake him a cake.  He meets up with his former bosses who help him try to locate the Village based on his journal from when he escaped.  The next day, as he's flying over in a fighter jet on a recon mission he spots the Village.  The pilot says something that will clue in viewers that he's working for The Village, he then pulls #6's eject switch, sending #6 back home.  When he lands the woman who was renting his apartment walks up to him with a birthday cake and wishes him "Many Happy Returns" - she was the #2 for this episode and we realize that the whole thing was done either as a bit of a present to him, or merely to just try and further break him mentally...proving he can never really escape.I don't know if this gives you an idea or not for what to do, but it made for a great episode of that show...#6's escape was quite clever, as is usual for him.There is also a movie called "Quiet Earth," where the progagonist wakes up after some sort of energy experiment goes awry and only he and a handlful of others remain in existance.  A really terrific movie that got favorable comparisons to "2001" by critics when it was released.</blockquote>

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