: The "General" is not a person but a room-sized supercomputer designed to be an infallible authority.
: Number Six destroys the General by feeding it a single, unanswerable question: "WHY?" . The Prisoner 1967 - Episode 06 - The General 50:17
The episode marks a pivotal shift in the series where Number Six moves from simply trying to escape to actively attempting to dismantle the Village's political infrastructure from within. : The "General" is not a person but