“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner being captured by the terrifying bubble that enforces his imprisonment. Why is he imprisoned? What information does he carry that makes him dangerous? Who is number 1? There are many more questions than answers, but his conviction gives up hope for his escape: He is not a number! He is a free man!