- Inspired by a large chess game with people taking the place of the game pieces, Number Six formulates a new escape plan with some compatriots.
- After waking up from an artificial sleep, Number 6 discovers a game of "live chess" on the Village green in which the "chessmen" are Villagers and the players sit in elevated chairs and call out the moves with megaphones. Recruited by one player as the Queen's pawn, he only reluctantly obeys his "master's" orders. After the match, Number 6 enacts a new escape plan that requires the complicity of a specific type of individual. He chooses one of the rooks from the chess game, a man known for his rebellious nature.—Guy Bellinger
- Number Six thinks he has a means to tell the prisoners from the warders, and assembles a group for an escape attempt.
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