Carlton Rood was a highly successful defense attorney in New York City
whose clientele consisted mostly of the criminal element. It was rare for any
of his clients to ever get convicted, but this wasn't entirely due to his
ability to convince the jury to accept his interpretation of the facts in the
case.
Sometimes key witnesses met with untimely ends, but Carlton Rood could
never be implicated as having been involved.
Simon Templar set up a con to get a conviction against one of Rood's
clients, which led to the death of Carlton Rood - thus removing him from the
scene as a shady lawyer. (I'm still not sure if this was the intended result of
Templar's scheme.)
Carlton Rood had a brother who was also in the legal system. Once a lawyer
himself, the older Rood got elected to the bench and served as a judge in New
York City. Judge Rood was just as corrupt as his brother Carlton, and he often
used his position to his own advantage. He not only ruled on cases from which
he could profit, but he also used great influence to persuade politicians and
elected officials to change laws so that he could profit.
After the death of his brother, Judge Rood found his stellar career begin
to dim. A whisper campaign was mounted against him with claims that he was just
as crooked as his brother. Former friends in positions of power stopped
returning his calls. It looked as though he was finally going to lose a
re-election.
Judge Rood was approached by a secret organization with an offer to join
them. Accepting the dire circumstances of his future as it currently stood, the
Judge accepted their offer. The judge was brought into the organization and
they made it look like he completely vanished from the world, like Judge Crater
before him.
For a few years, Judge Rood served as a bureaucratic functionary in the
organization. But then in the late 1960's, he was given charge of a new project
- he would be in charge of a village full of kidnapped operatives and any others
with government secrets that needed to be extracted.
And these "Villagers" were from governments all over the world, for this
Village was a microcosm of the world. (Like so many before him, the Judge never
knew for what side the organization worked. And it probably didn't
matter.
The Judge was installed as the new "Number Two" of the Village and given
one specific task before all others - more than on any other prisoner, Number
Two was to focus on Number Six and force him to reveal why he resigned. It was
believed that if they could break the resolve of Number Six and make him answer
that, then they could get all his secrets.
The Judge used a deadly mind control experiment with a live action role
playing game of "Cowboy". But the role-playing was just as intense for the
other participants working for the Judge - although Number Six never broke, the
others did. One of his assistants went mad and then choked the girl working
with him to death before plunging to his own demise.
It was not long afterwards that the Judge was removed from his office in
the Green Dome building and never seen again in the world.
Unless of course he changed his name and resurfaced somewhere else, leading
a new life....
SHOWS CITED:
- 'The Saint' - "Element Of Doubt"
- 'The Prisoner' - "Living In Harmony"
David Bauer played both roles.......
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