The village does a lot of subtle stuff AND unsubtle stuff. If this was one of those scenes where some guy get threatened or brainwashed then yeah I wouldn't have posted that.
He's a spy who quit being a spy, and the government he works for wants to know WHY he quit. So he's trapped on this seaside resort prison colony thing until he either succombs to their mind tricks or explains why he quit.
Patrick Macgoohan is my future mother in law's cousin. That makes him my future second uncle in law. Any closer to the flame of awesome and one might be burned.