In the end, Picard doesn't break, and when he is set free after Starfleet demands his release, he loudly proclaims that "THERE! ARE! FOUR LIGHTS!" He later tells his counselor that, in fact, his release happened just in the nick of time, because at that moment he was so broken that not only was he ready to say that there were five lights just to make the pain stop, he could actually see five lights. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. When the torturer is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him (in a pretty direct reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four) that there are five lights on a wall when there are only four. Star Trek: The Next Generation: In " Chain of Command, Part II", Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. The Stargate SG-1 episode " Abyss" is about Jack being tortured for information by Ba'al - mostly information he doesn't actually know.The writers of Prison Break wanted to add one of these in the second season, but the Moral Guardians didn't approve.At the end of the episode, they start on session number 6742. In " 6,741", all the events that happened to Sameen Shaw are shown to be a virtual interrogation to make her reveal the rest of Team Machine or turn her against them.In " Alethia", Control tortures Root to gain administrative access to the Machine. Narcos: The season 4 episode "881 Lope de Vega" has Kiki being tortured by The Cartel throughout, and ends with his death.In the Firefly episode " War Stories", Wash and Mal are captured by Niska and have to endure his worst while waiting for the rest of the crew to bail them out.Farscape: This happens to Crichton at least once per season, starting with that Aurora Chair.He emerges from the experience for the Season Finale " Hell Bent" a. Doctor Who: " Heaven Sent" sees the Doctor subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture by unseen tormentors who have trapped him alone in a castle in the middle of nowhere and observe from afar as he tries to figure out the workings of the place and escape a creature with a Touch of Death, all to get information about the Hybrid prophecy from him.Sheridan fails to crack and prepares himself for death, only for the execution to be a fake, and a new cycle of torture begins under a different interrogator. To further portray his isolation, the episode had no B plot, being set entirely within the center.
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