The number "17" in The Prisoner refers to the 17th and final episode of the series, titled "Fall Out", which aired on 1 February 1968. It is the concluding episode of the 17-episode series and features the resolution of the central mystery of who "Number One" is.
Patrick McGoohan's number 6 represents humanity.
The first generation in a millennia to have complete access to the tree of good and evil.
The vid was posted here a while back but didn't get much traction. You can clearly see a figure in orange ascending the stairs.
Hence the "Russian" narrative around him now. Deflecting.
When all the coincidences point to the same thing…