Back in the Red
| "Back in the Red" | |
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
Kryten demonstrates one of the emotions he has learned, 'happiness'
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Series 8 Episode 1, 2, 3 |
| Directed by | Ed Bye |
| Written by | Doug Naylor |
| Original air date | 18 February − 4 March 1999 |
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Back in the Red is a three-part episode of science fiction sit-com Red Dwarf Series VIII. Part I was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 18 February 1999 while Parts II and III were broadcast on 25 February and 4 March respectively.
The plot involves the re-introduction of Red Dwarf as nanobots have rebuilt the ship and the original crew are resurrected. The three parts were written by Doug Naylor and directed by Ed Bye.
In a cell, Lister and Rimmer have a discussion regarding Lister's recent actions in pouring a tube of something over him while Lister reads a magazine article about an elderly father. We are then shown the circumstances that led to their incarceration...
Three days earlier, Kryten's nanobots had rebuilt Red Dwarf, but done so far too large. Lister enters the cockpit showing off his now non-muscular body and it emerges that the enlargement is a temporary symptom of the nanobots' restoration process as it soon turns out that Red Dwarf is shrinking around Starbug. Suddenly the ship is sucked into an air vent, and it becomes a race against time to make it to an area large enough to house the ship before it is crushed. As the Cat worries about the situation, Kochanski suggests a detour down an alternative vent. Starbug however ends up stuck up the anus of a rat briefly before it finally escapes the air shafts. With Red Dwarf almost completely shrunk, the corridors rip off Starbug's rear and middle section before the cockpit is sent flying into a cargo bay where it crash lands. With the cockpit crumbling around them, the crew manage to escape mere seconds before it explodes.
Just then, the crew are approached by two figures recognised by Lister... Selby and Chen, his old drinking partners. Everyone realises that the nanobots haven't only restored Red Dwarf but also its crew. Captain Hollister then arrives with a security officer who places Lister under arrest for stealing and crashing a Starbug, flying without a pilot's licence and bringing two stowaways (Cat and Kryten) aboard. Everyone is placed in custody and Lister is confined to quarters. He then asks Holly (who is still loaded into Lister's watch and therefore hidden from Red Dwarf's crew) what will happen if they're found guilty. Holly explains that they'll get two years in the brig. Lister is confused as Red Dwarf doesn't have a brig, but Holly explains that there is a top-secret prison facility contained aboard the ship holding hundreds of inmates who were being transported to a containment facility. Unfortunately they have all been resurrected too, and they're not a nice bunch of guys.
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