RD: Stasis Leak

From Tongue Tied

Contents 1 Overview 2 Summary 3 Notes 4 Noteworthy Dialogue 5 Background Information 6 References

[edit] Overview

Lister finds a time warp to the past and attempts to save Kochanski, while Rimmer tries in vain to save himself.

[edit] Summary

While going through Kochanski's personal things, Lister finds a photograph of the two of them getting married. Remembering something from the past, he reads Rimmer's diary and finds an entry where Rimmer thought he saw his own head pop up through the table and say that he came from the future to save his (Rimmer's) life which Rimmer himself (in the diary entry) took to be an hallucination. Following directions from the diary, the gang head down to floor 16 and find a hidden stasis leak which transports them back to the past, a little while before the crew all died. Because they can't bring anybody back to their time, Lister and Rimmer fight over who they should convince to go into the other stasis booth (Lister himself being sent into the other). Lister wants to save Kochanski and Rimmer obviously wants himself. While Rimmer goes back to convince himself, Lister and Cat find Kochanski at a hotel, but she is already married. Kochanski invites them in and Lister discovers... Himself! A future version from 5 years in the future who has found another way to go back in time. Rimmer attempts to convince himself to go into stasis, but his former self repeats acts the same as he did and believes it to be nothing more than a hallucination, ending up attacking Captain Hollister. The present Lister and Cat return tho their past quarters to collect the present Rimmer and meet up with their future selves. Overwhelmed by the arrival of these duplicates, the past Rimmer snaps and yells for them to go away.

[edit] Notes

• Despite setting up a follow-on storyline for a future series, the idea of Lister in five years marrying Kochanski was not mentioned again. Coincidentally, Lister and the Red Dwarf crew would have access to time-travel technology just prior to the five-year limit after finding the Time Drive in Series Six' Out of Time, making it possible for him to have gone back and married Kochanski.
• In the original version of this episode, during Holly's opening spiel he says "we saw a moon shaped exactly like Felicity Kendall's bottom". In the Remastered version it is changed to "Marilyn Monroe's bottom".

[edit] Noteworthy Dialogue

• Xpress Lift lady: Welcome to Xpress Lifts, descent to floor sixteen. You will be going down two thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven floors and, for a small extra charge, you can enjoy the in-lift movie "Gone With the Wind." If you look to your right and to your left, you will notice there are no exits. In the highly unlikely event of the lift having to make a crash-landing, death is certain. Under your seats you will find a cassette for recording your last-minute testament, and from above your head a bag will drop containing sedatives and cyanide capsules.

• Holly: I'm the closest thing to infullable you can get.
  Lister: Infallible.
  Holly: (nodding) Exactly.

• Lister: Why do women always leave me for total smegheads? Why do they dump me for men who wear turtleneck sweaters and smoke a pipe? I mean, natural yoghurt eaters! Reliable, sensible, dependable, and lots of other words that end in "ible". He's obsessed with house-prices, and spends half his life in antique fairs looking for bargains and drinking wine. It's never beer is it, its always wine! "What do you want on your cornflakes, darling?" "Oh, I'll have some wine, please!" Smeg!
  Cat: You can tell all that just from a photograph?
• Holly: I was in love once. A Sinclair ZX81. They said no Holly she's not for you. She's cheap, she's stupid and she wouldn't load. Well not for me anyway. I'm saying, Dave, is that it's better to have loved and to have lost, than to have listened to an album by Olivia Newton-John.
  Cat: Why's that?
  Holly: Anything's better than listening to an album by Olivia Newton-John    .

[edit] Background Information

• The scenes in the Ganymede Holiday Inn were filmed at the real-life Midland Holiday Inn, with actual hotel guests shown in the foyer, and the confrontation scene being filmed in the real Room 008.
• Before the final scene was filmed, Clare Grogan was accidentally told she had finished her scenes and left the studio, so the Kochanski who walks in with the future Lister is actually Dona DiStefano, an Assistant Floor Manager and Clare's lines were excised from the final shooting.

[edit] References

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