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The Inquisitor (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "The Inquisitor" | |
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| Episode № | 2 |
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| Airdate | February 27, 1992 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Guest star(s) | John Docherty James Cormack Jake Abraham |
| Series V February 20 – March 26, 1992 |
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"The Inquisitor" is the second episode of Red Dwarf V and the twenty sixth in the series run. It premiered on 27 Feb 1992 in the 9:00pm BBC2 time slot,[1] Written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor, and directed by Juliet May & Grant Naylor.
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Starbug is captured by a being called The Inquisitor and returned to Red Dwarf. The Inquisitor is a self-repairing simulant who survived until the end of time and, coming to the conclusion that there is no God and no afterlife, decided that the only point of life was to live a worthwhile life. He is on a journey through time, seeking out the worthless and erasing them from existence, allowing a different person to exist in their place — the person who would have been conceived had a different sperm reached the ovum first. Kryten and Lister are judged unworthy (seemingly because they question the Inquisitor and refuse to justify their existence) and are sentenced to time erasure, but with some time-jumping manoeuvres, they trick the Inquisitor into erasing himself from time instead. Lister, whose intellect Rimmer routinely disparages, proves his native intelligence by devising the ruse.
"The Inquisitor", which was the second episode to be filmed,[2] was considered by Grant and Naylor to lead the series, but as it was heavily science fiction influenced the casual viewer friendly Holoship was chosen to go out first instead.[3]
John Docherty played The Inquisitor, James Cormack played Thomas Allman and Jake Abraham played the alternate Lister.
At the start of the episode, Kryten observes that Lister is reading a comic-book version of Virgil’s Aeneid. “The epic tale of Agamemnon’s pursuit of Helen of Troy. Kryten and Lister chained together and on the run references The Defiant Ones.
The ending of the episode had been known to confuse many people and the time travel aspect had added to the confusion.[3]
- The Inquisitor at the Internet Movie Database
- Red Dwarf: The Inquisitor - TV.com
- Episode Guide - Series 5
- ^ BBC - Programme Catalogue - RED DWARF V - THE INQUISITOR. BBC. Retrieved on 2007-12-12.
- ^ Series V Preview, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 1, March 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, issn 0965-5603
- ^ a b Grant and Naylor Look Back, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 11, January 1993, Fleetway Editions Ltd, issn 0965-5603