THE RED DWARF UNIVERSE

SERIES ONE EPISODE FIVE

CONFIDENCE AND PARANOIA

Written by ROB GRANT & DOUG NAYLOR

Directed by ED BYE

Guest Cast: LEE CORNES as Paranoia, CRAIG FERGUSON as Confidence

BROADCAST DATE: 14th MARCH 1988

PLOT:

LISTER IS FEELING DEPRESSED. HE IS BECOMING A SAD MIDDLE AGED WOMAN. HE IS DRIBBLING MILE SHAKE WITH SHOCK WHILST WATCHING A JAMES STEWART LOVE STORY.

RIMMER ON THE OTHER HAND COULD BE WORSE. WELL HE THINKS HE'S A LOVE SELLERBET AND HIM AND LISTER ARGUE IT OUT. LISTER METIONED HE WENT UP TO THE OFFICERS DECK. RIMMER MOANED AT HIM CLAIMING IT HADN'T BEEN DE-CONTAMINATED.

DURING THE NIGHT LISTER FEELS SICK HE WALKS TO THE MEDI-BAY AND FAINTS. THE MEDI-COMP SAYS HE HAS CONTRACTED A FORM OF EUMOANER BUT THREE MILLIONS YEARS OLD EUMOANER WHICH BRED AND MUTITATED.

LISTERS MIND CREATES TWO ESPECTS OF HIS PERSONALLITY HIS CONFIDENCE AND HIS PARANOIA AND THE ILLENESS MAKES THEM BECOME WALKING TALKIN MEN. ONE LOOKING THE LIKE BING-BAXTER THE AMERCIAN GAME SHOW HOST WHICH IS HIS CONFIDENCE AND PARANOIA IS A REAL UGLY LOOKING CHARACTER.

LISTERS CONFIDENCE HERE'S ONE OF HIS LOVE SONGS AND DECIDES TO HELP LISTER GET KOCHANSKI BACK BY FINDING KOCHANSKIS HOLOGRAPHIC PERSONALLITY DISK.

LISTERS ASPECTS ENVTUALLY ARE GONE AND LISTER IS READY TO MEET KOCHANSKI AND ASK HER OUT AND ALSO TO OUT RANK RIMMER.

RIMMERS SAYS IT WILL BRING HIM MISSARY IT CERTAINLY DOES AS HE LOADS IT UP IN THE DRIVE ROOM AND FINDS A HOLOGRAM WHICH IS JUST AN EXACT COPY OF RIMMER. RIMMER IS SWITCHED OVER HIS DISK TO KOCHANSKIS BOX.

AND NOW LISTER HAS IT IN STEREO BABY

PROBLEM WITH PICTURES. THEY WILL BE BACK SOON.