History Recap / RedDwarfSeasonXTheBeginning

-->Rimmer: But he was a babbling imbecile!
-->Lister: A billion-piece jigsaw suddenly falls into beautiful place.

** We're never told the detalils of how and why (or, given his erratic nature, ''if'') the Dwarfers killed Hoguey's brother.

* TheReveal: Arnold Rimmer is actually the illegitimate son of his mother and the family's gardener, making him no relation to his psychotic, abusive father. This actually is hugely uplifting for Rimmer, because the nagging that he was never good enough that plagued him his whole life is finally gone.

* TheReveal: Arnold Rimmer is actually the illegitimate son of his mother and the family's gardener, making him no relation to his psychotic, abusive father. This actually is hugely uplifting for Rimmer.

* SelfPunishmentOverFailure: Subverted. For letting the Dwarfers get away one simulant has his captain shove a sword down the table toward him and assumes this is his punishment. After he's started disemboweling himself the captain tells him that as punishment for his failure he will have to polish the sword and write a letter of apology. Not stab himself to death.

Although the Dwarfers are concerned about the impact that this will have on Rimmer, he turns out to be happy with this development - his true father would have been proud with him for achieving the job of Second Technician after all. This inspires him to come up with a battle plan, which he is determined to see to the end despite the other's protests. This involves going out in front of the Simulant's ships, allowing them to fire, and using Hoguey's destabliser to allow the missiles to pass harmlessly through Blue Midget and into the ship. This plan is a success and the Dwarfers are saved, with the episode ending with Rimmer happily saying that "The slime's coming home" as they return to Red Dwarf.

Fast forward to three million years into the future, and a rogue droid named Hoguey has come to the ship for a duel to the death across for killing his brother. However, he and his kin have been doing this song and dance so often that the crew is absolutely bored with it. However, trouble strikes when Hoguey reveals that he took a map of the galaxy from a Simulant deathship. And you know what they say about Simulants...

** Hoguey the Roguey's backstory. Apparently, the Dwarfers killed his brother, and he's been attempting revenge ever since, to the point where they're ''bored'' with it.

** Hogey the Roguey's backstory. Apparently, the Dwarfers killed his brother, and he's been attempting revenge ever since, to the point where they're ''bored'' with it.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Hogey, the rogue droid comes to challenge Lister to a challenge across time and space for killing his brother. Cat barely bothers to wake up to send him to Lister's quarters, Kryten doesn't look up from mopping the floor giving him directions, Rimmer thinks it's "fine by me!", and Lister just finds it ''tedious'' because all of Hogey's droid brethren always challenge them to duels across time and space and it was alright the first time, but it's been several hundreds of years doing it now.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Hogey speaks with ... some kind of an accent. It helps he is a rogue (and defective) droid.

* NoodleIncident: Rimmer managed to save Red Dwarf from [[CallBack the microscopic corrosive organism]], ''somehow''. Whenever he tries to claim credit for it, the others insist that it was a total fluke, whatever he did.

Trapped in an asteroid belt by bloodthirsty simulants, the Dwarfers' only chance for survival is if Arnold Rimmer can come up with a brilliant strategy to defeat them.

* ChekhovsGun: Before the Dwarfers leave the ship pursued by Simulants, they take Hoguey's Molecular Destabilizer with them. This proves to be important in Rimmer's plan to defeat the Simulants (since it involves establishing Blue Midget so that their weapons pass harmlessly through it and attack the Simulants instead).