- As Rimmer is taking Kryten for a driving lesson in Starbug they find themselves being whisked away through a time hole and end up on Earth, where time is running backwards.
- Rimmer takes Kryten for a pilot's test in Starbug, during a test on astronomic signals Starbug flies into a time hole. The bug crashes in a lake on what appears to be Earth. Rimmer and Kryten investigate the planet and find it's a version of Earth in London 1993 in the midst of the Big Crunch and all time is reversing. Kryten looks for work in a newspaper and finds them jobs as novelty acts on stage.
Lister and Cat have been searching three weeks for their missing crew mates and eventually enter the same time hole as them, upon arrival Lister is initially confused, he has a black eye along with cracked ribs and back, mistaking the local language for Bulgarian, even when stealing a tandem that only moves backwards he still doesn't understand.
They find Rimmer and Kryten working their comedy routine at a pub, where their act is doing everything forwards to the amusement of backwards moving humans, Lister finally understands this universe's nature when he sees Kryten and Rimmer's manager drink in reverse.
They all meet backstage where Rimmer and Kryten reveal they like this reality. Death, war, disease, etc do not exist as they are undone when committed, coupled with their instant success in showbiz. Lister points out some flaws, like he and Cat being organic life will undergo reverse ageing, St Francis of Assisi apparently cripples animals and Santa Claus is a thief. Then the manager enters and scolds Rimmer and Kryten for alleged fighting and fires them, they go to argue otherwise while Lister and Cat wait they help themselves to a vegetable pie on someone's table and disgorge it, then that person returns from the toilets with some fluid on his face.
Rimmer and Kryten have failed to convince their manager of causing a fight, then the customer punches Lister removing his black eye, then in his side fixing his ribs. Kryten realizes this is a fight they're about to have that got them fired, a full reverse bar brawl breaks out, Lister aims a glass at his attacker's face and drains the fluid from him, glass and furniture are repaired, Lister's back is fixed and he punches a man's tooth back in his mouth.
The four of them leave and make it to Starbug, Cat has gone to relieve himself in the bushes and discovers too late that too happens in reverse.
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