Justice (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Justice" | |
| Image:Justice (Red Dwarf).jpg | |
| Episode № | 3 |
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| Airdate | February 28, 1991 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | Nicholas Ball as the Simulant, James Smillie as the Justice Computer |
| Series IV February 14 – March 21, 1991 |
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Justice was the third epsiode to air in the fourth series of Red Dwarf.
[edit] Synopsis
While Lister is down with a bout of space mumps, Red Dwarf picks up an escape pod from a prison ship that was transporting dangerous criminals to their final trial, sentence and incarceration on Justice World. The crew head to Justice World themselves in Starbug, in case the pod contains one of the prisoners, but the Justice Computer puts a spanner in the works when it convicts Rimmer on 1,167 counts of second-degree murder, a consequence of his faulty drive-plate repair that killed the crew of the JMC vessel Red Dwarf. Kryten proves to the Judge that Rimmer's immense guilt stems from his own self-loathing and incompetence, and he is found not guilty. However, a psychopathic droid is released from the pod that initiated their trip to Justice World, and tries to hunt them down. He is defeated after a unique trait to Justice World is exploited, namely that anyone who tries to perpetrate a crime on someone else has the effect put on them (i.e. attempting to hurt another person results in you feeling the pain instead).
[edit] Trivia
- This episode marked the first appearance of a Rogue Simulant, the villainous mechanoids who would remain antagonists to the Dwarfers until the seventh series.
- The industrial prison complex was filmed in Sunbury Pumphouse, a disused water pumping plant that was later used for the ‘oil rig’ set on the second season of the Channel 4 games show GamesMaster.
- This episode is subject to a large continuity error. It is stated that the number of crew aboard the Red Dwarf prior to the radiation leak that killed them was 1,169 . This was an inexplicably increase from the mere 169 crew members mentioned in the first series of the show. The continuity error appears to be have noticed however in the following series, as in the episode The Inquisitor the pre-accident crew compliment was implicitly reverted to 169. Curiously, in the Red Dwarf novels, the ship had had a complement of 11,169 prior to the accident, suggesting that the increase in crew compliment was a deliberate retcon rather than a continuity error. This would mean that Lister's registration code in Inquisitor was either a mistake or was not calculated solely based on his rank.
