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All the protagonists of the series are now in prison (see last episode,
Back in the Red), so
Lister (Craig Charles) finds it a good idea to sign them all - Rimmer
(Chris Barrie), Kachanski (Chloe Annett), Cat (Danny John-Jules), Kryten (Robert
Llewellyn) - up for the Canaries, which he believes to be the
prison choir, but which is actually a team of convicts first sent into
places deemed dangerous to check the situation before the actual crew
moves in - just like canaries are sent into mineshafts to see if there is
breathable air ...
The Canaries first assignment is a submarine, where they meet a
computer named Cassandra (Geraldine McEwan), who can see into the future
... and predicts everybody aboard but Lister, Kachanski, Cat and Kryten
will die in an hour. Oh, and except Rimmer, who will die in 20 minutes.
Rimmer is appalled (naturally), but has the good sense to use his 20
minutes to change identities with a guard,w ho then dies in his place ...
Still, Rimmer will die, Cassandra predicts, he will be harpooned by
Lister, who finds him making love with Kachanski (Lister's ex whom he
still has feelings for) ... and suddenly, Rimmer couldn't be more pleased,
cause he finds Kachanski, well, hot.
Soon enough, too, Rimmer and Kachanski get seperated from the others,
and Kachanski gets soaking wet so she has to totally undress (which the
audience unfortunately doesn't get to see), and she ends up lieing in bed
with Rimmer (nothing more), when Lister enters with a harpoon ... and does
not kill Rimmer, as he (and Kryten) have since found out that Cassandra
only wanted him to kill Rimmer, because later Lister will destroy
Cassandra and she wanted to ahve a bit of revenge on him by giving him a
bad conscience because he has killed a friend. That's not happening, and
Lister even refuses to destroy Cassandra ... but his carelessly placed
chewed up chewing gum causes a chain reaction that destroys Cassandra
anyhow ... "Sorry !"
Maybe not the best thought-through piece of science fiction (stories
about computers predicting the future rarely are), but a nice piece of
comedy nevertheless.
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