- Daredevil pilot Ace Rimmer, seriously wounded, after rescuing Princess Bonjella from the Nazis, arrives on-board Starbug, to recruit Rimmer to take his place as the next Ace Rimmer. Will Rimmer continue the legacy of Ace Rimmer?
- Just like the previous episode it begins with a cold opening, Ace Rimmer on a Nazi plane, he shoots the pilot, the commandant throws his pet crocodile at Ace and parachutes out of the plane, leaving a bundle of dynamite on board, Ace rolls out of the plane and ties straps around the crocodile to surf down and steals the commandant's parachute. He floats down on a firing squad about to shoot a damsel, Princess Bonjela, he shoots multiple Nazis, but is shot in the chest, he keeps fighting and saves the Princess and escapes with her.
On Starbug Lister is going into the artificial reality with Kryten to play a medieval game, Lister has a cheat book with him, he challenges the King's best man in exchange for sex with the King's fair lady. They joust for victory and Lister cheats to win. Lister's reward time is cut short when the A.R. machine cuts out, an emergency is sounded on Starbug, some kind of anomaly has snared the ship, caused by Ace's craft appearing, all the others welcome him aboard, Rimmer is still bitter.
Ace asks Rimmer for a private discussion and is overcome with pain, Ace admits he's dying, he asks Rimmer to take his place, Rimmer is skeptical and assures Ace he's not him, Ace says he's not the same Ace he met before, that Ace died from injuries sustained in another dimension and asked this version to replace him. Now he's asking this Rimmer to replace him, he too is a hard-light hologram and the bullet wound has ruptured his light bee, the only other person Ace tells this too is Lister, he explains that Ace is a legend carried on by Arnold Rimmers from other dimensions, he asks Lister's help to train Rimmer. Rimmer undergoes training with little success, Ace is running out of time and gives his clothes and wig to Rimmer, his final test is fooling the rest of the crew into thinking he's Ace. The A.R. suite door opens and a knight walks out looking for Lister, Rimmer fights him in a sword fight, then grabs a gun and shoot him dead.
Rimmer has completed his training and runs to tell Ace, the knight is actually Lister in armor, he loaded the gun with blank cartridges to help with the training. Rimmer tells Ace who congratulates him before his hologram form fades, Cat and Kryten walk in seeing Rimmer in Ace clothes mourning over a spent light bee, Lister walks in and convinces the others that a knight has escaped from A.R. and killed Rimmer, keeping up the facade.
Ace is given a send-off, Rimmer is still uncertain and Ace left instructions to take him to the light bee's burial place, it joins countless other light bees that have formed a ring around a planet, Rimmer leaves on Ace's ship saying goodbye to the others, only Lister knowing who he really is.
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