- The developing fluid that Kryten uses to process old photographs mutates and the photographs come alive. The Red Dwarf crew find they can go into the photograph, and Lister finds that the photographs allows them to go back in time and he plans on changing history so that he doesn't end up marooned in deep space.—Daniel Williamson
- Lister has grown fed-up of life on the ship, the lack of proper company, no opportunities at ambition and time-wasting activities. Kryten is developing photos in the ship's dark room, the images become animated and Kryten calls everyone to see, the developing fluid has mutated and made all photos animated, this is tested on projector, Lister and Rimmer walk into the slides and discover they can't walk out of the edges of the frames.
One slide of is of Nuremburg 1934 where Lister mugs Adolf Hitler and steals his briefcase, one item is a package from Claus von Stauffenberg, the bomb that was intended for Hitler in 1944, Lister kicks it back into the photo before it explodes. The crew realize the projector can be used as a time machine and they can anywhere they have a photograph of, Lister has an idea to change his past, using a patented bubble wrap and a slide of himself. The slide takes them to a pub where a seventeen-year old Lister is playing in his band, Lister introduces his past self to the crew. Present Lister tells his past self to take the bubble wrap to a patent office and pass it as his invention. The past Lister takes some convincing because of his anti-capitalist ideals, wanting to continue his music career, present Lister tells him what'll he happen if he doesn't take this opportunity and leaves him to decide.
The crew return to the present, the past was changed, Lister, Cat and Kryten all disappear, Lister patented the the bubble wrap and became the richest man on Earth. As such the Cat race never existed and Kryten was left on the Nova 5, only Rimmer and Holly are on the Red Dwarf. Rimmer has Holly track Lister and tries to talk him back, however this Lister never met Rimmer and has him thrown out. Rimmer is back on Red Dwarf and realizes he could change the past in his favor, he'll go back to when he was eight and tells his self to patent the bubble wrap in the presence of the original inventor, Fred Holden.
Rimmer returns to Red Dwarf where his actions return the crew, but nothing happens to Rimmer, all he did was return the timeline to was it was, Rimmer is disappointed nothing goes his way until Holly realizes he's no longer a hologram, Rimmer is overjoyous when in his glee he punches a box of explosive and dies.
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