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| series = 5 }} "Back to Reality" is the sixth, and final, episode of science fiction sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' Series V〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =British Sitcom Guide - Red Dwarf - Series 5 )〕 and the 30th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 26 March 1992,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =BBC - Programme Catalogue - RED DWARF V - BACK TO REALITY )〕 written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and directed by Juliet May & Grant Naylor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Back to Reality cast and crew )〕 The episode often tops polls or surveys as the best in the series runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Programme Catalogue - THE BEST EVER RED DWARF )〕 〔Survey Results, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, ISSN 0965-5603〕 The plot features the crew waking up from a crash to discover that the last four years of their lives has been spent in a 'Red Dwarf Total Immersion Video Game'. ==Plot== The ''Red Dwarf'' crew takes ''Starbug'' to investigate the wreckage of the ''SSS Esperanto'', a ship conducting marine seeding experiments at the bottom of an ocean-covered moon. The ship had great success on its mission to accelerate the planet's evolution, surpassing even their best projections. However it appears that all life on board the ''Esperanto'' committed suicide, right down to a haddock which closed its gills and suffocated itself. They discover the deaths are due to severe depression caused by a hallucinogenic nerve toxin. Attempting to evade a gigantic squid, ''Starbug'' crashes and explodes. Instead of finding themselves in little pieces, they wake to discover that for four years they have been playing 'Red Dwarf - The Total Immersion Video Game'. It transpires that not only have they spent four years playing a game, they also played it very badly - for example, early on Rimmer was meant to work out an "obvious" puzzle which would lead to the discovery of a microdot hidden on his swimming certificate, the possession of which would have unlocked his secret identity and a number of special skills. Lister briefly gets to watch the action as another group plays the game as it was intended to be played - the scenario observed involves the team having fabulous space opera adventures in outer space and interacting in a far less dysfunctional manner, and a resurrected Kochanski in a passionate relationship with Lister. The crew set to work learning about their "real" identities based on their possessions, since they have no memories of their "real" lives - supposedly a side effect of the Total Immersion Video Game. Kryten is half-human Cybernautics Division Detective (traffic officer) Jake Bullet. Cat is dorky Duane Dibbley. Lister is Voter Colonel Sebastian Doyle, the head of the secret police in a fascist state, and Rimmer is Billy Doyle, Lister's half-brother and a tramp. Only Kryten is pleased with his 'real' existence; however, when he is forced to take a human life in order to save a young girl, the mechanoid too begins to despair. As a result of the shooting, the crew then becomes involved in a high-speed car chase with the police. Devastated by the implications of their "true" selves, they are about to commit group suicide when Holly finally manages to awaken them, revealing that ''Starbugs crash and 'reality' were just a group hallucination brought on by the toxic ink of the "despair squid", which had the intention of causing the crew to commit suicide, just as it had done with the crew of the ''Esperanto''. With this revelation, Kryten realises that all their identities were designed to make the crew destroy themselves; Kryten violated his programming by killing a human, the shallow Cat lost all of his cool and style, Rimmer could no longer blame his failings on others as he and his 'brother' had the same upbringing and Lister did much better than him, and Lister's moral courage was violated with the discovery that he had killed thousands of innocent people. With nothing worth staying for, ''Starbug'' begins to head to the surface, as Lister remarks that the crew of the ''Esperanto'' truly screwed up by creating a creature that caused despair and destruction wherever it roamed. Kryten jokes that the same could be said of humans, but it isn't well received. Rimmer tells Kryten not to be a smart-alec, and the weary crew head home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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