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"The Inquisitor" is the second 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 twenty sixth in the series run.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =TV.com — The Inquisitor summary )〕 It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 27 February 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =BBC — Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF V — THE INQUISITOR )〕 It was written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor, and directed by Juliet May & Grant Naylor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =The Inquisitor cast and crew )〕 The episode's plot deals with a time travelling simulant who visits ''Red Dwarf'' to assess if they are worthy of their existence. ==Plot== ''Starbug'' is taken under control by a being called The Inquisitor and returned to ''Red Dwarf''. The Inquisitor is a self-repairing simulant who survived until the end of time, and, coming to the conclusion that there is no God and no afterlife, decided that the only point of life was to "seize the gift of life". He is on a journey through time, seeking out those he judges worthless and erasing them from existence, allowing a different person to exist in their place—one of the many that could have been conceived had the original person not been. Each crew member comes up for judgment, with the Inquisitor morphing into each crewmember during their respective trial, meaning that they are actually being judged by themselves (which the Inquisitor claims is "the only fair way" in spite of the metaphysical implications). Rimmer pleads mitigating circumstances, arguing that his background meant that he had no chance from the beginning and that although he is nothing, for him, 'nothing is up'; the Cat cites his beauty; Kryten questions the Inquisitor's authority; Lister rejects it outright. Rimmer and the Cat are excused on the grounds that they have met their own low standards, but Kryten and Lister are not so lucky: ostensibly, they both had the potential to make something of themselves but failed to do so (there is some indication that this judgement may have resulted from questioning the Inquisitor's authority). The Inquisitor removes Lister and Kryten's influence from the time stream, replacing them with their unconceived equivalents, and prepares to disintegrate them to complete the process, though he is stopped by a version of Kryten from the future, who before being killed, amputates the Inquisitor's left hand along with his time-manipulating "time gauntlet", giving it to his past self and Lister, as well as a cryptic clue about how to operate it: "Enig". Lister and Kryten escape the Inquisitor and find Rimmer and the Cat, but they get a hostile reception from their old shipmates, who no longer recognise them as they have been replaced by previously unborn versions of themselves. The Inquisitor then catches up with the crew, attacking them to destroy Lister and Kryten, though he inadvertently kills their replacements instead. Using a severed hand from his alternate self, Lister manages to bypass Red Dwarf's security systems (since they were removed from history, Holly is now hostile to them) and the two hide inside Starbug. Kryten manages to decode the workings of the time gauntlet with the help of the clue left by his future self and, with Rimmer and Cat in tow, they attempt to confront the Inquisitor. Rimmer and Cat are immediately destroyed in the ensuing conflict, though Kryten manages to freeze the Inquisitor before he is able to kill Lister. In order to keep the timeline coherent, Kryten uses the time gauntlet to go back in time and save them from being killed earlier "so that () can get into this mess in the first place." Lister takes the Inquisitor's other time gauntlet (duplicated after the amputation) and suspends the Inquisitor over a chasm, letting him fall, but saving his life at the last moment. Lister claims that having saved the Inquisitor's life, the latter would not dare erase him as he would simply fall to his death otherwise; he then returns the time gauntlet to the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor replies that this is nonsense, as Lister was the one who endangered his life in the first place. As the Inquisitor attempts to erase Lister, it is revealed that Lister had Kryten rig the gauntlet to backfire, causing the Inquisitor to erase himself and his influence from history. With the Inquisitor removed from the timeline, Kryten, Rimmer and the Cat are promptly restored and history is reset to its original state. 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「The Inquisitor (Red Dwarf)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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