The Cat, while playing with some string, unexpectedly points out to Rimmer why he's never able to focus – his father. He attempts to make a battle plan in the storage room, but he is unable to concentrate. Rimmer rises to the challenge, albeit uncertainly. As the Simulants close in, they are forced to come up with a battle plan, a responsibility that Lister bestows upon Rimmer on the grounds that he's familiar with both Astro-Navigation and military strategy.

They proceed to a nearby asteroid belt, finding an asteroid large enough to hide inside. The Dwarfers escape in Blue Midget, leading the Annihilators and Death Ship (captained by Dominator Zlurg and his assistant Chancellor Wednesday) away from Red Dwarf. Rimmer also grabs a holo-lamp that his father gave him as a child, containing a message that he is supposed to listen to once he becomes an officer. The Dwarfers abandon him, but Lister takes his Molecular Destabilizer gun. The hull outside the sleeping quarters is breached, and the ensuing decompression pulls Hogey against the hole, sealing it. Unfortunately, the Simulants have followed him, and they dispatch three Annihilators to attack Red Dwarf. While Lister and Rimmer attempt to talk him into a simpler competition, Hogey reveals he has stolen a map of all the wormholes and derelicts in the galaxy from a Simulant Death Ship. Three million years later aboard Red Dwarf, Rimmer and the others are visited – apparently yet again – by a dim-witted rogue droid named Hogey, who is constantly challenging them to duels across time and space due to boredom. He has prepped the students to make Arnold feel unsure of his decisions, and then he humiliates him when he gets them wrong.

Rimmer's father uses the unwitting young Arnold as a guinea pig.

He is a student at a college on Io, and his father is the teacher. The episode opens during Rimmer's childhood. ( July 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.

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