Transcribed by Mik Stevens
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RED DWARF Series VI Episode 3,
"Gunmen of The Apocalypse"
1 Ext. Dockside. Black And
White.
The city:
unknown. The time: midnight.
A bell tolls mournfully in the
distance, and waves lap against the
side of the docks. A staccato rap
of
heels sounds through the fog,
growing steadily louder, until a woman
steps through the mists into the
harsh glare of the streetlights. She
is
carrying two heavy suitcases;
she drops these and stands, silently
waiting. A black '38 Bentley glides to a stop a few metres away, and a
detective
steps out. As he approaches her,
he draws out a packet of
cigarettes.
DETECTIVE:
Maybe it's the moonlight but I've got to admit you're looking
pretty good for a corpse.
He
lights the cigarrete, and the light from the match throws his features
into sharp illumination; DAVE LISTER
LORETTA:
Philip, I can explain everything.
LISTER: Let me save you the
trouble. It was you that planned
Pallisters
murder, but your twin
sister Maxine squibbed him off. You
decided to
take the rap, knowing
you had the perfect alibi in me. That's
why you
came on so strong that
night: Play me for the dumb sap I
am.
LORETTA: Philip, it wasn't like that, not with you.
LISTER: Oh
yeah?
LORETTA: So what you going to do, turn me in? Watch me do the sit down
dance in the electric chair at Sing
Sing?
LISTER: No, sweetlips, I'm gonna let you kiss me.
2 Int.
Starbug Ops Room.
LISTER is wearing a Artificial Reality Headset and
grinding his hips
rythmically, fumbling at an imaginary bra strap and
sticking his tounge
down an imaginary throat. KRYTEN walks into the Ops Room at this moment.
KRYTEN:
Sir I think you should come and take a look at this.
LISTER
continues to fumble at the straps.
KRYTEN: Sir it really is quiet
urgent.
LISTER: I want you Loretta, I want you body next to mine. I want you
like you were that Tuesday night. Kiss me.
KRYTEN: Honestly, you haven't been off this machine
in a month!
3 Ext. Dockside. Black And White.
Philip
(LISTER) and LORETTA are still stood on the dock.
LORETTA: Philip, I
don't understand.
LISTER: It's simple Loretta, this isn't real, it's an AR
computer
simulation game. I'm supposed to hand you over to the cops
and wind up
with the goody-goody
heroine. I've played it before. It's just that
you drive me wild. You're the sexiest computer sprite I've ever seen.
LORETTA:
Ohh Philip.
LISTER: I don't care that you've killed three men...
LORETTA:
Five.
LISTER: ...whatever. It's not your fault, it's the way
you're
programmed.
LORETTA:
So you take me for what I am - a pyschopathic, scizophrenic,
serial killing femme fatale?
LISTER:
Forgive and forget, that's what I say.
4 Int. Starbug Ops
Room.
In Starbug KRYTEN is accessing the AR console to enter the
game. The
game's name -
"Gumshoe" - is shown on the console and KRYTEN is asked to
select
a character.
KRYTEN: Choose you chracter. OHHHGGHHH, honestly, I just want to talk to
him.
Ohhh anything, Sammy the Squib, crack shot with Tommy gun,
engage.
Ohhh, it's so frivolous!
KRYTEN enters the game as his snaps
down his headset.
5 Ext. Dockside. Black And White.
KRYTEN:
Mr Lister sir ??
The Black Bentley from earlier is still on the
dockside. The suspension
is
rocking backwards and forwards making a squeaking noise.
KRYTEN:
Hmmm, curious.
KRYTEN Knocks on the car's rear window. LISTER winds down the window and
puts
his head out.
LISTER: Hi Kryten.
What are you doing here?
KRYTEN: Sir, I've just got the results of
the chemical scan, I've
discovered minute amounts of millenium oxide in the local
vicinity.
LISTER: Couldn't be more pleased for you. See you in an hour.
KRYTEN: Sir, I
believe we've wandered accidentally into a rogue simulant
hunting zone. That would explain the devastation on the derelicts
where we picked up this very game.
LORETTA:
Philip, who is it?
LORETTA sticks her head of the car.
LORETTA:
Ohhh, it's Sammy the Squib.
KRYTEN: Orrrhh, good evening Miss.
LORETTA:
Don't kill me Sammy, I'll do anything, kill him. I'll come away
with
you Sammy, it'll be just like the old days.
I never stopped
loving you
Sammy. Kiss me.
LISTER: You're
trash, aren't you?
LORETTA: I'm programmed to be trash.
LISTER: I can't
resist her Kryten, get back in the car.
I never fall for
women who
are any good for me Kryten, it's either heartbreakers or
moral garbage on legs.
KRYTEN: Sir, you
have to turn off the AR console. We
have to close down
and continue
on silent running in order to avoid detection.
LISTER: 10 minutes.
KRYTEN:
Sir.
LISTER: 5 minutes, I'll keep my hat on.
KRYTEN: Now.
LORETTA:
Philip?
LISTER: I'll be back sweetlips.
Stay bad.
LISTER and KRYTEN clap hands and leave the
game.
6 Int. Starbug Ops Room.
They both remove their
game helmets.
LISTER: Kryten, you are a total gooseberry. Next time I play on the AR
machine I'm going to give you some money and
send you to the pictures.
7 Int. Starbug Cockpit.
RIMMER
and CAT are standing and sat respectively.
There is a powering
down noise and all the lights dim.
RIMMER:
At last, we have silent running. OK,
long range scanners are
down -
the only early warning we've got is you.
Stay alert.
CAT: OK bud, I'll keep my nose peeled.
8
Int. Starbug Mid-section.
RIMMER enters from the cockpit whilst
LISTER and KRYTEN come down from
the Ops Room above via the stairs.
RIMMER:
You took your time. Where've you
been?
LISTER: I was in the AR machine.
RIMMER: Again??
LISTER:
What'd you mean again?
RIMMER: Everyone knows you only use the AR machine
to have sex.
LISTER: That is not true.
RIMMER: Yes, true. It's pathetic watching you grind away day
after day.
It's like a dog that's
missing it's masters leg. That
groinal
attachment's supposed to
have a lifetimes gurantee, you've worn it out
in nearly three weeks.
LISTER: That is an outrageous
scandalous piece of libel. I don't
just
play the role play
games. What about the sporting
simulations? Like
zero-gee kick boxing and Wimbledon.
RIMMER:
You only play Wimbledon cos you're having it off with that jail
bait ball girl.
LISTER: Is another
total lie. She's not jail bait, she's
seventeen.
RIMMER: Lister, she's a computer sprite, and surely that's the
point;
she's just a load of
pixels.
LISTER: Yeah, but what pixels!
9 Int. Starbug
Cockpit.
CAT and KRYTEN are sitting at the controls. LISTER enters, followed bv
RIMMER.
LISTER:
What's all the hullabaloo?
CAT: We've wandered into rouge simulant
country.
KRYTEN: Bio-mechanical killers created for a war that never took
place.
Some of them escaped the
dismantelling programme and now they prowl
around deep space searching for a quarry worthy of their
mettle.
RIMMER: I say we should abandon the pursuit of Red Dwarf and flee
from
the zone.
LISTER: Give
up the chase? Are you kidding?
CAT:
Wait, my nose is getting something.
KRYTEN: Powering up.
RIMMER:
Scanners report a battle class cruiser on intercept.
KRYTEN: It's rougue
simulants all right.
RIMMER: Recommend immediate total and unequivical
surrender.
KRYTEN: Sir, surrender is the worst thing we could do. They despise
humans and all forms of humanoid life. They believe you to be the
vermin of the universe sir.
(Looking at LISTER).
CAT: I didn't know they'd met him.
KRYTEN:
Getting a message. Punching it
up.
A face appears on KRYTEN's screen.
SIMULANT CAPTAIN:
State your species and purpose.
RIMMER: One of us will have to speak to
them. Who's the least human
looking?
Listy, the mike's all yours.
LISTER: Wait a minute. I've got an idea. Stall them with static.
Kryten mid-section. Cat, you
too.
The three move through to the mid-section.
SIMULANT
CAPTAIN: (On monitor) Why do you delay?
State your species and
purpose. You have one
minute.
RIMMER: Lister, what the hell are you doing?
LISTER: Wait a
minute, nearly ready... OK, stand by to transmit.
10 Int. Simulant
Ship. Dark.
The cockpit of the simulant ship. Two simulants, the Captain and a
lieutanant,
are at their controls.
SIMULANT LIEUTENANT: Incoming.
The
monitor comes to life. What appears to
be a strange alien life form
comes on screen. It is, in fact, the bottom half of LISTER's face, shot
upside
down below the nose. Taped to his chin
is one of Kryten's
eyeball's.
LISTER:
I am Tarka Dall, an ambassador of the great Vindaloovian Empire.
SIMULANT
CAPTAIN: Scanners report a human life on your vessel. Is this
so?
LISTER:
Humans! (spit) The Vindaloovian People
despise all humans. They
are the vermin of the Universe. Is that not right Bindi Baji?
The
screen pans to CAT, who is in the same disguise.
CAT: You bet, we
hate them. Scum, scum, scum, scum,
scum!
LISTER: The Vinadloovian Empire is pledged to exterminate them
all.
11 Int. Mid-section.
RIMMER walks through from the
cockpit just as the SIMULANT CAPTAIN beams
aboard Starbug. LISTER and CAT, bent backwards over the
scanner table,
are not in any position to notice him, and neither is
KRYTEN, whose eyes
they are using.
LISTER: We will not rest
until out task is completed.
RIMMER: Errrrrr, Lister.
LISTER
and CAT sit up from the scanning table.
LISTER: Hi.
CAT: How's
it going Bud ?
LISTER and CAT hand the eyeballs back to KRYTEN, who
screws them in.
SIMULANT CAPTAIN: A human, a humanoid, a
hologrammatical human and a
mechanoid who is a slave to humans.
I had hoped for so much more.
RIMMER: I've no idea who you are, but
boarding this vessel is an act of
war. Ergo, we surrender. And as prisoners of war I invoke the
All
Nations Agreement article
number 39436175880932/B.
KRYTEN: 39436175880932/B. "All nations attending the conference
are only
allocated one parking
space". Is that entirely relevant,
sir? I mean,
here we are in mortal danger, and you're
worried about the Chinese
delegates bringing two cars?
RIMMER: Can't you let just one
go? I was talking about the right of
P-O-
W's to non-violent
constraint.
KRYTEN: But that's 75880932/C, sir.
RIMMER: It's
embarrassing as much as anything else.
Here you are totally
humiliating me in front of this xenophobic, genocidal maniac......
no
offence.
SIMULANT
CAPTAIN: Primitive! You will be no
sport at all. I have no
alternative.
The SIMULANT CAPTAIN
shoots RIMMER, KRYTEN, LISTER and CAT before they
can move. They all slump to the ground.
12
Int. Starbug Cockpit.
The crew awaken in the Starbug's cockpit, sat
at their controls.
RIMMER: How long have we been out?
LISTER:
According to the navicomp, three weeks.
KRYTEN: Strange.. the drive
interface has been upgraded, and so have the
engines.
RIMMER: And if this readout is correct, we've been armed. Laser cannons.
LISTER: They've totally
upgraded the whole ship.
CAT: They've even got rid of the squeak on the
seat tilt control.
The SIMULANT CAPTAIN's face appears on the
monitor.
SIMULANT CAPTAIN: We have made some improvements to your
craft. Now at
least you may prove to be of some small
amusement.
SIMULANT LIEUTENANT: You have two Earth minutes before we
attack.
RIMMER: Let's get out of here.
CAT: Wait, I know this
game. It's called cat and mouse, and
there's only
one way to win;
don't be the mouse.
LISTER: What are you saying?
CAT: I'm saying, the
mouse never wins. Not unless you
believe those
lying
cartoons. We don't run, we strike. It's the last thing they'll
be expecting.
RIMMER: No, the last
thing they'll be expecting is for us to turn into
ice skating mongooses and to dance the
Bolero. And your plan makes
about as much sense.
LISTER: I say go
with it.
KRYTEN: Agreed.
CAT: You're going to go with one of my
plans? Are you nuts? What
happens if we all get killed?
I'll never hear the last of it!
13 Model Shot.
Starbug
pivots in flight and fires it's new laser cannons into the side
of the
simulant ship.
14 Int. Simulant Ship.
The simulants look
worried.
SIMULANT CAPTAIN: What are they doing? Power up the weapons!
15 Int.
Starbug Cockpit.
LISTER: Nailed them.
16 Int. Simulant
Ship.
SIMULANT LIEUTENANT: Fluke hit.
SIMULANT CAPTAIN: Take
them with us.
SIMULANT LIEUTENANT: Can't return fire.
SIMULANT
CAPTAIN: Hack into their navigation computer.
Transmit the
Armageddon
Virus.
17 Int. Stabug cockpit.
The Navicomp starts to
spark.
LISTER: What is it ?
KRYTEN: The navicomp, something's
wrong.
SIMULANT CAPTAIN: (On screen) See you in Silicon Hell.
18
Model Shot.
The simulant ship explodes.
19 Int. Starbug
Cockpit.
KRYTEN: Shutdown all network links. The navicomp has been infected with
a virus.
LISTER: The navicomp has
frozen us out, we're locked on this course.
If
we carry on ahead at
this speed, how long before we hit trouble?
RIMMER: Well if you define trouble
as a rather large moon directly in our
path, about 38 minutes.
KRYTEN: Sir, the only solution is for me to
contract the virus myself,
analyze it's structure and attempt to create a software antidote
before
it wipes out my core
program. Do I have your permission to
sacrifice
myself, sirs?
RIMMER:
Do Lemmings like cliffs? Granted!
KRYTEN:
I am going to have to create a dove program.
CAT: Dove program?
KRYTEN:
A dove program spreads peace through the system, obliterating the
viral cells as it goes.
KRYTEN
puts on head sensors and contracts the virus from the navicomp.
KRYTEN:
The virus is extremely complex. I will
have to dedicate all my
run time
to its solution. Shutting down all non
essential systems.
LISTER: Is there anything we can do? Can we help?
KRYTEN: Watch my
dreams.
20 Int. Ops Room..
KRYTEN lies on the medi-bed
whilst the others are gathered round him.
RIMMER: 23 minutes to
impact. Any change?
LISTER:
Getting worse. Weaker and weaker.
RIMMER:
Look, sooner or later we are going to have to face the fact that
we are not all going to get out of this in
one piece. Or if we are,
it's going to one big flat piece.
LISTER:
And?
RIMMER: It's time we decided who's going to take the one man escape
pod.
CAT: How?
RIMMER: Well, if you'll just bear with me, I think
I've devised a fair
and equitable
system of choosing who should survive.
It's based on
age, rank,
seniority, usefulness, and to cut a long story short, it's
me.
I was a stunned as you are, which is why I demanded a recount.
Well, blow me if it didn't come out as me
again. Keys.
LISTER: Rimmer, the
escape pod is not an option.
RIMMER: Why not?
LISTER: It escaped last
Thursday. I was having a few beers, I
couldn't
be bothered moving so I
used the release mechanism as a bottle opener.
Whhoossshhh.
RIMMER: That's it then, we're finished.
CAT:
Wait, we're getting something.
21 Ext. Streets Of Laredo. Day.
The
monitor clears and KRYTEN is shown, dressed as a Sheriff in an 1800's
Western
town. He is drunk. He throws an empty whisky bottle away
before
pausing before a wanted poster of the Apocalypse boys and entering
a
saloon.
22 Int. Ops Room.
CAT: What is this?
LISTER:
I think we've tapped directly into whatever passes for Kryten's
sub-concious.
CAT: Why's he a Sheriff
in some old western?
LISTER: Must be how his core program is coping with
the battle against
the
virus. For whatever reason it's
converted the struggle into some
kind of dream.
23 Int. Saloon. Day.
Busy. A PIANO PLAYER plays a honky tonk version of
Red Dwarf theme:
KRYTEN enters and
tries to steer his way towards the bar.
He passes
JIMMY - a smooth oaf,
playing cards with some unruly COWPOKES.
JIMMY: Well, well,
well sheriff, fancy seeing a man of your sober
disposition in a low down drinking establishemnt.
KRYTEN:
Now, now boys, I don't want any trouble.
Just doing my rounds.
As KRYTEN steps toward the bar JIMMY
trips him up.
KRYTEN: You shouldn't ought to have done that
Jimmy.
There is a scrape of stools and tables and JIMMY stands,
hands on guns.
JIMMY: Why don't you try it, Sheriff. They say you used to be faster
than a toilet stop in rattlesnake
country.
KRYTEN: Sorry I tripped over your boot there Mr Jimmy sir. Arrrhhheeemm.
Didn't mean any harm by it.
KRYTEN
turns to the bar.
KRYTEN: Give me two fingers of your best sipping
liquor, Miss Lola, and
make it
the smooth stuff. The stuff where you
get your eyesight back
after two
days. Guaranteed.
JIMMY: The
Apocalypse boys is here. They's asking
for you, Sheriff.
KRYTEN: I'll be right out.
KRYTEN takes
numerous gulps of whisky before leaving the saloon to face
the Apocalypse
boys on the porch.
24 Ext. Streets Of Laredo. Day.
The
FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE sit menacingly on horseback outside
the
saloon. The bat-wing doors part and a
nervous KRYTEN emerges
swigging from a bottle of hooch.
KRYTEN:
I don't believe I've had the pleasures, sirs.
DEATH spits out some
chewing tobacco, which fizzles on the street like
acid.
DEATH:
The name's Death. And these here're my
brothers. Brother War...
WAR
laughs and flames shoot out of his mouth.
DEATH: Brother
Famine...
Fat FAMINE nods and takes a bite of chicken.
DEATH:
and Brother Pestilence.
PESTILENCE grins, showing horrible broken
teeth. He swipes idly at the
swarm
of buzzing flies around his head.
KRYTEN: Well, you seem like a nice
neighbourly bunch of boys. How can
I
be of service?
All
FOUR APOCALYPSE BOYS draw, shooting KRYTEN's hat off, and his bottle
from
his hand, as he dances around trying to
avoid the hail of bullets.
Finally the
gunfire stops.
DEATH: We want your sorry ass out of
here. You got one hour.
DEATH
spits a sizzler again, and THE FOUR HORSEMEN turn and gallop under
a
dangling sign: 'YOU ARE NOW LEAVING
EXISTENCE', and as the HORSEMEN
ride under it, they disappear. KRYTEN takes off his sheriff's star
and
throws it on the ground.
25 Int. Ops Room.
LISTER:
He's losing the battle. Look at his
lifesigns, they're barely
registering.
CAT: Isn't there some way we can get in there and help
him? Somehow turn
ourselves into tiny electronic people and
get into his dream? Isn't
there some sort of gizmo lying around
someplace that can do that? And
if not (punches hand) why not?!
RIMMER:
Look, I think we've all got something we can bring to this
discussion.
But I think from now on the thing you should bring is
silence.
LISTER: No, no, no, I think
he's got something.
CAT: Twice in one lifetime! When you're hot, you're hot.
LISTER: If we link up the
artificial reality console to Kryten's mind, we
should be able to project directly into his dream state like it
was a
normal computer game.
CAT:
What did I tell you? We don't even have
to leave the room!
RIMMER: What about me?
LISTER: We'll shut all
extraneous systems and power up your hard light
drive. Come on guys, lets
get these wagons rolling.
26 Int. Ops Room. Later.
LISTER,
CAT and RIMMER are gathered round the AR console making
selections on the
screen.
LISTER: There we go, I've loaded in some characters from an
AR western
game. Choose a
player from 1 to 3.
CAT: Two.
The image and stats of The
Riveria Kid are shown on the console.
LISTER: Here you go, you're
the Riveria Kid, special skills ace gun
slinger. Rimsy?
RIMMER:
Uno.
The image and stats of Dan are shown on the screen.
LISTER:
One. Dangerous Dan McGrew,special
skills, bare fist fighting.
Which
leaves me with Brett Riverboat, knife man.
RIMMER: And we definitely can't
get hurt?
LISTER: No, it's just like a normal computer game, you can get
out at
anytime. There's a button on the inside of the glove,
when you want to
get out, just
clap. OK, Riveria, OK Dangerous. Lets mosey on into
town.
Flipping down the AR
visors, they assume horse-riding positions and start
to
"gallop".
27 Ext. Streets Of Laredo. Day.
Through
a swirling mist LISTER, CAT and RIMMER gallop into town. They
dismount before the saloon and,
tying their horses to the hitching post,
enter through the bat-wing
doors.
28 Int. Saloon. Day.
RIMMER: I've seen Westerns, I
know how to speak cowboy.
The three step up to the bar.
RIMMER:
Dry white wine and Perrier please. And
what about you two chaps?
LISTER: Rimmer, what westerns have you
seen? Butch Accountant and the
Yuppie Kid?
CAT: Leave this to me, this
sounds like one for the Riveria Kid !!!
As CAT speaks his
character's name he throws back his hands and dances a
little Mexican
dance accompanied by a Spanish Guitar.
CAT: Ehhh, Senorita, tequila
porfavore.
LOLA: What?
LISTER: He means three shots of gulping
whisky, mam.
CAT and LISTER down their shots in one. Shocked expressions, hoarse
voices;
LISTER:
Very smooth.
CAT: I was expecting something with a little more kick to
it.
RIMMER: (Contemplating his
undrunk whisky.) I don't suppose you've got
any ginger ale mixers.
LOLA spits into RIMMER's
face.
RIMMER: I'll take that as a no then, I'll have it neat.
RIMMER
downs the whisky, gulping. The smile
freezes on his face. He
grabs the
hat being used as the pot in a card game, and is sick into it.
Music and
talk stop. The owner of the hat stands
and looms, making
RIMMER look shorter than a Clint Eastwood speech. Chairs scrape back
from tables.
BEAR
STRANGLER MCGEE: A man beans up in the hat of Bear Strangler Mcgee,
he's either mighty brave or mighty
stupid. Which are you, boy?
RIMMER:
Sorry, what were the choices again?
LISTER hands some money to
MCGEE.
LISTER: You'll have to forgive our friend, he's a souple of
Gunmen short
of a posse.
BEAR
STRANGLER MCGEE: That pays for the hat.
What about the insult?
RIMMER: OK.
You're a fat bearded git with breath that could knock-out a
grizzly.
LISTER: (Shoving the rest of his money into MCGEE's
hands.) Take the
lot, man. Rimmer, what is wrong with you?
RIMMER:
Relax! You said yourself, Lister,
no-one can hurt us. Besides,
you're forgetting: I'm Dangerous Dan McGrew, Bare Fist Fighter Extra-
ordinaire.
KRYTEN enters the
saloon carrying a small wooden box.
KRYTEN: Here Lola, all my
valuables are in this here box. You can
have
it all for one bottle of
mind rotter.
LOLA: You're trading in your shooting irons?
The
box contains guns and some carrots.
KRYTEN: No use to me. I've got the shakes so bad, I'm like a
couple of
porcupines on their
wedding night.
LOLA: Carrots?
KRYTEN: I'm throwing in my mule, Dignity.
RIMMER:
Mr Sad Git or what?
LISTER leans over to KRYTEN.
LISTER:
Kryten it's us, man.
KRYTEN: Sorry friend, I don't believe I've had the
pleasure.
LISTER: Kryten, don't you know who we are, why you're here? You're
fighting an electronic virus, you're trying to create a dove
program.
Some sort of software
antidote to wipe it out.
KRYTEN: I'll drink to that.
CAT: Listen to
him pooch head, the virus is winning, you've got to get
your head together and start fighting
it.
There is a sudden crack as JIMMY gets the bottle off KRYTEN
using a bull
whip. He then dangles
the drink temptingly in front of KRYTEN.
JIMMY: Want a drink
Sheriff? Why don't you come and take
one?
KRYTEN: Now now Jimmy, there's no need to be going make me look
foolish.
JIMMY: Come on Sheriff, jump!
You can get higher than that!
LISTER steps forward.
LISTER:
Leave him alone.
JIMMY: Just having a little fun, Mr Swankypants.
LISTER:
The names Brett Riverboat, knifeman.
(whisper) Let's see how
good you are.
LISTER demonstrates some brilliant knifework by
disarming JIMMY and
pinning him to the wall.
JIMMY: Son of a
....
LISTER finishes up by throwing an apple into JIMMY's
mouth.
JIMMY: Frank, Nuke, line his lungs with lead.
As
the two Gunmen stand up, the CAT steps forward.
JIMMY: Who in the
heck are you?
CAT: The call me the Kid, the Riveria Kid!!
Cue
the CAT's Riveria Kid dance.
JIMMY: Well, Riveria Kid, let's see if
your shooting is a fancy as your
dancing.
FRANK and NUKE both draw and fire off a shot
each. Back to the CAT, who
casually
draws and fires. There are two mid-air
flashes half-way between
the CAT and the GUN_FIGHTERS, and two bullets
clatter to the floor.
JIMMY: He shot the damn bullets out of the
air!
KRYTEN: Well, it's been mighty dandy meeting you boys, but if I'm not
out
of here by sun-up the
buzzards will be fighting the lizards for my
gizzards.
KRYTEN makes a run for the door.
LISTER:
If he leaves town, we're dead. Stop
him!
As the three try to follow KRYTEN from the saloon they are
attacked by
some of the patrons.
RIMMER puts his bare fist fighting skills into
practice by beating
up the three men.
RIMMER: Marvellous.
RIMMER dusts
himself down and leaves the saloon.
29 Ext. Streets OF Laredo.
Day.
KRYTEN is running for the town's edge.
CAT: Hey
buddy!
RIMMER: Hold it!
LISTER: You gotta stay!
CAT: This is a
job for the Riveria Kid!
CAT does the Riviera Kid dance, draws his
gun, and fires. The bullet
hits a
tin bath and ricochets across the street, where it hits a bell and
ricochets
again. Wide shot of the street as the
bullet zig-zags towards
KRYTEN, finally severing the support on one side
of the dangling
'EXISTENCE' sign, which swings down and flattens
KRYTEN. The other three
gather
round the fallen mechanoid.
KRYTEN: But boys you don't understand,
I've got to leave. Look (pointing
at the town clock): it's ten to Death.
LISTER: OK, we've
got ten minutes to sober him up and get him in shape.
Come on.
30 Int. Sheriff's
Office.
RIMMER and LISTER are sat with KRYTEN.
KRYTEN: Sir,
I just can't eat anymore raw coffee.
LISTER: Two more bowls.
KRYTEN:
But I am sober, honest!
LISTER: OK, who are you and why're you here?
KRYTEN:
I'm some kind of robot who's fighting this virus, and none of
this exists, it's all in a fever, except for
you guys, who really do
exist,
only you're not really here, you're really on some space ship in
the future.
Hell, if that's got to make sense I don't want to be
sober!
The CAT enters via some
stairs.
CAT: I got his guns back, and look at the handles. They've got little
doves carved on them, and check this,
there's no place for the bullets
to go.
LISTER: This is it Kryten, the answer's in these guns
somehow. Doves,
dove program.
The CAT wanders
over to the window as KRYTEN looks at the guns.
KRYTEN: Wait,
somethings coming back now. (To
Lister.) You sir.
Whenever I look
at you I get an image of curry and early morning breath
that could cut through bank vaults. (To Rimmer.) You sir. There's
something familiar about you too, I get a name, SmmmEE,
SmmEEgGG
HHHeeeDD.
RIMMER:
Smeghead?
KRYTEN: That's it!
RIMMER: He remembers me.
LISTER:
The guns Kryten, do the guns mean anything to you?
KRYTEN: Something, they
mean something... if only I had more time.
CAT: PSSSTTT, company.
31
Ext. Streets Of Laredo. Day.
The APOCALYPSE BOYS walk slowly through
the swirling mists and stop at
the far end of the street. KRYTEN steps out of the Sheriff's
Office
followed by LISTER, RIMMER and CAT. They fan out across the street.
DEATH: Got yourself a
little help there, Sheriff?
KRYTEN: Now I remember you. You're a computer virus, travelling
from
machine to machine,
overwriting the core program.
DEATH: Have infection, will travel: that's me.
Lets see if we can't tip
the balance here a little...
DEATH
points his arm to the heavens and a lightning bolt emerges from it.
32
Int. Starbug Ops Room.
The screen of the AR console is shown. The special skills that the
characters
have are being erased.
33 Ext. Streets Of Laredo. Day.
CAT:
What is he doing?
RIMMER: He's stalling.
He's spotted us for what we are:
a bunch of mean
macho bad
ass desperados. We're going to kick his
boney butt clean
across the
town. Enjoy the show. (To the Apocolypse Boys:) Who's got
the guts to go with me one on one, hand to
hand, mano et mano?
WAR steps forwards.
LISTER: Cover
him.
Whilst drawing his guns CAT fumbles them.
CAT: Damn,
I've lost my special skills.
RIMMER steps over to a hitching post
and tries to lift off the cross bar,
and
fails. WAR does the same and
succeeds. RIMMER tries again and
still
fails. LISTER also discovers that he
has lost his special skills
by throwing his knife over his shoulder.
LISTER:
Rimmer, the virus has spread to the AR unit.
We've lost our
special
skills.
RIMMER: Ahhh, Mr War sir, it would appear that due to
circumstances
completely
beyond my control, there's been a bit
of a cock up in the
bravado
department.
RIMMER is hit over the head with the wooden cross bar by
WAR.
RIMMER: I may indeed have come across as being more brave than
in fact I
am.
LISTER: Exit,
exit.
RIMMER attempts to exit the game by clapping his hands, he
cannot, he
turns his constant clapping into a castanet dance, before being
hit over
the head again by WAR.
LISTER: We're sealed in.
CAT:
Get the helmets off.
RIMMER: It won't move.
LISTER: Cat the
back.
CAT: I got one of my gloves off..........and a boot too.
RIMMER:
Ohh brilliant, now you're paralysed compeletely down your left
hand side.
34 Int. Starbug
mid-section.
CAT is seen trying to wrench LISTER's helmet off.
35
Ext. Laredo.
LISTER: Ohhh, me nose!
CAT: I've almost got
it.
LISTER: You're pulling my nose off!
CAT: Here it comes.
LISTER:
The helmet's coming off.
36 Int. Starbug Ops Room.
LISTER's
helmet comes free.
37 Ext. Streets Of Laredo. Day.
LISTER
disapears from the game. CAT also fades
from the game, leaving
only RIMMER to face the Boys.
DEATH:
We're gonna cut you up so small the worms aren't even going to
have to chew.
RIMMER: You can't
frighten me, I'm always scared.
LISTERRRRR!
RIMMER fades from the game just as the boys bear
down on him to stab him.
38 Int. Starbug Ops Room.
CAT:
What now?
LISTER: It's down to Kryten.
39 Ext. Streets OF
Laredo. Day.
KRYTEN is left alone on the street to face the
GUNMEN.
DEATH: Well Sheriff.
Now it's just little old you.
KRYTEN: I'm not afraid Mr Death
sir. I believe my friends have bought
me
enough time to complete the
antidote program. Now, if you'll
forgive
the rather
confrontational imperative, go for your guns you scum
sucking mollascs.
SLO-MO: The GUNMEN draw and fire. Four shots slam into KRYTEN's chest.
He
staggers, then straightens, and draws both his guns. As the guns
leave his holsters they transform into white
doves, which soar off into
the sky.
The GUNMEN collapse and slowly fade away.
40 Int. Starbug Ops
Room.
KRYTEN comes round in Starbug.
KRYTEN: I did
it! I created an antidote.
The
four rush into the cocpit.
41 Int. Cockpit.
LISTER: Two
minutes till impact. Come on!
RIMMER:
How long will it take?
KRYTEN: (feverishly typing in commnds.) Just a few
seconds. How long to
impact?
RIMMER: Just a few
seconds.
KRYTEN: Loading it up... it's going into the navicomp.
RIMMER:
8 seconds, 7.
KRYTEN: Nearly there.
CAT: 5, 4, 3 ,2
LISTER:
We're not going to make it!
CAT: IMPACT.
42 Model Shot.
Starbug
crashes into a sea of lava and disappears.
Silence. Only a few
bubbles
of bursting gas break the surface.
Suddenly, Starbug emerges from
the molten lava, it's hull in flames.
Picking up speed, it climbs into the
sky at a dizzying angle.
43 Int. Starbug Cockpit.
CAT:
YEEEEEEHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!
44 Model Shot.
Starbug
flies into the distance and fades from view.
The
End.
Credits:
Rimmer
Chris Barrie
Lister Craig Charles
Cat Danny John-Jules
Kryten Robert Llewellyn
Loretta Jennifer Calvert
Simulant Captain/Death Dennis Lill
Simulant Lieutenant Liz Hickling
Lola Imogen Bain
Jimmy Steve Devereaux
War Robert Inch
Pestilence Jeremy Peters
Famine Dinny Powell
Bear Strancler McGee Stephen Marcus
Director Andy De Emmony
Writers Rob
Grant
Doug Naylor