Pete: Part II story
Lister and Rimmer drive Captain Hollister ever closer to a nervous breakdown. Kryten discovers the time wand can regress a living creature back into what it evolved from, and turns Baxter and Kill Crazy into apes. He also accidentally regresses Pete, Birdman's pet sparrow, into a Tyrannosaurus rex which then goes on a rampage around Red Dwarf and eats the Birdman, along with the time wand. With the rest of the crew frozen in time, Rimmer, Lister, Kryten, Kochanski, The Cat and Holly attempt to find a solution before the freeze wears off. Directed by: Ed Bye. Story by: Doug Naylor & Paul Alexander.
13 total · 5 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| giant monster | major | A rampaging Tyrannosaurus rex was terrorizing the Red Dwarf crew. |
| human vs. beast | major | It was up to the protagonists to stop a rampaging Tyrannosaurus rex. |
| humanoid robot | major | The humanoid robot Kryten is a main character. |
| military related work | major | The crew were embedded in a military hierarchy and behaved accordingly. |
| speculative time manipulating effect | major | There was a phallic blue device that could transform things and people into past or future versions of themselves. |
| coping with post-traumatic stress | minor | A mentally troubled Captain Hollister conveyed that he was suffering from this disorder in the wake of having been given a massage by a baby Tyrannosaurus rex. |
| devolution | minor | Kryten had inadvertently used the time wand to regress a sparrow into its dinosaur ancestor. Two Red Dwarf crew members inadvertently used the time want to regress themselves into their ape ancestors. |
| felinoid being | minor | The cat-man Cat scarcely appeared in this episode. |
| imperviousness to physical damage | minor | A tiny time-shift somehow made Lister and Rimmer briefly impervious to being beaten up by two bellicose crewmen. |
| sentient computer | minor | The sentient computer Holly chimed in with a quip here and there. |