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Locations in and around Manchester were used for the episode. Realising they cannot stay, Kryten and Rimmer decide to return to their time with the others, a notion reinforced by Cat's horrifying discovery of what happens to someone trying to relieve themselves in reverse. When they are fired for starting a fight, Kryten realises it is about to happen in reverse, resulting in Lister discovering his injuries are to be healed in it. Lister and Cat fail to convince the pair to leave, especially when Lister mentions a few examples of the backwards reality's bad sides. Lister and Cat, after arriving, initially assume that they are in Bulgaria, and then finally understanding the nature of things when they realise they're in England and everything is backwards, and find Rimmer and Kryten enjoying themselves in their new jobs.

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Lister and Cat ( Danny John-Jules) finally track them down three weeks later in Starbug 2, but upon arriving, Lister is confused by the 'backwards' nature of time, including the fact he has arrived with a feeling of cracked ribs and a black eye.

Kryten and Rimmer are initially disgusted by the 'backwards' behaviour of people, but soon opt to use their forwardness to their advantage and apply as an entertainment act called, backwards, 'The Sensational Reverse Brothers', until they can be rescued.

When the pair see a sign written backwards and people performing actions and speaking backwards, Holly concludes they are on Earth in the distant future where time is now running backwards. Some time after these events, Arnold Rimmer ( Chris Barrie) takes Kryten out for a piloting test with Starbug 1, only for the pair to be sucked into a time hole and crash-land on a planet similar to Earth. At the same time, the ship's computer Holly underwent a transformation to become his alternate universe counterpart Hilly ( Hattie Hayridge) whom he fell madly in love with, while the others came across the broken pieces of the mechanoid Kryten ( Robert Llewellyn), after he crashed on an asteroid while riding Lister's space bike, leading to Lister having to salvage and rebuild him, consequentially causing him to lose his old personality. Following the events of Parallel Universe, Dave Lister ( Craig Charles) gave birth to twins who had to be sent back to the universe of their origin because of his universe's law.

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