It is Rimmer's death-day, and a party is arranged for him on a convenient planetoid (obviously he wants to celebrate his death to a great degree). Back on Red Dwarf, he drunkenly confides to Lister how many times in his life he has had sex. Naturally, it isn't many times at all. It's once. And she was drunk, and later revealed to have had concussion from being hit over the head with a winch, thinking Rimmer was someone else called Norman. Lister feels bad, and decides to do something about it, but a more worrying problem arises the following morning when he and Cat each wake up with a leg in plaster, Lister's jigsaw puzzle has been magically solved and four days have disappeared from Holly's memory banks, his star charts messed with, as well as four pages from Lister's diary. Rimmer suspects aliens, but things aren't quite as they may seem. When they find Holly's missing black box, they watch the videos of what happened over the missing days...
After Rimmer confides in Lister, he tells him about his long desire to be loved. Lister and Cat go to the hologram simulation suite where Rimmer's hologram is generated. Lister uploads 8 months of his memory when he was going out with Lise Yates into Rimmer's memory. Rimmer wakes in a jubilant mood from what he thinks was a magical 8 months of his life. However, Rimmer later discovers the letters that Lise wrote to Lister during those 8 months and it is revealed that he never experienced them at all, Rimmer is distraught and wants to erase the last 4 days. They bury the black box on the planetoid they found, and in the process Cat and Lister drop gravestone on their feet, explaining their plaster casts. Lister rips the pages out of his diary for the last 4 days, and the episode finishes with Lister completing the jigsaw puzzle.
Trivia
- When Lise Yates is being recorded, she at first says "I love you Dave". When Lister records it for Rimmer, she says, "I love you Rimmer", and not "I love you Arnold".
- Much of the last season's things, like his "Gazpatcho Soup" words, are shown on the monitors in the Hologram Simulation Suite
- The Hologram Simulation Suite looks different in this episode than it does in the Queeg episode
