Trivia / Red Dwarf Season VIII "Cassandra"

• Deleted Scene: Scenes cut from the episode:
  • After the Holly Watch suggests that Lister become a dog to halve his sentence in The Tank, Lister asks if he has any other ideas. Holly says that prison regs dictate that anybody who claims they are insane to get out of prison must be sane - it's a "catch 44" situation, twice as bad as a "catch 22" situation. Lister says that he is going to stop wearing the watch in the shower, since he doesn't know if it is waterproof.
  • Rimmer muses that he is in The Tank, despite coming from an upper-class family and having a good education. He also says that he must be the only person there who can spell "Symposium". Lister says that knowing how to spell Symposium will be a handy thing to know when the "psycho-droids from G-Wing" corner Rimmer in the prison laundry room.
  • When Rimmer says that there is no way he is becoming one of the Canaries, Lister tells him "too late Tweety Pie. There's your ID badge and uniform." Rimmer ponders telling them that Lister forged Rimmer's signature. As Lister tells Rimmer the amount of privileges Canaries get, he makes it clear he believes that "conjugal visiting rights" mean that the prison staff will also provide him with a sexual partner. Rimmer is surprised that Lister doesn't think "conjugal rights" was a room where the cons go to juggle. Lister had asked the guards to put him down for twin sisters and a party pizza, to which the guards had merely laughed at him. He wasn't being fussy, only asking for pepperoni flavor pizza.
  • Kryten's extended exposition on Cassandra's vision has him postulating that she can "cut corners" along the time-space curvature. After being told that he will die aged 181 removing a bra with his teeth, Rimmer is sad it's not next week. Lister asks how and when the Cat will die. Cassandra says that she would never divulge information about somebodies future who did not genuinely want to hear it. Lister thinks for a minute, then aks how old he will be when he attends Cat's funeral. However they are interrupted by Blood Drinker, who has some news about the SS Silverberg hull. The SS Silverberg had started shipping water 18 floors up, and they have two hours before it becomes a problem, and calls down Mr. Knot to help inspect with the damage.
  • As Rimmer comes up with a plan to save his own hide from Cassandra's predictions, that involves sacrificing Kryten, an "expendable" mechanoid. Kryten sobs to Rimmer that he can't, after all they've been through. Rimmer says he "doesn't give a stuff", since he has "only known him a week" (indicating that it has been only a week since the events of "Back in The Red", when Rimmer and the rest of the crew were resurrected by the nanobots.) The Cat also says that he hardly knows this Rimmer, compared to the "old Rimmer" who went off to become Ace Rimmer in the previous series' "Stoke Me a Clipper". Kochanski points out the flaw in Rimmer's plan, since he had referred to Kryten by name several times in front of Cassandra.
  • As the crew form a "protection circle" around Rimmer, Rimmer congratulates Kryten on a fine plan, asking their 100% effort in saving his life. Rimmer also asks Kochanski to press her chest a little harder into him with a smug look on his face.
  • An alternate take as Rimmer and Kochanski are interrupted before they can have sex.
  • An extended version of Cassandra's demise shows the fateful series of incidents in Cassandra's chamber occurring more slowly, and there are more consoles seen exploding. When it reaches Cassandra's central column, her final explosion is seen in full.
• What Could Have Been: This was almost made as a two-parter.