Trivia / Red Dwarf Season V "The Inquisitor"

• Deleted Scene: The following scenes were cut from the episode:
  • Three extensions to the "Trojan Horse" discussion. They include Lister mocking the Greeks, Rimmer mocking Lister's historical knowledge, and Kryten talking of Silicon Heaven while Rimmer shows him the manual that shows Kryten has installed a "silicon heaven belief chip".
  • As the Inquisitor remotely takes over Lister's body, ordering Starbug to turn around, Rimmer comes up with a plan to outwit the rogue droid - that is, knocking Lister unconscious. As the Inquisitor then speaks through Lister, telling them that he can erase them from history without any damage to causality, the Cat hits Lister with a shovel, and a second time when Lister goes to get back up. As Kryten protests, the Cat then hits Kryten on the head with the shovel. Rimmer and Cat seem smug believing that they have outwitted the Inquisitor, who then takes over the Cat's body. Then Rimmer's, then Kryten's. The Cat hits Kryten again with the shovel.
  • Lister and Kryten face death in a number of trimmed chase scenes with the Inquisitor. These also include extended dialogue in the meeting with the alternate Lister and alternate Kryten.
  • After Holly fails to recognise Lister and Kryten, there was a short sequence of Lister saying that they no longer exist in this timeline, with Kryten telling Lister that "More accurately, we don't ever have existed here anymore." However, Craig Charles and Robert Llewellyn simply could not get through the scene without corpsing or flubbing their lines, and so it was truncated to just Lister realizing that they have been erased from history. More of the intended exchange can be seen in the Smeg Ups Hilarious Outtakes.
  • As originally shot, the Inquisitor was to remove his mask to reveal a pale, thin man with red around the eyes, black lips and black veins across his face. However it was decided this was not the stuff of campfire horror stories it was intended to be and so was dropped, leaving an air of mystery around the character. The original ending was later re-shot with mostly identical dialogue - but in the re-shoot the Inquisitor kept his visor down.
• What Could Have Been:
  • This was originally intended to be first in the filming order for Series V, but newly-hired director Juliet May opted to instead film "Demons and Angels" first, as she was having trouble understanding the storyline for this episode.
  • The writers originally planned for the Inquisitor's first appearance with Thomas Allman to go out before the title montage and setting up the villain as a significant threat, however this idea was dropped and the titles are still the first sequence with the villain appearing after.
  • During filming, May directed Jack Docherty to play the Inquisitor as having No Indoor Voice. When May left the series and Rob Grant and Doug Naylor took over the directing duties, they opted to have Docherty redub his lines to make the character more of a guttural growler.

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