- Lister falls ill after entering a contaminated area of Red Dwarf trying to find Kochanski's hologram disc which Rimmer has hidden. But Red Dwarf has two unwelcome guests on-board, Lister's Confidence and Paranoia.
- Lister is watching a soap opera which Holly keeps interrupting because he's bored, he's finished reading every book that ever existed and requests Lister to erase the works of Agatha Christie from his memory for fresh rereading, this process removes Holly's memory of asking this request. Lister goes to the sleeping quarters to finish his show which Rimmer interrupts, Rimmer scoffs at Lister's time-wasting and lack of productivity, Lister says he's been productive, he went to the officer's block, this alarms Rimmer as that area is still radioactive, Lister went to look for Kochanski's hologram disk, she dreamt about him, Rimmer climbs into his bunk and they sleep.
In the middle of the night Lister wakes up feeling sick with pneumonia and hobbles to the medical room, he passes out in the corridor, an emergency is sounded and the skutters take Lister to the medical room, Rimmer is directing the examination, Lister wonders why he didn't ask Kochanski out. He had a theory with his friends, the theory was that everyone has two people in their mind, Confidence and Paranoia, Lister is taken to his bed.
Lister is having a fever dream in the sleeping quarters and his hallucinations become real, fish rain down in the sleeping quarters, then a 16th century Warsaw mayor spontaneously combusts, Lister wakes up and Rimmer comes in to tell him of his hallucinations and there are two strangers in the drive room, the personifications of his confidence and paranoia. Confidence is a tall, smooth-talking, showbiz man, Paranoia is pale, judging, morose man. Confidence goes to spend time with Lister, Holly warns of a dust storm outside and all airlocks are sealed, Lister is playing a song he wrote for Kochanski to Confidence, who is naturally amazed, Kochanski is bought up and Lister says he can't find the hologram discs, Confidence assures him he can do anything, Paranoia is telling Rimmer of all of Lister's embarrassing blunders and how much he hates Lister. Lister and Confidence have a plan, they believe they can resurrect Kochanski without deactivating Rimmer, Rimmer still won't tell where her hologram discs are, Lister and Confidence solve it together, they're outside near a solar panel near the sleeping quarters.
The dust storm is over, Lister and Confidence are suited up for the pick-up outside, the medical-unit has been destroyed and Paranoia has disappeared, Lister and Confidence head outside, they find the discs, Confidence admits he destroyed the medical unit, Confidence is still a fever hallucination and curing Lister would mean his departure, he also admits to murdering Paranoia by feeding him into a waste grinder, Lister panics and says to go inside as he's getting hot in his spacesuit, Confidence says he should take his helmet off in an act of over-confidence. He takes his off first and is decompressed.
Lister has the discs and is preparing to resurrect Kochanski, Rimmer warns him he'll be unhappy which proves true, the discs are for Rimmer and a second version appears, the former Rimmer welcomes his clone aboard.
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