A radiation leak wipes out the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf, leaving only one survivor - chicken soup machine repair man, Dave Lister. After three million years in suspended animation, Lister emerges to find he is the last human being in the universe. But he is not alone.

Lister starts seeing bits of the future, and Rimmer tells him he will die in a hideous explosion can Lister cheat fate?

Rimmer encounters his most dangerous challenge ever - Lister is taking the chef's exam. If Lister passes he will hold sufficient rank to have Rimmer replaced as the ship's hologram.

Holly recovers a strange, unidentified pod floating in space. Rimmer is convinced it contains the remains of an alien and begins a scientific investigation of the pod's hieroglyphics.

Lister contracts a mutated virus. The hallucinations of his feverish brain materialize in solid form.

Rimmer creates his perfect companion - an identical duplicate of himself. At first things are blissful, but it quickly becomes a living nightmare.