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	With the show returning to Stage G for filming, new director Juliet May decided to shoot "[[Demons ~~and~~ Angels]]" first over "The Inquisitor". "[[Holoship]]" had been put back in the filming schedule because of guest star availability and "The Inquisitor" was passed on by the new director as she was still trying to make sense of the script.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series V Production">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/production.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series V Production\| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|accessdate =2008-01-07 \|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013121/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/production.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archivedate = 2008-01-04}}</ref>		With the show returning to Stage G for filming, new director Juliet May decided to shoot "[[Demons & Angels]]" first over "The Inquisitor". "[[Holoship]]" had been put back in the filming schedule because of guest star availability and "The Inquisitor" was passed on by the new director as she was still trying to make sense of the script.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series V Production">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/production.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series V Production\| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|accessdate =2008-01-07 \|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013121/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/production.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archivedate = 2008-01-04}}</ref>

	[[Jack Docherty]] played The Inquisitor, James Cormack played Thomas Allman and Jake Abraham played the alternative Lister.<ref name="The Inquisitor cast and crew"/>		[[Jack Docherty]] played The Inquisitor, James Cormack played Thomas Allman and Jake Abraham played the alternative Lister.<ref name="The Inquisitor cast and crew"/>

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	\| image = The Inquisitor (Red Dwarf).jpg		\| image = The Inquisitor (Red Dwarf).jpg
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	\| caption = The Inquisitor visits ''Red Dwarf'' to assess if the crew are worthy of their existence		\| caption = The Inquisitor visits ''Red Dwarf'' to assess if the crew are worthy of their existence
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	==External links==		==External links==
	~~{{Wikiquote\|Red_Dwarf#.22The Inquisitor.22\|The Inquisitor}}~~
	*{{BBC episode\|p00bpl4d\|The Inquisitor}}		*{{BBC episode\|p00bpl4d\|The Inquisitor}}
	*{{IMDb episode\|0684182\|The Inquisitor}}		*{{IMDb episode\|0684182\|The Inquisitor}}

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Red Dwarf]]
| image = The Inquisitor (Red Dwarf).jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = The Inquisitor visits ''Red Dwarf'' to assess if the crew are worthy of their existence
| series_no = 5
| episode = 2
| director = [[Juliet May]] & [[Grant Naylor]]
| writer = [[Rob Grant]] & [[Doug Naylor]]
| airdate = {{Start date|1992|02|27|df=yes}}
| guests =
* [[Jack Docherty]] as The Inquisitor
* Jake Abraham as Second Lister
* Tim Yeates as Second Kryten (uncredited)
* James Cormack as Thomas Allman
* Duane Cox as Young Lister (uncredited)
* Carl Chase as Old Lister (uncredited)<ref>IMDB entry https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684182/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast</ref>
| prev = [[Holoship]]
| next = [[Terrorform]]
| episode_list = List of Red Dwarf episodes
}}

"'''The Inquisitor'''" is the second episode of [[science fiction]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series V<ref name="British Sitcom Guide — Red Dwarf — Series 5">{{cite web | url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series5.shtml | title =British Sitcom Guide — Red Dwarf — Series 5 | publisher =sitcom.co.uk |accessdate =2008-01-29}}</ref> and the twenty sixth in the series run.<ref name="TV.com — The Inquisitor summary">{{cite web | url = http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/the-inquisitor/episode/10970/summary.html | title =TV.com — The Inquisitor summary | publisher =tv.com |accessdate =2008-01-29}}</ref> It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC2]] on 27 February 1992.<ref name="BBC — Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF V — THE INQUISITOR">{{cite web | url = http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/NMRE195F | title =BBC — Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF V — THE INQUISITOR | publisher =BBC |accessdate =2007-12-12}}</ref> It was written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Juliet May]] and [[Grant Naylor]].<ref name="The Inquisitor cast and crew">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684182/fullcredits | title =The Inquisitor cast and crew | publisher =IMDb |accessdate =2008-01-29}}</ref> The episode's plot deals with a [[time travel]]ling [[Red Dwarf characters#Simulants|simulant]] who visits ''Red Dwarf'' to assess if they are worthy of their existence.

==Plot==
[[Arnold Rimmer]], [[Dave Lister]], [[Kryten]] and [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]] find a trip out on a ''Starbug'' cut short when they are returned to ''Red Dwarf''. The group discover it to be the work of The Inquisitor – a self-repairing [[Red Dwarf characters#Simulants|simulant]] who survived until the end of time, concluded that, as there was no God, the only point of existence was to lead a worthwhile life and is now time-travelling throughout history to judge all, removing from existence all he has judged unworthy of existence and replacing with others who could have been conceived in their places. Each member of the group finds themselves judged by the Inquisitor through a copy of themselves, the only means of judgement that the Inquisitor deemed to be fair. While Rimmer and Cat are spared with their arguments and own low standards for their own lives, Kryten and Lister find that they have been judged to be unworthy as a result of their mechanoid programming and anti-authoritarianism respectively. Both find themselves removed from the time-stream. Before they are erased, a future version of Kryten arrives and amputates the Inquisitor's left hand that holds a time-manipulating gauntlet, passing it to both before he is killed, and leaving them with a cryptic clue to operating it.

Escaping from the simulant, the pair seek out their friends, but find they no longer recognise them since being removed from history. Lister attempts to convince Rimmer that he and Kryten know him and the Cat (and not to eject them from the airlock) by citing a number of embarrassing personal details about him. They also meet their un-conceived equivalents. The Inquisitor soon catches up with the pair and attempts to destroy them but inadvertently kills their replacements, allowing them to escape again partly by Lister's use of his equivalent's severed hand to open locked doors. Kryten soon works out how to use the gauntlet from the clue they got, using it to age away their restraints. Rimmer and Cat, now convinced that Lister and Kryten are friends rather than foes, are destroyed upon confronting the Inquisitor. Kryten uses the gauntlet to freeze the simulant in place. To keep the timeline coherent, Kryten uses it to go back in time and avoid a paradox. Meanwhile, Lister uses the Inquisitor's other time gauntlet to put the simulant in danger in order to bargain for his life being spared by saving his life, only for the Inquisitor to declare that he can erase him to prevent himself being endangered. But upon doing so, his gauntlet backfires, not knowing Lister had Kryten reprogramme it, causing the Inquisitor to be erased from existence, while restoring everyone and history to its original state.

==Production==
"The Inquisitor", which was the second episode to be filmed,<ref name="Series V Preview">Series V Preview, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 1, March 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN|0965-5603}}</ref> was considered by Grant and Naylor to lead the series, but as it was heavily science fiction influenced the casual viewer friendly Holoship was chosen to go out first instead.<ref name="Grant and Naylor
Look Back">Grant and Naylor Look Back, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 11, January 1993, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN|0965-5603}}</ref>

With the show returning to Stage G for filming, new director Juliet May decided to shoot "[[Demons and Angels]]" first over "The Inquisitor". "[[Holoship]]" had been put back in the filming schedule because of guest star availability and "The Inquisitor" was passed on by the new director as she was still trying to make sense of the script.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series V Production">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/production.html | title =Red Dwarf Series V Production| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |accessdate =2008-01-07 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013121/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/production.html  |archivedate = 2008-01-04}}</ref>

[[Jack Docherty]] played The Inquisitor, James Cormack played Thomas Allman and Jake Abraham played the alternative Lister.<ref name="The Inquisitor cast and crew"/>

==Cultural references==
*At the start of the episode, Kryten observes that Lister is reading a comic-book version of [[Virgil]]'s [[Aeneid]]: "The epic tale of [[Agamemnon]]'s pursuit of [[Helen of Troy]]." In fact, although the [[Trojan horse]] is referred to in the ''Aeneid'', the work as a whole is not about Agamemnon or Helen (who both feature more prominently in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'').
*Kryten and Lister chained together and on the run references ''[[The Defiant Ones (film)|The Defiant Ones]]''.<ref name="The Inquisitor movie connections">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/movieconnections/title/tt0684182/movieconnections | title =The Inquisitor movie connections | publisher =IMDb |accessdate =2008-01-08}}</ref>
*In a heat of Series 2 of [[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]] (which Craig later hosted after the end of BBC produced Red Dwarf) a robot called 'Inquisitor' competed. When the people who made the bot met Craig on the podium, Craig asked: "Where does the name come from?" and the roboteer replied "Red Dwarf". Craig responded "Never heard of it!"
*In S20E08 of The Simpsons; ''The Burns and The Bees''; Homer Simpson uses Rimmer's line, "A simple yes would have sufficed!", to similar comic effect.

==Reception==
The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 27 February 1992 in the 9:00pm evening time slot,<ref name="BBC — Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF V — THE INQUISITOR"/> and received a mixed reaction from viewers.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN|0965-5603}}</ref> Although the episode was viewed by over 5 million viewers,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series V Aftermath">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/aftermath.html | title =Red Dwarf Series V Aftermath| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |accessdate =2008-01-07 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013115/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/aftermath.html  |archivedate = 2008-01-04}}</ref> the episode has been regarded as very Sci-Fi,<ref name="Series V review by Gavrielle">{{cite web | url =http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/dwarf3.shtml | title =Series V review by Gavrielle | publisher =reviewsbygavrielle.com |accessdate =2008-01-29}}</ref> and some people found the ending of the episode confusing, and the time travel aspect had added to the confusion.<ref name="Grant and Naylor Look Back">Grant and Naylor Look Back, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 11, January 1993, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN|0965-5603}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Predestination paradox]]
*[[Time travel in fiction]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Red_Dwarf#.22The Inquisitor.22|The Inquisitor}}
*{{BBC episode|p00bpl4d|The Inquisitor}}
*{{IMDb episode|0684182|The Inquisitor}}
*[http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?seriesID=5 Series V episode guide at www.reddwarf.co.uk]

{{Red Dwarf episodes}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Inquisitor, The}}
[[Category:Red Dwarf V episodes]]
[[Category:1992 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television episodes about time travel]]

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	The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 27 February 1992 in the 9:00pm evening time slot,<ref name="BBC — Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF V — THE INQUISITOR"/> and received a mixed reaction from viewers.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN\|0965-5603}}</ref> Although the episode was viewed by over 5 million viewers,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series V Aftermath">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/aftermath.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series V Aftermath\| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|accessdate =2008-01-07 \|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013115/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/aftermath.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archivedate = 2008-01-04}}</ref> the episode has been regarded as very Sci-Fi,<ref name="Series V review by Gavrielle">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/dwarf3.shtml \| title =Series V review by Gavrielle \| publisher =reviewsbygavrielle.com \|accessdate =2008-01-29}}</ref> and some people found the ending of the episode confusing, and the time travel aspect had added to the confusion.<ref name="Grant and Naylor Look Back">Grant and Naylor Look Back, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 11, January 1993, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN\|0965-5603}}</ref>		The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 27 February 1992 in the 9:00pm evening time slot,<ref name="BBC — Programme Catalogue — RED DWARF V — THE INQUISITOR"/> and received a mixed reaction from viewers.<ref name="Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results">Red Dwarf Smegazine: Survey Results, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN\|0965-5603}}</ref> Although the episode was viewed by over 5 million viewers,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series V Aftermath">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/aftermath.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series V Aftermath\| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|accessdate =2008-01-07 \|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104013115/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_5/aftermath.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archivedate = 2008-01-04}}</ref> the episode has been regarded as very Sci-Fi,<ref name="Series V review by Gavrielle">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/dwarf3.shtml \| title =Series V review by Gavrielle \| publisher =reviewsbygavrielle.com \|accessdate =2008-01-29}}</ref> and some people found the ending of the episode confusing, and the time travel aspect had added to the confusion.<ref name="Grant and Naylor Look Back">Grant and Naylor Look Back, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 11, January 1993, Fleetway Editions Ltd, {{ISSN\|0965-5603}}</ref>

	~~==See also==~~
	*[[Predestination paradox]]
	*[[Time travel in fiction]]

	==References==		==References==