- As Lister falls into depression over the loss of his arm, Kryten has the idea to use Nanobots to grow him a new one, only Kryten's Nanobots are missing. Searching for the Nanobots, the crew find the Red Dwarf which has taken on a new form.
- As Lister tries to cope with the loss of his arm, Kryten searches for his nanobots (microscopic robots) to get them to rebuild the arm. In Lister's laundry basket, he finds out who stole Red Dwarf, and the ship is returned in all its glory. Except for one small thing...—Walsh (R-DBP)
- Lister having difficulty adapting with one arm, being unable to do most things by himself, Kryten is looking after him, Kochanski suggests Kryten should let Lister learn to take care of himself again and build a prosthetic arm. Lister has a robotic arm installed, it's tested on picking up a ball, moving the arm requires concentrated effort, it takes a full minute to pick up the ball. Kryten lowers the sensitivity on the arm, they try again and this time the arm punches Kryten reflexively.
Over dinner Kochanski mentions the Kryten in her dimension had nanobots and if they could rebuild Lister's arm from his excess tissue. Unfortunately Kryten's nanobots have long deserted him, their last location was the ocean planet where they discovered the Esperanto. A course is set for the planet and the crew go into stasis, when they are released they seem to be in the wrong location, the navigation computer identifies a nearby planet as Red Dwarf, they land on the surface in a moon buggy, the weather is stormy, Cat is sent to collect samples, he returns, the sand of the planet has had the molecules rearranged from computer chips taken from Red Dwarf, the planet *is* Red Dwarf.
The crew return to Starbug with objects from Red Dwarf, a watch is found containing Holly, he explains they nanobots stole Red Dwarf and miniaturized it, when they were first released from stasis after two hundred years they were chasing a nano Red Dwarf. The nanobots eluded them by boarding Starbug and hiding there, a quick scan of inside Starbug confirms this, they were in Lister's laundry hamper.
Kryten recaptures them and communicates, he orders Red Dwarf restored along with Lister's arm. Lister is taken to the medical lab for the surgery, the others wait until it's done, they arrive and find not only Lister's arm restored but he has a muscular figure. Cat is flying Starbug when Red Dwarf sails by, he flies into an open hatch and discovers the ship is enlarged.
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