[OOC: Better Dead than... all dialogue from the last scene of the episode Out of Time.]A man appears in the bar.
He doesn't walk through the door. He doesn't even rush through the door. His is a completely door-free entrance. Instead, he appears about a foot above the ground, falling hard, and lands face down on the bar floor, arms stretched in front of him.
Clad in leathers that may once have been brown or black, but are now decidedly
grubby, with half a dozen thick black dreadlocks sprouting from the back of his head, he lies there for less than a second, before struggling up again.
"Is everyone OK?" he asks in a thick Liverpudlian accent as he grabs for a chair and scrambles into it. "Cat? Kryten? Rimmer?"
It takes only another second for Dave to realise that the chair he struggled into isn't the co-pilot's seat on
Starbug, and that he isn't, in fact, on
Starbug,
Red Dwarf, or anywhere he's ever been.
And his crew are nowhere to be seen.
His earnest, determined face visibly deflates as he replays the last few seconds in his head, and realises what just happened. His shoulders slump and a sigh escapes from between nearly closed lips, causing them to vibrate despondantly.
Dave Lister, the last human being alive, isn't any longer.
Someone buy that man a drink.