Arnold Judas Rimmer is a fictional character in the science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf, played by Chris Barrie. He is unpopular with his crew mates, and is often the target of insults or pranks. After he is killed off screen by a radiation leak during a timeskip in the series' first episode "The End" (1988), which is later shown on screen in "Me²" (1988), Rimmer is present for most of the series as a computer-generated hologram, indicated by the "H" symbol on his forehead. Rimmer is depicted as a living human in flashbacks set prior to the accident throughout the show along with situations where Rimmer travels back in time to his own past, and in series VIII in 1999, a flesh and blood version of Rimmer is shown having been resurrected by nanobots with no memory of the hologrammatic Rimmer's experiences. However, following a ten-year break between episodes, the character reappears as a hologram from the miniseries Back to Earth (2009) onwards.