When Kryten first meets Able he says that both of them are 2X4Cs. However, according to "The Last Day" Kryten`s full name is Kryten 2X4B 523P. No sign of "2X4C".

Maybe he "upgraded" himself when Dave helped him break his programming

Now that's the way Jane Austin should be enjoyed, with weapons and explosions.

Boy those were fake looking heads they showed just before Kryten's heads blew.

I think in Rimmerworld it was stated that Simulants don't eat, but the simulant here mentions using a mint sauce on Lister.

Able leaves Starbug on an escape pod. I guess they found a replacement since in Gunmen Of The Apocalypse Lister said the previous pod had escaped.

The escape pod seemed to resemble the mail carrier from Better Than Life and the ore sample pod from Terrorform. Can anyone confirm this?

How do you know he was going to use the mint sauce on Lister to eat him? There are all sorts of perversions in this world... *ahem*... I'll stop right there.

There are also lots of meaningless threats.

Also, maybe they got the escape pod from the SS Centauri?

In the credits, the Simulant was listed as Special Appearance by Don Henderson (or something like that). I assume he's some bigshot in Britain, but what else has he appeared in?

Well, the Doctor Who story Delta and The Bannermen as Gavrok. He died a year or so ago.

Here's some more info on Don Henderson (from http://www.irdp.co.uk/donpage.htm [IRDP is Independent Radio Drama Productions]):

Don's acting career began when he accepted a 'dare' from a friend to audition for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was accepted on the spot, and stayed with the RSC for six happy years, playing almost all of Shakespeare's characters.

In 1977, Granada Television cast Don to play the role of Detective Sergeant Bulman in a three part mini-series entitled The XYY Man. He was later asked to re-create the role in Strangers with his on screen partner, Dennis Blanche. After two series of Strangers, Granada gave him his own series entitled Bulman, written by Murray Smith, in which he was partnered by Siobhan Redmond. Bulman ran for 26 episodes.

Don then teamed up with his old friend Leslie Grantham and with Murray Smith to create the award winning drama series The Paradise Club which ran for 20 episodes.

A devoted family man, Don loved to work with his wife, Shirley Stelfox, whenever the opportunity arose, including Knights of God and more recently in the award winning drama Pat and Margaret with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters.

Film credits include Star Wars for George Lucas, A Midsummer Night's Dream for Sir Peter Hall, Brazil and Baron Munchhausen for Terry Gilliam, No Escape opposite Ray Liotta for director Martin Campbell, Wind in the Willows for Terry Jones, and two films awaiting release: Preaching to the Perverted for Stuart Urban and Fairytale for director Charles Sturridge.

Don Henderson wrote in to IRDP back in the early days of the company, asking to act in the company's plays, but IRDP's directors did not immediately recognise the significance of his approach, and Don had to personally ring the company to ask for an audition! Realising our mistake, we skipped the audition bit and immediately offered him the part of Socrates as well as the role of a Renaissance hitman in a new production of The Borgias.

Since those early days, Don became a friend and guiding light for the company. His unpretentious and down to earth approach was a great inspiration and support for new writers. As Patron of the LAB / LBC London Radio Playwrights' Festival since its foundation in 1990, his colourful and conscientious script reports written in his own very distinctive long-hand style became legendary. He starred with Leslie Grantham in the award winning production of The Brockley Jack, and he produced a masterful performance as Professor Van Helsing in IRDP's six-hour long dramatisation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. He also starred in Martin McDonagh's first radio play, The Wolf and the Woodcutter, a winning play in the London Radio Playwrights' Festival in 1995.

Don passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday 22nd June 1997 after a short illness, leaving behind his wife, the actress Shirley Stelfox, his son Ian and daughter Louise, his stepdaughter Helena and his grandson, Mathew.

How many Mechanoids are wandering around out there?