[KOCHANSKI leaves her seat and stands between LISTER and the CAT to see further up ahead]
CAT You mean there's a heart out there with no body? No wonder it's beating so fast.
[As Starbug hurtles along the vent, the shape of a large rat slowly resolves out of the darkness. In rears up and squeals with fright as CAT deftly swings Starbug around it]
LISTER Heyyy!
[CAT laughs happily and shoots glances around the cockpit for approval]
[A second rat slides out of the dark up ahead, facing away from the rapidly approaching Dwarfers and sniffing at the ground, unawares. With its pilots distracted the 'Bug sails into and jams in the rear-end of the rat, which squeals as it is lifted off its paws with the inertia, then carried down the vent with the force of Starbug's engines]
[The cockpit is in darkness, and the quick thudding of a heartbeat can be heard. Grimaces paint the faces of all four]
HOLLY I hope we don't get stopped by the cops. They don't like it when you're rat-arsed...
