Original Swordfish member Mike Fass returns to the cast permanently after an eight year absence in this episode that has Alice and Marvin Melnick playing extras in a war movie being shot in Kuwait. Two officers of Sadam Hussein's Elite Republican Guard, Salam and Abdul (Tom Rice and Mike Fass, respectively) storm the set and take prisoners, torturing Marvin to give up information on American troop movements. Salam does not believe Marvin when he insists that he's only an extra in a movie. Mike Peros gives his tour de force as Sadam Hussein in this episode whioh was actually shot during the Gulf War and which had its own prewritten outcome even though there was no resolution as yet to the real Desert Storm operation.