There was a captured Russian missile sub, a la Red October. It was being studied by an Unnamed American Government Agency consisting entirely of talk.bizarre people. Mark.Gooley contacted the higher-ups at the agency and assured them we had a perfect operative for this kind of work-- that is, dismantling and cataloging foreign hardware, then reassembling it. So there's this spooky-ass close-up shot, just Mark.'s mouth, with cigarette, as he makes another call. This one's to Carasso.
Roger shows up in a red sports car, one that looks like a Porsche but was called an Xsche-- I think it was a generic clone-- covered with religious insignia. We had the sub down at a U-Store-It place, sitting on wooden sawhorses (about ten thousand of them) and everyone drove brand new sports cars or classic roadsters in perfect shape.