We caught this on July 2nd 2019 (some 22 years after the initial broadcast).
Our jaws hit the deck in disbelief! This episode is so bad, it could be regarded as brilliant - not! This demonstrates seriously-poor research into what is a part of a sovereign country - and the USA's most-fastidious ally, through thick and thin over the centuries.
Clearly filmed in the USA, with a pastiche view of England in the 60s (1860s???). No clue as to how Belfast looks (claiming that the city was Dublin - in the Irish Republic, therefore *not* part of the United Kingdom since the 1920s - would scarcely have been any better!).
It looks like the apprentice wrote this with a hangover - and a broken arm.
In terms of the "backstory" to this episode, the programme demonstrates all that was wrong with Americans' (and especially Californians') perception of the terrorist situation in Northern Ireland in the 1990s (where as many people were killed as died in the Twin Towers in NYC in 2001).
In fairness to the USA, this level of naivete was finally dispelled when America discovered what terrorism really entails, on Tuesday 11th September 2001. After which, the USA took a sensible (and far more realistic) stand on terrorism.
Let's just write this off as an aberration by Bellisarius.
I re-read this review, in draft form, after an hour and decided - reluctantly - to double my rating. There was one bright note - at least the internal representation of London's Heathrow Airport in the 1990s was almost accurate! Almost!