"Double-Edged Sword" is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season

30 Rock (season 5)

The fifth season of 30 Rock, an American television comedy series on the NBC network in the United States, began airing on September 23, 2010. NBC announced on March 5, 2010 that 30 Rock would be returning for a fifth season in the 2010–2011 television season...

 of the American television comedy series 30 Rock

30 Rock

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, and the 94th overall episode of the series. It was directed by Don Scardino

Don Scardino

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, and written by Kay Cannon

Kay Cannon

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 & Tom Ceraulo. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company

NBC

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 (NBC) network in the United States on February 10, 2011. Guest stars in this episode include Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell , known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. Banks had her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy...

, John Cho

John Cho

John Yohan Cho is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles in the American Pie films and the Harold & Kumar films . He also starred in the critically acclaimed hit film Better Luck Tomorrow...

, and Matt Damon

Matt Damon

Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck...

.

In this episode, Jack Donaghy

Jack Donaghy

John Francis "Jack" Donaghy is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. He is the Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric and later Kabletown....

 (Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin

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) heads to Toronto

Toronto

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 with his wife, Avery Jessup (Banks). When they both discover that she is in labor, they try their best to get back to the United States with the help of a meth smuggler, Lorne (Cho). Meanwhile, Liz Lemon

Liz Lemon

Elizabeth Miervaldis "Liz" Lemon is the main character of the American television series 30 Rock. She is portrayed by Tina Fey, who is also the creator of the series and its showrunner.-Personal history:...

 (Tina Fey

Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live , the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls and Baby Mama .Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the...

) boards a plane with her boyfriend, Carol Burnett (Damon), as the pilot. Things do not go well for Liz and the other passengers when the plane has not flown yet and Carol keeps telling them that they will leave "in about half an hour" several times. Elsewhere, Tracy Jordan

Tracy Jordan

Ogbert Jordan, better known by his stage name, Tracy, is a fictional character on the American television series 30 Rock, based on and played by Tracy Morgan.-Brief overview:...

 (Tracy Morgan

Tracy Morgan

Tracy Morgan is an American comedian who is best known for his eight seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and currently known for playing the role of Tracy Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock.-Early life:...

) deals with the pressure of having won an EGOT and the formal expectations that he has to meet.