This episode marks the first time on 24 that the president goes for a trip aboard Air Force One. Reportedly, this set is the same set used in the film Air Force One (1997). Of course, several 24 alum were in that film, including: Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley, Bill Smitrovich, Glenn Morshower, Mark Thompson, J. Scott Shonka and Timothy Carhart.
This episode marks another rare instance in which the split-screens are not used to transition to the closing moments of the episode.
This episode won a Creative Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Underscore. It was also nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing and Outstanding Sound Editing, but lost to The West Wing (1999)'s 25, ER (1994)'s Chaos Theory and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)'s Fight Night respectively.
The second of two episodes being circulated among Emmy voters at the time of the 2003 Emmys, along with the season 2 premiere.
Mason tells Jack (Kiefer Sutherland): "You can go out in a blaze of glory." The Oscar-nominated Bon Jovi song "Blaze of Glory" is also featured in Sutherland's earlier film, "Young Guns II."