Unlike most numbers used on television, the Social Security Number displayed on the computer screen for Marcela (158-46-6532) was a real number issued to a male subject born in 1952 who passed away in 2004.
This episode appears to be based on three separate cases/incidents:
- The Scott Peterson case.
- Inspired by cases of fetal abduction.
- The Clara Harris case. Houston dentist, Clara Harris, who killed her orthodontist husband in 2002. She confronted her husband and his lover in the lobby of a Houston hotel. After creating a scene, Harris left the hotel and lay in wait in its parking lot. When the couple came out to the parking lot, Harris hit him with her Mercedes Benz, then circled around the lot several times to run over him again and again. A P.I. hired by Harris to follow her husband caught the entire assault on videotape and testified against her at her trial. She was convicted and sentenced to 20 years, but was paroled in 2018 after 15 years. Her story was featured in a made-for-TV movie.
Lennie Briscoe says, "Love- a devastating disease instantly cured by marriage." This is a variation on Ambrose Bierce's definition in his book "The Devil's Dictionary," which described love as a temporary insanity that is curable either by marriage or a removal of the influence causing the distraction.
Guest star Carlos Leon was at one time romantically involved with Madonna and is the father of her daughter, Lourdes.
After Briscoe and Green have chased and collared a suspect by running through a carwash, Briscoe sarcastically asks Green if the suit he's wearing, now soaked, appears to be "wash and wear." This is a reference to Supersonic Boom (1967), where Max and 99 go through a car wash in their topless convertible and get drenched. Max remarks to 99 that he's lucky to be wearing his wash and wear suit.