First appearance of Kelli Giddish playing a different role. She later joins the cast as Amanda Rollins in season 13.
Guest star Kal Penn, who plays Henry Chanoor, is best known for playing stoner Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar film series. Cast member Christopher Meloni, who plays Stabler, also appeared as two different characters in the films. In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) he played a creepy religious tow truck driver named Freakshow, who offered to help the duo fix the tire on their car and also offered to have sex with the duo along with this wife, but they become disgusted and leave. A year after this episode aired, Meloni appeared in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) in which he played the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who tries to kill the duo, but they manage to escape.