This episode marks the final time in which the entire Stabler family appear together in the same episode. The four children would appear together in the episode Pretend (2007), but without Kathy Stabler (Isabel Gillies) present.
Besides the obvious fact that this episode aired out of sequence based on Mariska Hargitay's shorter hair, she is also still pregnant.
The episode title comes from the name of a Persian queen who, according to legend, married a king who would marry a new virgin every night and then behead her after consummating the marriage so that she could not cheat on him after he caught his first wife cheating. Scheherazade avoided this fate by telling the king stories that he found so exciting that he kept her alive so that he would have a new story every night. These stories became the basis of the classic 1,001 Arabian Nights. Huang (BD Wong ) mentions this story in this episode.