The line that is written by the homeless man: 'I shall not murder....' is from Dylan Thomas' poem "Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London".
Alex Cabot's "fake" obituary ran in The Crimson, which is Harvard University's student news paper, which can only mean she is a graduate of Harvard.
Sean Cullen has played three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 11.22 Ace (2010) - Brett Trask
- Episode 11.16 Witness (2010) - Brett Trask
- Episode 10.17 Hell (2009) - Brett Trask
- Episode 5.24 Poison (2004) - Pete Campbell
- Episode 1.15 Entitled (2000) - Arthur Pruitt
Robert Wisdom (Father Theo Burdett) and Gbenga Akinnagbe (Elijah Okello) were both on The Wire as Bunny Colvin and Chris Partlow, respectively.
This episode was supposed to originally air on March 24th, 2009 but was aired a week later due to Presidential programming.