Taryn Manning plays Nicole, a fellow inmate in the women's prison that Fiona is being kept in. Taryn Manning later, famously, goes on to play Pennsatucky in Orange is the New Black, a show about inmates in a women's prison.
One of the Drug Lords that Michael attempts to bring down for the CIA is named Rafael Montero, which is also the name of the corrupt Governor and arch-nemesis of Diego de la Vega in The Mask of Zorro (1998).
Michael's former mentor, Tom Card, is seen eating yogurt when they first meet in this episode - possibly explaining where Michael's own preference for yogurt may have originated.
In the beginning of this episode, when Michael and Tom Card are talking in Card's office, the photograph behind Card shows him speaking with President Barack Obama.