This episode won the Writer's Guild of America award for Best Drama Writing for a TV Show, beating out such contenders as Law & Order (1990).
When Jack is held hostage in Salazaar's plane heading to Mexico, the guard watching Jack is also watching Speed (1994) on his laptop. You can see the part where the bus drives into the hangar on it's way to the runway to crash into the Pacific Courier cargo plane. Dennis Hopper stared in Speed (1994) and also played the role of Victor Drazen in the last 5 episodes of season 1.
The original FOX broadcast began approximately one minute late.