This episode features a clip from In Another Life (1998), which had not yet been broadcast. It was eventually shown as part of the fourth season.
Archive footage from Afterlife (1996) is altered to replace various shots of that episode's guest star Barbara Garrick (Dr. Ellen Kersaw) with newly shot footage of Bruce Harwood (Dr. Avery Strong).
The Pentagon secret camera footage of Dr. Randall Strong's presentation to the Committee is dated August 16, 1995. The relevant episode The Voice of Reason (1995) aired on August 20, 1995.
In 1932, The United States Public Health Service conducted a study on 600 African American men on the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama , entitled "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male." Investigators were trying to understand the more advanced stages of the disease. The study was originally projected to last six months but spanned 40 years, and it was not stopped till Associated Press broke the story in 1972. In that time span, the participants were not told they were exposed or even had syphilis. Also, penicillin became the standard treatment for the disease in 1947, and was not provided to the human subjects. After congressional hearings, introduced federal legislation, and several out-of-court settlements, President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology a $200,000 grant to help establish a center for bioethics in research and health care at Tuskegee University as part of a lasting "memorial" to the study's victims.