In the Seabreeze bookie's office Jeffrey Dean Morgan sits opposite a blackboard on which a name has been erased and replaced with "Comedian", the character he played in Watchmen (2009).
Dominik Garcia's own parents and grandparents had emigrated from Cuba to the US in the wake of Fidel Castro's takeover of that nation.
Leland Orser had previously played Jeffrey Dean Morgan's henchman/catspaw in Carpenter Street (2003).