The rain in the outside shot of the brew pub at the end of the episode was digitally added, probably because when the inside scene was shot it was raining. You can see that no one outside is using an umbrella.
The villain's right hand man is named 'Pantani.' This is the same last name as the late Marco Pantani, a world famous cyclist and winner of the Tour de France, whose nickname was 'the pirate'.
Parker (Beth Riesgraf) names the safe at the toy company as a Boylan-Kim. Christine Boylan is a writer and executive story editor and Albert Kim is a writer for Leverage. The other vaults and safes used on the show are named Glenn-Reider after Leverage writers Melissa Glenn and Jessica Rieder. Both homages are continued in Leverage: Redemption (2021).
The dad blog for Eliot reads: "I'm a single dad who loves his kids and his life. I made this blog to share my day-to-day life and hopefully help out anybody out there who is also doing it on their own. Single touches the adult organ before the hassle. Single coughs! Will the device migrate near the rejected stray? His sigh solves the folded biochemistry. Father chairs a disclaimer. The circular pops the store inertia. When can another pulled table gain father? Why can't single dose the counterpart? Single walks! Beside the guns workload staggers single." And: "Bracing for Braces It's time for that dreaded part of growing up: braces. The set spike despairs below the class. A cumulative target bicycles next to a diagnosis. Braces retracts next to the narrative. Inside braces decides the fruit. The condemned chase opposes this inertia. Across the dominant stirs the blatant engine. Braces succeeds on top of the peer. Why won't a recorder foam underneath the incidental car? The patience bobs? Braces crafts a banana near the fast enlightened. Beside braces speculates the determined insight. Braces owns the gasp."
Jonathan Frakes: in the Government Toy Safety office as Hardison drops off the toy dog. This was his second cameo appearance, with the first being in The Snow Job (2009) in Season 1. He directed a total of 13 episodes of the show.