This is the last appearance of Dr. Elizabeth Olivet (Carolyn McCormick ) on this series until season fourteen's Deadly Ambition (2013). In the intervening time, she continued to play the character on Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and the short-lived Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005).
Christine Andreas who plays singer Ricki Austin on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a singer in real life.
Hayden Panettiere guest stars as a child who is supposedly "accident prone" and is constantly suffering from a wide variety of injuries. Panettiere would later go on to achieve fame for her role in Heroes (2006), where she plays a character who cannot be harmed at all.