Ziggy calls his duck his "attorney" and refers to him as "Steven L. Miles," which is the name of a real-life attorney in Baltimore, who is well-known among Baltimoreans for the myriad television advertisements that he and his law firm run on local stations.
This is the first of two scripts George Pelecanos contributes to the second season. Normally a crime novelist, he contributed one of the outstanding scripts to Season 1 and was rewarded by being bumped up to a producer role for Season 2.
Although credited, Idris Elba, Frankie Faison, Wood Harris and Andre Royo do not appear in this episode. This is notable for being the first episode where Elba does not appear.