When Ellie wakes Morgan up, he groggily says "Geez, Ma, I got my head gear on!" This is an homage to the classic 80s movie Sixteen Candles (1984) (spoken by Anthony Michael Hall).
Stunt Coordinator Merritt Yohnka won the 2008 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Stunt Coordination" for this episode.
The flashback scene takes place in Grozny, Chechnya in 2004.
When Ilsa visits Casey at the Buy More, the monitor is displaying the character Ilsa from the Hollywood classic film, Casablanca (1942). As with the film, this Ilsa is filling in her former lover with information about her missing years.