At the tailend of the episode, prior to asking Sam a pivotal question in the first season's ongoing storyline, Annalise removes her wig, showing for the first time that she wears one. This was one of Viola Davis' conditions for accepting the role and doing the series at all. In showing Annalise to be living with the same alopecia areata that Davis herself does, Annalise quite literally puts on a mask for the public to see, and in her home life when she takes it off she is essentially a different person.
This is the first episode that Laura Innes directs. In later seasons she will also play Pennsylvania Governor Lynne Birkhead.
Starting in S1E2 all the titles of episodes are said by a character. In this episode Connor tells Michaela 'let's get to scooping' while in the woods