After this episode aired, Matthew Lillard wrote on Twitter that his scene in the interview room was the "hardest scene of my life," adding it was done in two takes.
Despite only appearing as a still photo (and having been dead for almost a decade before this episode aired), Don S. Davis gets credited as being in this episode.
Gordon Cole's line: "Cooper flew the coop," is the extremely close to the same line Agent Albert Roserfield used about Windom Earle's escape in the original series ("he flew the coop, Coop")
Albert asks Constance, "What happens in season two?" This is a reference to the "How long have I been out?" question Dale Cooper asks incredulously in the second season premiere of the original series.