When Darlene (Carly Chaikin) tries to blackmail Susan (Sandrine Holt), she makes a reference to a "Petraeus e-mail scandal", which refers to a 2012 scandal where retired general and former CIA director David Petraeus divulged government secrets to his biographer/lover.
The monologue Darlene reads to Mobley and Trenton is Elliot's speech from S0101 verbatim.
Origin of the Title:
- A successor is a back-up when a major system fails.
- The extension: .p12 identifies files from Personal Information Exchange, which require a password to open. These are secure files used to authenticate an individual on a computer or server.
Dom (Grace Gummer) calls the leak of Operation Berenstain as "bigger than Snowden" a reference to Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor who leaked classified information to journalists in 2013. Snowden appears in news footage in the scene.