Giovanni Ribisi directed Episode 202. According to Fred Golan, he was meticulous in his planning and execution, resulting in a wonderful sense of controlled hysteria, perfectly pitched to the premise of the episode.
The creative team researched the prison system for Episode 202, which was penned by Fred Golan; across America, they found many instances of individuals being detained longer than they were supposed to be or released too early.
The writers' room knew the premise of the episode--to engineer an early prison release for Pete in under a day--was somewhat outrageous, but Executive Producer and writer, Fred Golan, had gathered useful details about prison infrastructure from conversations with management personnel, as well as from individuals he discovered such as Neil Moore; a UK prisoner who successfully contrived his early release from prison in 2014 by building a fake website and emailing release instructions that appeared to be from an official court body.
While writing Episode 202, Fred Golan researched how difficult it might be to get into an evidence room on the sly. In reality, he found the level of security and procedures for gaining entry vary from precinct to precinct, allowing the creative team to calibrate the right level of difficulty for Taylor.
According to Technical Advisor Ava Do, many pick-pockets work in teams of two or more, though Marius is an example of someone who's adept at working alone. Ava's business partner and husband, Apollo Robbins, is a notable theatrical pick-pocket, once dubbed "best in the world," in a 2013 profile in The New Yorker.