There's a scene where Stark (James Woods) and D.A. Devlin (Jeri Ryan) have a meeting in a stairwell about the repercussions, Stark says "...Dean Gorman's death becomes another unsolved L.A. murder, James Ellroy writes another book and we move on." James Woods starred in Cop (1988), which is based upon James Ellroy's novel "Blood on the Moon".