This episode appears to be based on the 1982 Donald Nash case. In 1982, Irwin Margolies hired Donald Nash to kill Margaret Barbera and Jenny Soo Chin, who were cooperating with a Federal investigation into Margolie's $5.7-million-dollar fraud. On January 5 1982, Nash succeed in killing Chin, whose body was never found. On April 12, Nash would kill Barbera and also kill Leo Kuranuki, Robert Schulze, and Edward Benford--three CBS-TV technicians who the police believed were coming to Barbera's aid. Barbera's body was found in Manhattan the next morning. Nash was convicted of four counts of second-degree murder and a single count of conspiracy, and he was sentenced to 100 years in prison. Margolies was sentenced to 50 years for ordering the murders.
J. Smith-Cameron has played four different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 2.13 Severance (1992) - Ms. Moskowitz.
- Episode 9.4 Flight (1998) - Paula Downing.
- Episode 14.5 Blaze (2003) - Linda Drosi.
- Episode 19.16 Take-Out (2009) - Attorney Ward.
Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) & J. Smith-Cameron (Ms. Moskowitz) also worked together on Restraint (2015) (episode 7.08), as Peter Florrick & Samara Steel respectively.
Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) & Joe Urla (Defense Attorney Werner) also worked together on The Last Call (2014) (episode 5.16), as Peter Florrick & Kurt respectively.