This episode makes NCIS: New Orleans (2014) the third television show starring Scott Bakula to feature Dean Stockwell. Stockwell was Bakula's co-star for the entire run of Quantum Leap (1989). Additionally Stockwell also guest starred on an episode of the Bakula led Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He also played the Secretary of the Navy on JAG (1995), which is the series from which the original NCIS (2003) originated.
Pride's daughter, Laurel, has a boyfriend, introduced in this episode as Orion. Scott Bakula appeared on Chuck (2007) as the titular character's father. In it, his code name was "Orion".