The title of this episode comes from when Molly (Jill Jane Clements) says to Carol (Melissa McBride), "I'm a dead woman walking... which puts us in exactly the same boat."
During her backstory monologue, Paula says that before the outbreak, she was a secretary and "fetched coffee for [her] boss and made him feel good about himself." A year prior, Alicia Witt had a season-long arc as a crooked paralegal on Justified, a profession of which another character (played by Michael Rapaport) remarked, "You're a secretary, getting old men coffee."
Michelle (Jeananne Goossen) and Paula (Alicia Witt) have starred in the show Nashville (2012) together, although they never shared a scene.