In this episode, Ray McKinnon is introduced as "Proctor John," leader of Outlaw MC 'The Proctors' of SoCal. In the FX show "Sons of Anarchy," season 4, McKinnon portrays Lincoln Potter, an AUSDA Hellbent on crushing the MC with a Rico case. In Fear The Walking Dead, his role is reversed; albeit in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Ray McKinnon who plays John Proctor appeared in Deadwood which started Kim Dickens (Madison Clark).
The surgery scene was filmed in the infirmary of the real bullring that the production used for El Bazar.
This episode, along with the next one Sleigh Ride (2017), takes place as the same time as TS-19 (2010), the Season 1 finale of The Walking Dead (2010).