Includes a reference to the Jewish myth of the Golem.
Vanessa and Artie mention Rosalind Franklin's sequencing work on DNA being the basis for Watson and Crick's double helix idea. Franklin's X-ray crystallography studies of DNA helped establish its double helix structure. She never did sequencing. The reason Watson and Crick got Nobel Prizes and Franklin did not is because she died just a couple of years after that research and Nobels are only awarded to the living. However Watson was later stripped of his honors and fired from Cold Spring Harbor Lab for racist comments and racist "scientific" research.
Per Eddie McClintock: "362947 Is a shout out to my pals from high school. 36, was my football number. 29 and 47, were theirs. #HOOVERVIKINGS "
Lindsay Wagner and Rene Auberjonois had previously shared screen time together on The DeJon Caper (1977), where Jamie (Lindsey Wagner) was posing as an art forger's (René Auberjonois) girlfriend.
Sasha Roiz (the mysterious man in the car) says that he was a cop "in another life." After his appearance on this show, he went on to play a police captain in Grimm (2011) .