When discussing Robert Pattinson playing him in a movie, Gordon McClintock asks if he was the vampire or the werewolf from the Twilight movies. Rafe answers, "Don't look at me." Graham Greene who plays Rafe McCawley in Defiance also played Harry Clearwater in the Twilight Saga movies.
The subway car shown at 25:33 is actually an old Toronto TTC Subway car, H5 Model, built between 1976 and 1979 (Fleet numbers 5670-5807).