The basketball players in this episode attend a fictional "Moses Caro High School." The school name appears to be a tongue-in-cheek conflation of two very different New Yorkers: Robert Moses and Robert Caro. Moses (1888-1981) was a once-lauded "urban planning" bureaucrat today often remembered for destroying established, traditional neighborhoods to make room for expressways; while Caro (born 1935) wrote a massive, highly critical biography of the former, titled "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" (1974), which won the Pulitzer Prize.
While searching for a missing youth, Detective Goren impresses some street basketball players when he mentions having witnessed "Earl the Goat" in action on their court. The reference is to basketball cult-hero Earl "The Goat" Manigault, who once shot hoops in Rucker Park.
Final appearance of Samantha Buck as Detective G. Lynn Bishop.
Rosa Arredondo (Advertising Executive) also played the role of Dean Johnson in episode 10.6, Cadaver (2011).
José Ramón Rosario (Diego Bracho) also played the part of Hugo Vargas in episode 10.7, Icarus (2011).