Rôti is French for "roast"
The image on Freddie Lounds's phone when she receives a call is Absolute World, a twin-tower residential complex in Missauga, Ontario, close to where Hannibal was filmed. Absolute World also appears in the film Enemy (2013), released the same year as this episode .
Frederick Chiltion, played by Raúl Esparza, tells Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) that he will see him in court. Raul Esparza plays a court prosecutor on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).