This episode appears to be based on two separate cases/incidents:
- The 2003-2006 Tyrone M. Williams case.
- Inspired by the 2005 Minuteman Project.
Stephen Lang has been on 3 different versions/episodes of Law & Order (as of 5-14-20), as Michael Baxter on Escape (2003) on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), as Terry Dorn in New York Minute (2005) on Law & Order (1990) and as Axel Kaspers in Revolution (2009) on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).