This is the first episode in which Jesse Keys does not appear.
This episode marks the first on screen appearance of Dakota Fanning as Allie Keys on the series. She had previously served as the narrator of the first six episodes but was not seen.
This episode takes place in 2002.
In this episode, Brian Markinson portrays an unsettled man who takes a group of people hostage at gunpoint. Markinson did the same thing in the Season 5 episode of The X-Files (1993) called "Folie a Deux". Indeed, The X-Files (1993) is mentioned in the episode during the hostage negotiations.
This is the first time that Tom Heaton (Ben) played an alien abductee. He would later do so again in Fragile Balance (2003).