This episode started a two-part crossover with Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021), which concluded with the Organized Crime episode An Inferior Product (2021).
Despina (Dèspina) is a greek ancient name that means lady/miss.
Fin tells Piper that the ADA is planning on charging her with manslaughter in the second degree for each of the men who died as a result of her drugging them, he then asks her: "do you know how much time you can get in prison for three C felonies?". In the state of New York a class C felony carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 3.5 years in prison, and a potential maximum sentence of up to 15 years. So three counts of manslaughter in the second degree carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10.5 years in prison and a potential maximum sentence of up to 45 years.
This installment of the series seems to be a "ripped out of the headlines" episode; strippers who steal from wealthy men by tricking and drugging them. The members of this conspiracy : Roslyn Keo, Samantha Barbash, Karina Pascucci and Marsi Rosen received a feature write-up in the New Yorker with an article titled "The Hustlers at Scores" and an eventual film treatment Hustlers (2019) with Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles.
The opening of the episode shows Benson listening to the voicemail Stabler left for her about Sacha Lenski in the Law & Order: Organized Crime episode The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of (2021). When they meet up to discuss it later on, Benson asks Stabler if he heard what she and his children said to him during his intervention in that same episode. Benson also mentions to Stabler that she was told to stay away from him, referencing what Christian Garland told her in the episode Our Words Will Not Be Heard (2021).