In this episode, Stabler reveals to Donnelly that if he weren't a cop, he would have been an architect. In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) episode Swing (2008), this was the same thing that Stabler's mother told him that he always wanted to be when he was a child. Elliott denied this claim at the time, having previously stated in the SVU episode Ripped (2005) that he always wanted to be a cop due to his father being on the job. He does, however, mention to his son, Dickie, that the briefly considered being an astronaut in the episode Lunacy (2008).