When Tig (Kim Coates) asks Chibbs (Tommy Flanagan) what Jax (Charlie Hunnam) is writing, he says it's a children's book. Kim Coats was writing a children's book for his daughter in Ridley Scott's movie: Black Hawk Down (2001).
Pope's (henchman is called August. In Oz (1997) , Harold Perrineau (who plays Pope) starred as a convict named Augustus Hill.
Chuck zito and Harrold Perrineau both started on the tv series Oz (1997). Zito played Italian mobster chucky pancamo and Perrineau played African-American inmate/narrator Augustus hill