Soon after this episode aired, Fox ordered a full season of Bones due to the fact that the first three episodes of the show consistently ranked #1 among key demographics in the Tuesday 8:00 p.m. timeslot.
When Brennan hands Booth the access pass he wanted, she says 'Absit invidia' - a Latin phrase meaning "Let ill will be absent", i.e. "No offense".
Toby Hemingway who plays Tucker Pattison went on to appear in 8 of the 13 episodes of the short-lived Bones spin-off The Finder (2012) .
When Angela is running the simulation to see how long it would take for the boy's hyoid bone to crack with the new variables (around 34 minutes into the episode), she tells Booth and Brennan that it would be a little over eight days, but the information on the Angelatron shows the time it would take to be 15 days.
When Nestor's mom visits Temperance, Temperance's shirt seems to be ripped at the left shoulder at the back. The "rip" is actually an embroidery. There is one under the left side of her collar too