Philip Michael Thomas does not appear at all in this episode, his absence explained by his going to New York for a few days off with Valerie Gordon. Thomas was in fact injured doing a stunt in the previous episode Made for Each Other (1985). This would be the only episode he would miss during the entire series run.
The plot of the episode is loosely based on an actual string of home invasions perpetrated by a gang of burglars in the Miami area in the early 1980s.
Crockett's "primitive but effective" groin grab was edited so as to not show the actual action (the implication is that Crockett grabbed the bouncer, Angel, in a sensitive area and threw him in a closet).
The diner where the Vice team and Mrs. Goldman celebrate the end of the home invader case in South Miami is still open, now called The Irish Times.