As Audrey and Bobby discuss their future business partnership, a duck and an owl can be seen on the table.
Kenneth Welsh is added to the post-opening titles supporting cast (also somewhat spoiling his character's otherwise surprise revelation in the final scene). Welsh also becomes the only new name throughout the original series to be added to this section of the cast credits.
With Kenneth Welsh replacing the void left by Sheryl Lee this is the first episodes since May the Giant Be with You (1990) to feature the usual full tally of five supporting cast members on the post-opening credit cast list - something which had become a rarity during Season 2 as some of the characters like Leo and Dr. Jacoby had featured less frequently, and occasionally only one of the two regular deputies would feature.
When Twin Peaks was rerun on the Bravo cable network in 1993, David Lynch wrote new introductions for each episode that were performed by Catherine Coulson as The Log Lady. The one for this episode was thus:
"The heart - it is a physical organ, we all know. But how much more an emotional organ - this we also know. Love, like blood, flows from the heart. Are blood and love related? Does a heart pump blood as it pumps love? Is love the blood of the universe?"
"The heart - it is a physical organ, we all know. But how much more an emotional organ - this we also know. Love, like blood, flows from the heart. Are blood and love related? Does a heart pump blood as it pumps love? Is love the blood of the universe?"
Thomas Eckhardt's name is probably a reference to Meister Eckhart who was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic. Meister Eckhart has acquired a status as a great mystic within contemporary popular spirituality as his influence is extensive ranging from Schopenhauer and Theosophical Society to Neo-Vedanta and Buddhist Modernism.