Starting with this episode, the theme tune was remixed to sound more like the original mix after the last few series used a rather lacklustre opening theme mix. The specially composed non-Taggart closing theme of the last few years is replaced and is now the same as the opening. Unlike earlier series, Maggie Bell's vocal is no longer present in the closing music and an instrumental is used instead.
Lesley Harcourt's first appearance as new series regular Gemma Kerr. In fine Taggart tradition, Harcourt appeared in the episode before this one as a totally different character (Dr. Paton).