Only time that Jack McCoy's daughter appears.
This episode appears to be based on several different cases/incidents:
- The 1978 Georgi Markow poisoning case.
- The 2004 Viktor Yushchenko poisoning case.
- The 2006 Alexander Litvinenko poisoning case.
- The ongoing concern of sex trafficking in Russia.
- The 1962 prisoner exchange between Rudolf Ivanovich Abel and Francis Gary Powers.
Daniel Oreskes has played six different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 5.23 Pride (1995) - Durban Campaign Manager.
- Episode 7.2 I.D. (1996) - Jack Maslin.
- Episode 8.18 Stalker (1998) - Mr. Wilson.
- Episode 11.24 Deep Vote (2001) - Jeff Waites.
- Episode 13.20 Kid Pro Quo (2003) - Merrill Rush.
- Episode 17.19 Fallout (2007) - Andrei Karpovich.