When tech guru Ernie Malik (Jason Antoon) is describing his algorithm to scrub video inputs to identify suspects, he says "Faces. Where we're going we don't need faces." This is an admittedly nerdy pop culture reference to Doc Brown's last line in Back to the Future (1985). "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!"
The Republic of Abkhazia is a self-declared state on the Black Sea that used to be part of Georgia, though most countries do not recognize it as an independent republic, but consider it to still be a part of Georgia. Abkhazia used to be a part of Soviet Georgia, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia declared itself an independent nation, but the region of Abkhazia did not want to be a part of Georgia as the people there have differing religious and cultural views. Tension in the area resulted in a war between Abkhazia and Georgia that lasted from 1992-1993, Russia backed the forces of Abkhazia by sending them weapons and supplies and resulted in Georgia loosing control over the region and Abkhazia declaring itself an independent republic. The new government focused on removing all Georgians from their borders, by any means, which became known as the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, during which at least 5,000 people were killed and over 260,000 were displaced from their homes. Following the heinous and barbaric actions of the Abkhazian government the United Nations refused to recognize them as a sovereign nation, with only Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syria doing so. In 2008 Russia declared their recognition and support of Abkhazian by helping them attack Georgian forces in the area, an estimated 9,000 Russian soldiers moved into the area, resulting in Georgia's full withdrawal from Abkhazia and the Georgian government declaring Abkhazia a Russian occupied territory, a declaration shared by the United Nations.
Dr Dunne also played IT Kevin in NCIS.
Lucy and Whistler tell David Freeloff that he is facing the potential of a life sentence in a supermax prison for the murder of a Marine Corporal, which is true. But they should also tell him that since he is being tried in U.S. federal court, because he killed a member of the military, and that because the killing was premeditated, he could potentially be facing the death penalty as well, life in prison without the possibility of parole is just the minimum sentence. Title 18 of the United States Code, Chapter 51, Section 1111, Subsection A states: "Every murder perpetrated by...willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing constitutes murder in the first degree." Subsection B states: "Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life". It might encourage him to better cooperate if he knows he could be facing a lethal injection.