Megan goes to FBI Agent Derek Ames for access to the P.C.H.I.D.T.A. database. The Philadelphia/Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Market Analysis was a survey of drug trafficking and violence in the area from 1995 to 2012.
Ethan mentions testing the victim for "special K" which is slang for ketamine, used as part of anesthesia and also abused as a recreational drug.
Jay O. Sanders plays a suspected abusive father. On Tabula Rasa (1999), he played an abusive father that was arrested and put on trial. In keeping with the recycling of actors that was prevalent in that series, just 3 years later he became the new NYPD Captain on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).