Harris Downey (Jesse Bradford) tells Bob Lee (Ryan Phillippe) they should try "god cop, bad cop. Like in Simon and Simon." Red Bama Sr (Gerald McRaney) played Rick Simon in "Simon and Simon."
The Phoenix program was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) endeavor in Vietnam whose purpose was to create government-trained assassins who would remove undesirable political figures. The Phoenix program is also the closest equivalent to the intrigue surrounding the The Bourne Identity (2002) franchise.
Simon & Simon (1981) was a television show that ran in the 1980's which centered on two private investigators, who happened to be brothers, working out of the city of San Diego, which is in close proximity to several major Naval installations. Gerald McRaney who plays Red Bama Senior, was the lead actor in said detective show.