After Fox cancelled the series, Sean Astin (Knox) was one of many high-profile people who started the Twitter campaign "Defenders of the 99" to get the show renewed.
The episode begins with Scully and Hitchcock setting the microwave timer to twenty-one minutes and thirty seconds. This is the approximate length of a half-hour television show (minus commercials).
In Boyle's Hunch (2015), Holt's plotline is coming up with an image campaign for the NYPD, as head of the police public department. During one of Jake and Rosa's conversations, the campaign poster is visible on the wall behind Rosa.
When Sergeant Knox (Sean Astin) revealed that the hackers were going to infiltrate the servers in 19 minutes, there were also 19 minutes left of the episode.