This episode shows Frank Black using his gun, a fairly rare occurrence in the first season. Lance Henriksen really wanted the show to have Frank consciously stay away from using firearms as it's all too common and convenient in most TV shows.
Glen Morgan and James Wong's final script for the first season of Millennium (1996). They had managed to get 20th Century Fox to agree to make their TV pilot The Notorious 7 (1997) so, to all intents and purposes, this should have been their last involvement with TenThirteen productions. (As it happens, Fox decided not to proceed with The Notorious 7 (1997) so Morgan and Wong found themselves as showrunners for the second season of Millennium (1996).)
Robert McLachlan received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Regular Series from the American Society of Cinematographers for his work on this episode.
James Wong has claimed that this episode's biggest influence was not - as many people suspect - Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter story "Red Dragon" but in fact Norman Mailer's account of the incarceration and execution of Gary Gilmore, The Executioner's Song (1982).