Sean Catherine Derek and Laren Bright created the original story for the episode as well as writing the original script based on their story, however Broadcast Standards & Practices (BS&P) didn't approve the script. Kevin Altieri recalled the script was much more complex when he received it: "We cut out flashbacks to Montoya's youth when she was called a liar. And flashbacks to Bullock's youth when he was playing high-school football when his dad yells at him because he was using teamwork: 'Don't be a team player, be a star. Being a team player is for losers. Go out for Number One, Pal." Many of the Scenes were taken out. Most of these informations can be seen in Animato Magazine Issue # 26 and #27.
This is the first episode where Batman does not appear out of costume.
Originally, Montoya, Bullock and Wilkes told their accounts of what happened in a coffee shop instead of police headquarters, and their careers weren't on the line. The episode proper also would have delved into Bullock and Montoya's backstories, revealing that Bullock was once a high school sports star with an abusive father who drilled respect for the rules into him, explaining his intense dislike of Batman, while Montoya would have been revealed to have grown up in Crime Alley and is a reformed teenage punk, who cleaned up her act and dedicated her life to helping people. Their backstories were axed by the censors, and were one of the main reasons why writer/story editor Sean Catherine Derek left the show in frustration.
The structure of the episode is reminiscent of Rashomon (1950), in which the audience is presented with four different (and conflicting) eyewitness accounts to a murder. The difference is, here the flashback shows that Bullock is obviously lying, while in the film each witness's story is presented as true, and the contradictions only come out when they are compared.
When one of the thugs fires a machine gun at Renee and Batman, he fires in an arc that indicates he deliberately missed them.