This episode has parallels to Consequences (1999):
- Spike's admission of how he went back and "took care of it.", was identical to what Faith told Buffy about the death of the deputy mayor, likely another reason Buffy was even more upset. Interestingly, both attempts failed and the victims were recovered from bodies of water.
- When Buffy confronted Faith about killing the deputy mayor Faith responded by saying, "Anyway, how many people do you think we've saved by now? Thousands? And didn't you stop the world from ending? Because in my book, that puts you and me in the plus column." When Buffy goes to turn herself in Spike tells her "And how many people are alive because of you? How many have you saved? One dead girl doesn't tip the scale."
- Faith said, after Buffy slapped her: "There's my girl," the same answer Spike had for Buffy's attack against him in this episode.
Steven S. DeKnight says: "I totally understand why that part made [Gellar] uncomfortable... I wish that I could say it was my idea but it's something Joss Whedon had in the back of his head for a year. It just so happened that it happened in my episode." Despite Gellar's reservations, DeKnight lists this episode as his personal favorite: "Sometimes, you have an episode where everybody 'shows up'. The actors are spot on. The direction is great, the editing, the music, etc... That was just one of those episodes where everything just came together. It had humor at the beginning and then it had that great twist where [the Trio] accidentally killed Katrina and then it got dark, dark, dark, dark. We really wanted to highlight how unhappy Buffy was with herself and really show why she was mistreating Spike because she hated herself."
The outfit Willow has on when talking to Tara outside of the magic shop is the same outfit she has on when she's "Dark Willow"
This line from Xander was cut due to length: "According to this, they place the time of Katrina's death almost a full day before you saw her in the woods."
Buffy walks in on Xander and Dawn dancing and asks "Is there singing? Are we singing again?"; she was wondering if Sweet had been called again as in Once More, with Feeling (2001).