This episode finishes a storyline begun on the "Law & Order" episode 'Charm City (1996).' Jerry Orbach (Detective Lennie Briscoe), Benjamin Bratt (Detective Rey Curtis), and Jill Hennessy (ADA Claire Kincaid) all play their "Law & Order (1990)" characters in this episode.
J. K. Simmons would later become a regular on "Law & Order" as psychiatrist Dr. Emil Skoda.
On the DVD set, this episode is designated 411 and appears as the last of four episodes on Disc 3, appearing in the order that it was produced and not in the order it originally aired on NBC.
Colonel Alexander Nathaniel Rausch was born in Amenia, New York, on July 21, 1943.