After Gilda (Leanne Lapp) wakes up to find Major (Robert Buckley) making a beeline from her bed to the door, you can hear him mumble/sigh, "Oh Rita." Gilda, the title role of the 1946 film, Gilda (1946), made Rita Hayworth a star, a sex symbol, and the ultimate femme fatale, but she seemed to believe it had a negative effect on her love life. She weathered several unsuccessful marriages and commented, "They fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me."
The lyrics to "Let You Go" as written in Liv's (Rose McIver) notebook read, "So you heard from some folks that I ain't been true. / I guess you still get gossip in the clink. / It happened one night, I's full of Soco and lime / When a Pretty Boy bought me a drink / And he said darlin', you're too pretty to be sad. / And I said Mister, I needed t'hear that real bad. / And come the next morning, I find Pretty Boy in our bed / And visions how you'd kill us in my head. / ----------- / There's only nightmares ahead of us / And sweet dreams long ago / It's time to wake up, baby / It's time I let you go / I've got to let you go" and, in parentheses, "Repeat x2", before she tears it out, crumples it, and throws it away.
Veronica Mars (2004) reference: the robber the police are looking for robbed a Sack n Pack convenience store. On Veronica Mars (2004), her best friend Wallace Fennell, Percy Daggs III, worked at the Sack n Pack.
Jessica Harmon portrays FBI Agent Dale Bozzio, who we are told is "looking into a string of missing persons cases." This is a not-too-subtle reference to who the character shares the same name with - 80's glam pop band Missing Persons lead singer Dale Bozzio, .