Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo): "Sex, lies, and super 8." This line refers to the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), written and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Mark Sheppard and Chad Lindberg both appeared in Supernatural (2005) as Crowley and Ash, respectively.
Kim Coates (Detective Vicaro) also appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) (in Early Rollout (2004)) and in 6 episodes of CSI: Miami (2002).
This episode also contains the shipping container case.