This marks the first time Lt. Tucker is shown on screen. Robert John Burke played a very similar role on the Oz (1997). There were even interrogation scenes with Stabler much like he would go on to do on SVU.
Detective John Munch appears with a broken leg.
This was Armand Schultz' 6th appearance in the Dick Wolf TV Universe. He'd previously been in 4 episodes of Law & Order (1990) and 1 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). He would go on to appear in: Blue Wall (2005) of Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), Wasichu (2006) of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Challenged (2008) of Law & Order, Betrayal's Climax (2014) of SVU, a 5 episode arc on Chicago Fire (2012) and PD as Alderman Colin Becks, and most recently American Optimism (2021) of FBI: International (2021).