When Neal is pretending to be Peter at the FBI he asked the real Peter to get him a cup of coffee. When Peter says they have interns for that Neal says " I have something better. I have you " a callback to the second episode of season 1 when Peter tells Neal that when Neal complains about getting a file.
When Mozzie is looking at the microfiche, he utters "holy sh&t!" in German ("Heilige Scheisse").
Tim DeKay pitched the idea for this episode during the White Collar Live Chat he and Matt Bomer held towards the end of Season One.
During a Paleyfest, Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay talk about this episode. Matt jokes that he doesn't have the pectorals Tim has, so to look the part he had to compensate with his back. Tim kept pushing him to go further and further until some of the dailies made him look like a chicken.
Cody Horn guest stars in this episode. She would later play the love interest of Channing Tatum's character in the movie Magic Mike (2012) in which Matt Bomer was one of the stars. In both this episode and Magic Mike, she plays a character by the name of Brooke.