This episode is loosely based on the Kitty Genovese case: on March 13, 1964, Genovese was raped and murdered in New York. Immediately after the crime and for several decades afterward, the widespread public understanding of the Genovese case was that while she was being murdered, many witnesses who resided in her apartment complex saw the event transpire and chose not to act either by intervening directly or alerting the authorities. This led to decades of the case being considered emblematic of bystander apathy and group inhumanity; however, this perception was derived almost totally from one largely inaccurate account of the murder that in the twenty-first century has been heavily debunked. Despite the record having been set straight, many laypeople (and even some psychological professionals) still retain their prior misunderstandings about the case and continue to call any instance in which a bystanding individual or group fails to intervene the "Genovese syndrome."
Final appearance of Joselin Reyes as an EMT. She appeared in 19 episodes from seasons 5-17.