Colin Belfast's office area, where Heidi Bergman is being interviewed, is named after the plant "Manchineel." Manchineel is a highly poisonous tree. According to the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, "interaction with and ingestion of any part of this tree may be lethal."
The music from the scene of Thomas Carrasco arranging items on his desk is borrowed from All the President's Men (1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula.