Alma Garret (Molly Parker) tells Miss Isringhausen (Sarah Paulson) that Cotton Mather himself would have found the standards she applied to Sofia and herself "hard and joyless." Cotton Mather was a New England Puritan preacher and author best remembered for his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials.
Both Powers Boothe and Parisse Boothe star in this episode. Father and daughter duo even do at least one scene together.