The actor that plays the SWAT Officer that Gabriella runs into the arms of, at the end, was a real Metro-Dade Police SWAT Sniper named Greg Kral. He was involved in numerous hostage rescues in real life, including the 1996 rescue of 13 autistic children from a school bus in front of the Joe's Stone Crabs restaurant in Miami Beach. He was also involved in the raid that turned up the body of Gianni Versace's killer Andrew Cunanan.
The maze building is the old Blue Waters Hotel, which would be visited again in French Twist (1986) (where Crockett, Tubbs and Switek find a booby-trapped room). A fairly popular beachfront hotel, its heyday was in the 1940s through 1960s. It's sixties-era brochure boasts 100 air conditioned rooms with private bathrooms (20 with kitchenettes), saltwater and freshwater swimming pools, a cocktail lounge and restaurant, movies, and black and white TVs in every room plus a color TV in the lobby. After falling into both disrepair and disrepute by the 1970s. it was demolished in May of 1987.
This episode features Philip Michael Thomas singing his song "Livin' the Book of My Life". His solo career had just launched, and the song was the title track from his new album. Its lead single, "Just the Way I Planned It", achieved little commercial success. Don Johnson would launch his own solo career a year later, and garner some success with his song "Heartbeat".
This episode marks the only time a member of the main cast sings one of their own songs. Don Johnson had two songs used on the show, but both appeared in the background (although Olivia Brown did perform her spoken lines from Johnson's "Streetwise" in Streetwise (1986)), while Saundra Santiago sang two jazz standards in Heroes of the Revolution (1987).