John Milius wrote the episode under the pseudonym Walter Kurtz, the same name of Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now (1979), also written by Milius.
According to Reb Brown, this episode had its origins in a motion picture film script called 'Fatal Beauty', which John Milius was unable to move into production when he failed to secure a major actress for the female lead. Jamie Lee Curtis, among others, turned it down.
This episode marks Martin Ferrero's seventh and final appearance as Izzy Moreno in season three. The third season would include by far the greatest number of appearances from the comic relief character, somewhat ironic considering the show itself adopted a far more serious tone with this season.
This is one of only three season three episodes in which Tubbs is shown brandishing his shotgun; the others are Forgive Us Our Debts (1986) and Cuba Libre (1987). Despite its appearance in these episodes, he never fires the weapon once in the entire third season.
When the three bikers are riding into the park Sonny Landham's ("Toad") face is obscured, meaning that either he did not know how to ride a motorbike or he was not capable of doing so that day. Either way, he had no lines in that scene. As became known during the shooting of Predator (1987) a couple of months earlier, Landham was rather strange and perhaps unstable and was a drinker.