The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic).
The only episode in season 1 to depict all three time periods: 1995, 2002 & 2012.
Chris Berry who plays Guy Francis, suspected murderer being interrogated by Cohle, also played Danny Fontenot in ep. 1, the cerebrally impaired uncle of missing girl Marie.
Marty (Woody Harrelson) is wearing a Pink Floyd shirt from their album, "The Division Bell," which focused on the break up of the band.
Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) talks about viewing space and time from different dimensions. The concepts brought up by his character are key to a film in which he is the star; Interstellar (2014).