At the beginning of the episode when the woman in the cheap motel wakes up (before taking her bloody shower which causes the victim to be discovered in the water tank), the song the Florida rappers were singing/recording in episode Lucky Stiff 3x14 (Beckett also plays this song on her guitar at the end of 3x14) is playing. "Move that ass, move that ass, get on the floor, get on the floor"
It is revealed that Beckett's full name is Katherine Houghton Beckett. Katharine Houghton is Katharine Hepburn's niece, who plays her daughter in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
The case of a young woman being found in the water tank of a hotel and the last footage of her being from an elevator is reminiscent of the Elisa Lam case from 2013.
This episode, released May 13, 2013, is eerily similar to the case of Elisa Lam whose naked body was discovered three months earlier (2/19/2013) in a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. A maintenance worker discovered the body due to guest complaints of problems with the water supply.
The LAPD released a video of the last time she was seen on an elevator security camera where she was seen exiting and entering the elevator, talking and gesturing, and hiding in the elevator.
The coroner's office ruled her death as accidental.
The LAPD released a video of the last time she was seen on an elevator security camera where she was seen exiting and entering the elevator, talking and gesturing, and hiding in the elevator.
The coroner's office ruled her death as accidental.
McKenna Melvin previously played Adam Baldwin's daughter in Chuck. Adam Baldwin previously worked with Nathan Fillion on Firefly and guest stared in a previous episode of Castle.