While walking along the beach, Noah and Alison are talking about books. Alison asks Noah to guess what her favorite book is, to which Noah guesses Anna Karenina. Ruth Wilson, the actress playing Alison, played Princess Betsy in Anna Karenina (2012).
With 0.507 million viewers, this was the least watched episode of Season 1. The Affair (2014) was unusual in that audiences climbed with each successive episode, peaking with the season finale.