Alicia Witt reprises her role as Gersten Hayward from the original series.
The last television role of Brent Briscoe, who passed away a few months after his appearance here. Briscoe also played a detective in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
When Gordon Cole sees the donuts and coffee in the police station, he says, "the policeman's dream." In the original Twin Peaks pilot, Agent Cooper sees the donuts and coffee in the sheriff's station and says, "a policeman's dream."
Agent Cooper / Dougie Jones' stumbling silently through life with very little idea of what is happening around him while unwittingly being creditted for good deeds and becoming popular is strongly reminiscent of Peter Sellers' character in the film 'Being There'.