Stephen Amell cried when Marc Guggenheim told him about the final scene at the Entertainment Weekly cover shoot.
Marc Guggenheim posted a picture to clarify viewers on where the title came from. In it, the fadeout is the area on a longbow where the grip tapers into the risers and limbs of the bow.
Earth-90's Flash remarked that Diggle had a ring on his Earth. His final scene seems to allude to said ring.
The final scene is a brand new scene Marc Guggenheim came up with, after he just finished meditation class one morning at the time the ending had not been written. Guggenheim tweeted that he planned on posting script pages on the night of the finale if the scene was cut from the broadcast airing, which it was not.
Slade's appearance at the beginning of the episode makes use of unused footage from "Unthinkable" in which Oliver dreams of saving his mother.