This story based on a number of actual phone hoaxes, especially one that happened at a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky on April 9, 2004, where a phone caller claiming to be a police officer manipulates the staff of a business to sexually abuse innocent people as "interrogation."
During the Trial in this episode, the prosecution uses an enlarged news article from the accused's hometown newspaper. The picture in the article is an actual picture of Robin Williams from his childhood.
The non-existent "Detective Milgram" is a reference to Stanley Milgram who worked at Yale in the 1960s. He is noted for his experiments to measure the tendency of people to obey authority figures. Some of these required the subjects to apply (fictitious) electric shocks to actors pretending to receive the shocks, assessing how far the subjects were prepared to increase the voltage under the orders of the experimenter.
This is the 200th episode of the series.