Ida reads excerpts from "the dead" by James Joyce.
The Fox Plaza is seen in an external establishing shot, around 38 minutes in. The location was famously used as the Nakatomi building in Die Hard.
This episode, Titus Welliver (Bosch) has an important scene with John Savage (Lewis). In the Star Trek: Voyager two-part episode "Equinox", Savage and Welliver played the main antagonists: Captain Rudy Ransom and Lieutenant Commander Maxwell Burke, respectively.