There are nods to the films of Alfred Hitchcock throughout, including To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959) and Dark Passage (1947).
The opening close-ups of Booth and Bones in their cars are done using rear projection, emulating the way driving scenes were commonly filmed during the 1950s due to technical limitations.
The building they used for Hodgin's paleontology lab is the front of the same building they use for the Jeffersonian (LA Natural History Museum)
The police department exterior used in the episode is also the same exterior used for the hotel in Angel (1999), another series in which David Boreanaz was the star.
Rodolpho Fuentes and Jessica Warren's roles are a play on Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy (1951).