The scene where Red turns the swastika to a window was reminiscent of Season 2 of "Oz" when Keller showed Beecher a drawing of a window to fix the one Shillinger branded on him.
Taylor Schilling (Piper Chapman), Kate Mulgrew (Galina 'Red' Reznikov), and Michael Chernus (Cal Chapman) also worked together on Mercy (2009) as Nurse Veronica Callahan, Mrs. Jeannie Flanagan, and Ryan Flanagan, respectively.