Frank's line about the crate wrapped in green plastic wasn't in the original version of the teleplay. When executive producers saw the production design for the crate, they joked that it looked like the giant cake-shaped "Animal House" float and decided to add that detail to the script. The crate was given the nickname "Eat Me," and, at one point, Michael Dinner referred to "Eat Me" in a scene description, which confused studio executives who didn't understand the reference.
According to the creative team, the story of how Lila and Danny died is not completely figured out. The team discussed a plausible hypothetical storyline that could provide a solid foundation for future plot. Isolated details are revealed in Season 2, so that the writers' room has the flexibility to develop backstory further and in different directions.
Outside the bookstore with Carly, Audrey deceives the woman delivering the closed shop's mis-delivered mail by saying she knows the store has a third-edition copy of "Ben-Hur" from 1860 with an erratum. She does this to extract the owner's cell phone number from her. "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," by Lew Wallace, was published in 1880 and was the all-time best selling novel in the US until "Gone with the Wind." With the success of the film, the novel became #1 again. The book is still in the Top Fifty, its ranking depending upon the source.
In developing Season 2, show creatives knew they wanted to build to a confrontation between Sean and Taylor, where everything is laid out on the table or, in this case, the bar.
Lock picking is a fundamental skill for criminals and con artists. Def Con, the annual hacker conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, features a lock-picking village where convention attendees compete to hack a variety of complex locks.