Writer:	Pam Veasey
Director:	David Grossman
Star:	Hill Harper (Dr. Sheldon Hawkes),  Vanessa Ferlito (Aiden Burn),  Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer),  Gary Sinise (Detective Mack "Mac" Taylor),  Eddie Cahill (Detective Donald "Don" Flack, Jr.),  Melina Kanakaredes (Detective Stella Bonasera)
Guest Star:	J. Scott Shonka (Handyman),  Andre Ware (Tony Fenn),  Mark Kelly (Rob Bloom),  Kym Hoy (Nina Chang),  Alex Sol (Luther Willett),  Matt Bushell (Marvin Hummel),  Samantha Quan (Joanne Cho),  David Guzzone (Kevin Moretti)

Scenes from this episode were filmed during a real police terrorist response drill in New York City. While filming in the city, the producers of the show and star Melina Kanakaredes were caught in a rain storm near Central Park. An unannounced police terrorist response drill allowed the producers to create new scenes and incorporate New York's finest into the filming of the show. (edit)

Stella: These days, anyone can be a banker.
Danny: Yeah, but you'd think they'd consider some form of security. Like double-thick steel. What is this, stainless steel sheeting?
Stella: It's the illusion of security.
Danny: I got the same stuff on the front of my dishwasher. (edit) Stella: With all this rain, it's not like Mother Nature's playing ball.
Mac: Then it's time to change the game. (edit) Flack: Gotta wear a mask to a bank robbery. It's a rule! (edit) Hawkes: Any glass shatter at the scene?
Mac: No.
Hawkes: Lead paint?
Mac: It's possible. (a bit flustered from the questions by Hawkes) Usually you have all the answers, Sheldon. (edit) (Flack walks up to Willet with Aiden while introducing themselves as cops).
Luther Willett:Wow, cops round here just get prettier every day.
Flack: Watch it.
Luther Willet: Oh, hey, don't get upset. I just got out of prison. You both look good to me. (Willet smirks) (edit)

Goof: The baby was born in the Year of the Monkey and was 11 months old. Chinese New Year for the Year of the Monkey started January 22, 2004. In order for the baby to be 11 months old, this episode, shown in mid-November, must take place after December 22. (edit)

Stella: It's Chinatown, Mac.

Stella smiles when she says this; she's probably thinking of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson. The last line in the film is, "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." (edit) Mac: Okay, six degrees of separation.

"Six degrees of separation" is a philosophical theory that anyone in the world can be linked to anyone else through a chain of six (or fewer) other people. It's also the title of a 1993 movie starring Will Smith, Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland. (edit)