This episode was the second time Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston worked together. They played husband and wife in the 1993 John Waters dark comedy Serial Mom.
(After Greg Loomis' psychiatric interview.)Elizabeth Olivet: It did sound like he'd memorized the warning label.
Jack McCoy: He probably had more coaching than my neighborhood Little League.
Green finds a book by Virgil in the victim's locker. Virgil (full name Publius Virgilius Maro) was an ancient Roman poet who is probably best known for writing the Aeneid, an epic poem about Trojan hero Aeneus and his life after the Trojan War.
Rebecca Shane: Just because it's FDA-approved, doesn't mean it's safe. I mean, look at Vioxx. Thalidomide.
Vioxx is a painkiller that has been linked to heart attacks and strokes. Thalidomide was used to treat nausea in pregnant women, but it caused severe birth defects.