The Shield Season 3 Episode 8

In the Season 3 DVD commentary, the coroner who examines the dead elderly woman and her daughter is Benito Martinez's sister. She is uncredited in this episode.

Though it's not spoken, the tow truck at the end of the episode is pulling out Tommy's car (the one he drove in). He shot himself inside a cop car.

The giant stakeout was filmed as one large-scale filming shoot in the middle of afternoon traffic. The area was not blocked off, the traffic and people you see are all real except for the actual actors you see on camera.

Paula Jai Parker and Jernard Burks did a bunch of improvised interaction in character for the cameras while the cast was memorizing lines. Director Guy Ferland wanted to use a lot of the material, but instead decided not to since it didn't add to the story.