Steele tells Frank Dannon that "someone or something recently scared the living daylights out of you." This mimics a line spoken by James Bond in the movie The Living Daylights (1987) four years later. The irony here is that Pierce Brosnan was offered the role of James Bond but had to turn it down due to his contractual commitment to stay on Remington Steele (the role of Bond then went to Timothy Dalton). Had Brosnan been able to do it, his first movie as Bond would have been The Living Daylights, with him repeating the same line again. (Brosnan would have to wait until 1995 to finally appear as Bond.)