Final appearance in the series of Joan Chen as Josie Packard (albeit her name would continue to appear on the credits for the remainder of the original series) and Chris Mulkey as Hank Jennings. This would be Mulkey's final participation in the franchise, but Chen returned to film scenes that were ultimately deleted for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and were eventually released in Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014).
A book named "TIBET" and his Bookhouse Boys patch can be seen on Cooper's nightstand in his room.
Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey Horne) tells Billy Zane (Jack Wheeler) that she is only 18. In reality Sherilyn (b. 1965) is a year older than Billy (b. 1966), and 25 at the time of recording.
The chess game that Pete mentions before deciding his move was from the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, and was between José Raúl Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker.
When Twin Peaks was rerun on the Bravo cable network in 1993, David Lynch wrote new introductions for each episode that were performed by Catherine Coulson as The Log Lady. The one for this episode was thus:
"A hotel. A nightstand. A drawer pull on the drawer. A drawer pull on the drawer of a nightstand in the room of a hotel. What could possibly be happening on or in this drawer pull? How many drawer pulls exist in this world? Thousands, maybe millions? What is a drawer pull?
This drawer pull - why is it featured so prominently in a life or in a death of one woman who was caught in a web of power? Can a victim of power end, in any way, connected to a drawer pull? How can this be?"
"A hotel. A nightstand. A drawer pull on the drawer. A drawer pull on the drawer of a nightstand in the room of a hotel. What could possibly be happening on or in this drawer pull? How many drawer pulls exist in this world? Thousands, maybe millions? What is a drawer pull?
This drawer pull - why is it featured so prominently in a life or in a death of one woman who was caught in a web of power? Can a victim of power end, in any way, connected to a drawer pull? How can this be?"