Eliot and Hardison introduce themselves to the Feds as officers Michaels and Crichton. Michael Crichton was an American author whose work included The Andromeda Strain, Westworld, and Jurassic Park.
Hardison pages Eliot over the hospital's public-address system by calling for "Doctor Wrath-o-Khan", a clear nod to the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
Eliot and Hardison, in their roles as police officers, say they are from Belbridge. Belbridge is also where "The Three Strikes Job" (S2 Ep.14) and "The Maltese Falcon Job" (S2 Ep.15) take place.
Beth Riesgraf delivered knock out drug into felon Eddie Maranjian's water bottle by dripping down on a string reminisces of an assassination attempt of James Bond in You Only Live Twice (1967).
While no one was actually a doctor, the whole plan could've fallen apart if the marshalls somehow found out Maranjian needed a CT scan and not an MRI. A CT scan can be completed in a few minutes whereas an MRI is closer to an hour.