Emily VanCamp and John Beasley previously co-starred in Everwood (2002) for four seasons. Beasley played Irv Harper, the second husband of Amy Abbott's (VanCamp) paternal grandmother.
A major plot point is who will pay for Louisa Rodriguez's surgery. ICE agents show up to arrest Louisa, and are stopped by the doctors. But if they arrested her, ICE would then be on the hook for the cost of her treatment instead of the hospital.