The newspaper photo of the French's treatment of their collaborators in WW 2 was actually a scene from the mini-series Frères d'armes (2001).
Marcia Gay Harden was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, losing out to fellow Actress, Leslie Caron, who would guest star two episodes later in Recall (2006).
Marcia Gay Harden (Starr) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Justin, Haley's boyfriend) both appeared in Le sourire de Mona Lisa (2003).
Olivia says: "I checked the DIRS". This is the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS), which was established in September 2007, in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
DE Warner (Tamara Tunie ) says: "The French Resistance used to shave the heads of female collaborators". Following France's liberation in WWII, in 1944, severe punishment was imposed on French women, who had been romantically or sexually involved with German men. Their heads were shaved, and the women were often paraded through the streets as a means of humiliation, before usually being sent to jail.