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Muir lies about his number of wives throughout the movie. He refers to agents and assets that served as cover wives, as his wives. He actually has only been married once to a Korean woman. His one wife stayed in Korea while Muir did two tours in South America. It's presumed that she has died much earlier. (The information that his first wife died is only known by watching the alternate ending. This can be found by selecting Bonus Materials from the Main menu. Then select Deleted Scenes...; Alternate Versions of Existing Scenes; Alternate Ending.)

Harry Duncan is located in Hong Kong and played by David Hemmings. We seem him at the beginning of the movie calling Muir at home, and at the end of the movie negotiating the power outage in China.

When Muir liquidates his retirement funds we learn that Duncan has worked with both Muir and Bishop in the past. Duncan is simply an earlier colleague and someone who both trusts Muir and is a friend.

Operation Sideshow was run by the CIA to bug the Chinese side of the trade negotiations happening during the present day in the movie. Tran (the Chinese asset who escapes the prison at the beginning of the movie and is seen in a photograph later) is part of Sideshow, and Bishop piggybacks off this operation by convincing him to share prison schematics and rescue Hadley. Bishop was not a part of this operation, but rather was in China to free Hadley from the prison.

Right before the credits we see the movie is dedicated to her. She is the mother of the movie's director Tony Scott (and also mother of Ridley Scott).