First appearance of Special Agent Paula Cassidy
DiNozzo claims to have not seen The Maltese Falcon (1941) but later in the series Tony is played as a complete film buff.
The NCIS Visitors Badge is seen for the first time.
Pancho Demmings and Heath Freeman would later go on to guest star in the same episode of Bones The Man in the Cell (2007). Demmings as FBI agent Jay Ramirez and Freeman as the serial killer Howard Epps.