As an April Fool's joke on the crew, producer/director Jon Cassar revealed this fake ending to this episode. Palmer's press conference ends and he goes down to his limo. He gets in successfully and rides off. After a while, we find out that someone is sitting next to him. That someone is Nina Myers. We realize that Palmer was in on the whole thing. We then shift to a scene in the desert. We close in on a parachute, then pan over to reveal George Mason, who jumped out of the plane before the bomb exploded. The end.
This episode marks the third time the clock ticked silently, being replaced instead by the sound of Palmer's heartbeat as the show closed.
While doing the location shooting at the LA Coliseum, the crew played football on the field during their lunch breaks.
The resolutions to many of the storylines from the finale of Season 2 were never fully wrapped up on the show. However, the 2006 release of 24: The Game (2006) for the PlayStation 2 did in fact answer many questions, including who was behind the attack on Palmer's life.