Brennan says she had a tv but it broke. This may be the tv that her ex tried to repossess in the first episode. She broke it when she swung a bat at him thinking he was an intruder.
Emily Deschanel wanted to sit on the hospital bed with Booth in the ending scene of this episode, but the producers thought that would be too much.
The first example of Bones and Booth singing "Hot Blooded".
The restaurant where Bones almost gets shot is Nolita, the stage of another show FOX aired that year, Kitchen Confidential (2005). One of its cast members John Francis Daley would later join the show in The Secret in the Soil (2007).
Adam Baldwin, who played Agent Kenton, previously had a recurring role on the final season of David Boreanaz's previous series "Angel".