This is the final episode Rebecca Romijn appears in playing Alexis Meade. In a 2008 New York Post interview, Ms. Romijn stated she had fallen out with new writing staff recruited after the writers strike in late 2007. She didn't have confidence the new writing staff could take care of her character the way they had before the strike. Later E Online reported she left the show because she was pregnant with twins.
"You always do this to me. Right when I think I'm out you pull me right back in", says Gio Rossi complaining to Betty's continuous attempt to drag him into her world. That is a quote from Al Pacino in the film The Godfather Part III (1990).