The rain in the outside shot of the brew pub at the end of the episode was digitally added, probably because when the inside scene was shot it was raining. You can see that no one outside is using an umbrella.
The villain's right hand man is named 'Pantani.' This is the same last name as the late Marco Pantani, a world famous cyclist and winner of the Tour de France, whose nickname was 'the pirate'.
Parker (Beth Riesgraf) names the safe at the toy company as a Boylan-Kim. Christine Boylan is a writer and executive story editor and Albert Kim is a writer for Leverage. The other vaults and safes used on the show are named Glenn-Reider after Leverage writers Melissa Glenn and Jessica Rieder. Both homages are continued in Leverage: Redemption (2021).
Jonathan Frakes: in the Government Toy Safety office as Hardison drops off the toy dog. This was his second cameo appearance, with the first being in The Snow Job (2009) in Season 1. He directed a total of 13 episodes of the show.