The student who gets killed at the start of the episode is named Howard Gordon, one of the producing/writing alumni of "Millennium"'s sister show, The X-Files (1993).
Second major appearance in the series of Lucy Butler. She last appeared in the Season One episode "Lamentation".
This is Ken Horton's first script for the series. He would write a further two episodes in Season 3 in conjunction with Chip Johannessen.