Carrie Preston was cast in the part of Gayle only three hours before this episode was filmed. Jennifer Esposito had suddenly left the show and her lines were rewritten.
Michael J. Fox (Mike Flaherty) & Carrie Preston (Gayle) also worked together on episode 6.6, Old Spice (2014), of The Good Wife (2009) as Louis Canning & Elsbeth Tascioni respectively.