For his evening out at the gig at the start of the story, the D.I. is wearing the silver-grey tie his mother sent as part of his birthday present in 1.5.
The camera used by Michelle Bouchant (Rebecca Scroggs) is a Canon EOS 1000D (known in the US market as the Rebel XS and in Japan as the EOS Kiss F), a 2008-model consumer digital SLR which cost just US$700 with 18-55mm kit lens. At the time of filming, it would have been around three years old.
Four of the actors on this episode have been on coronation street. Ray Fearon 2005-06 "Nathan Cooper/Harling" Johann Myers 2013 "Ben Coombs" Keith Duffy 2002-11 "Ciaran McCarthy" David Sterne 2011 "Jonno Richardson"
Keith Duffy (Eddie) & Ray Fearon (Curtis) also worked together on three episodes of Coronation Street (1960) as Ciaran McCarthy & Nathan Cooper respectively.