The actor playing Red's chief of security Baz, Baz, also happens to be a former C.I.A. officer and veteran U.S. Marine who founded an N.G.O. that rescues kidnapped children in the sex-slave trade.
The montage of Tom (Ryan Eggold) practicing the story he's going to tell Asher (Peter Vack) is extremely similar to Mr. Orange's (Tim Roth) practice in Reservoir Dogs (1992).
When the photo is seen that Karakurt had plastic surgery, the actor shown is Andrew Divoff. In Wishmaster (1997) Divoff played the character of the djinn, which is also the name of this episode.