References To Popular Culture
- Chuck's "Doctor" conversation with Zamir is a reference to the film, Spies Like Us.
- Chuck's attempt to start cutting open the patient (in the wrong place) is also a reference to Spies Like Us.
- When Chuck tells Casey that Agent Forrest's addition to their team was like Sarah was replaced by a soulless robot, this is a reference to Tricia Helfer's famous role as a Number Six, a Cylon on Battlestar Galactica.
- The patient's pseudonym "Harry Lime" is a reference to the film and novel The Third Man.
- One of the names that scrolls by as Sarah begins her search for Chuck's father is that of the director, Robert Duncan McNeill.
- The name of Helfer's character, Alexandra Forrest, is the same as that of Glenn Close's character in the film Fatal Attraction.
- The terrorist Chuck is sent to investigate in the hospital is named Rashad Ahmad, a reversal of the name of sportscaster and former NFL player Ahmad Rashad.
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