P.J. Brown has played five different roles over the course of the series:
- Episode 14.9 Dreams Deferred (2012) - Craig Rasmussen (as PJ Brown)
- Episode 6.6 Conscience (2004) - Billy Turner
- Episode 1.16 The Third Guy (2000) - Corelli
- Episode 1.9 Stocks & Bondage (1999) - Elijah
- Episode 1.1 Payback (1999) - Bremm
The episode title makes allusions to both the sadomasochism and stock exchange themes.
Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer) refers to a shredding party as "a page out of the Oliver North playbook". In 1987, Lieutenant Colonel North admitted shredding government documents when the Iran Contra scandal became public. He admitted shredding all documents relating to his contra and Iranian activities.