Epilogue: "In the early 1970s, Nasir Ahmed led a team of researchers who developed the Discrete Cosine Transform. This technique is still used by companies as part of their image and video-sharing technology. You don't know his name but Nasir and his team are responsible for keeping us connected today. He and his wife Esther recently celebrated their 56th anniversary. We video chatted to hear their story."
The names Fogelman and Olin appear on Toby's list of middle names for the baby. These are the last names of series creator Dan Fogelman and episode director Ken Olin.
Michael O'Neill appears in this episode as a man whose wife is on a ventilator. The same actor appears in Grey's Anatomy as Gary Clark, a man whose wife is also on a ventilator, which provides a major storyline of the sixth season of the show.
Mandy Moore and guest actor from this episode Michael O'Neill both appeared as guests in the same season 6 iconic episodes of Grey's Anatomy (2005).
Kate is wearing rose earrings when Hailey is born which also is Hailey's middle name.