The two story lines are similar to two infamous real-life incidents that were later the subject of true crime documentaries. The main plot involves a bank robbery in which the robber claimed he was forced to participate while wearing an explosive device locked to his body. This resembles the subject of "Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist" (2018). A secondary plot, in which Ariel Dubois has a vision of her schoolmate dying in a car crash when her mother drives in the wrong direction on a highway while under the influence of drugs, alludes to "There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (2011), which tells the true story of Diane Schuler who crashed a mini-van while driving in the wrong direction on New York's Taconic State Parkway, resulting in the death of herself and seven others.