As Oleg invites Nina to a Washington Capitals vs Chicago Black Hawks game (which occurred on January 30, 1982, Washington winning 5-2), he mentions his admiration for Capitals player Dennis Maruk. Maruk scored 136 points for the Capitals in the 1981-82 NHL season, which is still a Capitals team record.
"Here, There and Everywhere" is a song written by Paul McCartney released on the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver. McCartney includes it among his personal favorites of all the songs he has written. Revolver was the Beatles' seventh studio album. Released on 5 August 1966, it was their final recording project before retirement as live performers. The Beatles started recording the album in April 1966. The songs reflect the influence of psychedelic drugs such as LSD and the lyrics address themes including death and transcendence from material concerns.
In disguise at the plant, Elizabeth says the company they are representing "SBN Secure Transport Movers". "Espion" is the French word for spy.
Erhard Seminars Training was an organization founded by Werner Erhard in 1971 which offered a two-weekend (60-hour) course known officially as "The est Standard Training." The seminar aimed "to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself." It "brought to the forefront the ideas of transformation, personal responsibility, accountability, and possibility." Seminars took place from late 1971 to late 1984, and spawned a number of books from 1976 to 2011.