This is the only episode in which a genuine black Ferrari Daytona Spyder is used as Crockett's car, and only in one scene (where Crockett is sitting in the car, waiting for Leon). According to legend, the real Daytona belonged to a local doctor who had rented the car out to the production crew, but who refused to let the arrangement continue after the car suffered over $1000 worth of damage in an accident on the set.
The Ferrari Daytona Sypder convertible that featured in the first two seasons of the show was one of two replica kit cars built on a 1980 Corvette chassis with Ferrari hardware by Tom McBurnie for importer Al Mardikian. The cars were bought for the show after Mardikian lost them to the IRS.
The episode won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series and Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Series.
The building at 1116 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, in which the scenes of Crockett and Tubbs searching Leon's apartment were filmed, was bought in 1992 by Gianni Versace as his Miami residence. It was also where he was killed by serial murderer Andrew Philip Cunanan in 1997. The building underwent extensive renovation and expansion throughout the 1990s. Don Johnson later related an anecdote in an interview that he was once invited to the residence by Gianni Versace and couldn't help feeling that he had been in the building before. It then came to him that it was the location where filming for the scenes at Leon's apartment had taken place. Don Johnson recalled that when they were shooting the scenes, the whole structure was so run down that there were holes in floors and ceilings. The building is now a boutique hotel, restaurant, and event location.