Audrey is crying at one point for no clear reason. A deleted scene revealed that Audrey had been reminded of a time when she pushed her brother Johnny down a staircase, possibly causing his current condition.
This was Mark Frost's first solo writing credit for the series.
Throughout the series, scenes set in the Great Northern Hotel's dining room in episodes directed by Lesli Linka Glatter always feature a convention of some sort. It was coincidental in this episode, but the director decided to make each of her episodes feature one as an in-joke. This episode features a group of American Indian Movement members in this capacity.
When Twin Peaks was rerun on the Bravo cable network in 1993, David Lynch wrote new introductions for each episode that were performed by Catherine Coulson as The Log Lady. The one for this episode was thus:
"I play my part on life's stage. I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. But that answer cannot come before all are ready to hear, so I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. Sometimes my anger at the fire is evident. Sometimes it is not anger, really - it may appear as such, but could it be a clue? The fire I speak of is not a kind fire."
"I play my part on life's stage. I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. But that answer cannot come before all are ready to hear, so I tell what I can to form the perfect answer. Sometimes my anger at the fire is evident. Sometimes it is not anger, really - it may appear as such, but could it be a clue? The fire I speak of is not a kind fire."
The scenes in the woods outside the cabin were filmed in Angeles National Forest, which is located in the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking the Los Angeles basin.