The 11th season's premiere aired exactly one year after the death of the series' longtime executive producer, Leonard Goldberg. See listing under Thanks.
This episode is dedicated to Leonard Goldberg (1934-2019), an Executive Producer of 217 episodes of Blue Bloods (2010). He was also Producer or Executive Producer of more than 80 other movies and television series, including many with Aaron Spelling. He died on 4 Dec 2019 in Los Angeles from injuries sustained from a fall.
In french version, Tom Selleck is dubbed for the first time by Michel Papineschi after the death of Jacques Frantz.
Len Cariou appears only in the final 4 minutes of this episode at the closing dinner table scene.