Tyrell (Martin Wallström) and Joanna Wellick' (Stephanie Corneliussen)s relationship, and their plotting, draw from William Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth, at the urging of his scheming, ambitious wife, kills King Duncan, and becomes King of Scotland. However, in getting what he wants, Macbeth soon becomes consumed by guilt and increasingly paranoid, eventually descending into madness.
In the opening sequence, Shayla (Frankie Shaw) says to Elliot (Rami Malek), "...keep the fish, you filthy animal." The expression 'you filthy animal' was taken from the Home Alone series of movies, in which Kevin watches his favorite film, Angels with Filthy Souls, which contains the expression.
Origin of the Title:
- In computing, "view source" is a browser command that displays the current web page's HTML source code, so the user can read it, learn from it, etc.
- In the context of the show's characters, "view source" is a metaphor for seeing beneath the facade each creates to hide their true self.
- The extension: .flv is the file extension for video in Adobe Flash format. It is the format for most web-based streaming video.
This episode picks up one month after Shayla (Frankie Shaw)'s death. By this time, Elliot (Rami Malek) has completed his year of court-mandated therapy with Krista (Gloria Reuben).
Romero has found a new occupation developing lotion containing Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal component of cannabis that creates the "high" experienced by users. Applied topically, the lotion will create the same high as smoking a joint.