Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

At 2:50 on the Blu-ray, a Bances cigar box is seen in Kara's apartment. Bances is a real world brand of Cuban cigars.

Helo recommends to Starbuck she might want to see a certain psychiatrist on the Inchon Velle. This is the first and only mention of this ship in the series.

When Starbuck visits the oracle Yolanda Brenn in Dogsville, she is attracted to and picks up a figurine of the Kobollian goddess of dawn, Aurora. Later in the episode, she gives it to Admiral Adama. When Starbuck dies, he puts the figurine on the prow of the model sailing ship he's building as he struggles against his grief.

As Brenn gives her reading to Starbuck at 7:16 on the Blu-ray, a tear track is visible on her face. What is it about Starbuck or her destiny that brings the prophetess to tear up?

Starbuck tells Anders that her mother was stationed on a world called Medra during the first Cylon War.

Colonel Tigh remarks, "That planet's synchrotron radiation has been kicking the crap out of every DRADIS in the fleet since we got here." Synchrotron radiation is a real world effect in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted from charged particles that are subjected to radial acceleration.

As Starbuck fires at the Cylon Heavy Raider she thinks she sees in the gas giant's maelstrom at 14:10 on the Blu-ray, her rounds' orange tracers give the appearance of orange laser bolts as seen from the Vipers of the original BSG70.

At 18:45 on the Blu-ray, Starbuck tells Apollo she wants her photo pinned right next to Kat's when she dies. Apollo tells her he wants to be next to Duck and Nora. Later in the episode, Apollo does pin Starbuck's photo next to Kat's. Kat died in "The Passage". Duck died as a suicide bomber for the resistance against the Cylons on New Caprica in "Occupation". Nora was killed in a raid by Cylon Centurions on New Caprica in "The Resistance".

During Starbuck's flashback to life with her mother at 22:45 on the Blu-ray, one of the cigarettes in her mother's ashtray appears to be Marlboro brand!

Starbuck's vision at 27:34 on the Blu-ray implies that she did not have an actual bed in her old apartment in Delphi; she simply slept on top of a pad on the floor of the living room.

Starbuck's mother, Socrata Thrace, earned a Colonial Medal of Honor during her time in the Colonial Marines. Notice that the medal looks rather similar to Starbuck's mandala image.

    The medical form seen in Socrata Thrace's hands at 30:10 on the Blu-ray shows that Kara and her mother lived on Red Rose Blvd., Caprica City. It also shows the Colonial Veterans' Medical Assistance Program address as Government Square, 1023 Twin Building, Caprica City.

    The fact that Socrata's medical report comes from the oncology department implies she has cancer.

A bottle of Virgon Brew beer is seen in Socrata's apartment at 34:23 on the Blu-ray.

The childhood photo of Kara at 35:40 on the Blu-ray appears to show that she wore braces on her teeth as a child.

One of Kara's school essays kept by Socrata is about Kara's grandmother, titled "The Person Who Most Influenced My Life", it reading that her grandmother always made her feel special.

At the end of the episode, Admiral Adama places the Aurora goddess figure on the prow of his model sailing ship, then partially destroys the model in his grief and anger over Starbuck's death. He has been very gradually working on the model since the start of the series. It is also seen in the background of his quarters in later episodes, visibly damaged.