Charles Dickens references: In the episode "Upper West Side story", where the class is studying "A Tale of Two Cities," Mozzie introduces himself to Evan as Professor Magwitch. Mozzie also often uses the alias "Havisham." Both are names of characters in Great Expectations.
In "White Collar" (2009) {Stealing Home (#3.15)} Neal reveals to June and Mozzie that he grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and that he was already a pool shark by age 9.
When Peter checks his email for information on Avery the Stock Exchange manipulator, there is an email from the "Law and Order Production Office" (Law & Order being a popular detective series). The email he actually checks is seemingly an update on his student loan interest rates, nothing to do with the case.
When Neal is reading through the syllabus for the criminology class, the section under "Neal Caffery" is about "Adam Goodnoff: Confidence Man". 'Adam Goodnoff' is the second on-set dresser for the 6 episodes of White Collar from Season 2 so far.
The case revolves around a diner waitress named Gina and her boyfriend Tommy. The Bon Jovi song "Livin' On A Prayer" was also about a diner waitress named Gina and her boyfriend Tommy.
Neil hands out cards to the forgers with the website address 42685th.com written on them. This is in reference to the place where he'd like for all of them to meet him: 4268 5th Ave. At the time of this episode's original airing, that website address redirected to the Fellowship of Fools website (www.fellowshipoffools.com), which at that time featured a huge White Collar background advertisement and front page media about other USA and SyFy shows (both channels are owned by the same parent company).
The list of names in Larson's file includes Jeni Harden, props production assistant on several episodes of this show.
Peter mentions to Neal that he learned about horses growing up in up-state New York. Actor Tim DeKay who plays Peter is in fact from Lansing, in up-state New York.
Agent Roe played by Kevin Kilner played the father of Hilarie Burton's character, Peyton Sawyer on One Tree Hill.
Near the end of this episode, when Peter is looking through June's photo album, one of the photos briefly seen is of June with JFK. The actual picture is of Diahann Carroll(the actress playing June) photographed with President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
In his chess game against Neal, Keller employs the opening known as the Center Counter Defense (also called the Scandinavian Defense). This is one of the oldest recorded openings in chess history, dating back to the year 1475. In chess notation, the opening variation as played is (1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5).
When Mozzie is looking at the microfiche, he utters "holy sh&t!" in German ("Heilige Scheisse").
When Neal and Mozzie are looking at their "loot cam," the top of the Ark of the Covenant is visible on the left.
The name Tycho Brahe alias used in this episode is possibly a reference to one of the the two main characters featured on the penny arcade website by the same name.
In this episode Mozzie references two authors: Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent) and Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code). Both are Amherst College alumni.
As part of her undercover assignment, FBI Agent Diana Barrigan must change her American accent to one native to Manchester, England. Marsha Thomason, the actress who plays Agent Barrigan, is from Manchester, England.
Marsha Thomason's (Diana's) true English accent comes out while in the stakeout van having dinner with Neal and she asks "you ever cook like this for Sarah?"
In veiled threat when Neal, Jones, and Peter go undercover to catch the black widow Neal pretends to be a bachelor from Stanton, Texas. In real life Matt Bomer's middle name is Stanton and he really is from Texas.
Mozzie's (Willie Garson's) chosen alias in this episode is "Barry Soetoro," which is a play on Barack Obama. When Obama was a preteen and teen, he preferred the nickname of Barry (instead of his given name of Barack, which exposed him to bullying), and his stepfather, his mother's second husband, was named Lolo Soetoro. Hence, Barry Soetoro is a proxy name for Barack Obama, and a wink of an alias for Mozzie.
Neal's (Matt Bomer's) chosen alias in this episode is "James Main," which may be a play on the 1980s TV miniseries _North and South (1985)_ in which one of the two lead characters, George Hazard, the northern character, was portrayed by James Read, and the other lead character, the southern character, Orry Main, was portrayed by Patrick Swayze). Hence James Main is a proxy for North and South, indicating New York for north (James), where Neal was before leaving the USA, and whatever Spanish/Portuguese speaking country Neal and Mozzie are hiding out in (which turned out to be Cape Verde, south and east of the USA) (Main) for south.
The portrait of the blond girl with the locker is the one Neal forged in episode 5 of season 1.
Mozzie's list of questionable government programs includes the Stargate program. Willie Garson, the actor who portrays Mozzie, played Martin Lloyd on Stargate SG-1.
Treat Williams plays a former NYPD member that helped identify corruption in the department 30 years ago. In Prince of the City, which was released 31 years prior to this episode, he played a New York City narcotics detective who reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption.
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