 "The Judge" is the first of four episodes of "Millennium" to be written by Ted Mann, who would go on to write "Loin Like a Hunting Flame", "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" and the first-season finale "Paper Dove".The episode marks director Randall Zisk's only work for the series.The episode features the first appearance by C. C. H. Pounder as Millennium Group pathologist Cheryl Andrews.