 His co-star Marg Helgenberger opined that "his [Tarantino's] filmmaking style lends itself really well to "CSI"... there's an enormous amount of close-ups, and it's a very visual show".Some elements of the episode, such as the pile of intestines that lures Nick to the alley, Walter Gordon's suicide and the black-and-white autopsy scene which Nick imagines when he is trapped in the coffin have been likened to the viscera of "Kill Bill" and other Tarantino films, and Nick's hallucination of Al Robbins and David Phillips conducting his autopsy is also similar to Tarantino's cinematography in the same film.The use of nonlinear storytelling at the beginning of the episode (going forwards in time to the search for Nick, back to the early evening and so on) also mimics "Kill Bill" volumes 1 and 2, which present various elements of the story in a nonlinear order over two films.