Survivor count: 41,403

In its original U.S. airing, this episode was punctuated by a portion of a "bonus" scene. The scene shown is of Roslin talking with Caprica-Six in her cell.

Series star Grace Park does not appear in this episode.

The original idea about what Baltar whispers in Gaeta's ear was part of a subplot for the latter half of the season that was to pay off in the finale, about an incident on New Caprica involving the Saggitarons, in which Baltar threatens to implicate Gaeta. However, Ron Moore decided to abandon this, which caused a shift in the writing for two later episodes in the season. This also allowed room for Baltar's whisper to be changed and still retain continuity onscreen, as it was when it's revealed in "The Face of the Enemy" webisodes.

Baltar: She... Caprica-Six... she chose me. Chose me over all men. Chosen to be seduced, taken by the hand, guided between the light and the dark. But is she an angel, or is she a demon? Is she imaginary or is she real? Is she my own voice, or the voice --

Baltar: No! Don’t leave me! Don't leave me! I know I’m flawed. I never claimed to be - Yeah, mistakes, mistakes were made, terrible mistakes. Were they mine? Was I solely to blame? I was a player, that’s all. I was a player. I was struggling, struggling to find my place in God’s plan. God’s resolve. I - I never intended for some things to happen. Doesn’t that matter?

Adama: What were you looking for, Doctor?
Baltar: Their faces, but they wouldn't show them to me.
Roslin: Their faces? Whose faces?
Baltar: The Five. The Final Five.
Roslin: The Final Five? Cylons?
Baltar: I thought I might be one of them. I told them I wanted to be one of them.
Roslin: A Cylon. Why?
Baltar: All my sins forgiven. A new beginning.
Roslin: Are you a Cylon, Dr. Baltar?
Baltar: No.

Baltar: You see, I literally had a gun pointed to my head, but nobody forced you to play both sides. So I'm asking you, Mr. Gaeta, who is the real traitor in this room?

Roslin: I told him I didn’t take any satisfaction in seeing his pain, but the truth is I was willing to see him endure a great deal of suffering in order to get what I wanted. It wasn’t some intelligence or some truth. I wanted a genuine admission of guilt.
Adama: That’s something that you’re not gonna get from someone like Baltar. He doesn’t see himself that way. It’s not who he is. In his eyes, he’s the victim, not the criminal.

The episode's title borrows a lyric from the theme song of the popular 1980's sitcom Cheers.

Baltar: Should I die before I wake.

This piece of improvising is taken from the real world children's prayer.

Roslin's comment about using the stick instead of the carrot on Baltar is nearly verbatim of Baltar's own comment to Admiral Cain in "Pegasus" regarding the Cylon prisoner Gina.