An instrumental version of the song Wicked Games by The Weeknd is playing at the party.
The episode's name "The Mother of Exiles" is actually another name of The Statue of Liberty in New York City, It was named by the poet Emma Lazarus in a Sonnet called "The New Colossus".
At 19:10 Serac says "it exists now only in my mind", paraphrasing the last line spoken by The Narrator in The Road Warrior (1981) regarding the fate of Mad Max.