The title is Italian for Virtue and Fortune.
The title of episode is inspired by Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, a treatise on the relationship between power, fate and free will.
The song heard in the opening sequence of this episode is "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.
In the Fort infirmary, Peter Abernathy's "I am bound upon a wheel of fire..." is a quote from 'King Lear'
Peter Abernathy quotes Meditation XVII by the English poet John Donne: "Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."