As Jack is driving to the funeral, listening to "Scentless Apprentice" by Nirvana on his stereo, he is reading the obituary of the person whose funeral he is driving to. The obituary is from a paper based on the Los Angeles Times from April 5, the same date that Kurt Cobain died in 1994. It is possibly the first use of a Nirvana song on television since Courtney Love sold 25% of the rights to the Nirvana catalog.
The final iteration in the radio transmission is number 17550445.
Danielle Rousseau states that she recorded her radio message 16 years ago, 3 days before her daughter Alex was born.