While moonlighting as a cab driver, Higgins finds a dead passenger in the backseat.While moonlighting as a cab driver, Higgins finds a dead passenger in the backseat.While moonlighting as a cab driver, Higgins finds a dead passenger in the backseat.
Inspector Brackenreid tells Donna Chambers, the woman Higgins arrested, that she was carrying a "stack of bloody spondoolies." Spondoolies is a modern variant of spondulix, a 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money.
When playing the shell game, Tim Little asks the player to bet 5 cents, or a "nickel". But at the time of this show, Canada used the very small, silver 5-cent piece, which in 1922 was replaced by the larger "nickel" made of nickel.