Trevor is imprisoned at Seagate Prison. In the Marvel Comics, Seagate is where the superhero Luke Cage was created.
The title of Trevor Slattery's CBS show, "Caged Heat," was the code name for आयरन मॅन 3: फौलादी रक्षक (2013) during production.
There are two stickers of the Liverpool Football Club crest on the walls of the room in which Slattery is being interviewed. This is a continuation of a theme from आयरन मॅन 3: फौलादी रक्षक (2013) when Slattery celebrated a goal scored by Liverpool.
An inmate at Seagate is called Fletcher Heggs and bears a tattoo of a chess pawn near his eye. In the comics, Heggs was the Knight, a member of a group of personal assassins called the Chessmen.
This short was based on the Iron Man comic "Mandarin: The Story of My Life," in which the Mandarin tells a filmmaker his dubious life story.