Detective Lawton expresses his love for golf. This is actor Samuel L. Jackson's real life passion and he often has clauses in his movie contracts allowing him time off to play golf.
The 2024 film Damaged borrows heavily from the 2021 novel Shadows of Dismemberment, switching out New York for Chicago and Wales for Scotland. Both feature dismembered victims tied to unsolved cases, a washed-up detective, a red herring, and a cat-and-mouse chase with a twist ending. Religious symbolism is a central element in both, but the film drops the novel's supernatural aspects, focusing more on a crime thriller aspect. The similarities between the two are numerous, from the plot devices to character dynamics, making the borrowing hard to miss.