Selfless

In the DVD commentary, writer Drew Goddard claims that the Sjornjost scenes were written in Swedish but he intended for the lines to be dubbed badly in English. Thus, Emma Caulfield Ford and Abraham Benrubi were told that they did not need to memorize the Swedish that carefully because it would not be heard. Both actors memorized all of the alleged Swedish words phonetically, and the show creators were so pleased with their performances that they decided to subtitle the scenes rather than dub them.

The flashback where Anya and Halfrek are sitting at a banquet table among dead men with a backdrop of building on fire is captioned "St. Petersburg, 1905". Also, Anya says that Russia was ready to explode, and they only gave it a push, after which Halfrek mentions that the mob was going to loot the Winter Palace. While the St. Peterburg's Bloody Sunday did take place in 1905, it was a shooting of peaceful protesters by the army and it was over relatively quickly. The events mentioned in the dialogue are from the February Revolution of 1917.