Trivia: Intended to be a homage to the cult TV shows "The Fugitive" and "The Prisoner."
Factual error: When Tom is locked up in an institution for the mentally ill, he is given a bed on a mixed gender ward/wing (both men and women). Wings and wards in mental institutions have not been mixed gender for more than 100 years - it is inconceivable that this practice would be existing in the 1990s in a large city in the USA.
Thomas Veil: Soon, all my memories will be gone. Without ceasing to breathe, I will cease to exist.