Alias Smith and Jones called the Devil's Hole Gang, loosely based on the Hole in the Wall Gang from which Cassidy recruited most of his outlaws. To lend them an element of audience sympathy, Heyes and Curry were presented as men who avoided bloodshed (though Curry did once kill in self-defense) and always were attempting to reform and seek redemption for their "prior ways". The names "Smith" and "Jones" originated from a comment in the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", when before one of their final hold-ups, the characters are outside a bank in Bolivia and Sundance turns to Butch and
Gunmen of the Apocalypse Laredo a Wild West reenactment town in Kent. The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The plot of a drunken sheriff defending his town against an incoming gang of cowboys parodies "Rio Bravo". The artificial reality and wild west plot also shows similarities to the "" episode "Spectre of the Gun", and to the ""'s episode "A Fistful of Datas". The episode also has references to the 1971 film "Gumshoe", which the AR game of the same name is based on, and "Butch Accountant and the Yuppie Kid" references the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and