An Aesop: The biological functions of a heart sometimes matter more than the metaphoric "heart." Indeed, the episode's bad guy, Jan Baldt, was a nefarious, evil individual, leading a neo-Nazi group and had a very dark heart, but his biological heart was strong and healthy ... and the perfect match to someone he wanted to destroy.
Dream Sequence: When Everett Solomon collapses into a coma (upon learning that he has had implanted in him the heart of a man who tried to kill him), he has a dream where he is visited by his parents (who died in the Nazi death camp) and his son, Joe ... all urging him to fight out of his coma and continue his speaking tour. Everett does just that, and it is presumed he goes on to a long, successful series of engagements about his experiences.
Irony: After Jan's death, his heart is transplanted into Everett Solomon, the man he plotted to kill. In other words, the neo-Nazi saves the life of the Holocaust survivor, the very man he wanted to silence.
Multiple Gunshot Death: One of the only instances where this trope was featured, and it happened twice:
First, Everett Solomon's son, Joseph, is shot several times in an ambush by neo-Nazis at school; he doesn't survive.
Later, Jan and one of his mooks, while plotting to interrupt a peace rally, are shot multiple times when Rolf accidentally sets off a machine gun. Both are killed, although medics are able to keep Jan alive long enough to allow him to be an organ donor.
Opinion-Changing Dream: Everett Solomon is outraged to learn that he has now, as his heart, the heart that used to be in the Neo-Nazi that masterminded his son's death and is trying to start a new movement to eradicate all Jewish people ... to the point where he has a heart attack. While he is unconscious and medical staff are frantically trying to revive him, Solomon is visited by his mother and father (who both died in the Nazi war camp) and Joseph, who urge him to not die. After Solomon is revived and wakes up, he tells Jonathan that he now realizes that he has been given a gift of new life – despite the donor being as evil as they come – and that he must use his new lease on life to continue educating people about the Holocaust ... and with renewed purpose, is back on the speaking circuit within a few weeks of leaving the hospital.
