Although the last "all new" episode of NBC's Las Vegas ended with the words "to be continued," the storyline won't be. After receiving word that the network had canceled the series, its creator, Gary Scott Thompson, told TV Guide Online: "We were probably the first victim of the strike. The strike did us in. We had three more episodes to shoot for the season, which we didn't get done. And the 'To be continued...' was actually supposed to be the first part of a two-parter. But that's as far as we got." Thompson said that he had warned his writers, "If there's a strike, it's going to be shows like ours that get hurt the most." (He was presumably referring to shows with mediocre ratings.) He said that after the strike ended, he had hoped that he would at least have been allowed "to wrap it up and make it satisfying for all the fans, and, in some ways, give ourselves an incredible curtain call with all the major characters."