After still-deteriorating ratings during the fourth season, NBC had originally planned to order just a shortened fifth season of only 13 episodes, but eventually settled for another full run, which was, either way, going to be the final season. At the beginning of season five, Olivia Brown recalled, "The show was trying to reinvent itself."[83] Dick Wolf said in an interview for E! True Hollywood Story, after the fifth season, it was all just "...kind of over",[84] and that the show had "run its course".[84]