From "Civil Wars" to "L.A. Law", Alan Rosenberg as a transplanted lawyer Eli Levinson, and Debi Mazar as the legal Secretary Denise Iannello, reprise their roles from Civil Wars (1991), marking the first time in prime-time TV history that characters from having been switched into another network's non-spinoff series.
The title refers to the biblical Book of Revelations that described the end of the earth.