Manufacturing on the Elliot Stabler spin-off, Legislation & Order: Organized Crime, hasn’t even begun, however star Christopher Meloni is already sharing one piece of thrilling information: Followers can anticipate Stabler and his former associate Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) to possible reunite in crossover episodes between Organized Crime and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
“It simply needs to be,” Meloni informed the New York Post. “Benson and Stabler are inextricably linked, locked and linked. I believe there may be really and deeply a worthwhile, inherent drama in exploring that relationship and the complexity of how Stabler left — the unresolved feelings each characters really feel and the way the followers really feel.”
When Meloni opted not to return after SVU‘s 12th season, his character was written out of the present, with Stabler retiring from the drive off-screen and by no means receiving a correct goodbye. Organized Crime, which is at the moment set to premiere on NBC this fall, will comply with Stabler returning to the NYPD after struggling “a devastating private loss.”
Law & Order: SVU’s Elliot Stabler Spin-Off: Everything to Know About Christopher Meloni’s Return
Whereas Stabler has been referenced a handful of occasions on SVU within the years since, Organized Crime would be the first time Meloni has reprised the function since his 2011 exit. And it seems like Meloni is simply as excited as followers are by the chance to deal with Stabler’s abrupt exit and the ensuing lack of closure within the detective’s relationships — significantly with Benson.
“How my character left was actually unsatisfying, I believe,” Meloni mentioned. “It nearly feels that we can’t do one or two [crossover] episodes and transfer on our merry means.”
“I simply assume there’ll at all times be potentialities there,” he added. “Folks will at all times be hungry to see how we work together and the way that dynamic has modified.”
Legislation & Order: Organized Crime will air Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC this fall.
Legislation & Order: SVU is out there to stream at NBC and Hulu.
Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni, Legislation & Order: SVU