Just when Amanda Rollins thought she was out, the Dick Wolf Cinematic Universe pulls her again in.
The former SVU detective performed by Kelli Giddish exhibits up in Thursday’s Law & Order: Organized Crime to assist Stabler and Benson work out who’s behind an internet site Bell deems “Uber Eats for violent crime.” The hour, which kicks off the crossover that may proceed with each present’s season finales subsequent week, additionally accommodates a boatload of emotional processing for Benson, Stabler and Rollins. Read on for the highlights of “Shadowërk.”
‘JUST NOT THE RIGHT MOMENT’ | Before we get to Rollins, there’s a serious ‘EO’ dialog that should happen: After all, the final time we noticed Elliot and Olivia collectively, she was near-passing out after they nearly kissed in her kitchen. At the tip of the Law & Order: SVU episode that preceded this Organized Crime, Benson summons Stabler to satisfy her in the darkish in entrance of a municipal constructing. And the way in which these two have been so warped by their jobs, I feel they might really think about {that a} semi-romantic location.
“The last time we saw each other, that was a bad time for me,” Olivia begins. “Worse timing for me,” El responds, however he’s smiling. She chalks up his actions that evening to “wanting to make me feel safe,” and he agrees that the speedy aftermath of her intense, BX9-related trauma was “just not the right moment.” But the scene actually feels prefer it implies that there WILL be a proper second at a while down the road, no?
Anyway, then Benson will get to the true purpose for the meet-up: She’s fairly positive that her newest rape sufferer was assaulted by the man Stabler and the Organized Crime workforce are investigating for the home-owner’s affiliation girl’s demise. “OK partner,” Stabler says with a smile, and identical to that, the band is again collectively (once more)!
ONE-STOP SHOP | Once OC will get underway, El brings Liv up to the mark on the HOA girl’s demise, which segues into his confession that he hallucinated Kathy in the interrogation room final episode. She gently prods him to take care of his trauma earlier than it offers with him, however he shortly asserts that he’s not a sufferer. “But you are a survivor, and sometimes that’s just as hard,” she says. Stabler can’t flip the dialog again to the homicide quick sufficient, and the look that Liv provides him — loosely translated, it’s “You’re doing exactly what I thought you would do, and it’s frustrating, but it’s also funny, and damn, I know you so well” — is perfection.
Stabler, Benson and their workforce work out that each the HOA girl and Maria Varga from the SVU case had been victims of crimes dedicated by individuals employed off a shadowy crime-for-pay web site referred to as Shadowërk. Or, as Bell calls it, “Uber Eats for violent crime.” With Jet’s assist, Stabler intercepts a Shadowërk murderer earlier than he can do the job, which in flip will get them nearer to the positioning’s creator — who appears to be working through a server in Ohio, and who’s facilitating crime everywhere in the world.
Stabler is aware of they need assistance determining what makes the positioning’s creator tick, so he grabs a cup of espresso with Rollins after one among her lectures. She’s fairly pregnant. (“Does Liv know?” “Word on the street is that Carisi wouldn’t keep his mouth shut.”) As they focus on the present case, Rollins lights up as she considers a rudimentary felony profile of the positioning creator, and Stabler calls her out on it. She confesses she’s bored along with her new gig. “I love the students, but I do miss the feeling of solving a good mystery,” she says. But she hasn’t mentioned something to Carisi about it, nor Liv. “You, of all people, should know how she reacts when people leave her,” Rollins says. Zing! (Side observe: I additionally love the way in which that Elliot rolls along with her remark. HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID.) He asks her to work up a proper profile of the positioning creator, and she agrees.
(*3*)A STEP AHEAD | FBI Agent McCrary helps them Stabler and Bell get an digital surveillance warrant… and then the federal choose who granted the warrant exhibits up on Shadowërk: There’s a handsomely paying hit out on her. Though the workforce rushes to guard her, she’s shot in her automobile earlier than they will get to her. Stabler and Benson converge on the crime scene, the place he tells her he desires to convey in assist from the personal sector. Enter Rollins! Liv is stunned to see her pal and former co-worker there, however she listens as Rollins explains that they’re on the lookout for a disaffected white man in his mid-20s who has “weaponized anonymity, and he’ll do anything to keep it.” And that’s it — see you subsequent week!
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