[VIDEO] ‘Law and Order’s Stabler Says He’s In Love… With Benson?

Are we inching ever nearer to that parallel universe, or what?

Near the beginning of this week’s Law & Order: Organized Crime, Elliot Stabler greeted his Italian companion Tia as she ambled out of his bed room the morning after the occasions of the earlier episode. As the buddies/co-workers mentioned her hangover and the quantity of grappa they’d imbibed the earlier night, we realized two essential items of data: 1) Despite his attraction to Tia and vice-versa, Elliot slept on the sofa; and 2) their drunken dialog yielded a fact that even Elliot didn’t keep in mind he’d admitted.

As Stabler joked about how Tia couldn’t recall what they’d talked about, she stated, “I remember some things. The important parts. I guess, yeah, except her name.” The remark gave Stabler pause, and he requested to who she was referring. “You said there’s a woman you’re in love with,” she defined. Stabler out of the blue acquired REALLY within the toast he was buttering, asking solely, “I did?” Tia, understanding she’d touched on Something Big, responded, “Love shouldn’t be complicated. Love affairs, yes. They can get messy. But love, that’s different.”

Even if you happen to’re not an ‘EO’ ‘shipper, Stabler has acquired to be speaking about Capt. Olivia Benson, his former Law & Order: SVU companion… proper?! (You can decide for your self by watching the video right here.)

It’s not like there’s no precedent for this precise sentiment within the Law & Orderverse. In Organized Crime‘s first season, El blurted out that he loved Liv — to her face — during a highly emotional intervention following the murder of his wife, Kathy. But he was out of sorts at the time, and though the sentiment clearly surprised both of them, it was pushed aside as the hunt for Kathy’s killer intensified.

Then, in OC‘s Season 2, Stabler wound up at Benson’s place after he’d been dosed with a robust drug throughout an undercover operation. As he rambled semi-coherently, he admitted that Kathy — not he — had written the letter he’d handed Liv in Season 1. During that dialog, we discovered that the missive had been all about how “what we were to each other was never real, and that we got in the way of each other being who and where we needed to be,” which clearly had felt, to Benson, like her outdated companion was attempting to place some emotional distance of their admittedly turbulent friendship.

But there was a bit on the finish about how, in a parallel universe, “‘It will always be you and I,’” drugged Elliot recited, adding: “I wrote that. I slipped it in there before sealing the envelope.” (For what it’s value, right here’s what we thought the letter ought to’ve stated.)

Both SVU and OC will return for his or her fall finales on Thursday, Dec. 8. Until then, hit the feedback together with your ideas!