[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Law & Order: SVU Season 26 Episode 8 “Cornered.”]
What ought to be a daily day turns into a really traumatic one for Carisi (Peter Scanavino) within the Legislation & Order: SVU fall finale.
After forgetting his paralegal’s birthday, Carisi goes to a nook deli to choose up flowers—solely to stroll in on a theft. He finally ends up a hostage, can’t preserve the deli employee from being killed or one of many different hostages from being raped, and lies to one of many robbers to get him to activate the opposite to place an finish to the scenario. (He says he can argue self-defense, then refuses to assist him since he didn’t assist the opposite victims.) After it’s over, he insists to Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Rollins (Kelli Giddish) that he’s advantageous, however it’s clear he’s not.
Under, Scanavino breaks down the episode and teases how the occasions will have an effect on Carisi going ahead—and his relationships with Rollins and Benson.
Is there something that Carisi thinks he might have performed otherwise?
Peter Scanavino: I don’t know. I’m certain there may be as a result of I’m certain that he needs that everyone had walked out of there alive and that not one of the terrible stuff that transpires throughout the episode really did. I’m unsure how he would’ve achieved that, however I feel that might have been a remorse for him, you understand what I imply?
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There’s solely a lot he might do on this scenario, however on the identical time, due to who he’s, I perceive why he feels such as you simply stated.
Yeah, I feel every time one thing occurs, you replay it and go, what might I’ve performed otherwise? If I’d’ve performed this? Did I’ve an opportunity there? Ought to I’ve taken that probability? Was I scared? Is that the explanation I didn’t do it? Or would which were silly? Would which were worse? So I feel in traumatic conditions you form of replayed them in your mind and also you assume would about this second or that second, you begin questioning your self, which is simply form of the character of it, I suppose.
What’s clear on the finish of this episode is that he’s not okay and he ought to be listening to Rollins and Benson, however why is he making an attempt so laborious to only transfer previous it slightly than say take Benson’s recommendation and discuss with a therapist?
Effectively, I imply, it’s principally the day of. I feel he simply must settle down and I feel his default is, I’m advantageous. I feel lots of people say that I’m advantageous, I’m advantageous, I’m simply going to maneuver on. I’m advantageous, I’m advantageous, I’m advantageous. Even once they’re not. And I feel that’s simply form of what he’s falling into, possibly previous habits and possibly that’s a realization that he does want assist in whichever format that takes. That’s one thing that he must discover. I feel he wants to come back to that realization himself.
How are we going to see the occasions of this episode affecting him going ahead?
Effectively, they positively ripple all through the season. I feel within the following episode there’s positively a unique Carisi that emerges, nearly like a slight detachment as he’s making an attempt to course of this and the surprising emotional toil that it’s form of taken on him.
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How are we going to see it affecting his relationship with Rollins?
I don’t know. I feel when these items occur, it’s nerve-racking for everyone concerned since you don’t know what to do for the individual typically, and that may be—irritating is the mistaken phrase, however painful for a cherished one to see, one other cherished one going by one thing and also you don’t know the way to assist.
What are we going to see from Carisi and Benson? As a result of I think about that she’ll be noticing this totally different Carisi that you simply simply talked about,
Proper. Effectively, they’re clearly superb buddies and also you attempt to assist in any manner you may. And typically that requires possibly powerful love or to talk plainly and admittedly with someone, you understand what I imply? Some folks must be inspired and spoken to very sweetly, and typically folks must have a dialog they’ll snap out of it. And I feel Benson positively has that form of permission with Carisi.
Is it going to get to the purpose the place he does go to remedy, do you assume?
I don’t know. I don’t know.
What would it not take for him to do this?
Effectively, I don’t assume that’s such a factor that he’s like, I’d by no means go to remedy. I’m unsure. I feel he might positively be satisfied to do one thing like that, however it must be the suitable time and proper place and one thing that he desires to do.
What was the hardest scene to movie from this episode?
A tough scene was once they’re making an attempt to change me for Benson as a hostage, and I form of need to make this resolution that that is my duty and that I can’t simply let my pal stroll into peril after I was the unlucky one to stroll into the deli within the first place. And I feel from that second on, he realizes that he’s form of in a battle for his life. That was a troublesome scene.
What else is developing for Carisi?
Effectively, we’ve solely filmed a pair episodes since that. I’ve been off for one. So I feel there’s the episode of him coping with form of the repercussions of this and the way he’s doing mentally and looking for his footing once more. After which he lastly considerably does, after which he form of goes into one other case the place there form of begins to be some stress between him and Benson. He’s totally different. He’s modified from this episode.
What’s developing with Carisi and Rollins after this episode? Have you ever filmed the rest?
No. That’s the one factor.
Are we largely going to see Carisi sticking to the ADA function going ahead? Are we going to see him working with SVU slightly bit extra, possibly slipping again into that detective function slightly bit in any respect?
Positively working extra with SVU and never the normal courtroom ADA function.
Legislation & Order: SVU, Return, Thursday, January 16, 2025, 9/8c, NBC