The Legislation & Order: SVU forged has modified many occasions over the course of its 27 seasons (and counting). However there have been two staples from virtually the very starting: Mariska Hargitay has starred as Olivia Benson (going from detective to captain) for the reason that first episode, and Ice T has performed Odafin “Fin” Tutuola (now a sergeant) since Season 2. Is that about to alter? Not in accordance with Ice T himself.
Regardless of Fin being attacked and hospitalized within the SVU Season 27 premiere (which aired on Thursday, September 25), Ice T pressured on social media that he’s nonetheless very a lot a part of the present. “SVU followers wanna understand how I obtained Fd up on final nights Episode….? It was within the Script.. Lol Don’t fear you already know ‘I’ll be again,’” he wrote on Twitter. That’s definitely a aid! (We wouldn’t be shocked if he’s absent for an episode or two whereas Fin recovers, nonetheless.)
Fin thought he was interrupting an assault in progress, solely to be the one injured and for his gun to be stolen. Whereas he instructed Detectives Terry Bruno (Kevin Kane) and Joe Velasco (Octavio Pisano), who finally tracked it down, he did attempt to preserve it from Benson — to guard her, as he insisted when she referred to as him out on it after Sergeant Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) clued her in. Nevertheless it appeared he had misplaced a few of her belief, and their earlier dialog about retirement — “It’s crossed my thoughts. I don’t wish to do that endlessly,” he’d stated — got here up.
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“I do know that we’re nearer to the tip than the start. I really feel that I nonetheless have extra to do, however all of us must determine how we wish to exit. If you’re keen to throw away all of the years that now we have labored collectively, all of the belief that now we have constructed, then perhaps you must retire,” Benson instructed Fin.
Whereas what occurred did have Fin questioning if it was “a message for me to get out whereas I nonetheless can,” he promised Benson he’s not going anyplace. “I’m not throwing something away,” he stated. “And I’m not able to retire till I earn your belief again.”
Nonetheless, Fin goes to be out recovering, and whereas he’s, the brand new chief of detectives, Kathryn Tynan (Noma Dumezweni) revealed to Benson that she’s bringing in somebody new, somebody she’s recognized since he was a child, to her squad — and he or she refused to let the captain say no. Hurry again, Fin!
Legislation & Order: SVU, Thursdays, 9/8c, NBC