Regulation & Order followers get a deal with on April 17: A crossover with SVU (the final was in September 2022) pairing the Manhattan North Murder and Particular Victims models led by Lieutenant Brady (Maura Tierney) and Captain Benson (Mariska Hargitay).
“The episodes will really feel like a two-hour film,” says L&O showrunner Rick Eid, “whereas it’s nonetheless in step with Regulation & Order‘s format of the police investigating against the law and the attorneys prosecuting the offenders. We’ll additionally discover the DA’s workplace conversing with detectives as they get nearer to arresting a suspect, and a few of our detectives will take the stand in courtroom.”
What precipitated the crossover now? As Eid explains, “Mariska filmed a couple of scenes with us at L&O earlier this season, and we knew we needed to see Maura and Mariska collectively once more on the display screen. So each writers’ rooms got here up with a storyline in thoughts, which additionally teamed up our lead ADAs Worth and Carisi [played by Hugh Dancy and Peter Scanavino] for some terrific courtroom moments.”
The primary hour opens when Benson will get a mysterious name from an individual who says she’s a pedestrian and needs to report a girl’s brutal homicide, however, says Eid, “she hangs up earlier than Benson can discover out who she was or how she obtained her quantity. … Benson hurries to the crime scene and meets up with [Homicide’s] Det. Riley [Reid Scott],” and the thriller of who this nameless caller is, and who the homicide sufferer is, begins.
Although the homicide was in Brady’s jurisdiction, Benson caught the case and the leaders determine to mix forces to cease the killer, because the our bodies of “marginalized ladies,” begin piling up. Regardless of each these leaders “searching for justice for the victims,” their differing types of management, might produce a little bit of battle. “Benson and Brady have the identical objective,” Eid explains, “however might not at all times arrive at it in the identical means.”
In the meantime, SVU’s latest detective, Silva (Juliana Aiden Martinez), “places her earlier murder expertise to good use [impressing] Det. Riley,” Eid reveals, “and ADAs Worth and Carisi group as much as tackle a formidable opponent in courtroom when Rita Calhoun [Elizabeth Marvel] represents the [alleged killer].”
After, catch a particular airing of Peacock’s Organized Crime Season 5 opener at 10/9c on NBC.
Regulation & Order, Regulation & Order: SVU, 8/7c and 9/8c, NBC