Benson and Stabler will face intense drama within the upcoming Regulation & Order crossover occasion, however Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have been all smiles as they attended a New York Knicks sport on Friday.
A photograph that the Knicks posted on X that night time, April 11, reveals the longtime costars smiling and holding arms as they pose for a photograph of their court-side seats at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard.
Different celebs on the sport — throughout which the house staff misplaced to the Cleveland Cavaliers 102 to 108 — included Tracy Morgan, Matthew Modine, Susie Essman, Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, in keeping with Folks.
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— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) April 12, 2025
Hargitay and Meloni’s NBA outing comes forward of a crossover between the unique Regulation & Order and Hargitay’s Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit on NBC on Thursday, April 17, adopted by a particular broadcast presentation of the season premiere of Meloni’s Regulation & Order: Organized Crime, which moved from NBC to Peacock for Season 5. (Discovered, which normally occupies NBC’s Thursday 10/9c time slot, will air its subsequent episode on Monday, April 14, earlier than shifting again to its standard berth.)
Within the crossover occasion, a mysterious cellphone name to Capt. Benson (Hargitay) of the Particular Victims Unit leads detectives to the scene of a brutal homicide, as NBC says in a synopsis. When the SVU and the twenty seventh precinct uncover a sample of rape and homicide focusing on marginalized ladies, Domenick Carisi (Peter Scanavino) and ADA Nolan Worth (Hugh Dancy) staff as much as cost the suspect with a number of crimes.
The homicide sufferer, an NBC promo reveals, is Maria Recinos, a cop whom Benson rescued when Maria was only a baby within the Season 7 episode that received Hargitay an Emmy.
“We’re gonna catch the bastard — collectively,” Benson tells Lieutenant Jessica Brady (Maura Tierney) within the promo.
However it seems to be like Benson will go to extremes in her combat for justice. “Generally it’s a must to express regret as a substitute of permission,” she says later within the clip.
Meloni will guest-star in Thursday’s SVU episode — as soon as once more taking part in Stabler, Benson’s former companion, on the present — and Hargitay returns the favor with an look in Organized Crime Season 5.
Regulation & Order/SVU Crossover, Thursday, April 17, 8/7c, NBC