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As Elliott is back and that ten years, as his wife Kathy is injured in a hit meant for him. And that she was at the wrong place and time

Olivia now a Captain there is in the putting her job as she was going to an awards ceremony in her honor as she drives by and how she sees Elliott's wife. And later sees her former partner after ten years he left and did not say good-bye to her. While balancing also to keep Elliott on a leash.

But as they try to bring the person responsible to justice. Still Olivia and Elliott must work through not seeing each other and what he has been doing all these years as he has been working overseas in Italy and working as a NYPD liason there.

But he must go and reckon with a different era of policing with social media and CCTV to the now he can't go and beat the heck out of the perp there. But that will not stop him even though now this is personal. As sadly Kathy succumbs to her injuries.

Leading the door over to Organized Crime there! Welcome back Elliott!

Just a few notes before I start. 1) This episode pulled in the highest ratings for SVU in 4.5 yrs, so saying everyone was relieved when Chris left is patently false. 2) Dick Wolf, Chris, Mariska, and most of the people involved in Wolf Entertainment are anti-Conservative & anti-Trump. Maybe the folx pissed about that should just accept that this is not the franchise for you, and move on? Just a thought. 3) Not one person who spoke about Chris's return hid the fact that the biggest part of it was going to be dealing with what happened with Liv & Elliot's relationship. Don't pretend like it was some big secret that the reunion was going to be about that, when the actors have interviewed about it nonstop. 🙄

The return of Elliot Stabler was basically everything that diehard fans of the original were hoping for. This is a gift that Chris, Mariska and Dick gave to the fans, like a love letter. The two leads are still in perfect lockstep, and their intensity is palpable. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. If you have stuck with SVU for 22 years, you will more than likely love this reunion. Don't listen to the haters.

I can't believe that they killed Kathy. I'm so broken that I refuse to follow over to Stabler's new show.

For me, one of the best moments in the entire run of the SVU series was when the Stabler character bowed out. His obsessive, over-violent and uncontrolled behaviour was a drag on all the Benson character was trying to do. Additionally, he is really a hollow character, presented as having an Irish Catholic background. As I have pointed out elsewhere, there are two people in the Irish telephone directory named Stabler or Staebler: compare that with the thousands of Stablers, Staeblers and Stäblers in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and decide from what background he is most likely to have come. Austrian Lutheran would be my guess. His best contribution to the series was in having Kathy as a wife, while she produced an amazing family of delightful intelligent children. Their characteristics certainly had nothing to do with him, even if he'd been around, and the loss of Kathy really is a tragedy. I will not be watching his spin-off.