After Meloni’s abrupt exit from Law & Order: SVU, he would not reprise the role for a decade. Stabler initially joined organized crime to find who killed his wife and the rest is history. Now leading his own team, Organized Crime follows Stabler and his coworkers following single arc storylines for the full season rather than the traditional formula Law & Order shows have consisted of in years past where everything is typically isolated to episodic stories with some longer standing arcs mixed in every few seasons.
Meloni has appeared as Stabler on SVU since Organized Crime began with crossovers between the two shows including Organized Crime’s pilot, reuniting with longtime costar Mariska Hargitayf, bringing Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson back into one another’s lives once again.
