Where is stabler gone

After more than episodes and 12 seasons, Stabler was written off the show — not for creative reasons but because Meloni and NBC reached an impasse over his contract negotiations. The daughter later opens fire at the police station, using a gun purchased on the street and killing a number of bystanders. Stabler shoots her. In the final shot of the episode, he looks over at Benson as the girl bleeds out on the staff room floor. On a Manhattan sound stage masquerading as a Rikers Island interrogation room, Mariska Hargitay acted out a tense scene as Lt.

She goes to the interrogation room and weeps. Since Stabler walked out the precinct door, the show reinvented itself with a renewed focus on Benson who, no longer shackled to her work spouse, had the space to grow as a character — pursuing mature romantic relationships, adopting a child, and getting promoted to captain. Meredith Blake is an entertainment reporter for the Los Angeles Times based out of New York City, where she primarily covers television. The positive news is that the network seems open to the idea.

The two are still as thick as the fictional thieves they used to track down together. In fact, they reunited in September Country Life. Design Ideas. Home Maintenance. Country Living Shop. Shopping Guides. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Instead, he decided to file for retirement from the NYPD and wasn't seen again in the drama. Benson was devastated by this and was left crying in the interrogation room. Stabler and Benson were reunited earlier this year but Meloni wasn't rejoining the show.

Rather, the episodes were acting as a crossover to kickstart his new series Law and Order: Organised Crime. Already, the drama has been given a series two renewal and will be back later this year. When he agreed to be in SVU for four episodes, he didn't know at the time it would lead to a new series being made.

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