Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 “Obedience” puts Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler in a difficult position. When jury consultant Gwen Sharpe (J. Smith-Cameron) brings Captain Benson what she believes is a wrongful conviction, the case in question turns out to be one of their early ones. Both Elliot and Olivia have to deal with the fact that they may have been responsible for a miscarriage of justice.
And, let’s just say, Detective Stabler is much less open to considering that they could’ve made a mistake than Captain Benson. (Obviously, he comes around. He’s just…stubborn AF. And also a mess after his baby brother’s death 18 months ago.)
The milestone episode acknowledges both the long history between these two characters and the fact that they weren’t always perfect-angel heroes—never have been, never will be—while also rightly pointing out that there’s no way to ever undo the harm caused by their mistakes. Along the way, the former forever partners spend a lot of time butting heads. In fact, on several occasions, it seems like they’ve reached a breaking point.
And yet. Just when Olivia thinks Elliot’s not going to work this case with her, he shows up at the precinct. He leaves her office, making her think she’s going to have to do it all on her own after all. But then, here he comes rushing back in with a certain air of frustration—all jerky movement as finishes getting ready to go and then stomps back out again, leaving Olivia kind of frozen, mid-sentence. Later in the hour, Olivia storms out of the hotel room after delivering her old partner the strongest blow of the episode. Even so, Benson and Stabler still show up at the precinct together the next day, Elliot following Olivia—right where he belongs.
Every argument feels like a knife to the chest, a punch to the guts. Thanks to characteristically excellent work from Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni—especially, always, when working together—Benson and Stabler always hurt each other just enough but never too much. There are moments, even, like on their drive to Attica, when an attempt to start an argument can get shut down with a change of subject, when a threat to end the trip before it starts can cause all the fight to leave Stabler. (Cows, anyone? The man likes cows, apparently! Insert Hargitay’s hilarious “???” reaction here.) Most importantly, right underneath every attempt to cause hurt is evidence of some wound lurking beneath the surface, every upset reaction paired with true concern for the person causing the damage.
So, by the time we get to the end and Elliot leaves, we’ve seen so much proof that he and Olivia will always make their way back. This trip to Arizona isn’t permanent. This time, unlike when he temporarily retired and disappeared for a decade, Stabler’s actually telling Benson he’s skipping town. Also, after 18 months on bereavement leave, getting pulled into this little journey with Olivia has helped him make an important decision. Even if he won’t go back to OCCB and can’t bring himself to mess up our captain’s vibe at SVU, he’s not planning to retire. He’s “not done,” after all.
Every emotion, every movement, every expression—even the energy—is laced with history, and subtext, and everything left unsaid. In that way, Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 is a great hour. And that’s before we even mention the stellar work guest star Laura Innes does here.
Still, for as strong as the storytelling is overall, and for as brilliant as Hargitay and Meloni continue to be together, I can’t help but feel like we’ve been handed yet another missed opportunity, yet more hope for the sake of dashing it. One might think that 600 episodes, 12 seasons together, 10 years apart, a dead wife, and several more years of circling one another in this maddeningly endless dance would finally, finally lead to something changing. Maybe EO get so mad at each other in the middle of one of these arguments, they get physical; or maybe, the story of Benson and Stabler ends with them realizing it’ll never work out.
To be clear, I’d rather put out a campfire with my face than endorse that last one. But leaving the partnership that started it all in constant, aching limbo like this—denying them both any kind of happiness and closure—is more cruel at each outing. In an industry where nothing is guaranteed—but cancellation is more guaranteed than not these days—kicking the proverbial can down the road is a very, very dangerous game. You can’t plan for a future that won’t exist, and that’s assuming there’s any planning happening in the first place.
So, yeah. Thankfully, “Obedience” isn’t a definitive end of it all; and disappointingly, it’s also still not the time for the logical next phase in Elliot and Olivia’s relationship to begin. We know they both want it!
Instead, Elliot leaves Olivia behind. Again. Yes, there’s a little bit of a smile through those devastatingly barely held back tears and all. But, no, we didn’t need the historic 600th episode to end with our hero in tears. In fairness, there’s a disarming sort of parallel to all the times Olivia watched Elliot leave to go be with his family back when they were partners. But appreciating the echoes of the past can only go so far, especially when there’s no promise of a chance to build that future. “Rewarding” longtime viewers with an emotionally wrung out and wrecked Olivia, staring after Elliot as he walks away—yet again—isn’t exactly what I’d describe as “earned.” Nor is it what anyone should ever want for Olivia herself, as a general rule.
That’s particularly true in an episode where we hear “all those years just…gone. You took ’em from me” while Meloni, portraying a regret-riddled Stabler, is in closeup with Hargitay right behind him. Even so, considering the (unfair and rude to me, personally) demise of Law & Order: Organized Crime and the uncertainty around when Christopher Meloni can and can’t appear on this series, we at least have a somewhat reasonable explanation for Elliot’s absence—he’s with his daughter and grandkids. But why he can’t just be someone who’s around but unseen remains…a question.
Angst aside, Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 still does make progress. It’s in a hug, a forehead kiss, an invitation to take a break from it all together—even just for a little while. That’s something! Is it enough? That’s a harder question to answer, and admittedly, it’s one that’s nearly impossible to be objective about. Some of us have been jerked around for almost 30 years. That’s a problem.
So. Back to what kicks off this latest bout of delicious, yet over-indulged, angst: If Benson and Stabler can’t solve the problem of what they are to each other, can they at least uncover the truth in Claire Sobol’s decades-old murder? Good-ish news: Yes. Bad news: Justice can only go so far after all this time.
They can’t give Charles Greene his life back, but at least he won’t rot in prison even longer. While nothing can resurrect Claire and Christina, at least the priest responsible for their deaths and for assaulting all those nuns will face consequences. So, we probably shouldn’t be like “yay! All better! Justice has finally been served,” so much as “well, the injustice has been reduced as much as possible going forward.” That may not be enough, but it’s better than the alternative. And it’s an outcome that fits in with this season’s theme just about as well as any.
MORE: Read our thoughts on the series’ 500th episode.
Why Benson and Stabler can’t be friends
Elliot and Olivia have finally said it—they’re not friends. To the untrained eye, Elliot might have been a bit cold and uncaring in that gym. The same untrained eye might think Olivia’s frustrated, emotional declaration that maybe they can’t be friends means she’s finally, after 600 episodes of Law & Order: SVU, done with this man. But it’s not that simple.
It’s not that they can’t be friends because they’re too different, or that they’re already not friends because El is nothing if not a b**ch who disappears on Liv whenever he’s in a bad headspace. No. The problem is they’ve never been (just) friends. Because they’ve always been something more than that, even when they both knew it was wrong—and even though they never, ever would’ve acted on it while he was married. (They also still kinda suck at acting on it after six centuries of playing this game and edging us…but that’s another issue entirely.)
However. If you watch all the in-between moments in Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6—if you pay attention to the story Hargitay and Meloni are telling with every aspect of their performances but the words—it’s not about not caring, or not having friendship as part of what they are to each other, or not wanting to be in each other’s lives. It’s just more of the same old Benson and Stabler story. These two characters know how to get underneath each other’s skin and push buttons. And their not-just-a-friendship friendship is a great scab to pick at. In some sick sense, the deeper the cut, the more they’re acknowledging the truth in the only way they’ve ever known.
Benson and Stabler can say what they’re not, but they can’t say what they are. They can, however, argue like an old married couple and take it too far for the sake of feeling something other than that magnetic pull toward each other—and this episode is packed with that. So, as we see in “Obedience,” Olivia can beat herself up over just following Elliot’s lead, over not speaking up because she thought he knew better. But she can’t say what it was about him that made her believe in him, that would make her follow him to the ends of the Earth even now. Nor can she admit why it’s impossible for her to let go of him and always see the best in him, even when he’s at his worst.
Which, to be clear, for all the personal growth Olivia Benson has experienced in nearly 30 years, it’s not exactly as if Stabler hasn’t also changed. To that end, SVU has, frankly, been terrible about continuity, but Organized Crime is canon. Elliot is still Elliot now, but he’s a better Elliot. And he’s one that’s had to struggle with everything from faith, to his father’s legacy and his own work as a cop, to using his “friendship” with Olivia as a code for…WTFever they are. Not to mention, Elliot coming out and saying that his faith blinded him back then is a pretty big deal. Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 explicitly gives us this, and we shouldn’t overlook it. After all, recognizing your biases is far from easy and definitely not something Stabler’s always been capable of.
The whole “not friends” theme is probably best summed up by making a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference. As in, let’s all relive Spike’s take on Buffy and Angel’s relationship in the infamous “Lovers Walk”:
“You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends…You’ll be in love ’til it kills you both. You’ll fight, and you’ll shag, and you’ll hate each other ’til it makes you quiver, but you’ll never be friends. Love isn’t brains, children, it’s blood—blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s b**ch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.”
And to start off the exact same speech, there was this: “The last time I looked in on you two, you were fighting to the death. Now, you’re back making googly-eyes at each other like nothing happened.” If someone wrote a Bensler story based on this quote specifically, I’m not sure how different it could’ve been from the way they behave Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6. And the way they build that intensity from one battle to the next is actually kind of genius.
MORE: We haven’t seen Meloni on SVU since Elliot’s “love you” after Cragen’s memorial, but he did answer Benson’s emotional voicemail by texting her an informant’s name in the January crossover with Law & Order.
Elliot and Olivia say goodbye…for now?
Although the outcome leaves a bitter taste in my mouth and makes me wonder why the hour had to be nonstop fighting just to…end…like…that, the final scene of Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 remains incredible. Set it several seasons ago, and it might even be one of the all-time greatest EO scenes of all time. Maybe it is no matter what. (But again, I will go on the record as saying both the characters—especially Olivia—and dedicated viewers deserved a better last image from the 600th episode than Captain Benson in tears.)
For as much as all the arguing is classic Benson and Stabler (who among us forgets the infamous “screw you” exchange?), what happens in Olivia’s office is just as much a tribute to everything this relationship is, and everything it could be, as it gets. Elliot’s pacing, both characters’ inability to actually look directly at each other, the sort of forced lightness as Liv tries to tell El he should go see the Grand Canyon—it’s all that same old insecurity, that same old inability to just say the unsaid things, give in, and go for it.
But then, something clicks into place. The tiniest shift in Meloni’s expression, mostly in the eyes, reveals a disarming, open sort of clarity. Because Elliot sees right through all Olivia’s halting questions about him possibility retiring. He hears the change in her voice, feels the same tension we do as it’s obvious she’s bracing herself for impact, while simultaneously forcing herself not to beg him to stay. When El mentions Arizona, it doesn’t take a genius to see the way Liv pulls back as if someone’s slapped her. (Superb choice from Hargitay there.)
Elliot makes it sound so simple when he asks Olivia to come with him. Because, well, it should be! After all this time, it should be the easiest thing in the world.
…but, at first, Olivia does what she does best—deflect. Liv tries to play like that sincere, soft request is just a joke. Then, when El makes it clear that he’s serious, the way Hargitay’s face just melts—crumples from that forced smile to fear, to a mask that doesn’t quite cover it all up—is just beautiful. Beautiful…and painful. Next, Olivia Benson has to turn away before she collapses in a chair in the corner of her office, as far away as she can get without actually leaving. What does Elliot do? He follows that tether between them, slowly, carefully walking back to her and nudging her to face this thing head on.
I can’t say enough about how perfect the next couple of moments are. (But, again, the very end of Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 is a thing we’ll ignore while we’re gushing over these moments.) There’s that grabby-hands motion from Meloni, followed by the pained way Hargitay leans her head back and squeezes her eyes shut before Olivia does let Elliot pull her up to her feet. Sometimes, caring about someone and knowing you can’t be with them right now hurts; sometimes, the caring itself hurts more than anything they could ever do to you. That’s a big part of what’s happening between Benson and Stabler, but there’s also Elliot getting that and finding a way from them to comfort each other, just the same.
Notably, for all the things Elliot’s avoiding right now, Olivia isn’t one of them. The ball’s still in her court.
The hug is two people, holding on tight, not wanting to let go but knowing they have to (for now). And for all Elliot Stabler’s hard edges—for all that bulk and muscle—the utterly soft way Meloni raises his two hands to place on either side of Hargitay’s face, as if Olivia Benson is the most precious, fragile thing in his world, is such a powerful acting choice. Their foreheads pressed together, his lingering kiss pressed to the top of her head after that…it all feels like it’s building to an actual kiss that Olivia finally doesn’t deny herself. But we don’t get there. It both works and doesn’t.
For all the many problems with the outcome, Hargitay’s choice not to break her scene partner’s gaze (other than for the briefest of glances at his mouth) reveals just a little less fear, and just a lot more openness and vulnerability, than the last time Bensler had an “almost but not yet.” Her look seems to demand “come back to me,” and “promise me this isn’t the end.”
But. Well. Here we are. Is it the end? We have to rely on a lot of real-world uncertainty to play out in our favor. Optimism isn’t exactly on the menu.
After all this wasted time, and with so little potential time left, how do we continue to appreciate what these two actors create together and participate in this journey of longing with these characters? I don’t know. That’s unfortunate and kind of undermines everything Hargitay and Meloni, everything Benson and Stabler, are.
And yet…and yet, and yet.
MORE: Olivia still hasn’t taken Dr. Lindstrom’s advice from the Season 23 finale: “…You and Elliot either need to see whether there’s more there or…move on.”
More Law & Order: SVU 600th episode reactions
- I can’t stress enough how much loving Elliot Stabler and loving Olivia Benson means wanting her to punch him, or leave him on the side of the road with the cows he (apparently) likes, or scream in his face for 600 hours straight about what a big dumba** he is—while also wanting her to kiss him, and go on that roadtrip to Arizona with him, and spend the night with him for reasons that have nothing to do with work. It’s complicated and messy! Which is fitting because nothing’s messier or more complicated than these two. It’s been 600 episodes already.
- So, Gwen is definitely waiting for Olivia in broad daylight, but then, their actual conversation is at full dark? Ok. What did Liv have to do when she went back inside?
- The Olivia Benson “…wow,” folks.
- “He hasn’t returned my calls.” That irritated “…yeah” is, uh, a lot. (Compliment to Hargitay for the way she’s practically yelling “TYPICAL OF THIS A—HOLE.”)
- For all their lack of real communication, Olivia and Elliot have absolutely been in touch. Otherwise, how would she know exactly where to find him, walk into the place like she owns it, and have this bit** greet her like was expecting her???
- “And here I thought you were dropping by ’cause you missed me.” It can be both, stupid!
- See also: “Well, yeah, I do, but…you don’t call me back. I can’t force you to talk to me.” Which, ok. First of all: Olivia Benson? Admitting she misses this man? I call that growth! And second, the way Hargitay plays this is so…like, Liv’s irritated, and insecure, and worried, and mostly just honest.
- “Time is crazy.” Me when I try to figure out how old Noah Benson-Stabler’s supposed to be.
- The way Hargitay holds herself, wound tight, when Stabler tells Benson he’ll pass. Like, “ok. He’s playing it this way. Don’t try to kill him. You want to kill him. Don’t. You’ll miss him more.”
- And then, she grudgingly gives away more pieces of herself! “You know, I want to be there for you, and I want to be your friend, but…I gotta tell you, you make it really, really difficult sometimes.” So, like, of course the a** of the NYPD puts his foot in his mouth and tells her they’re not friends. I’ll again point out Hargitay’s physicality here. Because I’m blown away by the way she sticks that neck out and drops her jaw, before all that exhaustion with this particular version of her partner shows itself.
- “I didn’t mean that.” Ya think?
- HIT HIM.
- Why didn’t she hit him???
- Ugh. That little swallow as she’s telling him she’d like him to work this with her. Captain Benson is determined…and Olivia is gutted.
- “…she came to be a dancer and changed her mind.” Very loose connection here, but Madonna has sort of, kind of (thankfully not really), entered the chat.
- Notice how Captain Benson’s squad won’t let her take this on alone, no matter how much she tries to insist on not burdening them. Probably a top five underrated moment from this episode.
- “I picked up this loiterer outside.” Nowhere near enough Fin for SVU 600, but as always, when he’s there, Ice T makes it count.
- The awkward moment when Elliot Stabler walks into the room. I love that frozen, almost squeamish, beat Hargitay takes. The glance over to Rollins for reassurance says a lot, too.
- “Curry. Rat squad, right?” “Yeah, that’s right. I know all about you, Detective Stabler.” “I’ll take that as a compliment.” “I wouldn’t.” …and I screamed. GET HIM, CURRY.
- Obsessed with the quiet, hesitant joy and fondness in that sideways glance Liv gives El on “you in?” Same goes for that tiniest bit of extra happiness after his big ol’ sigh and “let’s take it apart.” Hargitay about broke me, and it’s such a “there they are. That’s my Benson and Stabler” moment.
- The more Gwen talks the more Liv realizes they really, really messed this up. Super from Hargitay, even when it’s not her moment. That sharp head shake, the way she looks down and away in places…always so good.
- J. Smith-Cameron does such an excellent job when Gwen’s basically calling Elliot out (and he’s staring her down), over the lack of an interrogation tape and Olivia not being a part of it.
- Trademark Meloni micro expressions when she says she spoke to the guy last week. Classic, even.
- “Why are you doing this?” “Why. Aren’t. You. Doing this?” Wow. Kill me now. Her pleading expression, his…God, I don’t even know what to call it, but it’s exquisite, whatever it is.
- “We’ll take your car.” In which Olivia Benson is stuck in “buffering mode.”
- “It doesn’t matter. Some partnerships don’t end. Even when they do.” Fin gets it. On the other hand, I do appreciate Curry wanting to step in, be supportive, and try to save Benson from…whatever she sees, and doesn’t fully get, that’s happening in front of her. Also, given that Rollins has worked with Stabler before and has seen this mercurial BS play out between these two clowns more than once, it makes sense that—despite the history there—she’d be like “nope. Staying out of it” and make herself…fairly scarce.
- She loves the stupid, snoring old man who’s “resting his eyes.”
- “Your snoring is…special.” And why does he bring up that woman and make Olivia back off? Idiot.
- This car scene is another masterclass from Hargitay and Meloni. I seriously can’t get enough of it. Fascinatingly, every single time they butt up against something raw, there’s a subject change of some sort. I particularly love Meloni’s pause before the random AF “why do you have an IAB captain on your squad” when neither of them knows how to deal with the Joey and Bernie angst. And the look in Hargitay’s eyes after he spits it out is basically Liv being like, “oh, ok. He’s playing it this way. The audacity.” But like, she doesn’t let him start that particular (stupid) fight. Just that gentle, honest, “Elliot, what’s going on with you?”
- We know Olivia has had issues with being out in the field too much for her role. So, for Elliot to go on his whole rant about captains and paperwork, yeah, that was going to p**s her off. (Same here.)
- And then, he’s just quietly asking her not to be mad…when it’s too late. Married.
- “I’m not mad.” Sassy AF. And in fact, she is mad. As in, MAD-mad.
- “I wasn’t even referring to you!!!!” Y’all are nuts. I hate you. (Love them.)
- “Cows.” “…what?” “Cows.” “…” “I like cows.”
(Should’ve dumped his a** on the side of the road in some cow sh** and/or punched him.)- “Wow. You guys look different.” “Yeah, my scalp agrees with you.”
- Chukwudi Iwuji is utterly brilliant in this interview. There’s not a second for viewers to doubt Greene’s story because Iwuji is 100% vulnerable, and raw, completely stricken as Charles describes what he saw all those years ago. He’s also sufficiently combative with Stabler on the “you didn’t write it down” parts. Meanwhile, there are some great shots of Hargitay and Meloni as Benson and Stabler actively listen, Stabler fighting his conscience—until he can’t anymore—and Benson just feeling the unbearable weight of her and her partner’s mistakes.
- That closeup of Meloni…man. I hate how good he is. (Mostly because a lot of Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 just makes me miss getting to see him do that on Organized Crime more than ever.)
- She really didn’t want to believe he F—ed up, and every single confirmation that he did is killing her.
- “What are you thinking?” The look Meloni gives Hargitay after this line is, like, the personification of guilt. Her sigh of relief was massive, too.
- Get you a man who will gently pick up your glasses for you when you leave them on the table. Like, yeah, he’s a jack**s, but he’s also her thoughtful, loving, kind jacka**.
- “That sounds like an astounding level of incompetence on the part of the NYPD.” If only she wasn’t part of the cover up, I’d be cheering right now.
- This victim blaming is utterly and completely disgusting. And the whole “God’s will” part? Girl, F you.
- “Olivia Benson, Elliot Stabler.” Mmmmhm.
- Gah, all these glances back and forth between these two idiots. Wordless communication on point, forever.
- And it actually hurts Olivia to hear Elliot struggle through admitting he made mistakes!
- In any other episode, Sandra’s disclosure would be the biggest, most emotional, and best scene. Laura Innes is a GD force of nature. Nobody who watched ER would expect any less. Still, though, she blew me away in this 600th episode. The way her voice breaks or the pitch goes up in places, the feeling of her looking so far back and inward, the sad smile as she looks back on the lack of experience…wow. This series loves to bring people back and pretend we’ve never seen them before, so I’m going to need her here again sometime.
- Or send her to Law & Order classic with Maura Tierney for another ER reunion! WHATEVER!
- Obligatory comment about Hargitay nailing all the empathy while we’re at it. If you ask me who Olivia Benson is, I’m saying “that, right there.” She’s so horrified and heartbroken by everything, even when she’s heard it all so many times before.
- It’s so quiet—just that fire crackling away—too.
- “But I didn’t have any evidence, you know…” HER VOICE.
- “Honestly, I never want to hear any snoring complaints from you ever again.” “…lies.” THEY LOVE EACH OTHER.
- Interesting he’s talking about her hearing him snore again sometime in the future, too. Hm.
- Hargitay biting her lip and so…defeated when Olivia flips that page and puts it away.
- This man bowing his head in shame.
- “My mistake is that I let you shut me out.” What if I said this is about more than just this case?
- “Your mistake is that you were right. That’s the burden you bear.” He’s on the defense…for her.
- “…that I didn’t follow my instinct because I thought you knew better.”
- “I’ve been letting it go for 30 years.” The unshed tears in his eyes? The shock???
- I both love and hate that this is what Liv’s upset about. Like, they’re different, yes. So. Love. But also? Girl, y’all were both referred. Let’s not play too much here. So. Hate.
- Carisi and Hawkins, working together? Expertly letting this dude bury himself? Amazing.
- The contrast between how gently Elliot takes that book away from Mother Eusebia and what he and Olivia actually think of her…wow.
- Hargitay reading this letter: More super stuff.
- “No, no. We’re not doing that…you passed the buck. You forgot about it, and then nothing happened. So, let’s not paint ourselves as a saint here.”
- “What do you want?” “See you die in prison…” From Elliot Stabler to a retired nun…WOW. What a moment.
- Kathleen Chalfant’s poker face (with that hint of guilt) throughout both of her scenes in this episode is great, but when Mother Eusebia finally resigns herself to actually helping, that beat is probably one of the best things in the whole hour.
- Also a big fan of the sarcastic air quotes on “treatment.”
- …and Elliot’s back to the gentle approach.
- The. Wordless. Communication.
- “…more like a camp for perverts, and we’re looking for one in particular.” Annnnnd, he’s remembered who he is. Sassy b**ch that he is.
- “He’s out on the lake.” “Well, tell him to row his a— back to shore.”
- “And what cures that? Pickleball?” Well. We couldn’t have El out-sassing Liv at the end of SVU‘s 600th episode, now, could we? She had to get hers in!
- Phew, her “deny, deny, deny” and that intense glare.
- I love how we get to see Captain Benson in full interrogation mode, stalking her prey, while Stabler backs her up but mostly just watches the show. Always a favorite.
- THEM.
- “Well, until then, FATHER. Your life’s gonna be He**.”
- “Well, I am going home. I’m going to take my son to dinner, and I’m gonna sleep in my bed.” INVITE ELLIOT TO COME ALONG, STUPID.
- But also: Yay! Dinner with Noah! Noah as a (very good, actually) reason not to pick up and schlepp across the country! He exists!
- Kinda annoying that they couldn’t have Buggle appear, though. He belonged here, in some capacity or another.
- “Kind of makes me miss the place.” “I’m not hiring.”
- He’s so cautious about coming in here and working through what he needs to say and how to say it?
- Unlike the “wow” at the beginning, this particular “wow” hurt me. A lot.
- How many glances do they sneak at each other when they’re not looking?
- My heart hurts.
- “You said you got personal time. Use it.” THAT PART.
- His hands. On her hips!
- NOW KISS.
- …hm. Nope.
- I hate them.
- Also love them.
- The blinds are open, so nobody’s exactly hiding anything here. Just saying!
- “Send me a postcard.” Seriously the easiest thing for this series to follow up on, and I have zero faith it will.
- “Goodbye, Cap.” Kill me now.
- Tag yourself: I’m Fin’s messy, annoyed look when Elliot’s dumb a** leaves.
- We sat through an hour of them fighting for her to neither kick him nor kiss him on the mouth? Ok then. Sure.
Agree? Disagree? What did you think of Law & Order: SVU Season 28 Episode 6 “Obedience”? Leave us a comment!
New episodes of Law & Order: SVU air Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC and stream on Peacock the next day. The fall finale airs on Thursday, December 3.
