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Before it had even premiered,
Law & Order: Organized Crime promised a new take on the police procedural. Instead of cases of the week, there would be one season-long investigation. The show, from Dick Wolf, Ilene Chaiken, and Matt Olmstead, wouldn’t simply lionize the NYPD, as so many cop shows (including much of Wolf’s oeuvre) have for much of the last four decades. More specifically, Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), a walking, talking civil rights violation, would realize that his way of doing things would no longer be tolerated. This time, there would be checks and balances instead of just an exasperated speech by Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) or solemn head shake from Detective (now Captain) Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay).
Before it had even premiered, Law & Order: Organized Crime promised a new take on the police procedural. Instead of cases of the week, there would be one season-long investigation. The show, from Dick Wolf, Ilene Chaiken, and Matt Olmstead, wouldn’t simply lionize the NYPD, as so many cop shows (including much of Wolf’s oeuvre) have for much of the last four decades. More specifically, Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), a walking,.
He has his daughter, Dana (Christina Karis), working at his company.
Sheâs the smartest. Thatâs why he likes her the most because he knows that intellectually sheâs right where she should be. He even says in this episode to Angela [Tamara Taylor] that sheâs maybe even smarter than her.
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Richard and Angelaâs relationship is complicated, to say the least. It seems that they canât stay away from each other. What draws the exes to one another?Â
Richard lets very few people into his life and Angela is definitely one of them. Because he trusts her, because sheâs intellectually on his same level, he keeps going back to her. And I believe that thereâs also some kind of addiction going on between them. They may not love each other, but thereâs some kind of chemical thing between them that they canât let go of.
Richard and Stabler face off again. How does that dynamic change with each confrontation?
I find it so humorous because a lot of times, Iâll ad-lib a bunch of stuff and you never know whatâs gonna make it to the screen. Most of the time I do it to amuse myself and on this particular show, theyâre using a lot of my ad-libs, which is fun to see. I have some ad-libs with that scene with Stabler that cracked me up.
Youâre going to see more and more of us as we inch towards the finale. Itâs going to get more and more heated. Richard enjoys the chase, the confrontation, being up against people because he knows heâs going to win. Heâs the smartest guy in the room always. Heâs not afraid of cops, lawyers, judges, politicians, or anybody because he knows heâs got a way around it.
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