After ‘Organized Crime’s Cancellation, Should Stabler Return to ‘SVU’? (POLL)

Meloni also guest starred in the SVU Season 27 premiere, for Cragen’s (Dann Florek) death, but it notably didn’t give an update on his life with the OCCB (Organized Crime Control Bureau). The second episode of the Mariska Hargitay-led show’s current season ended with Bruno (Kevin Kane) bringing Benson a message from Bell (Organized Crime‘s Danielle Moné Truitt) about Stabler being in the hospital — to lead into the spinoff’s Season 5 Episode 2 because it aired on NBC right after, so it wasn’t a new incident.

But now that we know Organized Crime won’t be coming back, it’s hard to imagine that Stabler and Benson won’t stay in each other’s lives — and onscreen as well — since they reunited with his return to New York. The only question is how much we could see of him (if we do) and what this could mean for the very long slow burn between the former partners. (Let’s be honest: They’re really running out of time for that to happen onscreen with one of their shows now canceled.)

So, would you like to see Meloni back on SVU as a series regular? (This seems unlikely to happen.) Would you want him to be a recurring guest star for a few arcs a season? Show up as an occasional guest star, say, two episodes a season? Or would you rather he not appear, just like he didn’t in the time between his exit from SVU and the Organized Crime premiere? Let us know in the poll and comments section below.

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