Ahead Of Law And Order’s Next Mini Crossover With SVU, I’m Missing Christopher Meloni’s Organized Crime More Than Ever

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We’re a full month into the 2025 TV schedule by this point, but Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 still has not received a premiere date on Peacock. It will be the show’s first season as a streaming original rather than an NBC series airing after Law & Order: SVU on Thursday nights, but it was the latest NBC Thursday that made me start missing Christopher Meloni’s spinoff all over again, and it’s all because of a promo that confirmed the next mini crossover in the Law & Order world. Tony Goldwyn is joining Mariska Hargitay in just a couple weeks.

The preview that aired after the latest episode of SVU, which is available streaming now with a Peacock subscription and also dropped an intriguing mention of Benson’s backstory, mostly looks like business as usual for the show about – to quote the opening narration – “sexually-based offenses” that are “considered especially heinous.” That is, until a quick shot of Law & Order series regular Tony Goldwyn in a car as DA Nick Baxter, seemingly meeting with Peter Scanavino’s ADA Carisi and Captain Benson herself. Take a look:

There’s no reason to believe that this episode of SVU will include any more allusions to Organized Crime than usual… which is to say, no allusions to Organized Crime. Still, seeing two of the three current Law & Order shows sharing characters reminds me of when there were three NBC shows’ worth of characters to share, and OC has some of the most interesting figures in the L&O corner of the nine-show Dick Wolf TV universe.