Is Olivia in love with Elliot?

The rumors are true. Law and Order's Olivia Benson is in love with Elliot Stabler, according to Mariska Hargitay. The actress addressed fan speculation (and hope) that Benson and Stabler would fall in love years after their characters met on Law and Order: SVU
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, and despite their tangential love lives.
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Was Olivia Benson in love with Elliot Stabler?

On social media and in interviews, Mariska herself is the unofficial captain of the Benson/Stabler ship, even saying in a recent Drew Barrymore Show episode that Benson has "been in love with Stabler for many a year." After 23 consecutive years, including a Stabler-less decade, fans are still clamoring for the romance ...
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What episode does Elliot and Olivia kiss?

"Zebras" is the twenty-second episode and season finale of the tenth season of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the show's 224th episode overall.
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What is the relationship between Elliot and Olivia?

If there's anyone "SVU" fans would like to see Olivia Benson paired up with, it's her former partner, Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). While the two had undeniable chemistry during their years on "SVU" together, Stabler was married, and thus a romantic relationship was never explored.
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Do Stabler and Benson become partners again?

Benson and Stabler become partners again in the eighth season. They remain partners for the rest of Stabler's time in the precinct.
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Did Olivia kiss Elliot?

Many of the tweets that mention the Olivia/Burton kiss — most likely posted before the truth about Burton was revealed later in the episode — were from fans upset that Olivia was kissing somebody other than Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), who is no longer on the show.
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What episode does Stabler tells Benson he loves her?

“I need you,” Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) tells his former partner, Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), in the latest SVU and Organized Crime crossover, but how exactly did he mean it? The three-episode crossover has a lot of ground to cover.
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Who did Stabler kiss?

There is some romantic tension between Beck and Stabler, and they share a kiss in "Underbelly"; however, they never take their relationship to the next step.
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Do Elliot and Kathy get divorced?

After 20 years of marriage, Kathy filed for separation and moved herself and the kids to live at her mother's (SVU: "Doubt"). Kathy eventually filed for divorce (SVU: "Raw"), but Elliot had not signed the divorce papers, because he had them at home.
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Who is the father of Benson's baby on SVU?

At the age of 16, after having been raped repeatedly by Johnny D., she was sold to Little Tino, and became addicted to crack and heroin. While living with Little Tino, Ellie discovered she was pregnant with Johnny D.'s baby, kept him, and named him Noah.
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Are Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni friends?

“[SVU] gave birth to Mariska and Meloni, and Benson and Stabler. So, we're kind of inextricably linked and connected in that way,” Chris told Entertainment Tonight about their bond in July 2020. “Beyond that, we're very good friends.
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Who murdered Stabler's wife?

Sacha Lenski (Jess Barbagallo), a mobster-for-hire, was killed in prison before he could give the name of who hired him to kill Kathy. Izak Bekher (Ibrahim Renno), the bodyguard of Richard Wheatley (Dylan McDermott), Angela's ex-husband, reveals that Angela had ordered the hit.
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What happened to Benson and Stabler?

After 12 years of working together as partners for the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, Stabler ghosting Benson for a decade — only to return to New York City for his wife to be murdered after a car bomb went off — an unexpected declaration of "I Love You," a letter Stabler wrote Benson that opened "a parallel universe" ...
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Who replaced Mariska Hargitay?

Obi-Wan Takes the High Ground! - The Loop. Connie Nielsen is an actress who played Detective Dani Beck in six Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes. She filled in for Mariska Hargitay, who was on maternity leave at the time of filming.
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What was in the letter Elliot gave Olivia?

"That what we were to each other was never real and that we got in the way of each other being who and where we needed to be? ... And if there was a man in my life, he should be the kind and faithful and devoted man I deserved?" she asked. All those words were Kathy's.
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Why did Benson and Stabler stop being partners in season 7?

Upset with Stabler after a violent altercation with a pedophile, Benson briefly transferred to computer crimes in season 7, and Stabler worked with a new partner (Dani Beck, played by Connie Nielsen) while Benson was undercover in Oregon in season 8 — but in the end, the two always came back together.
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Why did Elliot leave SVU?

In an interview with The New York Post in July 2020, Meloni also revealed that he left SVU simply because he wanted “new adventures.” As fans remember, Stabler, who was married with five kids, left the series after retiring from the police force following a self-defense shooting in the season 12 finale.
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What happened to Stabler's wife on Law & Order?

In it, Kathy was killed off after a car bomb went off. Even as she was dying in the hospital, the focus was on Benson and Stabler reuniting after 10 years. Then came the letter he'd written her, one that was hanging over everyone's heads until the September 30 three-hour crossover.
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Why did Cassidy and Benson break up?

Cassidy and Benson amicably break up during the episode "Downloaded Child" after realizing they are fundamentally different people; he prefers to live in the moment, while she plans for the future.
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Who is Olivia Benson married to?

On Law & Order: SVU, star Mariska Hargitay's alter ego, Olivia Benson, has weathered several short-term romantic relationships over the course of the show's 22 seasons. But in real life, Hargitay's lucky in long-term love with her husband of 15-plus years, fellow actor Peter Hermann.
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What happened to Professor Wheatley law and order?

In the debut season of Law & Order: Organized Crime, Angela Wheatley (Tamara Taylor) is poisoned by her mafioso husband, Richard (Dylan McDermott), after she decides to testify against him. After the incident, it appears that the poison left Angela with both physical and cognitive issues.
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What happened to Stabler's family?

Elliot had a difficult relationship with his parents; his father physically and emotionally abused him, while his mother, Bernadette, suffered from bipolar disorder (a condition that Elliot's second oldest daughter, Kathleen, inherited) and once nearly killed him during a manic phase when Elliot was three years old.
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Who died on law and order Organized Crime?

Mykelti Williamson as Preston Webb (season 2), a construction magnate who is actually a dangerous crime kingpin in charge of the Marcy Killers organization; he is affiliated with Congressman Kilbride. He is killed in the season 2 finale.
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Did Benson and Stabler ever date in real life?

Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni talk Benson and Stabler's 'SVU' reunion. The two were asked if they ever dated in real life. "For four years, and we just broke up two months ago," Hargitay cracked. "Don't tell our spouses," Meloni said.
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