Law & Order: SVU EPs Tease 'Healing' Season 24 for Benson (and Stabler?), Introduce Newest Cop on the Beat

 Law & Order SVUs precinct boss is known for being stalwart in the face of hard hitting blows both personal and professional. But the NBC procedurals Season 24  which gets underway Thursday as part of a history making three way crossover starting at 8/7c   will afford the Special Victims Unit boss and her co workers some much needed space to process.

 This shows  already had a two tiered message one of justice and one of moral complexity  showrunner David Graziano tells TVLine.  And theres going to be a slight third message and thats going to be one of healing. Executive producer Julie Martin adds that the real world experience of living through a global pandemic has left its mark on the unit’s officers as well as the community they police.Its just tapping into the zeitgeist of whats happening in New York City and across the country and across the world she says.  I mean people are unsettled  still by the events of the last three years.

And if you are Olivia the hits and hurts go back a lot farther. So sure we asked about William Lewis and those pesky years that Stabler was gone. We also touched on more contemporary squad business such as new hire Det. Grace Muncy  played by Days of Our Lives Molly Burnett  and the future of  Rollisi which as regular TVLine readers know recently got complicated. When TVLine talked with Law & Order showrunner Rick Eid in September he sketched out the overall shape of his shows crossover premiere with Law & Order Organized Crime and SVU  which will air in that order for premiere night only. Now Martin gives us a little more detail about the plot.

 The case starts with a young girl who gets killed and we quickly realize that she has a trafficking victim the EP says.  Then SVU enters the scene and helps investigate that  and then the story does spin out into a bigger arena.Graziano adds that some aspects of the premiere will resonate in the rest of the season. In Episode 2 and beyond the SVU detectives are  onto other things but theres one or two of them that are going to have some emotional fallout from the three hour event that we have to honor take seriously dramatize and have some fun with he says.