# ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Goes Back to (Before) the Beginning With Its 600th Episode

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/law-order-svu-goes-back-to-before-the-beginning-with-its-600th-episode/
- Published: 2026-11-13T03:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T08:25:35+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/law-and-order-svu-600th-episode-showrunner-interview-1236754391/
- Topics: Film

## Key points

- SVU has reached 600 episodes, a rare scripted television milestone.
- Stabler returns to investigate a 1998 murder with Benson.
- The case brings their old partnership and unresolved tensions back into focus.

## Summary

Law & Order: SVU marked its 600th episode with the return of Elliot Stabler, who joins Benson to re-examine a nun’s 1998 rape and murder. The milestone is rare for a scripted primetime series, and the episode uses an old case to revisit the partners’ history and show how they have changed.

Showrunner Michele Fazekas wanted the instalment to recall the show’s early Benson and Stabler stories, including a long drive that gives them space to confront unresolved tensions. Stabler had overlooked leads and excluded Benson from the original interrogation; their review points towards a retired priest as the possible culprit. The episode, “Obedience”, is the sixth of season 28, which has 15 more episodes to come.

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