Christopher Meloni will return as tough NYPD detective Elliot Stabler for Season 5 of “Law & Order: Organized Crime” on April 17, NBC announced on Wednesday.
The Dick Wolf series, which ran for four seasons on NBC, will stream exclusively on the network’s streaming platform Peacock for its fifth season.
In a short teaser trailer, Stabler promises “this fight has only just begun” as we see him wielding a baseball bat, entering a room with gun drawn alongside Sergeant Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt) and bracing for impact as a vehicle hurtles towards his car.
Here’s the official synopsis from Peacock “Season 5 explores the dangerous worlds of cross-border smuggling, high-tech domestic terrorism and a crime family intent on repaying Stabler for the injury he did them in Rome. As his worlds collide, Stabler will put everything on the line to protect the vulnerable and fight for justice.”
Season 5 premieres Monday, April 17 on Peacock with the first two episodes and new episodes streaming weekly.
The series, from executive producers Dick Wolf and Ilene Chaiken and executive producer Matt Olmstead Dean Norris as Elliot’s brother Randall Stabler, Rick Gonzalez as undercover Bobby Reyes and Ainsley Seiger as tech genius Jet Slootmaekers.
Ellen Burstyn recuts as Elliot’s mother Bernadette Stabler. The Oscar-winning actress won the 2009 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role on the “Law & Order: SVU” episode “Swing.”
Meloni’s Stabler partnered with Mariska Hargitay’s character Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: SVU” from 1999 to 2011, when his character was written off the show. He returned to the franchise in 2021.
Meloni also serves as an EP on the series, which is produced for Peacock by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Wolf Entertainment.
