(OC: "What Happens in Puglia"), After going for a "walkabout" for about six years working private security, Stabler rejoined the NYPD as its liaison detective in Italy and moved himself, Kathy, and Eli to Rome. One of his best friends died in the September 11 attacks. [37], Soon afterward, Wheatley strong-arms McClane into crippling the city's power grid, causing rolling blackouts. As a result of Meloni's sudden departure from the cast at the end of the SVU twelfth season, Stabler abruptly retires from the police force off-screen during the SVU Season 13 premiere. Stabler reveals that he has not seen her for 15 years when she first arrives as the new ADA. Kathy and Elliot Stabler got married at 17 years old and shared five children, but in earlier seasons of Law & Order: SVU, viewers learned that their marriage was less than perfect. Seven-month-old Rose, Pippa Middleton's third child . Onscreen, Stabler was never really given a proper farewell. Rickett kills kids and eludes justice for a decade, but in Season 6, Episode 17 ("Rage"), Stabler and. Garth Ancier, head of NBC, agreed, and the rest of the panel assembled voiced their assent. Stabler was a lead for the first 12 seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her death leads Stabler to reach out to Benson to help find her killers. (SVU: "Paternity"), At another point, he viciously punched out his former idol who killed a woman, for having the audacity to shake his son's hand. He became determined to avenge the death of his wife swearing to any suspect that they were dead. Kathy nearly dies as a result of the crash, but paramedics are able to save her with Benson's help. "[47] However, after being cleared in the death of a suspect, Stabler realizes that he cannot bear to lose either his job or his family, so he seeks reconciliation with his wife. (SVU: "Ripped"). Elliot had difficulty adjusting to the fact that his oldest daughter was growing up, and hitting puberty. When he returned after 10 years, he confided in Fin that he felt guilty about not talking to Benson prior to his resignation, stating he did not know what to say to her. Since their reunion, it is speculated by many characters that Stabler and Benson have romantic tension between them. Though accidental, this incident led to Agent Lewis having her gun privilege suspended. Senior Detectives: Elliot Stabler John Munch Odafin Tutuola Olivia Benson Amanda Rollins, Junior Detectives: Olivia Benson Monique Jeffries Odafin Tutuola Chester Lake Amanda Rollins Nick Amaro Dominick Carisi, Jr. Katriona Tamin Joe Velasco Grace Muncy, Squad Supervisors: John Munch Olivia Benson Odafin Tutuola, Commanding Officers: Donald Cragen Olivia Benson Christian Garland. This episode served as a lead-in for the new series, Organized Crime. [15] During his time in the military, he was a hand-to-hand combat specialist. (SVU: "Alternate"), Kathy was seriously injured by a drunk driver who hit Olivia's car when she was driving Kathy to a doctor's appointment. Lewis also implied Benson wanted to see him again, something she did not deny. [29], Stabler finds out that Briscu is closeted, and murdered his male lover to keep from being outed. When his wife Kathy (Isabel Gillies) leaves him in Season 6, Stabler's anger rises closer to the surface and, in a few episodes, threatens to boil over. Elliot was grateful to his partner, who asked him what name he and Kathy chose. His actions were barely sanctioned by Cragen, and he was nearly pulled off the case after a failed attempt to bait his new "friend" with an undercover female officer. [61] They remain partners for the rest of Stabler's time in the precinct. [51] Kathleen then steals her father's credit card and gives it to her boyfriend, who rings up thousands of dollars in charges. However, on their way to the event, their car was bombed and Kathy sustained major injuries, eventually dying from them. Later announced as Law & Order: Organized Crime,[4] the new series centers on an organized crime task force. (SVU: "Informed"), In 2010, when Dana became a rape victim herself and turned to Olivia Benson for help, Stabler was injured while working alongside Dana for a third and final time. [50], Of his five children, Kathleen and Dickie have most directly affected his job. That night, while celebrating with his new "employers", Stabler is drugged. Why did Stabler's wife leave him? [71] Two months later, however, it was officially reported that both their contracts had been renewed for two more years. Briscu threatens to kill Stabler to keep him quiet, but Stabler assures Briscu that his secret is safe with him. (. 'So is Liv. Elliot was born on October 20, 1966, in Bayside, Queens. Though Stabler warned her again, when she raised the weapon to re-open fire, he fired a shot that punctured her in the ribs. In February 2007, Stabler injured his arm when Cupid threw him out the window, causing Stabler to lose all feeling in his arm. Stabler is targeted by mobsters who plant a bomb in his rental car, but it ends up killing Kathy instead[a]. In 2021, Stabler joined the Organized Crime Control Bureau, and he was the only member when he arrived. Although Elliot saw other people while he was separated from Kathy, he and Olivia did not pursue a romantic relationship while Kathy was still alive. [22], Stabler appears in the Season 22 episode "Return of the Prodigal Son", having been absent from the series for 10 years. ", "Mega Buzz: Tiva Time on NCIS? (SVU: "Blood Out"), Stabler often mentioned his family, particularly his children, sometimes as a way to gain trust with the victims. 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. After speaking with her grandmother, Kathleen agrees to treatment. In January 2005, Elliot fractured his ribs. (SVU: "Closet"), Season 11 Episode 21 introduced a former partner of his, Jo Marlowe, who is now an A.D.A. Temporary Retirement and Working with NYPD in Italy, Stabler was a police officer for 25 years and a detective for 22 years (in SVU 19 years). When the two reunited in 2021, Benson was very shocked to see Stabler especially with the circumstances regarding his wife. What Happened to Elliot Stabler in Law and Order SVU? The first episode of Special Victims Unit takes place one year into Stabler and Benson's partnership. In a move that was unusual for Elliot, he decided to place himself in his assaulter's shoes in order to better understand why Donovan acted the way he did. He then ties Stabler to a chair and starts to torture Stabler. Kathy eventually sent him divorce papers; (SVU: "Raw") later, Stabler realized during a case involving a divorcing couple that "when love twists into hate, there's nothing you won't do," and silently returned the signed papers to his wife. Richard (he stopped using his nickname upon entering adolescence) is named after Col. Richard Finley (James Brolin), Stabler's former commanding officer in the Marines, whom Stabler later arrests after discovering that he murdered a woman. (SVU: "Alternate") Around that time, Kathy was briefly held hostage in their home by a knife-wielding perpetrator who allegedly suffered from multiple personality disorder and who appeared to be stalking Elliot. [36] The crime boss further interferes in Stabler's family by hiring elderly con artist Miles Darman (James Cromwell) to romance Bernadette as a cover for spying on him. Elliot Stabler Sr. (/steblr/) is a fictional character, played by Christopher Meloni and one of the lead characters on the NBC police procedural series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Organized Crime. 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She went into an interrogation room and cried. (SVU: "Head"). In 2021, Stabler and his wife Kathy returned to New York City to attend an awards dinner for Benson. [57], Child victims tend to respond to him. (SVU: "Possessed") Elliot was also disgusted by child murderers, angered by people actually being willing to kill a person around the same age as his kids. SVU's resident psychiatrist, Dr. George Huang (B.D. As a result, many people assume that the voice-over artist killed himself. In 2007, Kathleen was arrested again for the DUI. Stabler sees that her illness is worsening, and takes her in to live with him and Eli, with Kathleen occasionally checking in. For example, Stabler successfully reaches out to a 15-year-old girl (Rachael Bella) who regresses to a childlike state after being sexually assaulted by her father. He did a tour during Desert Storm. 'I'm always happy to see you,' he reassures his daughter. He came from an Irish American Catholic family and is one of six siblings (three brothers and two sisters), though we never see them on screen. After his departure. Despite his focus on his job, glimpses of his old self were still seen such as him being quick to protect Eli from being abducted or when he assured Kathleen that he was fine and retracted a statement that indirectly referred to her being bipolar. That night, fellow undercover NYPD detective and family friend Frank Donnelly (Denis Leary) comes to his aid, having been alerted to Stabler's problems by Benson. However, after the Stabler family returns to New York, Elliot reconnects with his now-medicated mother, who moves in with him and his youngest son Eli. Elliot said Kathy wanted to name the boy after him. He tells her that Wheatley murdered Richie, which provokes her to deliberately crash her car into the ocean, with her and Wheatley inside. 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