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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: In season 4 Stabler finds out a Marine veteran is leading other veterans he's recruited into drug trafficking. He infiltrates the group going undercover to stop the operation.

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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: FromCamouflageToCriminal:
** Stabler is nearly killed by a hit woman who's a former soldier.
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In season 4 Stabler finds out a Marine veteran is leading other veterans he's recruited into drug trafficking. He infiltrates the group going undercover to stop the operation.
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* FromCamouflageToCriminal: In season 4 Stabler finds out a Marine veteran is leading other veterans he's recruited into drug trafficking. He infiltrates the group going undercover to stop the operation.

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* BrokenPedestal: Stabler looks up to his late father, who'd been in the NYPD too, although they didn't see entirely eye to eye on how police should operate. He speaks proudly of the fact that his father had once been awarded for TakingTheBullet to save his partner. Donnelly, a {{dirty cop}} who runs a gang of other corrupt cops like him, later tells him that his father had in fact covered up his partner's mistaken killing of an unarmed suspect, shooting himself to make it look like self-defense. Stabler is visibly shaken and disturbed by this revelation.

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* BrokenPedestal: Stabler looks up to his late father, who'd been in the NYPD too, although they didn't see entirely eye to eye on how police should operate. He speaks proudly of the fact that his father had once been awarded for TakingTheBullet to save his partner. Donnelly, a {{dirty cop}} who runs a gang of other corrupt cops like him, later tells him that his father had in fact covered up his partner's mistaken killing of an unarmed suspect, shooting himself to make it look like self-defense. Stabler is visibly shaken and disturbed by this revelation. It gets worse when he learns his father was corrupt in general, and [[DomesticAbuse abused his mother]] too.


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** Stabler finds out his father, a cop like him, was also dirty over time.
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* OfficeRomance: In Season 4 it's revealed that Jet and Reyes slept together between seasons when he he visits her apartment, with them again having sex offscreen. Jet's not happy with the situation though, as Reyes is still married (though apparently separated from his wife).

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* OfficeRomance: In Season 4 it's revealed that Jet and Reyes slept together between seasons when he he visits her apartment, with them again having sex offscreen. Jet's not happy with the situation though, as Reyes is still married (though apparently separated from his wife).
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* SmokescreenCrime: The episodes "Deliver Us From Evil" and "End of Innocence" deal with the vandalization and bombing of a local mosque in what appears to simply be a hate crime. However, the detectives investigate further and discover that the mosque's refugee charity was being used as a cover for a smuggling operation. The bombing of the mosque was to obscure the assassination of the imam to prevent the operation from being exposed.
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* OfficeRomance: In Season 4 it's revealed that Jet and Reyes slept together between seasons when he he visits her apartment, with them again having sex offscreen. Jet's not happy with the situation though, as Reyes is still married (though apparently separated from his wife).
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* TheNotRemix: The famous Mike Post theme song gets a heavier and more dramatic sounding remix for this show.

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* TheNotRemix: The famous Mike Post theme song gets a heavier and more dramatic sounding remix for this show. There is even a small bar of the SVU theme mixed in.
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* HammyVillainSeriousHero: Detective Eliot Stabler is stern and gruff in contrast to the extroverted and theatrical mob boss Richard Wheatley.
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** Season 3 introduces another in Isabelle Chang, who's Asian and a woman and hinted to be a lesiban as well as her and Bell become close friends (She also mentions an ex wife).

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** Season 3 introduces another in Isabelle Chang, who's Asian and a Chinese-American woman and hinted to be a lesiban lesbian as well as her (she mentions an ex wife). Her and Bell become close friends (She also mentions an ex wife).friends.
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** Season 3 introduces another in Isabelle Chang, who's Asian and a woman and hinted to be a lesiban as well as her and Bell become close friends (She also mentions an ex wife).
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* ContinuityCreep: It's much less episodic than previous ''Law and Order'' series’, with season 1 focusing on Stabler going after a crime boss [[spoiler: who also was responsible for his wife’s death.]]

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* ContinuityCreep: It's much less episodic than previous ''Law and Order'' series’, series, with season 1 focusing on Stabler going after a crime boss [[spoiler: who also was responsible for his wife’s death.]]]] The following seasons see the series focus on multiple story arcs that focus on different criminals, with these arcs barely crossing over with each other.



* DownerBeginning: The entire show begins following the fallout of Kathy Stabler's death.

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* DownerBeginning: The entire show begins following the fallout of Kathy Stabler's [[spoiler:Kathy Stabler's]] death.

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* BigBad: Richard Wheatley is shaping up to be this for at least the first season.

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* BigBad: Richard Wheatley is shaping up to be this for at least the first season. He in fact comes back in the role briefly in Season 2 as well.



* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Dana Wheatley never re-emerges from hiding after the apparent death of her father and the unambiguous deaths of both her mother and brother. In fact, she's never brought up again after that at all.
** Adam "Malachi" Mintock's last appearance was at the end of Season 2 when he went to the ceremony—in which Stabler was honored—as Jet's date. He's not shown up or been mentioned since. It's briefly hinted in one scene in Season 3 by Jet that her relationship with Malachi didn't work out, but nothing since then.



* WaistcoatOfStyle: Stabler has started wearing a waistcoat in the Organized Crime Bureau, something he never wore during his SVU days.

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* WaistcoatOfStyle: Stabler has started wearing a waistcoat in the Organized Crime Bureau, something he never wore during his SVU days.days.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Angela tells her she's literally gotta disappear for a while, Dana is never seen or heard from again—even after Richie's killed and Angela drives off the cliff and kills herself and apparently Wheatley in the process.
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* CrusadingWidower: Part of Elliot's motivation to stay in New York as part of the Organized Crime Bureau is to take down the bastard who killed Kathy, his wife.

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* CrusadingWidower: CrusadingWidow: Part of Elliot's motivation to stay in New York as part of the Organized Crime Bureau is to take down the bastard who killed Kathy, his wife.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Ayana's wife, Denise, is very annoyed with Ayana prioritizing her job as a cop over her duties as a wife and mother. While ''normally'' this would be sympathetic, it becomes abundantly clear that Denise is more upset at Ayana's alleged neglecting of ''her'' rather than their family. When Denise gets offered a job by the task force's current assignment, [[CorruptPolitician Leon Kilbride]], Ayana tries warning her about taking the job, but Denise is more upset about Ayana not supporting ''her'' dream than the fact said offer is coming from a man heavily tied to the Marcy Killers that had ''already'' tried getting Ayana into his pocket. It's only ''after'' Ayana arrests Kilbride that Denise files for divorce, and despite her claims to contrary, it's heavily obvious Denise is divorcing Ayana and suing for custody of their son solely to punish Ayana for arresting Kilbride.
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* HollywoodLaw: In real life, the NYPD disbanded the Organized Crime Control Bureau in 2016. The detectives of OCCB now report to the office of the Chief of Detectives.

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* HollywoodLaw: In real life, the NYPD disbanded the Organized Crime Control Bureau in 2016. The detectives of OCCB now report to the office of the Chief of Detectives. Somewhat [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as while the intro states they work for the OCCB, its never mentioned as that in the script, instead identified as a dedicated Task Force within Intelligence.

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* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. For Stabler, it's revealed that his reputation for [[HairTriggerTemper hotheadedness]] has been following him during the years he was gone, and its the first thing the higher ups in law enforcement are worried about when he returns, especially because of the current stigma police have to deal with in terms of trust with their communities. Stabler is very annoyed by this.


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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: For Stabler, it's revealed that his reputation for [[HairTriggerTemper hotheadedness]] has been following him during the years he was gone, and its the first thing the higher ups in law enforcement are worried about when he returns, especially because of the current stigma police have to deal with in terms of trust with their communities. Stabler is very annoyed by this.
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* ActionGirl: Most of the female characters are cops or criminals, so naturally they are mostly quite capable. In one episode, Stabler has a hit put out against him with the assassin turning out to be a woman who's a former soldier, nearly taking him down in spite of his greater size and strength via her martial art skills.
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* GuestStarPartyMember: Benson and Malachai occasionally join the OCCB for cases. In Season 2, Velasco and Rollins also pop in at various points.

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