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LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME Post-Mortem: Tamara Tunie Shares Insight into Warner and Stabler’s Unexpectedly Emotional Reunion

January 25, 2024 by  

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[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, January 25 episode of LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME.]

After dealing with a rapidly deteriorating Bernie (Ellen Burstyn) and asking his big brother Randall (Dean Norris) to come out for their mother’s sake, Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) had a lot on his plate on the Thursday, January 25 episode of LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME.

Of course, he also had work to contend with in “Deliver Us From Evil.” Enter Officer Sam Bashir (Abubakr Ali), who comes to the task force with the suspicion that a bombing at a mosque was actually a cover to kill an Imam.

After the bombing suspect insists he heard a gunshot, Stabler goes to old friend Chief M.E. Warner (Tamara Tunie), who speculates he’s working on a hate crime investigation—but Stabler plays it coy.

“Intriguingly vague,” she teases him. After getting down to work, Stabler spaces out when faced with photos of a bombing victim, flashing back to studying the footage of Kathy getting blown up. 

“I never thought I’d put the word Stabler and squeamish in the same sentence,” a concerned Warner asks. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” he says.

“That was convincing,” she replies.

Stabler pivots back to work, questioning whether something could be a bullet wound. Warner notes the bomb was an “improvised incendiary, high yield, packed with nail and metal fragments.” She says that because of that, there are a bunch of wounds—which have been further distorted by the burns. While Warner won’t rule out a gunshot, unless there’s a casing or a slug, she can’t tell him if the person was killed that way.

Stabler takes a beat before pulling Warner into a hug. “What’s this for?” she asks.

“An apology,” he replies. “I got your message, after Kathy. And I meant to reach out. It meant a lot. Thank you.” [In the season 22 episode of SVU “Trick-Rolled at the Moulin,” Warner asked Olivia how Elliot had been, noting she left a message he hadn’t responded to after Kathy’s death.]

“It’s good to see you, too, Elliot,” Warner reassures him.



“What I hope comes across is what’s not said,” Tunie tells Give Me My Remote. “What I hope kind of infuses the scene is what’s not said between them. When he first arrives, it’s like, ‘Okay, haven’t seen you in a while, a lot has happened. Who are you, who am I?’ And then the final moment, when he really shows his vulnerability, what is unspoken is what I think is going to be the most interesting and powerful.”

Tunie notes portraying Warner’s concern for her old friend—who she hadn’t seen in over a decade—is “a fine line.”

She also acknowledges that Warner likely understands Elliot’s silence since his return. “I, Tamara, think if something like that would have happened, and I would reach out to someone, I would not necessarily expect a response,” Tunie says. “And so I don’t think Warner necessarily expected a response…I think she was okay with that.”

“And then for him to open up the way he does, it’s just a beautiful thing,” she adds.

With the case still open—and Warner now a part of the OC world—is there a chance Tunie might return to ORGANIZED CRIME?

“There hasn’t been any word, but you never know,” Tunie says. “So I just say, ‘Stay tuned.’”

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME, Thursdays, 10/9c, NBC

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