It’s the end of an era.

Season 27 of “Law and Order: SVU” opened by killing off an original character.

Spoilers below.

In the season premiere of the long running NBC procedural, Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ) attends the wake of her old boss, Capt. Donald Cragen (Dann Florek).

He was an original character who was around since the show’s premiere. A recovering alcoholic, Cragen appeared in over 400 episodes of the “Law and Order” franchise, including the first three seasons of “Law & Order” and the first fifteen seasons of “SVU.”

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“He was the best boss I ever had,” Benson says in the episode. “Everything that I know about being a Captain, I learned from him.”

Fans online were distraught.

“This is yalls last seas

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