How the latest Law & Order: SVU — Season 27 Episode 2, titled “A Waver of Consent” — ended depended entirely on how you watched it. One set up the Organized Crime episode that aired immediately after (and was already released on Peacock earlier this year). The other teed up a new arc for Captain Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ) and her squad’s newest detective, Jake Griffin ( Corey Cott ), assigned to her by Chief Kathryn Tynan ( Noma Dumezweni ).

If you watched it live on NBC on Thursday, October 2, it ended with Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) agreeing to let Griffin stay before Detective Terry Bruno ( Kevin Kane ) ducked into her office to tell her her former partner, Detective Elliot Stabler ( Christopher Meloni ), was in the hospital. That’s because

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