“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” has officially written off Detective Joe Velasco (Octavio Pisano).

Pisano’s exit from the NBC procedural was announced back in May, but he appeared in the first three episodes of season 27, which kicked off on Sept. 25. During episode 3, which aired on Thursday, Oct. 9, Velasco revealed that the Drug Enforcement Agency wants him to relocate to San Diego to continue his undercover work.

Velasco had a touching final conversation with Odafin “Fin” Tutuola (Ice-T). He recalled how he and Fin previously discussed that although they’ve both “done bad things,” they “try to balance out the scales” with positive action.

“I realized something — I realized that when I’m in it, when I’m doing the job, I don’t think about the scale anymore. I don’t think about m

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