Though Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 has been available on Peacock since April, the season will make its debut on NBC tonight at 10/9c. And since we had such a good time when series star/executive producer Chris Meloni took part in a TVLine Spotlight chat earlier this year, we thought we’d revisit the conversation for those of you who might not have Peacock and haven’t yet seen what Det. Elliot Stabler goes through in the episodes ahead.

The event’s live audience greeted Meloni with hoots and applause, then he and I got right into a discussion of how Stabler has struggled a bit since his return to New York, and how the pull of his family versus the responsibilities of his job weigh on him in the upcoming episodes. In Season 5, “What he goes through are things that we reali

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