[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Law & Order: SVU Season 27 Episode 2 “A Waiver of Consent.”]
Captain Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ) doesn’t have a choice but to accept the newest member of her squad — Chief Kathryn Tynan ( Noma Dumezweni ) assigned him there — but does he at least prove to be someone she’ll want around? Detective Jake Griffin is played by Corey Cott , who previously appeared as the son of Benson’s former partner, played by Anthony Edwards — an ER reunion for Hargitay — and went to prison for rape.
The latest SVU episode also seems to set up Detective Joe Velasco’s ( Octavio Pisano ) exit, as he tells Benson of a new opportunity he received. Plus, Benson gets shocking news at the end of the episode about her former partner, Detective El