[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Law & Order: SVU Season 27 Episode 3 “A Vicious Circle.”]

Heading into the latest Law & Order: SVU episode, Detective Joe Velasco ( Octavio Pisano ) had already told his captain, Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ), of an assignment that took him away from the squad: He was tapped by the DEA to go undercover guarding Ramirez’s drug runs, given his experience with cartels. It was something he’d been told to keep even from her. Keep her informed and be careful, she stressed. Well, that went well, but now, he’s running into a new problem in the form of Chief Kathryn Tynan ( Noma Dumezweni ).

Velasco’s back with the squad for the case-of-the-week, but then he tells Benson that Tynan wants to see him. He thinks she heard about what he d

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