Three years ago, in Law & Order: SVU Season 24, fans were convinced that an episode would feature former partners Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), at the time on his own spinoff, Organized Crime (since canceled), kissing. The promos were all about it. Then when the episode aired, it didn’t happen, with Benson being the one to pull back.
It’s a moment that remains in the news now, with Hargitay addressing it — and the fact that she and Meloni did film a kiss — in two recent interviews.
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