‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Returns to Its Roots With New Season 5 Broadcast Release

Law & Order: Organized Crimehas some unexpected news. While NBC has not renewed the series for a sixth season, Deadline reports the network has instead decided to put its fifth season, which just wrapped airing earlier this year, on its original 10 PM time slot behindLaw & OrderandLaw & Order: Special Victims Uniton September 25. TheChristopher Meloni-led spin-off moved exclusively to Peacock last year for the fifth season, Deadline reports the reair on NBC will likely help the network decide its fate.The series charted in Peacock’s Top 10, peaking at number 2 over the course of its fifth season run.

What Happened in ‘Law& Order: Organized Crime’ Season 5?

The fifth season ofLaw & Order: Organized Crimebegan with Elliot Stabler at a crossroads of priorities. Last season, Elliot found out that his son, Eli (Nicky Torchia), had gotten his girlfriend Becky pregnant, and they would be moving in and Eli would be joining the NYPD. Not only then was Elliot facing helping his son navigate young fatherhood and the force, but that also meant that his youngest son, named after him, would be repeating history as the same thing happened to Elliot when he was 17.

At the request of his sergeant, Ayanna Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt), Elliot goes back undercover in order to infiltrate a gang of truckers that a taskforce believes is trafficking women. At the end of the first episode, Elliot is T-boned by a semi-truck driven by one of the suspects, landing him in a coma. The second episode, written by Meloni himself, would find Elliot’s family and friends gathered at the hospital hoping for his speedy recovery, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay). Eventually, Elliot wakes up;just a little harmless flirting by his brother Randall(Dean Norris) with Elliot’s will-they-won’t-they former partner over his comatose body will do that, and that case is put to rest. The series would see the exit ofAinsley Seiger, who played Detective Jet Slootmaekers, because of the events of the episode. The series would conclude with Elliot trying his best not to go rogue after the death of his brother, Joey (Michael Trotter), with family remaining at the core of the entire fifth season.