'Law & Order: Organized Crime': Premiere Photos Introduce Stabler's Team in 'SVU' Spinoff

Law & Order: Organized Crime, easily the most-anticipated new show of the 2020-2021 television season, will finally debut on Thursday. Ahead of the premiere, NBC released a group of new photos from the first two episodes, finally revealing the names of important characters joining Christopher Meloni's Elliot Stabler in stopping New York crime syndicates. The series starts on Thursday at 10 p.m. ET, following a new Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode that reintroduces Stabler.

The two-hour Law & Order event kicks off with the SVU episode "Return of the Prodigal Son," in which Capt. Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and her team rush to help Stabler's family after receiving a threat. Stabler's wife Kathy (Isabel Gillies), daughter Kathleen (Allison Siko), and son Dickie (Jeffrey Scaperrotta). Stabler will experience a "personal loss" of some kind that will inspire him to return to the New York Police Department.

Once he re-joins the force, Stabler will be assigned to lead a new elite squad responsible for taking down organized crime in the Big Apple, hence the title of his spin-off. He will work with Sgt. Ayanna Bell, played by Danielle Mone Truitt (Deputy). Dylan McDermott co-stars as a character named Richard Wheatley, but it is not clear who he is just yet. Tamara Taylor (Bones) and Ainsley Seiger also have undisclosed roles in the series. The photos also confirm that Benson will appear in the Organized Crime half of Thursday's event.