Thursday’s Season 27 premiere of Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit gave an OG character a fond farewell.
The episode ‘Within the Wind’ opened with Mariska Hargitay‘s Olivia Benson attending an emotional funeral for NYPD Capt. Donald Cragen (Dann Florek), who was her boss way back to the NBC procedural spin-off’s 1999 pilot.
“He was the very best boss that I ever had,” says Benson on the memorial service. “All the pieces I find out about being a captain, I realized from him.”
Though Florek continues to be alive, the actor departed as a sequence common in 2014 with the Season 15 finale. He’s continued to reprise the position of Capt. Cragen on a number of events, most just lately on a two-episode arc of spin-off Regulation & Order: Organized Crime final yr. His tenure with the Dick Wolf franchise goes again to the 1990 debut of the flagship sequence.
The somber event additionally sees a reunion with Dr. Huang (BD Wong), Cassidy (Dean Winters), Rollins (Kelli Giddish), Carisi (Peter Scanavino) and Fin (Ice-T).
Dann Florek as Capt. Donald Cragen and Mariska Hargitay as Capt. Olivia Benson in ‘Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit’ (Virginia Sherwood/NBC)
Regulation & Order: SVU continues its record-breaking streak as TV’s longest-running primetime live-action sequence after it was renewed for Season 27 in Might.
