Law & Order news is about to change all that as Detective Elliot Stabler is coming back in 2020! A post shared by Mariska Hargitay (@therealmariskahargitay) on It was revealed earlier in the year that Christopher Meloni would be reprising his much-loved role of overly-invested Special Victims Unit detective, Elliot Stabler, in a new spin-off focused on New York organised crime. The show will revolve around Stabler as the new head of the NYPD Organised Crime Unit.