LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Teases Carisi Getting Taken Hostage by a ‘Psychopath,’ Plus His Upcoming Visit to ORGANIZED CRIME - Give Me My Remote : Give Me My Remote

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Peter Scanavino Teases Carisi Getting Taken Hostage by a ‘Psychopath,’ Plus His Upcoming Visit to ORGANIZED CRIME

November 20, 2024 by  

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT — “Cornered” Episode 26008 — Pictured: Peter Scanavino as A.D.A Dominick “Sonny” Carisi Jr. — (Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC)

When Carisi (Peter Scanavino) initially enters a deli at the start of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT’s fall finale, “Cornered”—airing on Thursday, November 21 (at 9/8c)—things are, surprisingly, going well for the ADA.

“I think his state of mind…is actually pretty optimistic,” Scanavino tells Give Me My Remote with a chuckle. “It starts off as a very kind of hopeful day. It was a beautiful day when we filmed it and everything seems to be going according to plan. There’s playful banter with the opposing counsel at the beginning of the episode, and then he realizes there’s a birthday party for somebody, [so] he needs to go get flowers…It’s all kind of jokey, and [then] he goes back and walks straight into a robbery in progress. And it just goes downhill from there.”

“There’s three people [in addition to Carisi] that are hostages,” he continues. And Boyd (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Deonte (Keith Machekanyanga) “are committing the robbery with somewhat unclear motives.”


SVU Carisi hostage

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT — “Cornered” Episode 26008 — Pictured: (l-r) Peter Scanavino as A.D.A Dominick “Sonny” Carisi Jr., Silas Weir Mitchell as Boyd — (Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC)

“He very quickly clocks that his experience as a police officer, and even in law enforcement as an attorney, kind of puts him in a unique position to know what’s going to happen, what he needs to do, and he starts to attempt to figure out a solution that everybody can live with in this situation,” Scanavino previews. “But, unfortunately, one of the guys is basically a psychopath, and just keeps putting himself in a worse and worse position [with escalating crimes].”

“Each thing that happens is worse than the thing that preceded it,” the actor continues. “So it’s…maybe not a roller coaster, because roller coasters go up and down. This kind of seems to be more like a ski slope.”


SVU Carisi hostage

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT — “Cornered” Episode 26008 — Pictured: Kelli Giddish as Sgt. Amanda Rollins — (Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC)

Outside of the deli, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and a hostage negotiator coordinate a game plan—and call in Carisi’s wife, Rollins (Kelli Giddish), who is back with the NYPD—to try and get the innocent quartet safely out. 

Though Carisi isn’t able to see the police activity outside, “I think he’s just assuming, because he knows how these things go,” Scanavino notes. “And he’s been on the opposite side many times. He’s been the person on the outside worrying about their friend on the inside before, and now he finds himself on the other side. I think he’s just assuming what’s going to happen. And for a while—a big part of the episode—there is no contact with the outside world, so it’s just him trying to angle, trying to come up with a way to get out of this situation for him and the other people involved.”


Organized Crime season 5 Carisi

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME — “The Last Supper” Episode 404 — Pictured: (l-r) Peter Scanavino as Det. Sonny Carisi, Danielle Moné Truitt as Sgt. Ayanna Bell, Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)

And while things might be grim for Carisi in the short-term on SVU, he will be intermingling in the larger LAW & ORDER universe in 2025. Notably, Scanavino will be bringing his character back to LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME when the show returns for its fifth season on Peacock.

“Let’s just say that things don’t go as planned for the Los Santos trial,” Scanavino teases of the gang that OCCB was investigating in early season 4. (Carisi also promised Christopher Meloni’s Stabler in season 4 that he would go “scorched earth” on the gang if the task force could give him a “big fish” to testify.) “You know that drama. And he’s gotta talk to Stabler [who did undercover work for the case] and figure out what’s going on.”

And what about the actor’s long-desired crossover to the mothership? “The crossover episodes are always a two-way street,” Scanavino notes. “And I will say that I haven’t been over there—but I can’t say that there’s been no traffic coming the other way, if you know what I’m saying.”

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, Thursdays, 9/8c, NBC

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