LAW & ORDER: Mehcad Brooks Ponders How Shaw May React to His New Boss and Shares Love for Reid Scott

When LAW & ORDER returns for its 24th season this fall (on Thursday, October 3), the detectives will have to contend with a new person running the precinct. (Camryn Manheim’s Lieutenant Dixon will not be returning; her exit was not addressed in the season 23 finale.)

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LAW & ORDER: Mehcad Brooks Looks Back on Sam Waterston’s Farewell and Previews Shaw’s ‘Tough, Really Deep’ Hour

It’s a new era for LAW & ORDER in the aftermath of Sam Waterston’s departure from the franchise. 

Tributes poured in for the legend (who exited the series in February) from previous and current castmates, with one of the sweetest being from L&O star Mehcad Brooks. “He’s been a beacon of light, morality and integrity for decades in America and he paved the path we as a cast now tread,” the actor, who plays Detective Shaw on the NBC series, wrote in part on Instagram.

“I was humbled to stand shoulder to shoulder with Sam,” Brooks tells Give Me My Remote of his online homage to his former costar. “He gave me so many wonderful compliments about my work. And that just meant so much to me because I grew up watching him. He was this beacon of light and virtue and morality and grit for several decades…even when the show had its own hiatus, Sam Waterston was still on the tip of everybody’s consciousness as someone who represented those things.”

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LAW & ORDER: Mehcad Brooks Previews Shaw’s ‘Existential Crisis’ Amidst ‘Every Good Cop’s Nightmare’

On the Thursday, December 8 episode of LAW & ORDER, a suspect in a murder case escapes from police custody. The man, Troy Booker (Chaundre Hall-Broomfield), now claims he’s innocent of the initial crime—despite confessing to Shaw (Mehcad Brooks) in the immediate aftermath.

It’s all hands on deck for the cops, including Shaw, and prosecutor Price (Hugh Dancy) as they attempt to get to the bottom of what went down and stop things from spiraling even further. For Shaw, he also has to come to terms with the notion he may have helped put an innocent Black man behind bars.

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LAW & ORDER: SUPERGIRL Vet Mehcad Brooks Joins Season 22

LAW & ORDER has found its new detective: Mehcad Brooks is joining the season 22 cast, Give Me My Remote has learned.

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