On Tuesday night, Chicago Fire, Law and Order: SVU and Chicago P.D., three shows created by genius-producer Dick Wolf, began on a journey through crossover-ville. #CrossoverWeek was the top trend on Twitter from Tuesday evening through Wednesday night as thousands of viewers live-tweeted the shows.
Everything starts off in Chicago–in the last five minutes of Chicago Fire–when firefighter Kelly Severide finds a box of disturbing photos of children that a victim drops while she is saving him. She calls the police and that’s when the crossover begins with Chicago P.D. In reviewing the photos, Detective Erin Lindsay finds a picture of her brother who ran away to New York years ago. She soon calls Manhattan SVU, getting in contact with Detective Rollins and then travels to New York.
The SVU episode focuses on finding Lindsay’s brother, Teddy, who is participating in a prostitution ring in New York due to being forced into the industry as a runaway-teenager. The detectives know that another boy, Henry, is in Teddy’s situation and they set out to save him. Eventually, the detectives convince Teddy to help uncover the man who initially involved him in child pornography.
Key moments from the episode:
- Voight of Chicago PD pulls a nice “inner-unstable-Stabler” in the interview room and then Benson calls him to her office just as Captain Cragen used to do to Elliot
- Benson throws a grown man over her shoulder and onto the ground (Mariska Hargitay is 50-years-old, folks…well played!)
- Benson and Voight go undercover
Yeah, she rocks.
“Inner-unstable-Stabler” in progress…
At the end of the episode, the detectives in New York get a call from Chicago saying that the original victim who had the photographs and a Chicago police officer have been shot. Chicago PD starts with Voight and Lindsay heading back to Chicago with Rollins, Amaro, and Benson soon following.
Eventually, after more interviewing and interrogating, Benson, Voight, and the rest of the gang nail the guy behind the pornography ring and rescue Henry! Also, we see reconciliation between Lindsay and an at-first-resistant-Teddy.
Teddy and Lindsay
The SVU episode was by far the best of the series, but Dick Wolf might have made me a fan of Chicago P.D., too. However, I had a very hard time getting into the characters in Chicago Fire and I can’t say I really enjoyed the show. Nonetheless, a very complex crossover executed with precision and class. Well done, Dick Wolf, Warren Leight, Julie Martin and everyone else responsible for this masterpiece!
Any thoughts on the crossover? What were the best tweets you read? Anyone else sensing a little chemistry between Benson and Voight? 🙂
I Ride With Detective Benson 