Christopher Meloni Takes on Mafia Family in ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Season 5 Trailer

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The fifth season will premiere its first two episodes April 17 on Peacock, with a special premiere episode airing the same day on NBC

In Law & Order: Organized Crime, Christopher Meloni, who played a lead detective role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, returns for the fifth season of the crime procedural. Meloni’s character spends the first five seconds in the trailer, released Wednesday, repenting his sins in a confessional.

“I’ve promised people that I would save them, but I have not been keeping my word,” he says in the trailer. “I’m going to do everything I can to stop it. So I guess we can add prideful defiance to my list of sins.”

Meloni’s character, Detective Elliot Stabler, comes back to New York after recovering from a devastating loss. It’s been a decade since he’s been back in the city, and as the top dog in Sergeant Ayanna Bell’s (Danielle Moné Truitt) Organized Crime Control Bureau, he is looking to disarm New York’s violent illegal enterprises.

With the help

of undercover expert Bobby Reyes (Rick Gonzalez) and tech genius Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger), the trio are hoping to shed light on the dark and complex criminal world of their targets. On assignment, Stabler also calls to his brother Randall (Dean Norris) to keep their family safe.

Per a synopsis, the fifth season examines “the dangerous worlds of cross-border smuggling, high-tech domestic terrorism, and a crime family intent on repaying Stabler for the injury he did them in Rome. As his worlds collide, Stabler will put everything on the line to protect the vulnerable and fight for justice.”