
The franchise has previously teased a potential relationship between Benson and Stabler, and Benson's injury may have hinted at what's in store for them beyond the crossover. The moment was especially unsettling, as viewers would loathe seeing the death of either Benson or Stabler, no less the obliteration of a chance to see them happy together in a relationship one day. Although retaliation was expected and the two were seemingly protected by a group of officers escorting them, Benson and Stabler were met with tear gas and bullets from the armed assassin and looked to each other for protection. The last episode of the two-week crossover event, Organized Crime's season finale, found Olivia defending Stabler and herself from the commissioned criminal sent out to complete Wilkie's bid. The lengths that Wilkie would go to protect Shadowërk meant that however much Organized Crime and SVU had set up a huge crossover event was negligible although Wilkie didn't shoot Benson by his own hand, he had a long retainer of criminals who would for him.īenson ultimately sustained a flesh wound in the hip as a result of Wilkie's hit on her. The site's objective meant more to him than his very own existence and any interference with his creation was met with a fierce fight on his behalf. Shadowërk emerged from the mind of a young psychopath named Kyle Wilkie (Winter Andrews) in a bid to make the world suffer as he did in life.

Similarly, as the finales unfolded and inched closer to resolution, Benson and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) had marks placed on their heads by the site's creator to deter them from pursuing further this lead to Benson being shot by a commissioned rogue assassin.

Before in "Bad Habits," when Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler's teams got closer to uncovering the inner workings of Shadowërk, the website that allowed ordinary persons to hire murderers and rapists to enact revenge on people they know, a federal judge was targeted by the database in retaliation. The closer the precincts came to unmasking the originator of Shadowërk, the more dangerous the stakes became.
