‘Law & Order’ Showrunners and Writers Tease What to Expect in Premiere Crossover Event

 The timeline of the three hour movie premiere is sort of in its own time and place.

Law & Orders most ambitious crossover premiere event has fans wildly excited. In an unprecedented move NBC will showcase a three hour crossover episode uniting the teams of revived Law & Order Law & Order Special Victims Unit and Law & Order Organized Crime. The crossover will also serve as the first episode of each shows new season. While we have seen the mind blowing trailer that hints at three squads coming together to deal with a crime that involves  arms drugs and sex trafficking  nothing much was known till now. In recent interviews Law & Order showrunner Rick Eid Julie Martin SVU head writer and showrunner David Graziano have revealed intriguing details about the upcoming event.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly Eid revealed the  integrated nature of the episode. Per him as opposed to usual network television crossovers that have one show handing off the baton to another the premiere event will see all the characters working together during the three hour crossover saying this one is much more integrated where all the characters are in every hour in an integrated seamless way. Providing more context about how the event will affect the rest of the season SUV writer Martin told Today, per her understanding the timeline of the three hour movie premiere is sort of in its own time and place, and its not necessarily linked to either our last episode of last season nor our first episode of this season. Further  she divulged that the crossover is  kind of an independent entity and that the SUV team gets  involved because the case itself involves sex trafficked girls.

The episode is written by Eid along with Gwen Sigan, Graziano commended them for taking on the challenges saying Its pretty tough to do and theres like challenges and they are just basic morphological challenges but they did a good job. Further corroborating Martins remarks the showrunner revealed Our episode two will pick up like roughly six weeks after the events of the crossover.