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To say I love the Law & Order franchise would be a huge understatement. As Woody Allen said, “I lurve” it — a lot. I especially love Olivia Benson, portrayed so beautifully on Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit by Mariska Hargitay these past 17 seasons.More:I’m not the only one.
Throughout the show’s extensive run, Benson has had many, many love interests. Although they’re rarely part of the main plot, once in a while one sneaks into the story line. At the end of the day, it’s quite clear that Benson doesn’t need a man. But it’s fun to look back on her partners throughout the years, ranked from zero to hero. Erik Weber, Season 12I hesitate to even put Weber on this list, but he and Benson did share a cup of coffee once. Weber was an artist and hacker who popped up as a suspect in one of the SVU’s investigations, only to insert himself into their next one. Not only did he help steer the SVU toward a child rapist but he also actually turned out to be the child rapist.
Good thing Benson never fell for his charming shtick. Nick Ganzner, Season 1Ganzner was a reporter lurking at SVU crime scenes. He begged Benson for a date, but the moment they were out, it was clear he was fishing for more information on her case. The last straw came when he asked Benson to reenact the subway rapes she was investigating. Oh, and did I mention he went through her files while she was in the bathroom? He then used that stolen information for a front-page scoop. Whatta creep!
Jeffrey York, Season 5Benson and York’s relationship happened off-camera before the series begins. But we do get to sort of meet York and learn a bit about him. The SVU team arrives at a crime scene only for Benson to recognize the murder victim as her former flame.
Throughout the course of the investigation, she learns that York was deep in the closet, having an affair with his male co-worker and was HIV positive. These three things combined throw Benson for quite the loop.
Andy Eckerson, Season 5Once again, Eckerson and Benson’s relationship happened off-camera. Eckerson is a United States Marshal and former-NYPD detective. It’s clear that Eckerson is an adrenaline junky and that his behavior probably took a toll on anything he and Benson could have. Like she doesn’t have enough to deal with at work? In his one episode, Eckerson does try and reignite their spark, but Benson says she really just needs stability outside of work. Ouch.More: 6. Brian Cassidy, Season 1Benson and Cassidy’s first go-round happens early on in the series’ premiere season.
It’s a one-night stand that leaves Cassidy breathless and Benson berating herself. While Cassidy wants more, Benson doesn’t — at least for now. Shortly after their night together, Cassidy transfers out of SVU to the Narcotics Unit, where he remains, as far we as know, until he reappears over 10 years later! Kurt Moss, Season 9Where did he even come from? Instead of being introduced slowly, we learn from Lieutenant Tucker (another Benson love interest later on) that she’s dating an editor at the fictional New York Ledger.
Not only that, but they’ve been dating a while and he’s even asked her to move in with him. By the end of his one episode, she’s broken up with Moss and is drowning her sorrows with Stabler. The universe feels right again. Ed Tucker, Season 17Throughout SVU’s very long run, Lieutenant Ed Tucker has popped in and out as a thorn in the detectives’ sides. As part of Internal Affairs, it’s Tucker’s job to investigate and weed out dirty cops, which obviously puts him on the wrong side of the SVU team. In later seasons, it becomes clear he’s sweet on Benson.
Throughout Season 17, the SVU writers throw some teasers the viewer’s way, but by the time it’s revealed Benson and Tucker are indeed dating, Benson seems so happy and at ease, we just sort of forget how jerky Tucker used to be. This relationship is still in progress, so the jury’s still out. David Haden, Season 13Sparks are definitely flying the first time Executive Assistant District Attorney and Benson meet. It doesn’t take too long, or too many cases, for them to go for drinks with the relationship going from there. Benson seems happy, like, really, seriously happy. Of course, this is a huge conflict of interest considering Haden is the ADA assigned to SVU.
Soon enough, this becomes an issue with one of Benson’s old cases being questioned. Haden calls off the relationship before they can get caught and seriously reprimanded. Never one to sit back and mope, Benson is back to beating back the bad guys, reminding us that she’s a badass, with or without a man.
Brian Cassidy, Season 14-15Cassidy re-enters the SVU-verse during the Season 13 finale, working undercover for a pimp. There are definitely some bumps in Cassidy and Benson’s relationship road. First he gets shot.
Then he gets arrested for raping a prostitute. Then crazed sociopath William Lewis kidnaps Benson. It doesn’t help that her partner, Detective Nick Amaro, really hates Cassidy. Eventually, the duo move in to together, but it’s clear that they want different things and they part amicably at the end of Season 15.1. Elliot Stabler, Season 1-12So maybe this relationship was purely platonic, but no one had Benson’s back and best interests in mind the way Stabler did. Her partner for over 10 years, Stabler was there for Benson through thick and thin, bad and good, and even, her bizarre behavior at times (Anyone else remember when she helped her half-brother jump bail?) The only glaring inconsistency in their relationship is after Stabler resigns from SVU, he doesn’t call or even text Benson after her kidnapping by William Lewis, adoption of Noah or her many SVU promotions. That being said, he still takes the top spot in my book.More.
Contents.Character overview Series creator named his two lead detectives after his son, Elliot, and his daughter, Olivia. Wolf conceived Benson as a detective in the Special Victims Unit, which investigates. For the first twelve seasons of the show, she is partnered with ; after he resigns (offscreen) at the beginning of season 13, she is partnered with.She is tough, and gets emotionally involved in cases. Executive producer and head writer has explained that she is 'the empathetic, passionate voice for these victims', in contrast to Stabler, who embodies 'the rage we feel, the 'How can this happen?'
Of their partnership, Baer assessed that: 'They both represent the feelings that we feel simultaneously when we hear about these cases. That's why they work so well together.' Benson herself is a child of her mother's. Her mother's rapist, Joseph Hollister, later committed suicide. Benson's mother Serena , an English professor, was an who emotionally and physically abused Olivia. In the season 2 episode ', Serena Benson dies falling down a flight of subway stairs outside the entrance to a bar. In a later episode, ', Benson mentions being engaged briefly when she was 16 to one of her mother's students; when her mother found out, she broke a bottle of vodka and went after her with it.
Benson fought back, kicked her mother twice, and ran out of the house.Benson is a graduate of. While there, she held a membership in a. In addition to, Benson speaks Italian, Russian, some and, and is able to read the in at least two other languages. She owns a black 1965 convertible but rarely drives it.She has a younger half-brother named Simon Marsden. Simon, whom she found by illegally running her through the system, was a suspect in a rape case. However, his name was cleared after it is revealed that he was framed by Captain Julia Millfield , who believed (incorrectly) that he sexually assaulted her sister. In the season 13 episode 'Child's Welfare', Simon reveals to Benson that he is planning to marry a woman named Tracy , with whom he has a daughter and a stepson; he named his daughter Olivia after Benson.
When the children are taken by the City because of Simon's criminal background, Benson calls defense attorney Bayard Ellis , an old friend of hers, to help Simon and Tracy get the children back. When a judge denies the Marsdens custody of their children, Simon kidnaps them.
Ellis makes a deal to have Simon serve a 60-day sentence, knocking his charge down from kidnapping to a misdemeanor, custodial interference. One of the conditions of the reduced charges is that he must give up his custody petition and agree to visit his daughter only in a supervised setting for the next three years. Simon is reluctant, but Benson tells him that the deal is better than his daughter visiting him in jail. In the Season 21 episode 'Murdered at a Bad Address', Simon reaches out to Benson for the first time in years as his only remaining family, Tracy having left him and taken their children. She hesitantly agrees to meet with him, but when he doesn't show up, she leaves him a voicemail cutting him out of her life for good.
Shortly afterward, he is found dead of a overdose. Benson blames herself for his death, haunted by the possibility that he overdosed out of despair after she disowned him.In Season 12, Benson is named the legal guardian of a young boy named Calvin Arliss. Calvin's mother, Vivian , abandons him and flees when Benson's investigation uncovers that Vivian (also a child of rape) may have killed her mother's rapist. Vivian names Benson as Calvin's legal guardian.
Calvin lives with her for a while, until she finds Vivian and her lover Sara Hoyt have relapsed into drug use. Sara confesses to murdering Vivian's father and is then shot dead. Vivian revokes Benson's parental rights and sends Calvin to live with his grandparents in Vermont. Both Calvin and Benson are devastated by the separation. In season 13, she is seen with Calvin and his grandparents during or right before.At the conclusion of the finale, Benson becomes the court-appointed custodial guardian of Noah Porter, an orphaned baby. The appointment is for a trial period of one year, with the option to apply for legal adoption at the end of that period.
Although the year is rocky due to Noah's health issues and the demands of her job, Benson grows to love Noah and formally adopts him a year later. Noah's biological father is a pimp and serial rapist named John 'Johnny D' Drake who trafficked, raped and murdered Noah's mother, Ellie Porter.
Drake sues for custody as a ploy to get out of prison, imperiling Benson's chances of adopting Noah. Benson's problems are solved when Drake is killed during a courtroom shootout, but she still occasionally worries that Noah has inherited his father's violent tendencies.At the end of season 19 premiere 'Gone Fishin', Benson learns that she is being investigated by the DA's office on suspicions of abusing Noah. The investigation is dropped in 'Mood'. In 'Contrapasso', her lawyer Trevor Langan returns to tell her that Noah has a grandmother, Sheila Porter , Ellie's mother. In 'No Good Reason', she brings Benson to family court, accusing her of being an unfit parent; the case is dismissed, but Benson agrees that it's in Noah's best interest that they stop fighting. In 'Unintended Consequences', Benson lets her visit and spend time with Noah.
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