Her son has been rolled by a team of ne’er-do-wells and may have been drugged, and we were going to revisit Simon’s seeming overdose and we were going to get to know the stresses on the Stabler family—what had happened to the Stabler family after Elliot both left SVU and apparently left them…
We had heard distant thunder about Chris Meloni coming back in the fall and we were going to lay a little groundwork for that.
It’s very hard for me to tell NBCUniversal and Dick [Wolf], ‘Can you guys hold off on introducing Elliot because I have something in mind?
We were going to see Kathy Stabler come back very upset.