Fans of “Law & Order: SVU” are feeling very excited right now after the show’s longtime star Mariska Hargitay posted a photo of herself with her former costar Christopher Meloni.

“It’s on,” she captioned the image, referring to their characters’ reunion in the upcoming “L&O” spinoff titled “Organized Crime.”

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Hargitay later added a second smiling selfie of the pair with the caption, “Easy like Sunday mornin. . .”

Meloni left “Law & Order SVU” back in 2011 after twelve seasons of playing Detective Elliot Stabler alongside Hargitay’s Detective Olivia Benson. Meloni, 59, recently told the New York Post that he was “shocked” when franchise creator Dick Wolf contacted him about the new project.

“I never thought this was going to happen, but the circumstances for me changed,” Meloni said. “So ‘yes’ became the correct answer.”

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NBC announced the spinoff last month, saying that it would feature Stabler returning to the NYPD “to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss.” Meloni said that fans should not be surprised about his return to the franchise, as there was no drama behind his departure nine years ago.

“How I left was a different issue and had nothing to do with the ‘Law & Order’ people, the ‘SVU’ people or with Dick Wolf,” he said. “I left with zero animosity, but I did leave clearly and open-eyed in going forward and finding new adventures.”

“I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do, keep moving forward,’” Meloni added. “I had done the ‘Law & Order’ way of storytelling, which they do really well, and I was interested in telling stories from a different angle — whether comedic or inhabiting a new world or doing it on different platforms.”

As for the reunion between Benson and Stabler, Meloni said that it was a no-brainer for him.

“It just has to be,” he said. “Benson and Stabler are inextricably linked, locked and connected. I think there is truly and deeply a worthwhile, inherent drama in exploring that relationship and the complexity of how Stabler left — the unresolved emotions both characters feel and how the fans feel.

“How my character left was really unsatisfying, I think,” Meloni concluded. “It almost feels that we won’t do one or two [crossover] episodes and move on our merry way.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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