Christopher Meloni and Dean Norris discuss 'Law & Order: Organized Crime' and what's to come, including some jabs at Randall's flirting game with Benson.
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00:00Randall's not a smooth guy, you know, the fact that he's a little out of the game, you know, so his game is, hey, you want to have some brisket, baby?
00:12I love it. I love that we ruined your day by making it happy.
00:18Or made your day by making you unhappy.
00:21Yeah, I think, you know, the marching orders were make it cinematic.
00:26You know, it's a streaming show now.
00:30You know, and everyone has their own interpretation of that.
00:32But I think it's, you know, everyone, I think everyone takes that to mean the parameters of behavior and what you're allowed to do expands.
00:42And so, you know, I think we're just at the beginning stage of exploring what exactly that means.
00:48I think that also allows, I mean, it's also where the family dynamic is to play out over a whole season, you know.
00:55That wouldn't necessarily be true on the original kind of procedural type thing.
00:59You get to see this.
01:01You understand more about the family and obviously about Elliot, and they're allowed to explore that, I think, moving to Pico.
01:08Yeah, I think it gives us more options.
01:11And, you know, more tools.
01:14We're able to use more tools that are in the toolbox simply because restraints are a little less.
01:21I think it's a pretty intense landscape.
01:26I think there's a lot of growth or when you said one time regrowth.
01:33I mean, I think you find Stabler and Randall trying to find a footing, trying to understand one another.
01:43Joe Jr. and, you know, his story gets brought back and examined.
01:50And, you know, Bernie's always in the mix.
01:54My son Eli and, you know, Kathleen, they're all in there.
01:58Well, you know, this guy wrote that episode.
02:01And I have a restaurant in Temecula, California that serves brisket.
02:05So it's been kind of a running thing with him, you know, calling me the king of brisket or this and that.
02:11So when I saw that he had written this scene, that that was the way Randall was going to try to pick up Benson.
02:17I just thought it was great.
02:21And I just thought, you know, I really, I was very proud of myself because I, you know, it just came to me.
02:26I thought, well, what's this scene?
02:29What is this scene?
02:30And I was like, well, of course Randall's going to try and pick her up.
02:34That's his basic instinct.
02:36When his brother is lying, dying in a hospital, brisket boy, he can't help himself.
02:44I just thought that was really funny.
02:46And the fact that, you know, Randall is not a smooth guy, you know, the fact that he's a little out of the game, you know.
02:52So his game is, hey, you want to have some brisket, baby?
02:56Well, you know, if it continues to be as well received as you're making it out to be,
03:01I mean, we might have to do a whole episode about organized brisket cartel.
03:07They're kind of in different universes, right?
03:10Well, look, you know, we just get the order of, hey, we'd like, you know, Benson to come on over.
03:15Just like, you know, I get asked to come over on SVU.
03:19And I thought it was a great opportunity, and that's why I asked to actually write the episode for a myriad of reasons.
03:25One of which, you know, I think out of anyone I know these characters better than anyone.
03:30She got good stuff to play.
03:33Good human, you know, getting inside Olivia, you know, underneath her skin kind of stuff.
03:39Well, all I can tell you is that we start up a new cycle, but the traumas that you see him trying to process at the end of one and two are reignited later in the season.
03:55And it's the idea of, you know, him understanding himself and these unconscious pains or urges or memories that, you know, inform how he reacts and acts to certain situations.