Mariska Hargitay is capping off her stellar year with yet another milestone: 600 episodes of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” the NBC crime drama on which she’s starred as the indomitable Captain Olivia Benson since 1999. The hour, titled “Obedience,” airs on Nov. 12 and is highlighted by the return of Benson’s former partner Elliot Stabler, played by Christopher Meloni. Since his departure in 2011, Meloni has popped in for a handful of guest appearances, but this time was special.
\n\nFor Hargitay, the months leading up to the shoot were wildly eventful: In September, she took home two Emmys for her documentary “My Mom Jayne”; the following week, she hosted the show; then she flew right back to New York and started filming Jalen Brunson’s episode of “SVU” the following day. Four days after that ended, production on Episode 600 began.
\n\nSo when it came time for the celebration dinner, Hargitay nearly passed. “I wanted to go home and go to bed,” she says. But like the leader she is, she went anyway. Huddled around two tables was the current cast and crew, creator Dick Wolf, Wolf Entertainment chief operating officer Peter Jankowski and, of course, Meloni.
\n\n“It was…
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