Olivia Benson Boyfriends: Who Has the 'Law & Order: SVU' Captain Dated?
We take a walk down memory lane to remember all of Captain Olivia Benson's boyfriends on 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'. Details inside of.
It's been a wild Season 21 in the New York Police Department's fictional Special Victims Unit from the appears to be like of Law & Order: SVU, which has observed an excellent number of heinous crimes over its 471 episodes to date.
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Anyway, this were given us interested by Olivia's dating life, and we figured you could be fascinated about a breakdown of Olivia Benson's past boyfriends (even though no, they sadly don't include her cherished paintings spouse, Eliot Stabler).
Keep reading to be told about the guys that she dated.
Brian Cassidy (Seasons 1, 14 and 15)
Olivia's on-again-off-again relationship with fellow detective Brian Cassidy (Dean Winters) is going all the way back to a one-night stand they've in Season 1. Still in her early days as a detective at SVU, Olivia is cautious to not combine trade with pleasure and straight away breaks it off with Brian as a result of they are each detectives at the same precinct.
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Fans who concept that was once the finish of Benson and Cassidy's relationship had been proven unsuitable when the detective used to be reintroduced in Season 13. Brian and Olivia reconnect straight away, and once he's cleared of an alleged rape, the two rekindle their dating and even move in together for some time.
Unfortunately, through the finish of Season 15, they develop aside and, in spite of that they nonetheless love every other dearly, decide to head their separate ways.
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Nick Ganzner (Season 1)
Olivia in short and unfortunately dates reporter Nick Ganzner (Tom McCarthy) in Season 1, who she dumps after he tries to get her to act out a rape delusion. Like, learn the room, dude!
Nick then proves himself to be a fair larger jerk when he sneakily appears thru Olivia's confidential notes about an active case and then studies the ones main points, which reasons Olivia to get in trouble with Captain Cragen. Good riddance!
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Andy Eckerson (Season 5)
Olivia in brief dates Federal Marshal Andy Eckerson (Craig Bierko), but viewers never see the two of them as an item on the display. By the time Andy is introduced in Season 5, he and Olivia have already broken up because of Andy's confrontational police techniques and erratic behavior.
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Andy and Olivia work together to seize an escaped convict in Season 5 Episode 11, titled "Escape," but whilst there is transparent chemistry between the exes, she rejects Andy's proposal to get a drink after paintings as a result of he's an adrenaline junkie and she or he wishes someone more strong in her lifestyles.
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Kurt Moss (Season 9)
Kurt (Bill Pullman) and Olivia's dating is terribly short-lived and comes to an end as a result of his work as an editor at a fictional New York City newspaper poses a conflict of interest with her activity at NYPD.
This involves a head when the Internal Affairs Bureau discovers telephone calls between Olivia and Kurt, then spirals when she admits to their courting and becomes suspended.
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David Haden (Season 13)
This romance dies nearly as soon because it begins, but in Season 13, Olivia has a short lived fling with Assistant District Attorney David Haden (Harry Connick Jr.).
Haden is assigned to Benson's unit and the lines between their professional and personal lives temporarily becomes blurred when they are trying to go away for a weekend however end up having their travel cut quick by way of a new case.
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Benson and Haden's relationship is another clear battle of passion, however quite than officially informing their bosses that they're relationship, the detective and ADA decide to end their courting totally, which paves the means for David's resignation and closes off his four-episode arc on the display.
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Ed Tucker (Seasons 17 and 18)
Like Brian, Internal Affairs Bureau Captain Ed Tucker is a long-time veteran of the display, and first seems on SVU in Season 3. While he at all times clashes with the SVU squad, usually appearing as much as investigate police misconduct, he and Olivia strike up a relationship via Season 17.
Not handiest do the two appear cast, Ed may be just right with Olivia's son, Noah, and Ed even talks about planning a go back and forth to Paris for the 3 of them.
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However, by way of the finish of Season 18, Ed reveals that he is planning to retire and wants Olivia to do the same. While she first of all roughly consents, she realizes via the finish of the season that she's married to her activity and the two of them get a divorce.
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Ed returns in Season 21's "The Longest Night of Rain," and confesses to Olivia that he's demise of most cancers. While the two reconcile, he ends up taking his life at the finish of the episode in order to not let his new spouse spend the best years of her lifestyles taking care of a dying guy.
New episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit air Thursdays at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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