Law & Order: SVU: Scoop on the season 14 premiere from TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich

Here's some scoop on Law & Order: SVU from TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich's weekly column Matt's Inside Line for the week of 9/14/12.

Law & Order: SVU | Though I am, admittedly, an intermittent viewer of SVU, I trust I am dead to rights when I say that the two-part season opener, which picks up the gnarly escort service storyline that left a dead hooker in Cragen’s bed, represents a pair of the show’s best hours. As Benson, Fin et al labor to uncover the truth – make no mistake, there is a heaping pile of evidence not in the captain’s favor – much, much dirty laundry is aired, some of it casting people we thought we knew in not the best light. Paget Brewster, guesting as a special prosecutor of sorts who fingers Cragen as a prime suspect, is really terrific and not just playing some variation on Criminal Minds‘ Prentiss, while Adam Baldwin (Chuck) is also well-cast as an the steely interim boss who tries (tries) to keep the SVU team in line as they try (try) to surreptitiously prove Cragen’s innocence. One final tease: The first hour ends with one of the detectives holding a gun to the head of someone we’ve been led to believe was a friendly.

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