‘Law & Order: SVU’ Sneak Peek: Griffin Defends Benson to Tynan (VIDEO)
What To Know
- TV Insider has an exclusive sneak peek of the April 30 episode of Law & Order: SVU.
- Tynan continues to ask Griffin to dig up dirt on Benson, but he pushes back.
Corey Cott told us in March that his character, Detective Griffin, is going to have to make a choice regarding the position he’s in on Law & Order: SVU. Chief Tynan (Noma Dumezweni) wants him to spy on Captain Benson (Mariska Hargitay), but he’s seeing the good she’s doing and learning from her. Now, in the April 30 episode, the chief wants something on her, and TV Insider has an exclusive sneak peek of him defending his captain.
The two are sitting down for breakfast, and when she tries to order him waffles, he says he’s good with coffee.
“I looked through hundreds of cases,” Griffin says. “Are there minor mistakes? Yeah, sure — license plate numbers transposed, paperwork misfiled, small stuff. You could find worse in my jacket. … It’s not like there was incompetence or corruption.”
But Tynan wants to decide for herself and asks him to hand over the file. He puts it on the table, but he then makes it clear that he doesn’t agree with what she’s doing.
“You’re wrong about this. You’re wrong about Benson, OK? Whatever chain of command or BS you’re hung up on, let it go,” he recommends, refusing to let her take advantage of their history.
“I’m not gonna look the other way when you’re doing something wrong,” Griffin insists, and while she doesn’t think she’s doing anything wrong, he continues, “You’re undermining a good cop. You’re letting your ego make decisions. And when you can’t get to her, you go after someone in her unit. Then you set me up to be the fall guy.”
Watch the full sneak peek above for much more from Griffin and Tynan’s conversation.
In this next episode, titled “Impropriety,” NBC teases, “An unconscious and injured teen abandoned outside a hospital sends the SVU on a search for the people who left her there. Benson faces serious consequences when she chooses to protect a victim’s secret under the pressure of cross‑examination.”
It’ll be interesting to see what that means in Benson’s fight against Tynan. Speaking of, “There’s a choice that’s going to have to happen between SVU and between Tynan, and what the fallout will be of that choice, I don’t know,” Cott told us in March. “I think he’s going to have to risk his entire career and maybe the integrity of SVU as well in order to make that choice. We’ll see. We’ll see what’s coming. But yeah, there’s definitely a fork in the road that’s coming pretty quickly, and it could definitely shake things up a bit.”
How do you think this season will end with Benson, Tynan, and Griffin? Let us know in the comments section below.
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K
If I never see another minute of Griff, my life will be just fine. What a junk character played by a truly mediocre actor.
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C
OMG I don't care, I have enough of this story line and this Griffin dude! He is monopolizing the show with his boring story line that lasted too much, enough of him!!! he has too much space for a new character!!? I want to see personal storylines for the other actual loved characters like Liv, Rollins, Carisi, Fin, Curry ...not this guy that nobody even likes.
This show needs to balance storylines for every main characters every episode ( the other characters, not him, he got already too much) and cases. They had this balance for 26 seasons and now nothing?! do better! This showrunner and writers gotta start learning to do that or it's gonna be bad...it already is.
I had great expectations with a woman showrunner this year but I am so disappointed. The female relationships have been non-existent, Rolivia should have be so much more present and instead there has been nothing but one or two tiny scenes. Rollisi are married to each other but they don't even make them interact if not in the Henry episode??? Fin is barely there, Curry has been sidelined, but Griffin HAS to be in every episode with his personal story line? make it make sense. I hope he doesn't come back next season.
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S
They need to get rid of that Tynan woman, she's ruining the show.
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