Corey Cott’s Detective Jake Griffin was entrance and heart for this week’s Legislation and Order: Particular Victims Unit.
Titled “Frequency,” the episode — which aired on Thursday, March 5 — had the squad making an attempt to resolve a case with a stunning connection to Griff. The newest installment of SVU began with a household discovering a younger boy in peril by way of their child monitor.
“I really like that it’s not a typical format,” Cott, 35, informed Us Weekly solely of the brand new episode. “It’s actually a one lengthy chase episode, attempting to get this man. It’s good to shake issues up generally and shock the viewers.”
Whereas making an attempt to speak with the sufferer so they might discover his location, Griff realized that the younger boy had comparable mannerisms to his personal late brother, who was autistic. (Griff reveals elsewhere within the episode that his brother died in a automotive accident.)
Because the episode progresses, it’s laborious to disregard the parallels to certainly one of SVU’s most iconic episodes — season 7, episode 3, “911” — a lot in order that Mariska Hargitay’s Captain Olivia Benson brings that case as much as Griff.
Cott is, admittedly, new to the SVU universe, so he was not aware about the connection.
“I requested Mariska. I used to be like, ‘That is only a story you’re telling me?’ She goes, ‘No, that is actual and guess what? I gained an enemy for it,’” Cott recalled. One of many SVU producers finally “defined the entire thing” to him. The episode is now on the highest of Cott’s watchlist.
Except for providing extra perception into Griff’s backstory, Thursday’s SVU episode additionally allowed him and Benson to (lastly) see eye-to-eye.
“I feel we made a large enchancment of their belief and relationship,” Cott informed Us. “I’m excited to see the place it continues to flourish for the remainder of the season.”
Cott made his SVU debut as Griff in October 2025 after beforehand showing as a one-off character in a 2016 episode. It’s since been introduced that the actor has been upped to a collection common. This implies, followers will probably be getting extra solutions about his character — and it appears they’re coming sooner relatively than later.
The top of Thursday’s episode featured Benson alluding to a alternative that Griff might need to make — between her and Chief Kathryn Tynan (Or Dumezwini), maybe.
“There’s some data that we’re going to find out about Griff’s Dad, and there may be some extra skeletons within the closet than we find out about,” Cott teased to Us. “It’s gonna drive Griff to must decide between the squad and his loyalty to Tynan, his mentor. … I feel it’s a really difficult place for him to be.”
New episodes of Legislation and Order: SVU premiere through NBC Thursdays at 9 p.m. and can be found to stream the subsequent day on Peacock.