when did elliot leave law & order svu
Elliot Stabler Elliot Stabler is a fictional character portrayed by Christopher Meloni and one of the lead characters on the NBC police procedural series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit during the first twelve seasons. As a result of Meloni's sudden departure from the cast at the end of the twelfth season, Stabler abruptly retires from the police force off-screen during the thirteenth-season premiere.
Mike Delfino At the end of the finale, Mike is seen marrying someone whose face is not shown.
Elle Greenaway During the finale, Randall Garner, a criminal the unit is investigating, ambushed Greenaway in her apartment and shot her. He then reached his fingers into her bullet wounds and wrote the word "RULES" on the walls with her blood.
Nick Amaro In "Born Psychopath", he is shot by a 10-year-old boy while apprehending him for abusing a young girl.
Samwell Tarly Sam is portrayed by John Bradley West in the HBO television adaptation.[2][3][4]
Elliot Stabler Benson and Stabler are separated at times during the show. She asks for a new partner after Stabler expects her to jeopardize his life to shoot a convicted sex offender (Lou Diamond Phillips) who had kidnapped two children and killed one of them.[32] Instead, she is briefly reassigned to Computer Crimes and replaced by a Queens SVU detective, Lucius Blaine (Anthony Anderson).[2] Benson and Stabler become partners again after her replacement, Dani Beck, leaves the squad.[33] They remain partners for the rest of Stabler's time in the precinct.