What happened to Chief Dodds on ‘SVU’? Some familiar faces have caught round since Day 1 of the show and others have moved on. Is he leaving too?
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Her promotion used to be negotiated through Dodds, he tells her at the end of the season's first ep.
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What happened to Chief Dodds on SVU?
For context, Sir Toby Moore is a successful movie producer who attacks an aspiring actress named Pilar all over a sketchy unscheduled audition. Despite the proven fact that Sir Toby is extremely connected and has half the police power, as well as DA Vanessa Hadid in his pocket, our cherished Benson, Fin, and Rollins do not backtrack.
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Soon, they find multiple women who declare they were also attacked via Sir Toby all the way through their auditions. It's a riveting premiere that occurs to employ this author's favorite SVU trope: the undercover detective narrative.
SVU casts an undercover officer to "audition" for Sir Toby, which in the end leads to the predator's fall from glory.
"Feathers were ruffled," in accordance to Dodds. So, where is he going now?
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Olivia and Chief Dodds take a seat down for a drink at a bar following the case. "Feathers were ruffled," Dodds tells her ominously before going on to explain that "the Powers That Be have decided I can't be trusted to work with the DA's office going forward."
Say whaaaat? Then once more, if Season 21 is going to dig into interior cop-DA corruption, we are here for it.
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While Olivia is understandably incensed and promises to go to bat for the chief, Dodds begs her not to stick her neck out for him, regardless that he is being "sent to Coventry." "As of Monday morning," he explains, "I'll be riding point for the traffic and pedestrian safety task force on Staten Island."
Way harsh, Tai.
Is Dodds leaving SVU for good?
The brilliant side to all this — which, if we're being utterly fair, almost makes up for Dodd's Staten Island site visitors enforcement demotion — is that Lieutenant Olivia Benson (who worked her way from Junior Detective to Senior Detective to Sergeant prior to earning the Lt. title in Season 17) is promoted to Captain!
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According to Dodds, naming Olivia the new captain used to be one among the prerequisites to him stepping down.
But in actual life, outdoor of the NYPD's SVU squad, actor Peter Gallagher, who performs Chief Dodds, is leaving the display as a result of he recently "got a pilot that went to series," in accordance to showrunner Warren Leight.
Fans of the former Chief will have to keep tuned for news of his upcoming collection, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, which is about to pop out in 2020.
In the period in-between, watch Chief Benson and ADA Carisi on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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