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        <title><![CDATA[Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay reunite before ‘Law & Order’ spinoff]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe they should call it &#8220;Law &amp; Order: BFFs.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Law &amp; Order: SVU&#8221; star Mariska Hargitay posted a couple of sweet close-up selfies with now-scruffy former series co-star Christopher Meloni on Sunday — the first <strong>with the caption,</strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s on.&#8221; That&#8217;s a reference to their much-anticipated reteaming in the upcoming &#8220;L&amp;O&#8221; spinoff titled &#8220;Organized Crime.&#8221;</p><p>Hargitay, 56, <strong>captioned the second smiling selfie</strong> with a simple &#8220;Easy like Sunday mornin. . .&#8221;</p><p>Meloni, who left &#8220;SVU&#8221; in 2011, played Detective Elliot Stabler for 12 seasons opposite Hargitay’s Detective Olivia Benson, who is now a captain heading into the 22nd season.</p><p>Meloni, 59, <strong>recently told The Post</strong> that he was &#8220;shocked&#8221; when franchise creator Dick Wolf reached out to him about the project. “I never thought this was going to happen, but the circumstances for me changed,” Meloni said. “So ‘yes’ became the correct answer.”</p><p>NBC <strong>announced last month</strong> that the spinoff was in the works, with Stabler returning to the NYPD &#8220;to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss.”</p><p>Meloni&#8217;s eventual return to the &#8220;L&amp;O&#8221; 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Order’ way of storytelling, which they do really well, and I was interested in telling stories from a different angle — whether comedic or inhabiting a new world or doing it on different platforms.”</p><p>As far as reuniting Stabler and Benson, that&#8217;s a no-brainer, he added.</p><p>“It just has to be,” he said. “Benson and Stabler are inextricably linked, locked and connected. 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