Detective Joe Velasco (Octavio Pisano) should face his previous within the April 27 episode of Law & Order: SVU — and he can’t say no as a result of it’s on Captain Olivia Benson’s (Mariska Hargitay) orders.
Previously, Velasco was compelled to disclose that, when he was youthful, he and a pal, Chilly, had been despatched to a college for hitmen; the one technique to go away was in a physique bag. However, when it got here time for the “final test,” Velasco couldn’t pull the set off. Chilly might and coated for him with the cartel. Velasco then ran. Once Benson discovered, she informed him that he owed a debt to these two individuals who had been killed, and for them to be OK, he needed to convey his pal to justice.
Now, in “Bend the Law,” that point has come. “He’s a little conflicted, obviously, and he might think that he can get away with just letting it be an afterthought,” Pisano tells TV Insider of Velasco on this episode.
The detective had by no means thought that a part of his life, again earlier than he even determined to enter legislation enforcement, would come up once more. And so on his technique to take his previous pal into custody, he’s “hoping that there’s a way to prove that everyone changes, even somebody who’s done something like that — because he knows what happened, they were basically children, 15-year-old kids living their lives based on the environment they grew up in,” Pisano continues. But he additionally is aware of what he owes to Benson and SVU, “so on the way up there, I honestly don’t know if he knows what he’s going to do.”
Benson sends Tonie Churlish (Jasmine Batchelor) with him. With her alongside, “he has to stay within the boundaries of the laws. Having spent ten years undercover, he was forced to do certain things to bring people to justice that weren’t necessarily within the law. So just knowing everything that Churlish has done with him in the past, it’s going to keep him in line,” Pisano says.
Velasco would a lot moderately accomplice up with Grace Muncy (Molly Burnett), however is it strictly skilled between these two? Pisano notes that it’s been “a long time” since his character has had “any type of romantic relationship,” and proper now, his focus is staying on Benson’s good aspect. “That’s not the best way to do it, to start dating someone within the squad. So I think the priority for him is to bring everyone to justice, and if something is evolving, it’s unbeknownst to him,” he provides.
And contemplating his latest revelations, being OK with Benson ought to positively be his precedence.
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