Warning: This article contains spoilers about Thursday’s episode ofLaw & Order: SVU.

“You are the most important person in my life and you just disappeared.”

Things got right down to business.

“He tried to kill her,” Stabler blurts out.Who he who?

Where have you been for the last 10 years, detective?

(It was revealed in the season 13 premiere that Stabler had responded by retiring.)

Off-camera, word circulated that salary negotiations went south, prompting Meloni to unexpectedly quit after the finale.

“Are you sorry for leaving?

Are you sorry for walking, for not giving me the courtesy of telling me?”

“You were the single most important person in my life and you just disappeared.”

“If I heard your voice, I wouldn’t have been able to leave,” explains Stabler.

Benson has to stand down, though: it’s no longer her case.

Cue:Organized Crime!