Peter Scanavino's character, Assistant District Attorney Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, wed Kelli Giddish's Detective Amanda Rollins in season 24Warning: this story contains spoilers from the Nov. 21 fall finale of Law & Order: SVU.

The long-running police procedural, which launched its record 26th season this fall, has starred Hargitay as Olivia Benson since the show premiered on NBC in late 1999. Peter Scanavino, who plays ADA Dominick Carisi Jr., has been a series regular on SVU since 2013.

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What should be a regular day turns into a very traumatic one for Carisi ( Peter Scanavino) in the Law & Order: SVU fall finale.

Tonight’s episode of “Law & Order: SVU” is called “Cornered.” “Law & Order: SVU” airs at 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, on NBC. The storyline for “Cornered” is “Carisi tries to protect two women taken hostage in a tense standoff between police and a violent thief; Benson and Rollins devise a risky plan to get everyone to safety.”

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Special Victims Unit, but it's under some pretty intense circumstances. In Season 26's fall finale (Episode 8: "Cornered"), we saw what happened after a quick trip to the deli turned into a life-or-death hostage situation for Carisi (Peter Scanavino).