After suffering numerous setbacks in his personal life, Elliot Stabler rejoins the New York Police Department to take on the city's toughest organized crime gangs and start over. He encounters difficulties with the new system and tries to adjust to new ways of enforcing the law.
In season 2, Detective Stabler must infiltrate a crime family that wants to take over New York City's cocaine trade, while Bell and Jet navigate the newly formed joint task force.
In season three, Detective Elliot Stabler and his team continue to uncover numerous crimes in New York, including murder, robbery and kidnapping while also dealing with their personal lives, which are full of problems.