Warning: SPOILERS forward for FBI season 8, episode 6!FBI govt producer Mike Weiss has addressed the potential of a crossover with Legislation & Order: SVU following a Dick Wolf universe Easter egg within the latest episode. FBI season 8, episode 6 included a point out of Hudson College, the place their newest homicide suspect, Mimi Werrick, was attending lessons. Hudson College is identical identify as a school featured in SVU.
Talking with CinemaBlend, nevertheless, Weiss defined how the Hudson College featured in FBI season 8 shouldn’t be meant to be the one which seems semi-regularly in Legislation & Order: SVU. The showrunner said that there is no likelihood of a crossover taking place as a result of two reveals being on completely different networks, with FBI on CBS and SVU on NBC:
There is no such thing as a crossover from NBC to CBS. There’s a vibrant line between these two universes.
Hudson College has appeared in FBI earlier than, being a serious a part of season 7, episode 5. This makes it a small however necessary a part of FBI‘s universe, separate from its involvement in storylines in Legislation & Order. As Weiss states, there’s additionally the community discrepancy that retains the areas from being the identical, even when they needed them to be.
Nonetheless, FBI is tangentially related to the Legislation & Order universe, regardless of no crossover plans on the desk. Tracy Spiridakos appeared as Detective Hailey Upton from Chicago P.D. on the solid of FBI in season 2, episode 19. This very small crossover ties the sequence to One Chicago, which has had a number of crossovers with Legislation & Order: SVU over time.
Whereas the Hudson College on one present is not the identical as that on one other, the 2 universes are nonetheless related. Nonetheless, there’s been no crossover between networks past Upton’s look in season 2, signifying it is unlikely to occur once more. As well as, Legislation & Order: SVU season 27 has its personal storylines, making an in depth crossover extra unlikely.
As of writing, there are not any crossovers with another reveals deliberate for FBI season 8. This contains the franchise’s upcoming CIA spinoff, set to premiere on February 23, 2026. The one different connection the present shares with Legislation & Order is Jeremy Sisto and Alana De La Garza having been sequence regulars on the unique, enjoying completely different characters within the newer procedural.
It looks like FBI‘s connection to Legislation & Order: SVU will stay on the bridge that’s the One Chicago universe. Though Hudson College drums up some compelling potential storylines if a crossover was attainable, it sadly seems there will not be such a connection between the sequence in any case. It is nonetheless an intriguing semi-Easter egg, even when they don’t seem to be the identical.
New episodes of FBI air Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. New episodes of Legislation & Order: SVU air Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
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September 25, 2018
- Administrators
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Dick Wolf
- Writers
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Dick Wolf
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Missy Peregrym
Maggie Bell
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Zeeko Zaki
Omar Adom OA Zidan
