Can Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson ever be happy on Law and Order: SVU? She’s been pretty darn close this season while caring for little Noah, the foster child she’s planning to adopt in the Law and Order: SVU season 16 finale. But this is Law and Order: SVU. Things never go as planned. Noah’s birth father, Johnny Drake (Charles Halford), returns and tries to reclaim his parental rights in “Surrendering Noah.” Yes, the same Johnny D. who was involved in a sex trafficking ring and is being charged with rape, kidnapping and assault. As if that weren’t enough to stress out viewers, we know this: Not everybody makes it out of the finale alive.
“Juicier than that? That’s already insanely juicy!” Mariska told E! when asked for a finale tease aside from the deadly ending. “What will be very compelling going into next season is how the shooting and those deaths (yes, there’s more than one) change the course of every life involved.”
