The LAW & ORDER Cast Shares What the Hope They Get to Do on the NBC Series
December 30, 2025 by Marisa Roffman
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After a few seasons on LAW & ORDER, Reid Scott has gotten to do a number of memorable things, including partaking in a couple of crossovers within the franchise. But he has something big in mind that he’s still hoping to do on the NBC series.
“We sort of would talk about it sometimes last year, almost in a joking manner, but I also sort of mean it, too—it’d be fun to see an investigation take us to a different location, like outside New York,” Scott, who plays Detective Vincent Riley, tells Give Me My Remote in the video below when he’s asked about what he still wants to experience on the long-running series. “Like, do a tandem investigation with another state, or something like that. I know that’s pretty big, and that’s a big swing, and that certainly bucks the convention of the show, but I feel like there’s a way to do it that’d be pretty cool to me.” (Though Scott’s idea might seem far-fetched, on paper, LAW & ORDER did cross over with the Baltimore-set HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET during its original run. And spinoff LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT has crossed over with fellow Dick Wolf franchise ONE CHICAGO.)
For Maura Tierney, who plays Lieutenant Jessica Brady, her hopes are a bit more grounded.
“I wouldn’t mind if my character sort of had a moral slip, within her job, or something like that,” Tierney explains. “Because last season, she did the thing [where she] took the high road and turned her boss in, and, you know, she didn’t obey the code [of silence to do the ethical thing]. I’d like to see her just maybe do something that’s slightly ethically compromised—or that we think might be. That would be fun for me to do.”
David Ajala, meanwhile, is still brand new to the series, with only a handful of episodes playing Detective Theo Walker under his belt. But as he’s learning the character, his hopes for what he gets to do are also pretty simple.
“I want him to just continue to share his human characters, so that there are things in him that people recognize,” Ajala says. “And to also understand that, ‘Oh man, this guy is—I can see myself in this guy, but he just so happens to be a detective.’ That’s important that we see the human before the uniform. That’s my thing, however that looks, that’s what I’m invested in. Just how can I make this guy continue to feel more human and flawed and also respected, I guess. Because you may not like him, but you got to respect this is the guy who has a healthy moral compass and is deeply invested in getting justice.”
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