Carolyn Barek is back on duty.
Annabella Sciorra will bring her
Law & Order: Criminal Intent character to
Law & Order: SVU this season, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Sciorra played Det. Barek, a Major Crimes officer and partner to Chris Noth's Det. Mike Logan, in Season 5 of
Criminal Intent. She left at the end of that season, which aired in 2005-2006; in a later episode, a line of dialogue hinted at tension between Logan and his former colleague.
All these years later, Barek is now a lieutenant in the Bronx Special Victims Unit. She'll show up on
SVU when she forms a join task force with Capt. Olivia Benson and the Manhattan SVU to hunt down a series rapist who has struck in both boroughs.