Hello SVU fans,

Season 13 is still underway, and as usual, Detective Benson and her colleagues are up to their necks in vice. Nothing like a severed arm on a stick with the fingertips cut off to start your day!

No worries, it's fake, but it feels and looks really real (down to the bones in the fingers!) You really have to give it to our props team on this one. You can always count on our writers to make sure that our detectives are right in the middle of the wildest crimes in New York, and our props department will make sure things seems as real as possible. See if you can spot this in an upcoming episode. Or, you can leave your guesses here in the comments. 

And lastly for your viewing pleasure, here's a photo of Mariska from set taken by the one and only Danny Pino:

Keep checking the blog and leave your thoughts in the comments, and we can talk more next week!

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