In Conviction
About a year after her reappearance on SVU, Cabot returns to New York and resumes her work at the District Attorney's office as the Homicide Bureau Chief (replacing Tracey Kibre from Law & Order: Trial By Jury) in the Law & Order spinoff, Conviction. She plays a tough, but understanding supervisor to a young group of ADAs. Her attitude and personality in this role was much different than that of the young ADA that prosecuted cases in SVU. Cabot's departure from witness protection and return to New York as a Bureau Chief was not explained during the show's airing, as she was a last-minute addition to the cast and most of the early episodes had already been written before she was added. There were plans in later episodes to explain Cabot's return to New York, plus a greater exploration of her personal life and past, but the cancellation of Conviction made this a moot point.
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