A first look at Benson and Stabler’s β€˜SVU’ reunion is here β€” and it will give you chills

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The wait is almost over, die-hard β€œLaw & Order: SVU” fans!

A new promo video teases the long-awaited reunion between Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler.

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A crossover episode featuring β€œSVU” stars Mariska Hargitay (Benson) and Christopher Meloni, who will return as Stabler in the new spinoff β€œLaw & Order: Organized Crime," will air April 1 on NBC.

The promo features throwback scenes of Benson and Stabler from their time together on β€œSVU,” set to Benson's voice-over from an old episode.

β€œWe’ve worked together a long time,” Benson says. β€œI can anticipate what he’s thinking, what he’s gonna do. Yeah, we have a great rapport.”

The cryptic promo mostly consists of these flashbacks, but one quick scene at the end teases the moment of the duo's upcoming reunion, when Benson is working a crime scene and turns around after hearing Stabler’s voice call out, β€œLiv!” The stunned look on Benson's face says it all!

The tantalizing teaser video sent β€œSVU” fans into a tizzy, to say the least.

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β€œI’ve been left speechless, words still haven’t come from my mouth yet, I just been muttering incoherent things since the ending of the episode and this promo,” one fan commented on Twitter.

"I’ve watched this an ungodly amount of times and ugly cried too early in the morning to deal with this," another fan said.

β€œY’all need to quit playing with my emotions,” another person tweeted.

Related: Reunited, and it feels so good!

Meloni and Hargitay starred together in β€œLaw & Order: SVU” from 1999 until 2011, when Meloni left the show. Ever since then, fans have been dying to see Benson and Stabler together again, missing their always intense (yet always platonic) on-screen chemistry.

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Image: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 (NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

The β€œSVU” stars have been dropping some breadcrumbs about their planned reunion over the past few months, sharing photos of themselves together on set along with maddeningly vague captions like, β€œWe are a little bit closer,” and β€œIt’s all happening…”

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Now, with the crossover date finally confirmed, fans just need to hold tight for another month … and possibly make arrangements for how they plan to emotionally cope with the reunion.

β€œWell I’m definitely calling in sick on April 2 because I’m going to need a full 24 hours to process this,” one fan tweeted.

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