The squirrel family includes ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, prairie dogs, and flying squirrels, but to most people squirrel refers to the 122 species of tree squirrels, which belong to 22 genera of the subfamily Sciurinae.
pin. email. Stabler, come back for Benson if not your fans! Christopher Meloni's Det. Elliot Stabler exited Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at the end of season 12 with so little warning and basically zero closure that fans are still hoping for a return of some sort.
Best Answer: Christopher Meloni's contract negotiations fell through, so he moved on to different projects. Elliot Stabler retired as a result of the shooting in last season's finale. He shot a teenage girl because she was firing shots wildly around the precinct trying to kill the men responsible for her mother's rape and murder. That episode, Smoked, ended with the girl's death.