The Law & Order: Organized Crime team investigates a crime ring targeting gay men, and the case becomes personal. Here's a spoiler-filled NBC recap.
Detectives Bobby Reyes and Jamie Whelan have settled into a great buddy cop rhythm as they work undercover at a gay club, rooting out a drug dealer. The rest of the task force observes from a van nearby while a man pulls Whelan out on the floor to dance. They're bumped into by another very rude guy who doesn't seem to deal well with rejection. Reyes secures the drugs and as he makes one arrest, a third man collapses on the dance floor, convulsing. A second dealer makes a run for it and yet another, unidentified man slams into him on the street, beating him up. Whelan cuffs the fleeing suspect as Detective Elliot Stabler is called back in to attend to the collapsed man on the dance floor, making an unexpected discovery: he's a cop.
At the hospital, Eric the cop shows signs of a multitude of poisonings. Stabler and Sergeant Ayanna Bell speak to him and he claims he had to have been dosed. He worries about them outing him in their report, but Bell understands his desire to keep his sexual orientation private. Eric does, however, work with Detective Isabelle Chang and Bell hints to him that she and Chang are more than friends. Stabler admits he wasn't aware that homophobia was still a problem, but Bell is more realistic about the politics of policing.
Stabler and Bell interrogate the first drug dealer Paolo, but he's hesitant to give up his source. He's shaken and Bell feels there's got to be something more suspicious about the guy who accosted Paolo. Jet pulls up footage of Paolo's route home and the task force heads off to trail him. That leads them to an old friend of Bell's who owns a wine bar. He identifies the man in question as a customer named Dominic.
0 Comments