'Law & Order: Organized Crime' Season 2 Episode 10: Stabler ready to start the fire
After being on a hiatus for a short period of time, ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ has returned to NBC and things have already gotten intense with Richard Wheatley (Dylan McDermott) coming in to help the Organized Crime Unit. Yes, you heard it right. Wheatley is not working with Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) to get the bad guys.
But things are not going to be that easy for Meloni and his team. So, the episode starts with a prisoner named Sebastian McClane getting out of the prison when the doors of the prison cells open automatically. A few moments later, we get to know that someone hacked the security computer of the prison and got him out. Sergeant Ayanna Bell (Danielle Mone Truitt) is given the responsibility to solve the case with her team and she immediately calls Elliot for help.
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When the team gets to know that they would need help from a different hacker or a tech genius to solve the case, the FBI ropes in Wheatley to help with the case. Stabler is disgusted that he would have to work with Wheatley on the case and says no. But he had no choice and had to give in. Wheatley says that he doesn’t hold grudges for what happened in the past and is ready to help.
Wheatley is brought in and he immediately tells Jet Slootmaekers (Ainsley Seiger) and one of his fellow hackers that the culprits are somewhere in New York City. However, they find out that they are sitting in Saratov, Russia. While working on the case, their computers get hacked and an audio message is played which says that they need to pay them $500,000 in cryptocurrency or else more prisoners will be set loose. The ‘Organized Crime’ unit believes that gathering so much money at such short notice is impossible.
Wheatley steps up and says he’ll make the payment through his coin because his coin is geo-tagged and if someone takes money out of that ransom, they’ll get to know the location. The ransom is paid and it is revealed that someone took $800 out of the ransom money from an ATM in Queens, New York City. The team finally gets to the man who was behind the hack, but it’s found that only his computer was used for hacking and someone else did the hacking. Who was it? Well, it was Wheatley.
During the concluding moments of the episode, we see McClane meeting Wheatley inside a safehouse for a dinner. Surprisingly, his ex-wife Angela (Tamara Taylor) is also here and looks completely fine. Earlier, when she came to meet Stabler in a restaurant, she looked in bad shape. Is Angela helping her husband or she is doing it for Stabler?
Well, Stabler is ready to ‘start the fire’.