Tonight on NBC Law & Order Organized Crime returns with an all-new Thursday, March 30, 2023 episode and we have your Law & Order Organized Crime recap below. In tonight’s Law & Order Organized Crime season, 3 episode 17 called, “Blood Ties,” as per the NBC synopsis, “A father desperate to find his son helps Stabler uncover a sinister human trafficking operation. Bell’s investigation is undermined by a high-powered politician.”
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In tonight’s Law & Order Organized Crime episode, their target was Michael Quan. Michael left China and came to the United States in the eighties. He had enough money to open a business back then. Only now he practically owns the whole neighborhood. Michael made his money in human trafficking.
They would kidnap people in China and take them to New York where they would be forced to work in the many factories willing to pay Michael a kickback. It was modern day slavery. Michael was literally selling his own people into slavery. And he made the stupid mistake of going into politics where any attention on him could reveal his illegal operation.
If Michael hadn’t been Stephen Lee’s campaign manager, Detective Stabler would never have known his name. He would have ignored him. Which was what criminals generally wanted. They didn’t want to be seen by police. They wanted to continue doing their business with no police involvement.
But Michael made himself seen. He was running for a seat on the council and now everyone knows his name. His old contacts were supposed to be handling a shipment of people and the cops were sniffing around.
Stabler did promise he would take him down. He doesn’t make threats lightly. Stabler and his unit had found out about the shipment. They went to the docks.
They pretended to be drivers and they were going to drive a little way before going into the back, but they were stopped by Wen. Wen broke the truck’s window. He demanded that Stabler get out. He had a bat. He wanted Stabler to open up the back and it turns out it was empty. There weren’t people in the back. Stabler didn’t find his prisoners and Wen didn’t find his son.
Wen was arrested. He had to explain what he was doing there on that dock. Wen said that his son was kidnapped from China and taken to New York. He wants to rescue his son, Bo. Bo was all he had. He was all Wen was thinking about and so sometimes he was acting rashly.
He ran into that situation because his contact said Bo would be coming off that boat. He then wouldn’t tell Stabler who his contact was unless he went to see the contact with Stabler. And they got a location on where Bo might have been moved, but that too also proved to be a dead end.
They had gone to a factory. It was being held out of Michael’s building. It was using slave labor and so Michael denied all knowledge of the company that was allegedly renting from him. Only he lost all the workers from that raid. There was now heavy police presence and that could scare off buyers. There was also the Coast Guard he bribed to look the other way. That guy had wanted double the pay for lying to the cops about not knowing where the people were and so Michael had that man killed.
It probably wasn’t a good look for a Coast Guard to be murdered or missing days after he failed to spot a rafter carrying twenty people. It looks suspicious that something would happen to him. Michael has gotten so used to doing things his way that now he doesn’t know when to lie low. He should have just given the guy the money. Now, he’s giving the police the money. He was giving them two million dollars for them to open up a task force to look into the human trafficking happening in Chinatown.
Michael was trying bribe them to look the other way. All he did was give them the money they needed to buy back Bo. The police had found out that the Chinese were looking to sell Bo along with others in an open auction. Wen pretended to be a wealthy father looking for his son and he used Michael’s two million dollars to try and buy back his son. Wen had to go the party alone. He was wearing a camera as well as an earpiece. He was also wearing a suit and so Michael saw the suit first before he saw the man. And once he saw the man, he went looking through the security footage from the raid on his building.
He saw Wen with Stabler. He knew that Wen was a setup and so he called his people to tell him it was a trap. They were clearing the building when the cops came in to raid the police. The cops managed to stop Michael from fleeing. They also rescued all the kidnapped people and Bo was returned to his father. Wen had been a true hero. And Stabler let Bo know that.
Wen’s situation even reminded Stabler to take the time he has to be there for his youngest, Eli.
THE END!