Tonight on NBC Law & Order Organized Crime returns with an all-new Thursday, May 4, 2023 episode and we have your Law & Order Organized Crime recap below. In tonight’s Law & Order Organized Crime season, 3 episode 20 called, “Pareto Principle” as per the NBC synopsis, “The Feds call in Bell and Stabler when they suspect a gruesome murder could be connected to a string of bank robberies.
When a DNA match is tied to a suspect with the perfect alibi, the team struggles to make a case against him.”
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In tonight’s Law & Order Organized Crime episode,Phil McBride was a family man. He has a wife and two kids. He has a house in Staten Island. He had everything one is supposed to want and still he managed to ruin it
Lloyd wasn’t too bright. Frank stop taking his calls. Phil also became worried that someone was following him. He thought it was the Feds. He thought Frank had ratted him out and that’s why he wasn’t taking the calls, but it wasn’t the feds after him.
It was someone else. Phil was later found in pieces at his home. His wife woke up one night to hear the dryer going and when she checked it – she found Phil’s head. The rest of his body was found on the sofa upstairs. The wife called 911. The FBI became involved because they suspected that Phil was a part of the bank heists.
They also knew Frank’s name seeing as he was also gruesomely murdered. They both worked at a now defunct crypto exchange. They were telling their families they were going to work and they both got fired five months ago.
They turned to robbing banks to pay for their children’s private schools. The FBI suspected their getaway driver killed both men to increase his cut of the latest heist.
Only they were told to involve Organized Crime to help solve the murders. Sergeant Bell was fine with helping the FBI. The others wanted to get the FBI quickly out of their hair as fast as possible and so they went looking for the third man. They asked Phil’s widow about his friends. She mentioned Lloyd. Lloyd and Phil grew up together. They lost touch for a while.
Then Lloyd started dating Phil’s sister. He now lives with the sister. He was essentially Phil’s brother-in-law and he also needed money. He works for the city. His worker’s comp just ended.
He needed cash to get him over his current hump. Being a part of the heists probably helped pay those bills. It’s what Stabler and Jet believed. They went looking for Lloyd. They had cornered him in his car. He had no other choice than to go with them and funnily enough he had the money from the heists.
It turns out Lloyd wasn’t as dumb as he pretended to be. It was all an act to fool Phil into trusting him. Phil thought himself so smart and he couldn’t see that Lloyd was playing him nor that Lloyd hated him. Lloyd doesn’t remember their childhood fondly. He was traumatized after Phil put him in the dryer and turned it on. He then wanted Phil to have a taste of what that felt like. He killed Frank. He hired someone to kill Phil for him because he thought killing his girlfriend’s brother was just too much.
The gun used on Frank was found in the girlfriend’s car. Lloyd put it there to hide it. His whole plan was revealed after they found that gun and used it to pressure Lloyd into a confession. There was just one problem, though. The hitman that Lloyd hired has a rock solid alibi. Junior “Impulsivo” Suarez has been in prison for five years. He loved it there. He gets dialysis for free. He doesn’t have to worry about medical bills there. He also couldn’t explain how his DNA was found at Phil’s house because again he has a solid alibi.
Only Junior was getting furloughs. He wasn’t supposed to. He was a lifer. They weren’t allowed to leave or do work camps and so someone was cutting favors for him. They were allowing him to leave the prison whenever he wanted. Jet looked into it. There was a Correction Officer by the name of Mike Pendergast. He makes decent money as a CO and still he accepts bribes because he wanted to own several houses including one in the Hamptons on top of owning a boat. He thought he could get away with it if it was in his wife’s name.
Jet was too good to ignore that. She found the money. They also used someone inside of the prison to arrange a “release” for one of the prisoners and so they have concrete evidence proving that Mike was letting the prisoners frequently escape to kill people. They tried to use that to get Mike to talk. Mike demanded a lawyer the first chance he got. He also wanted his union rep. He wasn’t talking. The man he released was talking. He said they don’t get paid money. They do it for the rep and cigarettes because they are all lifers. Money has no sway in prison.
Only Mike was getting paid. Junior also got paid. He transferred the money to his twin sister. The cops wanted to know where the money was coming from. They just couldn’t find it. Stabler suspected this was bigger than a murder for hire ring. And he wasn’t sleeping as he kept looking into the case.
He even eventually began to hallucinate seeing his late wife, Kathy.
THE END!