Tonight on NBC Law & Order Organized Crime returns with an all-new Thursday, January 25, 2024 episode and we have your Law & Order Organized Crime recap below. In tonight’s Law & Order Organized Crime season, 4 episode 2 called, “Deliver Us From Evil” as per the NBC synopsis, “After a deadly bombing claims the life of a spiritual leader, Stabler meets with an officer who’s convinced the crime is part of a larger conspiracy.
Tensions rise within the task force as Jet struggles to get her team on board with Vargas’ program. Stabler welcomes his older brother to town.”
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In tonight’s Law & Order: Organized Crime episode, Dr. Kyle Vargas’s artificial intelligence program was supposed to be the way of the future. It was there to help cops make their cases. It was there to double-check their work. Detective Stabler didn’t like the program because he said it keeps cops from getting things down by any and all means.
He saw the program as a way to cut out his job. He saw the future that Vargas had envisioned and he knew that crime will never stop. The A.I. existed in a utopian world where people wouldn’t get harmed. It completely disregarded the fact that the victims are very much human. And that they deserve the best, not the easiest.
Stabler refused to have anything to do with the program. He was going to keep doing his job the old fashioned way. Meaning boots on the ground. Stabler talking to witnesses. He had to do that after Officer Bashir came to him with a claim. He said that a recent bombing of a mosque was connected to a bigger conspiracy than mere hate crime.
He believed the true victim of the bombing was Imam Kasi. He wouldn’t give any evidence to Stabler or Sergeant Bell. He just had his gut and sometimes that’s all a cop has.
There were at lest five killed in the bombing. Bashir went against his own Captain because he felt he was right. Captain Shah firmly believes this was a hate crime and that’s why the Hate Crimes Unit took the case. She also benched Bashir because she felt he was too close to the case. He attended the mosque that was attacked.
His pregnant wife was at the Community Center right next door to the bombing and it was a miracle she wasn’t harmed. Bashir believing the attack has less to do with hate and more to do with the imam was merely a hunch.
Sergeant Bell wouldn’t take the case from a captain unless she had credible intel. Something Bashir didn’t have. He just had a hunch that Stabler wanted to follow up with.
Stabler went to the scene of the bombing. He found Bashir cleaning up and he asked him some questions. It turns out Bashir has a criminal informant tied to the community. Bashir said that his informant was telling him about a criminal element that has moved into their community since Americans pulled out of Afghanistan. This criminal element has ties back to Kabul.
This case could potentially be tied to Al-Qaeda if Bashir was right. Only the Hate Crimes Unit believes they have their bomber. They have Asher Klein. He was hired to tag the mosque with hate speech.
He took the job. He just didn’t do anything else. He has no idea how bomb material was found at his place. He doesn’t have friends. He lives with his mom and his mom constantly cleans up after him. She would have noticed if he had bomb material. They both believe that evidence was planted by whoever hired him to tag the building.
Stabler spoke to Klein. He learned that two men hired Klein. One was a white guy with a weird accent and the other was a brown guy with a beard. Klein was a street artist. They found him at one of his “unveilings”.
He couldn’t remember which one because he was drunk out of his mind at the time. He did on the other hand remembered that someone shot the imam right before the place was bombed. He heard the gunshot. He even described the weapon because he plays a lot of video games and so he said the gun was possibly Russian.
Stabler then called in a favor with ME Melinda Warner. She couldn’t find concrete evidence of a shooting because the fire bomb destroyed most of the evidence. Stabler had to find another way of identifying a gunshot wound. He returned to the bombed out mosque. He found a bullet lodged into a wall where the imam was killed.
Stabler therefore had evidence that the imam was the target the entire time. What he needed to take this case back to Bell was for Bashir to identify his criminal informant.
Bashir’s informant proved to be his wife, Stacy. Bashir was talking Stacy to coming forward when Klein was murdered in his hospital bed and someone killed a cop to do it. Stabler found the cop’s patrol car still in the hospital parking garage.
He was stripped of his clothes. The killer wore them to impersonate the cop during the shift change for Klein’s surveillance. Therefore, this was no longer a Hate Crime. It was an assassination tied to organized crime and so Bell officially took this case from Shah.
Jet and Vargas were able to determine their killers were using international cell phones. They were burner phones bought in Cypress. The phones were turned off after the bombing and they were suddenly turned back on when the cops were looking for them. Bell and her unit went to the scene.
They found a dead man with appearance of being Middle Eastern. He could have been the brown man that Klein talked about. It seems their real bomber was killed by his partner. And the partner left the phone because he planned on bombing the cops when they arrived at the scene.
Stabler used his instinct to determine the scene wasn’t right. He shielded Bell with his body and the second bombing didn’t harm anyone. After a tiring day at work, Stabler returned home to his forgetful mother and to his brother Randall who came into town to check on their mom. And his brother could be a bit of a jerk.
THE END!