WARNING! SPOILERS ahead forLaw & Order: Organized Crimeseason 5, episode 3, “Paranza Dei Bambini.“Law & Order: Organized Crimeseason 5 needs to resolve its biggest mystery before time runs out. DespiteLaw & Order: Organized Crimeseason 4 ending on an exciting cliffhanger, that story has not yet been fully addressed in the new season. Instead, Stabler has been active in two separate cases that have had nothing to do with the events at the end of the previous season.Law & Order: Organized Crimeseason 5has had three episodes so far, two of which involved an unrelated undercover mission.
Law & Order: Organized Crimeseason 5, episode 3, titled “Paranza Dei Bambini,” reaches into Stabler’s (Christopher Meloni) past to help him solve the murder of a mob boss in the courtroom. Stabler must rely on a CI who he helped escape from mob life in Italy six years ago to understand the killer’s pattern. This story was interesting but did little to make progress on one of the mostmemorable stories fromLaw & Order: OrganizedCrimeseason 4.
Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Is Gradually Resolving Joey’s Cliffhanger
The Procedural Is Offering One Or Two Scenes Per Episode About This Story
While his story left off at the end ofLaw & Order: Organized Crimeseason 4 withJoey being handcuffed to a briefcase full of chemical weapons, the new season has made the surprising decision not to pick up where it left off. Instead,Law & Order: Organized Crimeseason 5 takes place months later and offers breadcrumbs in every episode that are meant to lead to the discovery of Joey’s location and the amount of trouble he’s in.
The Joey storyline almost got lost in the focus onStabler’s romance withLaw & Order: SVU’s Benson(Mariska Hargitay) during the season premiere. This episode featured only a short conversation in whichStabler’s mother, Bernie (Ellen Burnstyn) insisted she had been speaking with Joey regularly. During “Parzana Dei Bambinos,“Law & Order: Organized Crimefollows up on this incident by having Randall tell Stabler about it. Later, Randall attempts to answer his mother’s phone, but the person hangs up on him, suggesting that someone is using Joey to target Bernie.
Why Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 May Be Running Out Of Time To Solve The Joey Mystery
Season 5 Only Has 10 Episodes
IfLaw & Order: Organized Crimehad a full 22 to 24 episodes to tell its story, there would be plenty of room for suspenseful scenes such as Randall answering the phone to find nobody there. However, with only 10 episodes in season 5 and no guarantee thatLaw & Order: Organized Crimeseason 6will happen,the writers do not have time to move so slowly with this story, especially since other plots are also unfolding.
The Peacock procedural will have to step up the pace to bring the Joey disappearance story to an exciting climax before the season ends.
Law & Order: Organized Crimehas already finished airing three of its 10 episodes without much movement toward solving the Joey mystery. This is a serious problem, considering that it is now already approximately a third of the way through its season. The Peacock procedural will have to step up the pace to bring the Joey disappearance story to an exciting climax before the season ends. If this story does not begin to move more quickly, it risks an unsatisfying, tacked-on ending — or worse, no ending at all before the season wraps up.
