Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021) s01e04 Episode Script

1
In the nation's largest city,
the vicious and violent
members of the underworld
are hunted by the detectives
of the Organized Crime Control Bureau.
These are their stories.
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
Elliot Stabler's face was a mess.
You're welcome.
Sacha Lenski.
This was a job for hire.
Eli [GASPS]
You have to see someone.
- You can't function like this.
- I'm fine.
Purple magic is made
from a prescription drug.
Wheatley pushes a ton of it.
Where'd you hear that?
We have an undercover.
Wheatley has his private
meetings in his wine cellar.
I need a bug in there.
The weapon confiscated
from Izak Bekher matches
the ballistics of Sinatra
and Jocelyn Howell.
[TIRES SQUEAL]
Izak Bekher, you're under arrest
for the murders of Manfredi Sinatra
and Jocelyn Howell.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
[EXHALES SHAKILY]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Moennig.
There was a couple.
On the street near
where the car was parked.
They took a selfie.
Do you know what time it is, Detective?
No, I wasn't paying attention
but I need to see that photo.
Next time, pay attention.
We'll discuss this
in person later today.
- [CAR HORN HONKS]
- No worries, man.
It's your world.
We're just living in it.
[HORNS HONKING]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[BLENDER WHIRS]
Cole, breakfast!
Cole!
Hey, have some breakfast before school!
Cole!
[KNOCKING]
Are you still asleep? It's after 7:00.
I thought I told you to clean this
Cole! [GASPING]
Oh, my God!
Cole! Cole!
No! Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Coney Island.
Wonder Wheel. 9:00 p.m.
My client has no idea
what you're talking about.
Everyone in this room knows that's BS.
Let's indulge them.
[SIGHS]
Your boss ordered a
hit on me and missed,
killing my wife.
He then set up his
father to take the fall,
but the old man was wise to him.
How am I doing so far?
I haven't heard anything
that points to my client.
Okay, Manfredi Sinatra
asked to meet with me.
You want to guess where?
Wonder Wheel. 9:00 p.m.
It was a Tuesday.
He was gonna tell me Richard
Wheatley murdered my wife,
but you beat me there.
And you murdered him before
he could rat out your boss.
Better?
- It's false.
- It's false.
It's a theory without evidence.
Without evidence?
Sergeant, it's a theory
without evidence.
This is your gun.
It says "evidence".
Where did you get that?
Coney Island. Wonder Wheel.
[WHISPERS] This is the evidence part.
This casing matches your gun.
It also matches the slug that
the Loudon County ME pulled
out of Jocelyn Howell's skull.
You planted that.
Izak, that's enough.
You're bluffing to try
and intimidate him.
Mr. Bekher isn't ever going
to cooperate with you.
We're not interested in a deal
or in any part of your sad,
obsessive witch hunt
against his employer.
We'll see you in court.
The internet on the train was janky.
I lost connectivity from
Wilmington to Trenton.
You survived?
Praise the Lord. It's a miracle.
Vincent Weiss is one
of the most expensive,
well-connected criminal
defense lawyers in this city.
Wheatley obviously is paying him
to make sure Bekher doesn't cooperate.
Well, Wheatley should've
saved his money.
Bekher doesn't strike
me as the kind of guy
who's gonna be talking.
You know you don't have
to hide that from me.
As long as you're focused
on what we're doing.
Jet, how'd it go?
I imaged his server,
and on the train before
I lost connectivity,
I had a look at his company's
recent transactions.
[KEYBOARD KEYS CLACK]
- Nice.
- These are all the pharmacies
Contrapos does business
with in the continental U.S.
They're in mostly mid-sized towns
and secondary cities.
There's only one in the tristate area.
"Rixton Drugs. Queens".
You two go check it out.
Take Jet with you.
NYPD.
You Herbert Rixton?
That's a fancy computer.
How long you had it?
Um, just a few years, I guess.
So is that how long you've been
in business with Wheatley?
- Who?
- Richard Wheatley.
It's the CEO of Contrapos.
You're part of their network.
[CHUCKLES] No, I'm not in any network.
Nor am I part of a chain.
No, I am proudly independent.
So you've never heard of Contrapos?
Well, they installed the computer, sure,
but I paid for it.
It's perfectly legitimate.
Except for the part where
you send controlled substances
through the mail to people who've
never even been to a doctor.
That's that's nonsense.
I don't know what you folks
are trying to gin up here,
but every prescription
I fill has been ordered
by a licensed physician.
I'm logged into his order history.
There's one for a Naradol
scrip that was shipped
to an address in Brooklyn this morning.
Naradol, that's one of the
components in Purple Magic.
Let's bring that over to the sergeant.
Maybe we're about to
find Wheatley's lab.
All right this is the address
where the Naradol was shipped.
It doesn't look like much of a drug lab.
And CSU? Ah, that's never a good sign.
Detective Stabler.
Detective Duffy.
Kid's name was Cole Braverman.
Stabler.
[FIRMLY] Stabler.
Cole Braverman.
He's the one who placed the order?
Yeah, TARU pulled it off his computer.
An online pharmacy named Contrapos.
Was there a doctor?
Family physician, based
in Denver, Colorado.
Active license.
How much you want to
bet Cole Braverman's
never stepped foot in Colorado?
Well, according to Jet,
he placed the order Thursday last week.
An automated Contrapos server
pinged it over to the doctor,
then over to Rixton Drugs,
where it was filled this morning.
Generic Naradol.
CS found traces of powder
on the boy's desk.
He just wanted to
feel good, not do this.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
Wait, wait, wait!
Don't take him! Wait, wait!
No, please! Oh, my God!
No!
Okay, I set parental controls
on his laptop and his iPhone.
I didn't know I had to worry
about an online pharmacy.
- Oh, my God.
- This is not your fault.
- How could I let this happen?
- This is not your fault.
- It is my fault.
- This is not look at my eyes.
This is not your fault.
- Oh, my God.
- [CRYING]
Oh, God.
You gave that woman hope
we're gonna collar someone.
Damn right I did.
I'm clinging to hope.
Elliot, the boy checked
the box he was 18.
Technically, he broke the law.
Technically, you need
an in-person physical
in order to prescribe
a controlled substance.
Okay, the doctor could be exposed,
but this rise of telemedicine
has made an even bigger gray
area than there already was.
And that pharmacist
one more step removed.
And Wheatley?
What about him?
Come on. I want to show you something.
Whoa.
They're part of the city's
Domain Awareness System.
Over 18,000 CCTV cameras.
NYPD can monitor your every move
anywhere, anytime.
And therefore, so can I.
Here we go.
What do you know about her?
Gina. That's Richie's girl.
I want to know.
In fact, I want to know
everything about her.
Where she goes, who she sees,
what she says, who she screws,
and what she says when she screws them.
Copy that, sir.
Before Richie's birthday dinner, right?
[PUNCHY MUSIC]
I saw the footage.
Couple couldn't have
witnessed the explosion.
They were gone before it happened.
But there might be new information
in their private pictures.
The selfie. Something we missed.
Okay. We'll try to find them.
What do these people look like?
Aw, come on. It was dark and rainy.
They had hoods on.
What does Arson and Explosion
have to say about the IED?
They're still constructing it.
They agree it must have
been triggered by an alarm
or someone calling it in
from a remote location.
Anyone with eyes on the car
would've known you weren't in it.
So what if we
all we gotta do is find
Elliot, there's no "we".
This is TAPU's case.
- You're not on it
- We're after the same guy.
We don't know that for sure.
[QUIETLY] We do know.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[PHONE CHIMES]
Stabler.
I want to talk.
I need protection.
The day after the Sinatra hit,
I notice that my Desert
Eagle has been fired.
Nothing about that felt strange?
Boss all the time uses
my gun for target practice.
You think Wheatley took out his father
on his own using your gun?
The crime scene was a mess.
That's not really like you, is it?
Never leave a mess when I shoot.
It's almost as if the boss didn't care
whether we traced the
ballistics back to him.
Almost like he wanted
you to take the fall.
No, he didn't want that.
He just didn't know better.
Oh, he didn't know any better.
Are you gonna cooperate with us?
Lawyer will never make a deal.
If he even suspects that
I am willing to cooperate
You think Wheatley can get
to you inside Rikers, huh?
What do you think?
I think you should sit tight.
We'll figure something out.
[TENSE MUSIC]
You want to hire a second lawyer
a shadow counsel
to work with Izak Bekher in secret?
Yes, yes, so that we can make
a deal with him to cooperate.
Why not make a deal with
the current attorney?
Vincent Weiss is being paid
for by Richard Wheatley.
He's beholden to his
interests, not Bekher's.
And Bekher is ready to cooperate.
We just need to move fast
before he changes his mind.
We need to follow the
law, Detective Stabler.
No, I have done this before. It's legal.
- Technically.
- [SIGHS]
Technically legal.
What exactly are you proposing?
Okay, first, we appoint
Bekher a new lawyer,
but we keep it under wraps,
so as far as Weiss knows,
he's still representing Bekher.
But in a secret hearing
with the records sealed,
we make a deal with
Bekher for his cooperation.
Then, we stage a fake
arraignment hearing.
Weiss still represents,
you grant bail
Bekher walks.
Wheatley thinks he's free and clear,
but reality is, Bekher
just works for us.
These your grandkids?
7 1/2. One's on the way.
Congratulations.
You know, this morning,
there was a 14-year-old boy.
Cole Braverman. He died
of an opioid overdose.
He was a hockey player, honors student.
He ordered those drugs
from Richard Wheatley's
online pharmacy, Contrapos,
which is directly responsible
for the death of thousands
and thousands of other people,
all while technically following the law.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Over here.
- Hmm, this is different.
He's counter-surveilling me.
One of his guys tailed me
on the way over here.
I lost him, and then the
battery on my civilian phone
is draining faster than usual.
I think it's malware.
All right. I'm putting a ghost on you.
No, he's way too hip for that,
and I don't want another
UC following me around
that's maybe not as slick as me.
I can handle myself.
So where is this bug?
The wine cellar is a Faraday cage,
basically a box that blocks cell signals
from getting in or out.
This bug is a GSM bug.
It's outfitted with a SIM card
that's controlled and
accessed through a phone call.
It transmits a high frequency
that penetrates through
the Faraday cage.
Just make sure to place it away
from any other audio devices.
Yeah, got it.
The terms of the deal are this:
minimization of the charges,
immunity from further prosecution
on crimes already committed,
witness protection.
In exchange, Mr. Bekher will agree
to wear a covert listening device.
No.
I told you, I'm not wearing a wire.
My client agreed to
report in good faith,
but wearing a wire will never
fly given who he works for.
One thing I have faith in
is he wants to stay alive.
We can work with that.
Mr. Bekher, you understand
that if you don't keep
your end of the deal,
the deal goes away?
And you'll be facing two murder charges
and unspecified jail time?
So you're gonna call Elizabeth, yeah?
[MUTTERS] Mm-hmm.
What are you doing?
Uh, stuff.
Dad. Dad, what the hell?
I asked you a question.
Yeah, you ever hear of privacy?
You ever heard of manners?
Look, if this is about
that kid that OD'ed,
I'm not ordering drugs online.
I was geotagging a photo on Instagram.
You know, Dickie said
you used to do this
to them all the time.
He said it sucked being
a teenager around you.
Yeah, well, he's right about that.
He's lucky he didn't have Instagram.
Are you okay?
Yeah, I need you to do something.
Look up photos geotagged
with Fishbridge Park.
- Why?
- Just do it.
Uh
I mean, there's just a
bunch of photos of dogs
and the bridge.
What is this place?
It's the park on the corner
where the car exploded.
- Dad, what are you doing?
- [CAR HORN HONKING]
- Hey!
- [HONKING]
[TIRES SCREECH, HORN HONKS]
- Dad, you have to move.
- Hey!
Dad, move! You got to move!
Yeah, I'm moving.
I'm moving!
Dad! Dad, watch out!
[TIRES SQUEAL]
But they're okay? Everyone is okay?
Neither one of them are hurt,
but my father is not okay.
Okay, so why don't you take
some deep breaths, Kathleen?
He's not okay.
Just tell me what you
mean by that, honey.
He has nightmares.
Eli says he shouts in his sleep.
- And he's just
- Jumpy.
Yes. You've seen it, right?
Have you talked to him about it?
I tried to. We all have tried to.
He won't talk to us. He won't open up.
I mean, I tried to tell him
to get some treatment for
- PTSD.
- That's what I said.
And Mo says I'm not
qualified to diagnose him.
I don't want to diagnose him. I just
We need your help, Olivia.
Okay, honey.
And what is it that
you think that I can do?
Maureen and I want to
have an intervention.
The whole family? Eli?
All five of us. Eli wants to be there.
But it won't work
unless you're part of it.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
[SQUEALS]
[BOTH LAUGH]
It's not the end of the
world, mami. Come on.
I can literally smell the dairy.
I'm going to fire him.
It's always something with you.
Lactose intolerant.
Oh, yeah. No, I know.
- That's awful.
- Uh-oh.
- You're lactose intolerant?
- God, no.
No, I can handle anything.
I just think I meant
I'm I'm Gina.
- Angela.
- Hi.
Nice to see you again.
You look lovely. I hope
you're vaccinated.
- Dad, what
- Don't worry.
We all are. I'll take care of you.
This is Angela, Richie's mom.
Pilar, my beautiful, intolerant wife.
Your sister will be up any second.
- Gina.
- Yes?
Do you like to party, baby?
All right.
Aye!
Aye! [LAUGHS]
Oh, yeah!
[LAUGHTER]
[GLASS CLINKS]
[CHATTER FADES]
A toast.
- Do you want to hear it?
- Yeah!
[LAUGHTER]
To my son.
At least I think he's my son.
[LAUGHTER]
Richard Jr.
30 years old today.
He got my looks, but not my brains.
- Thank God.
- [LAUGHTER]
He'll always be you'll always be
a child in my eyes.
I mean it.
Okay, well, Richie's dad's an ass.
Um, to Richie.
- Yeah.
- ALL: Richie!
- Handsome.
- Uh-huh.
I'll take that.
Clever.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
And most importantly,
kind.
That's right.
My son.
[VOICE CRACKS] My only s
My only son.
I love you so very much.
And I am so proud and
grateful to know you.
Aw, look at that.
- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
- Okay, enough.
Okay. To Richie.
To Richie! Whoo!
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
[LAUGHTER]
So, Gina, I hear you're a waitress.
Yeah, at the Seven Knights Social Club.
- That's where Richie and I met.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you know my pop-pop?
- Yeah, I did.
He was a great man.
I kind of idolized him actually.
Wow, that's fascinating.
So do you have other interests
outside of the hospitality industry?
Dana. Shut up.
- I was just asking a question.
- Hey, babe.
It's okay.
You know, I used to want
to be a movie star, but
well, it turns out, I'm not
very talented that way, so
- Come on.
- [LIGHT LAUGHTER]
There are other talents
that are far more important.
And I suspect you have a few of them.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- Richie, where are you going?
- I'm gonna go for a walk.
I need some air.
Let him go.
[SIGHS] Leslie Snow.
What's going on? Is everything okay?
Everything's good. And we're all okay.
- Everything's fine.
- Yeah.
We just all wanted to get together
and talk.
You want to talk.
Okay, let's talk.
About what?
About you.
[WHISPERS] Go ahead, Kathleen.
This is an intervention.
Uh-huh. Yeah, that's what I thought.
An intervention. Okay.
And, uh, what are we intervening on?
About what you and I
discussed.
You and I discussed in private?
- Elliot, it's not a secret
- It's not anymore.
I went to Olivia myself
to ask for her help.
Nobody here thinks you're an addict.
Thank you, Eli. Appreciate that.
What does everyone think?
- You need help, Dad.
- I need help.
Elliot, I'm here because your
family is worried about you
I didn't ask you to be here.
They're worried about you
because of all the things
that we have witnessed.
Like that. You do that all the time.
And they're worried about you, Elliot,
because they care about you, so
do you think you could
just sit down right now
- and just listen to everyone
- No, I really don't think I can.
You should talk to my
superior, Ayanna Bell.
She's a sergeant, and if
there were any problems,
she would recognize it.
Elliot, tell us what you need.
I love you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CLEARS THROAT]
I love all of you.
And I yeah, I don't
think I can do this.
[MELLOW POP MUSIC]
- You look lost.
- Aah
[FORCED LAUGHTER] Sorry.
I was I was just looking for Richie.
If you find him, bring
him back upstairs.
I'm gonna grab a bottle of champagne.
Richie tells me you have the
most incredible wine cellar.
You want to see it?
Come on. I'll give you a tour.
- [BEEPING]
- [SQUEALS]
Oh, my God.
Holy oh, my God.
Wow, this place is incredible.
I worked with the architect.
She drew up the plans, but
it's pretty much my design.
I'll admit, I'm proud of it.
Yeah, you should be.
Whoa. Think I had too much to drink.
I was gonna study architecture
Then, my first year at
Columbia, I had this idea
how technology could make
healthcare more available
to millions of disenfranchised people.
Wait, that's your company, right?
What is it called again?
It's like Contrapis.
- Contrapos.
- Contrapos.
It's from "contrapositive".
It's a mathematical proposition.
Oh, I don't understand math at all.
It just doesn't compute for me.
Just don't say that to Richie's mom.
She'll have you chained
to a desk in no time.
Chained?
She's a mathematician.
- A professor.
- Oh, God.
Now, I feel so stupid.
Mm.
No, no. Don't.
I'm I'm pretty sure
that you could do just about anything
if you put your mind to it.
So
who is Gina Cappelletti?
If you could do anything else?
Anything you wanted?
I'd really like to be a wine expert.
I mean, how do you know
which wine to choose
for each occasion?
Really?
You're really interested in
knowing more about wine?
I'm very interested.
I'll tell you what.
Next time you come over,
we'll have a lesson.
But right now, we should
get back upstairs.
And celebrate Richie.
Elliot, listen to me. Listen.
Everyone here in this room recognizes
that something's not right
everyone but you.
What do you mean? I'm drowning.
How's that for recognition?
Then take our hand.
Grab onto us.
I know. I know you're trying to help.
I know you're all just trying to help.
You're reaching out,
but all you're doing
is pushing me further under.
It's like it's like a weight
that is dragging me down.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
[DOORBELL BUZZES]
You're the only person I could think of
who would understand.
Should I talk?
Or listen?
I don't know.
I'm a cop.
Yes, I know.
And I'm missing something.
And I can't figure out what it is.
Her name is Kathy.
Um
I think about her, uh
all the time.
I see her, and
and then, she's and then, she's gone.
I can't hold on to her face.
And
[STAMMERS]
And my mind starts, um,
like, spinning.
There are images, and
moments, and memories,
and, um, regrets.
And, uh, you know, things that I, uh,
I said
or didn't say or do or didn't do.
Things I should've done.
The thoughts,
suffocating you.
When Raffi died
when I heard
the wind was
knocked out of my chest.
For months, I'd be teaching,
reading, in the middle
of a conversation,
- and I just I couldn't
- Breathe.
And the images, they come
flooding in, like you said.
Not of my beautiful son.
Just what happened to him.
How he ended.
The fear.
The terror he must have felt.
My guilt.
So many questions,
and never any answers.
It's like something's shouting to me,
trying to get my attention.
I'm not sleeping very well.
You need to sleep.
If you don't, you really
will lose your mind.
Look, I see you were dressed to go out,
so I'll see myself out.
No, I actually just got home.
You can stay for a bit if you want.
Mm-mm, no.
I don't think so. I can't.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is the first sane conversation
I've had all evening.
Yep.
- And if you don't mind
- You don't need to.
No one will ever know this happened.
And it gets better, Elliot.
It never goes away, but
it gets better.
Docket ending 543.
People versus Izak Bekher.
Waive the reading of the rights,
but not the rights thereunder?
Yes, Your Honor.
- How does your client plead?
- Not guilty.
People, I'll hear you on bail.
Your Honor, the People request
that the defendant be
remanded without bail.
The charges are murder two,
possession of a weapon.
These crimes are very serious.
He has multiple passports
and his motive to flee is obvious.
Mr. Weiss?
Your Honor, the DA's office
is responding to pressure
to make an arrest on
a high-profile case.
My understanding is the
sum total of the evidence
against my client is a single
and highly suspect shell casing.
No witnesses, no statements.
No DNA or fingerprints.
Meanwhile, there are at
least two dozen members
of the Guardo crime family
who had a motive to
murder Manfredi Sinatra.
Your Honor, are we gonna try
this case here at the arraignment?
My client has no criminal record.
He's an upstanding member of society
and is willing to
surrender his passports
if a reasonable bail is set.
No criminal record in the U.S.,
but in his home country, he's
got a rap sheet 10 miles long.
Your Honor, that has to be
taken into consideration.
Thank you, ADA Carisi.
Bail is set at $1 million.
The defendant will surrender
any and all passports.
Your Honor, I beg that you reconsider.
The defendant has access to
private international travel
Mr. Carisi, I've ruled.
Call the next case.
Docket ending 274.
People versus Ted Donohue.
Good work, Counselor.
All right, man. Get out of here.
Go have a nice dinner with your kid.
That's not gonna happen. He moved out.
He's with his sister.
- I'm sorry.
- Hey.
It's just till it's safe.
Leslie Snow.
[FIRMLY] Leslie Snow.
Detective Stabler. NYPD.
I'm investigating an explosion
that occurred on Water Street
March 5th.
Uh oh. Oh, my God.
Um, the woman that got blown up?
I read about it online.
My boyfriend Hank and
I were right there,
like, a minute before.
We heard the explosion
as we were running
to catch the train.
We thought it was
demolition or something.
Petunia, stop pulling.
Is there any chance you could tell me
what you remember from that night?
Um, sure.
It was raining pretty hard.
We were out there me and Hank
because we met at the dog
park right on that corner
a year ago that night.
It was our anniversary,
so we wanted to take,
like, a cute picture
Those photos, um,
is there a chance that I
could take a look at them?
Yeah. Absolutely.
They're on Hank's phone.
If you give me your email,
I can send them to you.
Okay. Yeah.
That poor woman.
I hope you catch
whoever did that to her.
Thank you.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
[LINE RINGING]
You've reached Olivia Benson.
Leave a message.
Hey, Liv. Uh, it's me.
Um, calling you. Again.
And I get it.
Um, please just call me when you can.
Thanks. Bye.
[SIGHING]
[PHONE BUZZES]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
[LINE RINGING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[SIGHS]
You've reached Olivia Benson.
Leave a message.
Liv, he knew. He was there.
He activated the bomb
from across the street.
It was Sacha Lenski.
He saw everything.
He knew it was Kathy
getting into the car.
I wasn't the target.
Kathy was the target.
Why would anyone want to kill Kathy?
[WOLF HOWLS]