Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 9 Is As Heartbreaking As It Is Rushed As The Season Begins Its Wrap-Up
The Joe Jr story came to a heartbreaking end, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.
It’s annoying that this story dragged on all season, only to be resolved in one episode.
Still, Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 9 was the next-to-last episode of the season and possibly the series, and it set things up nicely for one hell of a finale.
Joe Jr.’s Final Story Was Tense, But Both Sides Made Mistakes They Shouldn’t Have
Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 9 featured what should have been an intense, exciting game of cat-and-mouse between Stabler and Julian Emery.
(Side note: Emery is definitely my favorite Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 villain! Finally, an adversary who has that perfect combination of charm and cruelty.)
It would have been better if this conflict had been the culmination of a season-long battle.
However, that wasn’t the biggest problem. I was frustrated by the obvious mistakes made by both sides.
Emery should have known that Stabler would figure out that Joe Jr had tricked him.
It wasn’t hard to figure out that Joe gave Stabler bad info on purpose — why on Earth would Emery think that ruse would work a second time?
Emery is the kind of guy who is usually thinking three moves ahead, so this strategy made even less sense — unless his goal was to eliminate Joe the whole time.
That’s possible, even likely, although it wasn’t spelled out.
Emery seems like the type who would squeeze as much as he could out of Joe and then execute him, punishing Stabler for going after him at the same time as he plugged a leak in his organization.
Stabler, however, has no excuse for his similar error.
That tracker he gave Joe was so obvious that I figured it was some kind of bug as soon as Stabler gave it to him.
There was no way Emery wouldn’t be suspicious of the random necklace that first appeared immediately after Joe fed Stabler bad information.
Stabler should have known that Emery would check the necklace out and at least hide the tracker properly.
If he had put nothing in the necklace but put a too-small-to-detect tracker somewhere else, that would have been a genius move.
Giving Joe an obvious tracker for no reason whatsoever served no purpose other than getting him killed. Sheesh.
I won’t blame Randall for laying into Stabler hard over that idiotic move. Stabler is far from incompetent, but this time was an exception.
Joe’s Death On Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 9 Was Emotional, But Was It Also Rushed?
It also bugs me that we had so little of Joe during Season 5, only for him to resurface and be killed in one episode.
I know that Law & Order: Organized Crime was trying to build up a mystery by having Bernie insist that she’d heard from Joe when he had disappeared months ago, but it didn’t work.
Instead, it felt like a slow burn followed by the writers realizing the season was almost over and rushing to finish the story.
That diluted the power of Joe’s death, which, by the way, I was totally unprepared for.
I’d been so focused on Bernie possibly having another health incident that I couldn’t quite fathom that Joe was actually dead and was expecting him to have faked it to get Emery like Cabot did on Law & Order: SVU.
Still, I found it hard to get as worked up as I wanted to about this when Joe had only been a real part of the season for one episode.
Don’t Get Me Wrong. The Fallout From Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 9 Will Be Epic
The season finale is right around the corner, and Law & Order: Organized Crime’s prep for it is amazing, even if Joe’s death was rushed.
Do you remember how dark Stabler went on Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 1? I do, and this finale will probably bring him back there.
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When Stabler first lost Kathy, he was consumed by the need to find her killer.
He didn’t care whether his investigation was officially approved by Bell — his new boss — or not.
He came close to going full Hank Voight over it, and this time will be even worse.
Bell is still MIA, with no word as to whether she’ll return for the finale.
McKenna is back in the picture, and he has no qualms about breaking the rules.
And this time, Benson isn’t there to pull Stabler back from the abyss.
I mean, technically, she is, but she’s no longer a regular part of Law & Order: Organized Crime, as she was in those days.
I’d bet anything the finale puts Stabler at risk of losing everything: his job, his freedom, his sanity. And I’m here for ALL of it!
The final showdown between Stabler and Emery will be exciting, but I’m even more eager for the news of Joe’s death to spread among Stabler’s family.
Randall has already been up Stabler’s butt the entire season, and he wasn’t happy that Stabler ran off to help Joe without telling him what was going on.
I expect a major showdown between the brothers.
Since there hasn’t been any renewal news yet from Peacock, this could be the last opportunity for them to butt heads, and it had better live up to expectations.
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Law & Order: Organized Crime streams exclusively on Peacock. The Season 5 finale will drop on June 12, 2025 at 6/5c in the morning.
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