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Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 2 Recap: Benson Visits To Support Stabler (And Help Find Sad Eyes)
Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 2 picks up where Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 1 left off.
For more discussion of the season premiere doubleheader, check out the Law & Order: Organized Crime season premiere review.
In the meantime, let’s jump in and recap what happened on this heartbreaking conclusion to the 3 Kings trafficking story!
Stabler Is Hospitalized And Is In Bad Shape
Everyone is having a great time at Eli’s party.
Randall answers the landline. “Party Central!” His expression fades into concern.
At the hospital, Stabler is on a gurney with an oxygen mask and seemingly out of it, all bloody. (No sign of what happened to Bunny.) Bell and the team stare at him while the doctors talk about head CTs and such.
We fade into a dream sequence where a perfectly fine Stabler calls for a nurse who ignores him.
He runs after a cop who ignores him and sees a bunny (the animal) in a corridor.
He hears Benson calling him. Meanwhile, in real life, Benson is staring at a comatose Stabler while a doctor says they expect him to stay unresponsive for at least 24-48 hours.
Randall and Bernie arrive at the hospital, where Bell is explaining to Stabler’s daughters that he is in a coma.
They all go to see Stabler, and Bernie is glad Benson is there, but confused that the rest of the cops aren’t. When her husband was hurt on the job, his team always came. Benson explains that Stabler was undercover, so they can’t have other cops around right now.
Randall asks his mother if she knows any priests, just in case. She doesn’t want any priests, but he says his brother would want one.
Randall explains that his brother has a TBI, but he doesn’t remember what that means. Benson tells him it stands for “traumatic brain injury.” She leaves to give them privacy.
Bernie tells Stabler, “Do not make me bury you.”
The Raid On The Truckers Goes Badly
At the truck stop, the bad guys are fighting. How could Vic almost kill “Hank?”
Vic says “Hank” is not dead. He and Steve start fighting. Mark tells them to stop. Vic doesn’t understand what’s with “Hank” that he beat them all up over that “little brat.”
All of a sudden, a bunch of cops show up. Mark sneers at them. Vic runs away. The cops chase him into an office, where he shoots himself in the chin.
Stabler Finally Awakens, But No News on Bunny (Yet)
At the hospital, Randall talks to Stabler. He’s angry at him for getting himself into this mess.
Benson comes in. Randall asks if she was his brother’s partner. She tells him she and Stabler have been great friends from the beginning.
Randall offers to make her brisket and coleslaw someday. Stabler mumbles that Benson’s coleslaw is better.
Randall goes to get the doctor. Stabler asks Benson what happened and if Bunny is okay. Benson says she’s a lot like you. Stabler mumbles she’s young and will make it.
Benson has to go debrief with Stabler’s team. But she wants him to rest and know he’s in good hands.
Stabler Dreams About Bunny While We Get An Update On The Case
Stabler has a dream that Bunny comes to visit him. She says she was bored and she got him something she didn’t steal. It’s a necklace instructing others to call a priest if they find him unconscious.
Dream-Bunny asks Stabler if he likes saving people and makes him promise to save Sad Eyes before she leaves.
Meanwhile, a bad guy comes to see Sad Eyes with some other guy he calls Sloppy Joe, who he says wants a “date” with her.
In the hospital, Stabler awakens and gets out of bed.
The team fills Benson in. She asks how she missed this.
Stabler calls in. He wants a shot at the remaining Kingsman brothers. Bell tells him the FBI has first dibs.
Stabler asks if anyone has talked to Teddy (the guy who took Bunny).
Bell says that Teddy is in post-op three doors down.
Stabler Pushes Himself Too Hard, Leading To Tragic News About Bunny
Stabler disconnects from his IV and goes to the nurse’s station with a get-well bear he wants to give Teddy. The nurse looks up the room and says Teddy is out of surgery. Stabler asks for the men’s room and then follows the nurse who delivers the bear.
Teddy reveals that he didn’t take Sad Eyes — not his type — and promises he won’t tell the cops anything except he was assaulted by a random guy he doesn’t remember.
Stabler leaves and calls Reyes.
He looks to be in bad shape and collapses in another dream sequence where he finds Bunny dead, but she wakes up and asks him to save Sad Eyes.
The nurses find him, and he keeps mumbling that he saved the girl.
The nurses say that the girl who was brought in with him was in a coma, but they just took her off life support.
Halfway Through Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 2, Stabler Insists On Leaving The Hospital
Benson finds Stabler. He insists he is going home now and has to find Sad Eyes. Benson says he can’t leave her sight.
In the car on the way home, Stabler asks if Bunny was dead when he asked about her. Benson tells him she died the next day. There was no good time to tell him.
At the Organized Crime Unit, Benson and Stabler question Mark and Steve. Mark and Steve deny knowing anything, and Mark tries to claim he’s a hero who gives ex-cons second chances, like Hank, who came to him under false pretenses.
Eventually, they get Steve to tell them where Lugnuts might have taken Sad Eyes: a swap meet where truckers trade women and drugs.
The Sting At The Swap Meet Puts Jet In Danger
A girl at the swap meet propositions Stabler, but doesn’t know Sad Eyes or Lugnuts.
Jet and Reyes are undercover and similarly get nowhere.
A bunch of guys all tell Jet they’re Lugnuts cause they want her.
A guy calls to her, saying he knows Lugnuts. Reyes tries to follow, but some guy interferes and accuses him of being a cop, so he has to punch him.
Lugnuts attacks Jet in the meantime. Jet fights back.
Reyes stops and arrests the guy. Stabler wants to know where the girl is.
Reyes finds a dead body, but not Sad Eyes.
Lugnut says Sloppy Joe took Sad Eyes to his workshop. He doesn’t know what it is.
Jet insists she’s all right. Stabler sees a bunch of piles of wood and realizes it’s the workshop.
Jet chases after him. They hear a woman crying and find Sloppy Joe tormenting her. Stabler shoots the guy but gets shot too and passes out.
An Emotional Ending To Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 2
Stabler’s back in the hospital. He dreams that Benson leaves him without saying goodbye.
Bernie calls his name. He awakens and asks what’s wrong.
Bernie explains that she was taught not to cry because cops’ lives are stressful enough, but for 70 years she has had to smile and hold her breath, praying her husband, son, and now grandson will come home.
Stabler hugs her. She asks why he was yelling in his sleep.
He says he has been having bad dreams about everything he’s lost.
A few days later, when Stabler returns to work, Bell tells him that Jet has seen too much and is in a bad place, so it will take her time to recover.
She asks how Stabler is doing and hugs him before sending him home.
Bell also gives him two things found in his pocket when he was shot: a photo of Bunny and the necklace he dreamed Bunny gave him in the hospital.
Bunny’s ghost is standing over Stabler’s shoulder as he puts his head in his hands, holding back tears.
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