[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 3 Episode 10 “Trap.”]
Detective Jamie Whelan’s (Brent Antonello) first undercover op, in fact, goes sideways.
Law & Order: Organized Crime‘s winter premiere introduces a new arc, one involving a gang based out of Miami looking to make a name for itself running drugs in New York; Jamie goes undercover as a driver, after they kidnap the wife of one of Detective Elliot Stabler’s (Christopher Meloni) informants. But within the closing moments, Jamie ditches the wire, then leaves the assembly level to go along with the gang to a different location — and likewise has to lose their tail (Rick Gonzalez’s Detective Bobby Reyes and Ainsley Seiger’s Detective Jet Slootmaekers, performing as his backup).
Antonello teases what’s forward for Jamie throughout this subsequent arc.
Jamie’s determination to ditch the wire was in all probability the correct transfer, however doing so means he’s utterly out of contact with the others now. What made him do this? Will he remorse it?
Brent Antonello: It’s simply, particularly in these moments the place he’s by himself in that warehouse, all intuition. He’s gotta ditch the wire as a result of in the event that they discover it, they’re gonna shoot him on the spot and he can’t have that and the case must go on. But yeah, as soon as he sees Sherie, I believe that’s all intuition. From this level on in that episode to the subsequent episode and the subsequent arc, it’s all intuition and he has no concept. He can’t speak to them now. They don’t know the place he’s at now, and it’s simply get the job finished the easiest way attainable and we’ll see what occurs with that.
This is his first undercover op and it’s like every part that would go fallacious went fallacious within the span of a pair minutes — he ditched the wire after which they’re like, we’re transferring to a different location.
Of course it couldn’t be easy crusing.
But how is he feeling on the finish of the episode? Does he nonetheless really feel as a lot in management as he can?
I’d say he tries his finest. I believe the next episode, you’ll begin to see the way in which Jamie carries himself in these conditions, little behaviors, if you’ll, of what he does to calm himself down that we haven’t seen but. But he undoubtedly kicks it up a notch, is aware of the stress of the scenario, however doesn’t panic. There’s no room to panic as a result of when you panic, it’s over, you’re useless or the sufferer’s useless, and that’s it. So he undoubtedly bottles that stress that he might really feel however doesn’t present it.
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What is developing subsequent with this case?
We have two detectives that are available in from Miami that attempt to assist out the group with [Deputy Inspector] Thurman’s [James Roch] assist. They’re keen on Jamie, of what he’s been doing with the case, however Stabler isn’t actually too keen on two detectives coming in and dealing the case with us, so there’s sort of this little shift in vitality occurring. But they provide Jamie some accolades for doing what he’s doing and that’s the acceptance that he wished from Stabler and [Sergeant] Bell [Danielle Moné Truitt] that he didn’t get. So he sort of shifts over slightly bit and goes to the individuals which are praising him or saying, “hey, the reason why we’re here is because of you, you helped us out.” So it’s that acceptance factor that he drives with and he’s not getting it.
What does that imply about what we’ll see with him undercover? Because it feels like if he’s getting that acceptance, he’s extra more likely to take dangers as a result of taking a danger bought him to that place.
Yeah, precisely. And then he will get knocked off the case, which isn’t what he wished, particularly in a sure approach that Stabler performs it. Then now we have that pressure between Jamie and Stabler that you simply’ll see, that entire, “you were like this in the past, why can’t I do this? Is this a generational thing or what is it? Because you did exactly what I did and no one yelled at you for it. But it’s kinda like you’re being a hypocrite right now,” which is nice to play as a result of we haven’t seen Jamie and Stabler get into an altercation— an altercation that should occur, particularly due to the Christmas episode. There’s some pressure between them.
There was a little bit of discuss comparisons between Jamie and Stabler on this episode. Because of what’s developing, does that in any respect change how Jamie might view listening to these comparisons?
I don’t assume so, as a result of he seems to be as much as him for it. I believe it’s extra so he’s simply damage. He’s damage by not getting the acceptance. He’s damage by being knocked off the case a sure approach. He thinks it’s disrespectful. It’s sort of like your hero simply telling you, “you didn’t perform well in the game, take it to the bench, sit on the bench, you’re done.” And Jamie doesn’t take it properly in any respect. So I believe it’s extra so damage that we’re gonna see as a result of there’s this father figure-mentor relationship occurring and it simply actually rubs him the fallacious approach.
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What does that do for Jamie and Bell’s dynamic?
It’s very clear to her that he must be off the case. He’s a wild card, he’s gonna get killed, he’ll get another person killed. We’re gonna destroy the case. He wants to sit down down. But at that second, Stabler is saying, “I get what you’re saying, Bell, but he’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing,” and that doesn’t actually give Stabler any room to speak due to that.
There’s numerous pressure between the three of them in that episode of how he was taken off the case, how he needs to be on the case, how he needs to be ripped out of the investigation. So it’s a cool dynamic. There’s actually, the subsequent two episodes, numerous issues occurring that we haven’t actually touched so far as relationships, motion, and stuff like that, which is cool.
With these similarities between Jamie and Stabler, proper now, Stabler is seeing a therapist. Might that be one thing Jamie ought to take into account, particularly after this undercover task?
It may. We may undoubtedly go down that line. I do know a number of issues that we’re making an attempt to pop up so far as Jamie’s background and stuff like that. I may undoubtedly see that taking place. We’ll discover out. But I really like that although. I really like how we we’re beginning to dig into increasingly more individuals’s background for all of the characters. It’s actually cool to see.
What are we going to see about Jamie’s background and his private life?
I want I may inform you as a result of I do know a number of issues that we may presumably [see]. We’re sort of determining as a result of it was such a fast — I wouldn’t say casting, however to come back into this present, we had been discovering ourselves, which is cool as a result of we’re enjoying in actual time. So numerous issues have occurred and altered and we’ve been looking for the trail.
But I believe there’s numerous cool stuff down the pipe with everybody’s characters the place we’ll lastly get to see some background, some again historical past of why the characters are the way in which they’re, and particularly extra diving into Bobby and Jamie, which has been enjoyable to play and seeing that relationship. So I really feel like everybody this season will get that second or two the place we actually get to see their backstory.
It looks like Jamie and Bobby had been simply thrown into every part and there’s all of the historical past with the duty power that they weren’t a part of…
Yeah. We’ll see some stuff that’ll be rewarding to play.
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