History Recap / LawAndOrderOrganizedCrimeS2E3TheOutlawEddieWagner

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While Jet steps into the field to secure necessary intel for the team, Bell considers a proposition from Congressman Kilbride; Albi takes drastic measures to keep a secret safe; Stabler and Benson air some long-standing grievances.

* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a play on Clint Eastwood's Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales

* ThatWasntARequest: Nova asks permission to attend Penda's funeral (as she was killed in the drive-by last episode). Brewster refuses (as an Italian mobster was about to be released from prison and Nova was needed back with the Marcy Killers), and Nova responds by turning in her gun and badge.

** The letter that Stabler gave to Liv back in Season 1, Stabler admits that Kathy wrote the letter instead of him (he tried to at first but he couldn't do it). Kathy volunteers as she felt that it would help ease both him and Liv into talking to each other after not speaking with her when he left SVU. In the letter, Kathy writes that whatever they felt for each other was not real, and that they would have gotten in each other's way into becoming the best person they could be, and if that Liv found another man, he hoped he would be good for her. But then Stabler snuck in a line before sealing the envelope - [[LoveConfession in a parallel universe, it would have been him and Liv together.]]

* YouJustToldMe: While trying to break Malachi, Jet tells him that she's aware of some of his hack jobs, including the Cayman Island hack. Malachi rants that he hacked Cayman Island Federal as a TakeThat to the "man". Jet [[INeverSaidItWasPoison reveals]] that she wasn't talking about Cayman Island Federal. Caught with admitting that he did, he makes a deal to give Jet the decryption key for a lighter sentence.

* NotSoDifferent: Bell and Nova share a moment at church, and tells her that she can understand her loss as she lost someone very important to her too (referring to Gina). She also reveals to Nova that she has a lawyer for a wife (Nova's husband is a respectable businessman).

* DepravedHomosexual: Albi is a violent lieutenant who runs the KO mob with an iron fist. He's also gay and is willing to kill to keep this a secret since it would ruin his position within the mob.

* DepravedHomosexual: Albi is a violent gay Albanian mobster who is willing to kill in order to ensure that his homosexuality remains a tightly kept secret.

* YouJustToldMe: While trying to break Malachi, Jet tells him that she's aware of some of his hack jobs, including the Cayman Island hack. Malachi rants that he hacked Cayman Island Federal as a TakeThat to the "man". Jet reveals that she wasn't talking about Cayman Island Federal. Caught with admitting that he did, he makes a deal to give Jet the decryption key for a lighter sentence.

* YouJustToldMe: While trying to break Malachi, Jet tells him that she's aware of some of his hack jobs, including the Cayman Island hack. Malachi reveals that he hacked Cayman Island Federal as a TakeThat to the "man". Jet reveals that she wasn't talking about Cayman Island Federal. Caught with admitting that he did, he makes a deal to give Jet the decryption key for a lighter sentence.

** Albi is gay. At the start of the episode, he asks Stalber to bury a body in secret, which is not the normal KO procedure. Stabler leads the body to the OCCB to be ID. The man turned out to be a petty crook named Tristan. Stabler initially thought he was Flutura's lover, but Flutura reveals that she doesn't know him and that Albi never spends time with her. Stabler then tails Albi to a gay club. Albi catches him and then takes him to an undisclosed spot in order to kill him. Stabler then puts it together that Tristan was Albi's lover and Abli reveals that he killed him because he was about to out him as gay (which is a huge taboo subject in Albanian culture).

** We learn that Nova is short for Cassanova and that her real name is Carmen Riley.
* SecretKeeper: Stabler gets suspicious when Albi asks him to get rid of a body in secret. It turns out the man that Stabler buried was a petty theft named Tristan. Stabler initially thinks that Tristan was Flutura's lover but she admits that she doesn't know who Tristian is. He then follows Albi to a gay club, realizing that Albi is gay (which is a big taboo subject in Albanian culture) and that Tristan was his lover - Albi killed him because he was about to out him as gay. Albi catches him and takes him out to dig his own grave, but Stabler convinces him that he will keep Albi's secret, saying that he's strictly business and will protect his secret with his life.

* VillianRespect: Malachi compliments Jet's hacking skills as someone who can rival his.