YMMV / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S6 E2 "Debt"

• Complete Monster:
  • Ricky Yao is the smug leader of a Snakehead gang in New York's Chinatown who facilitates the illegal immigration of people from China. Immigrants Yao imports are forced into debt and face beatings and threats to their lives and the lives of family members if they can't pay Yao, who is a suspect in three murders and several assaults but has avoided prosecution due to witnesses disappearing or being intimidated into silence. If the immigrants, are caught Yao has lawyer Roger Baker file asylum claims and Yao pays for their release, leaving them in debt to him. Yao also forces hundreds of women to work as prostitutes for him, with at least 20 of them being killed in the process. Yao forced a teenager named Ping Wu into prostitution then murdered her mother Jiao when she threatened to go to the police. Yao then beat Jiao's sister Li Mei nearly to death and threatened to kill her, Ping, and Ping's younger siblings if she didn't pay off Jiao's debt. When arrested for extortion, Yao taunts the police about Ping and orders his gang to kill her.
  • Roger Baker is a seemingly friendly lawyer who is in reality Ricky Yao's partner in his criminal operation. If Yao's immigrants are caught, Baker would file asylum claims for them and have Yao pay for their release, leaving the immigrants in debt to Yao under threat of death. Baker is also the supplier of Yao's whorehouses with hundreds of women, some as young as 15, being forced into prostitution under his supervision, where many of them are abused and murdered.