Okay, let's keep in mind some constants in Dick Wolf's Law and Order universe. One is the dearth of Asian American regular characters or even ones who are presented in positive ways. Here, the two we get to see are pushed around by the White and Black detectives in the same way Black characters used to be pushed around by the White ones in old TV shows and movies. Oh, Dicky, what is it you have against Asian Americans?
The other is a more recent element, which is to say the shows have shifted from being pretty good police procedurals to soap operas of one kind or another. On Law and Order: SVU, the cops are also sleeping with and making babies with one another, for instance. For a show that claims to be about protecting victims of sexual abuse and harassment, that one sure does have bosses and underlings hopping into bed with each other all the time like it's okay.
Law and Order: Organized Crime boldly goes where the TV show Wiseguy went 35 years ago, except it did it better. Those episodes about a cop going undercover to take down the mob were genuinely interesting and suspenseful. LO: OC is more about people posing a lot and looking intense. Sure, they run around all the time and race the clock for one reason or another, but not much really happens -- at the end of each episode, you feel like you're no further along than the last time.
That's the situation with tonight's episode. Lots of plot, no story. There's some stuff about cyberwarfare, with the pale, strange, and I'm assuming autistic The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo wannabe making a lot of snotty, smartalecky remarks, as usual. It's a shame because the cast is pretty good overall. They just don't get much to do.