Final night time’s episode of NBC’s Legislation & Order opened with a raid on a church-based homeless shelter by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). And it solely bought worse – and extra leftwing – from there.
The episode, “Play with Hearth (Half 1),” a crossover episode with Legislation & Order: SVU, started with an unlawful named Ana (Marisela Zumbado) whispering to a different girl, Maria (Dani Montalvo), about an obvious sexual assault. As the 2 girls are speaking, ICE all of the sudden rushes in.
Ana: At that warehouse, on 169th. However I–I do not need to discuss it anymore. I do not need to get in hassle.
Maria: What are you speaking about? Why would you get in hassle?
ICE Agent: United States Immigration and Customs!
Illegals: Ice!
ICE Agent: All people get down on the ground!
Maria: Ana, run!
ICE Brokers: Keep the place you might be. Get within the center! Get within the center! Freeze!
Priest: Settle down. Decelerate. Weapons down! Weapons down! Decelerate.
ICE Brokers: Freeze! Go, go, go. Keep the place you might be! [Indistinct shouts] Federal agent! Cease operating! Cease!
Maria: Ana, come on.
NYPD Officer: Cease! Police!
Maria: Go!
NYPD Officers: Cease! NYPD!
Ana: Oh, my God. ♪ ♪ [truck horn blaring]
Maria: Let’s go. [Brakes screeching] [Horn honks]
ICE Agent: I bought two operating westbound, 159th Avenue.
Later, Maria is discovered raped and murdered at a close-by warehouse. It seems she was an undercover cop investigating a intercourse trafficking ring that lures unlawful immigrants.
Maria’s case shares the identical modus operandi and placement as one other rape and homicide just a few years earlier. Detectives examine an unlawful immigrant who fled to Mexico whereas beneath suspicion within the first case. He has snuck again over the border once more. NYPD finds him with cocaine and heroin, however he has an alibi for each murders and is eliminated as a suspect.
As a substitute, the rapist-murderer seems to be a foul cop, Maria’s lieutenant who used his energy to achieve management over girls within the shelter. So, a police lieutenant is the villain reasonably than an unlawful with a prison historical past who re-entered the nation.
The “dangerous cop” trope is drained and the opening scene’s portrayal of ICE is heavy-handed. Nonetheless, this Legislation & Order crossover deserves some credit score for a minimum of acknowledging the connection between open borders and intercourse trafficking. That alone is extra actuality than community tv is often keen to confess.
