Get Ready for a Brother’s Ultimate Sacrifice: Stabler Kidnaps Joe Jr. in ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’

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Ever since Detective Elliot Stabler’s younger brother, Joe Jr., reappeared in his life, a shadow of danger followed him. Joe Jr., struggling with heroin addiction, was entangled with Julian Emery, a notorious arms and drug dealer known as Redcoat, who was responsible for the death of one of Stabler’s own detectives.

Driven by the desire to save his brother from this dangerous path, Stabler, along with his other brother Randall, took a desperate measure – they kidnapped Joe Jr. The scene was intense: Joe was forced off the road, subdued, his head covered, and ultimately locked up in Stabler’s apartment.  “Are you trying to get me killed?” Joe Jr.  asked, fear lacing his voice. “We’re trying to get you clean,” Stabler replied, his voice firm yet filled with anguish.

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A Past Haunted by Addiction

The roots of Joe Jr.’s association with Emery ran deep. A flashback to 2020 revealed their fateful meeting in an army bar in Kabul, Afghanistan, where Joe Jr. was serving and battling heroin addiction.  He was drawn into a fight defending a stranger, who turned out to be Emery, against a local warlord. Arrested and dishonorably discharged, Joe Jr. found himself vulnerable.