LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME: A Rita Lasku Refresher

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME — “Missing Persons” Episode 405 — Pictured: (l-r) Reed Diamond as Noah Cahill, Izabela Vidovic as Rita Lasku, Bernard Burlew as Frank — (Photo by: Scott Gries/NBC)

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME kicks off a new arc with the Thursday, February 22 episode, “Missing Persons,” and at the center of the mystery is a young woman from Elliot Stabler’s (Christopher Meloni) past: Rita Lasku (Izabela Vidovic).

In the hour, Rita goes missing, and Stabler—who is currently suspended from the NYPD, pending an IAB investigation, after disarming the kid who shot Bell (Danielle Moné Truitt)—has to figure out where she may have gone…and who might have her.

Though viewers heard Rita leave Stabler a voicemail in the season 4 premiere (asking him to call her back, if he could), the bulk of her storyline was in season 2 during the Albanian arc.

Here are the highlights from her first run on the series… Read more