Average, but good, episode that advanced the plot of OCCB's pursuit of Quan and his criminal organization. Stabler makes a connection with a father, Wen Shao, from China looking for his kidnapped son who was smuggled to NYC to be auctioned off as an indentured servant. It shows Stabler having a rare moment of true empathy with a victim, as Stabler himself knows what its like to be a father with a child in danger. There's even a funny moment when Stabler chastises Wen for loosing control when questioning a suspect about his son's whereabouts, which is a tad hypocritical since if it were Stabler's son (or anyone close to him) that was being held captive he would have torn that room to pieces and worked the suspect over good to get what he wanted, wouldn't be the first time he's done something like that. Would like to respond to the other review that accuses the series of being biases against Asian Americans by showing them as a stereotype of gangsters and smuggled immigrants. Well the simple fact is that NYC has several large Asian gangs, the Triads being one of the largest and wealthiest criminal organizations in the world and one of their main rackets besides smuggling drugs is smuggling illegal immigrants. But there have been plenty of Asian characters in the L&O franchise that are shown in a wide variety of vocations and stations. Plus both this series and the franchise have shown gangs of every race and practically every ethnicity, because there is no one race or ethnicity that has a monopoly on gangs and I think they have all been represented fairly. There's been African, African American, American, Chinese, Cuban, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Latino, Mexican, South American and many other ethnic gangs shown. In fact the other reviewer mentions that Irish Americans have not had similar portrayals, yet most of this season dealt with the OCCB going after an Irish gang, plus the same Italian gang from the previous season, and they included all the typical Irish and Italian stereotypes, every race and culture has them and I think L&O has always been fair about showing them all equally.