This episode first aired right after the first airing of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Return Of The Prodigal Son", which provides a little background for this episode.
Detective Elliot Stabler, now a member of an elite organized crime task force, relocates to New York after years of absence and works to take down a crime family who has been selling fake N95 respirators and personal protection equipment overseas while searching for the people responsible for his wife's murder.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Downer Beginning: The entire show begins following the fallout of Kathy Stabler's death.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: Richard Wheatley is estranged from his father due the latter's racism against his black wife.
- Self-Made Orphan: Richard Wheatley kills his father to claim his part of the Italian mafia.
