Organized Crime? How Did He Die?
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Samir Bashir’s time on the task force was short-lived. The newly promoted detective joined Law & Order: Organized Crime early on in Season 4, but he’s already off the show. What happened to Samir Bashir on Law & Order: Organized Crime? Keep reading to find out.
Law & Order: Organized Crime is the sixth spin-off in Wolf’s Law & Order franchise. It follows SVU‘s Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) as he returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after his wife’s murder. The series first premiered in 2021 and also stars Rick Gonzalez as Detective Bobby Reyes, Danielle Moné Truitt as Sargeant Ayanna Bell and Ainsley Seiger as Detective Jet Slootmaekers.
Detective Jamie Whelan (Brent Antonella) was tragically killed off in the Season 3 finale and the question of who will replace him has been a focal point of Season 4. Samir Bashir (played by Abubakar Ali) was brought in during Episode 2 as a potential replacement for Whelan. He was previously a police officer in the NYPD’s hate crimes unit and first crossed paths with the Organized Crime task force while investigating the murder of a Muslim religious leader. Following his promotion to detective in Episode 4, Samir joined the Task Force full time, to the dismay of Reyes who was still mourning Whelan’s death. Samir’s time on the team was cut short, though. We have everything there is to know about Samir Bashir’s departure below.
What happened to Samir Bashir on Law & Order: Organized Crime?
What happened to Samir Bashir on Law & Order: Organized Crime? Shortly after he was made a detective, Samir went missing while on family leave. His wife Stacy, who was about to welcome their second child, informed the team of his disappearance in Episode 9. “Sam is missing. I think something’s happened to him,” she told his co-workers.
The squad then learned that Samir was last seen at a bakery in Queens and was forced into an SVU by two men. Meanwhile, Stabler was undercover at a honey farm on Staten Island that was secretly distributing heroin. At the end of the episode, Stabler found himself in the back of a truck with a dead body.
In Episode 10, viewers learned through Stabler’s flashbacks that the body was, sadly, Samir’s. Viewers also learned that Stabler buried him on the farm, so as not to blow his cover. He then revealed Samir’s death during a support group for vets, which Bell also attended as an undercover, struggling veteran. “We don’t know how or when, but one of our members was killed, and I was the one who found him,” Stabler told the group, subtly letting his team know that Samir was dead. “I wound up burying him on enemy soil. He just wanted to get back to his wife and child and unborn baby … I still think about that unborn baby.” Jet, Reyes and Bell all looked shocked when they realized what he was trying to tell them.
The show then went on a one-week hiatus, but a new episode airs on May 2. It will likely focus on the team mourning the death of yet another detective, and the question of who will sit in Whelan’s old desk still remains.
Samir was played by Abubakar Ali, who is relatively new at acting. He has a starring role in the Billy Porter-directed rom-com Anything’s Possible and has appeared in Power Book II: Ghost, Katy Keene and The Walking Dead: World Beyond. He also became the first Arab Muslim actor to lead a comic book adaptation when he was cast as Hunter Rose/Grendel in Netflix’s upcoming series Grendel.
Law & Order: Organized Crime airs on NBC on Thursdays at 10 pm EST and streams on Peacock.
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