Organized crime? Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio explains Twist

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 Episode 5 “Lago D’Averno.”]

Isabella Spezzano (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) takes the matter in your own hands (um, finger?) In the Law & order: organized crime Episode that fell on Peacock on Thursday, May 8th.

It was a family matter in her house when her brother, who posed someone in prison in Italy, appeared to kill her grandson Roman (Alberto Frezza), who was not well after she was shot in season 5 episode 4. Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) appeared to help, just that Isabella was still killed … or so he thought first. (A positive ID was difficult due to the scale of the shot on her face.) But when she was with the forensic doctor (welcome back, Tamara Tunie!)

At the bottom, Mary Elizabeth's Mastrantonio reacts to this turn, thinks about the future of her character and much more. (At least for the moment this was her last episode, she says.)

First, I was like shocking turn, Isabella is dead. Then it turns out that she lives and it will be more a fun turn. How was your reaction?

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio: Well, it's great, but I think I have to say at the time: “Wait, I'm overwhelmed by this woman. Wait a minute, wait a minute. At first I raise horses, so I would say that I have one or two muscles. Second, okay, but I'll take it with you.” It was great. It's fun. She is somewhere.

She must know that Stabler would recognize that she is still alive due to the finger. What did she think?

I think she thought that the only way is this goal when I disappear and he doesn't need to know, and then I will not burden him. I don't endanger him if nobody knows where I am. But you can't really prove this because he could always say, I don't know where it is. But if you do not give any information, then do not liability, no co -sworn or whatever. So she just works.

What can you say about what you are going to do?

I don't know what she's up to. I think she tries to keep her remaining grandchildren alive and only to end this whole thing. I mean, she cannot end the entire organized crime. It is not one for that. She tries to save her granddaughter, God knows what the older boy was doing more. And at a certain point in time you only have to come for them once if they know where they are. She should have entered the witness protection program, but she has imposed her own witness protection herself. It will just go.

Isabella doesn't know that it was Eli (Nicky Torchia), especially that shot Pietro (Luca Rickman), right? Because she says it is the police, but she accuses her brother. So it seems that she is not kept sick or his son if she knew it, right?

I don't know. She knows? She doesn't know. He didn't tell her.

Yes. It feels at least up to this point, Isabella and Stabler's dynamics are just as friendly as to consider everything. Would you agree?

I agree. He needs her professionally and she only needs him – it is the only decision she allowed in her life, apart from whether she actually killed her husband or not. I think she just caught. But the only decision that is unintentionally allowed in her life is to get out of Italy and go with the Feds, actually try to try to get out of it with the Americans. Otherwise nothing will change. And they will all go anyway. So everyone is accepted into this family of crime, Bla, Bla, Bla. So she says, well, let's go. We are all in there. And maybe even in their most pragmatic what people tend to be just as pragmatic. Then I will just try something else. So that does it and it begins to fall. And the only way out is that everyone thinks that it is dead.

What do you imagine, the dynamics between Isabella and Stabler will be like the next crossing of the paths?

Well, it's interesting. I never really thought about it. There is a part of me who wishes that she would or think, maybe it is only best if one day she knew where he was all the time and he had no idea where she was, and that he was finally over the Madison Square Park or wherever they are, and then everything they are, and then disappears and disappears. Or he thinks he sees her, well, he actually does it and then she just disappears. So she follows him. That would be interesting.

So we won't see you again this season?

No, I only did three. That was my contract. If there were four, I might have said no. It's been so long for so long, I have to tell you if people only knew it. I was on the set one day and thought, do you know what? When you work on television, look in this large room, it is organized, it is clean, but it is as if you are sitting in the dark but clean garage for 12 hours in the dark. That is what to work on TV. You are on the set and it's great and you are in this chair and there are things everywhere and there are people and you just keep going like this little machine. It's long, long days.

Talk about working with Christopher.

He is great. He is great. He is so committed – well, I always take the franchise. He did most of his career and he loves his family and he likes everyone nearby. He is very respectful. He is not a chat box – nobody has this kind of energy during the day, but it is also very funny. I mean, just really funny. And it's great to be with together, just to be great and always think. Will this make sense? Will that make sense? And just sticks to it. God bless him.

This will give Roman evidence against the Camorra. How could Isabella feel about it? Because I have the feeling that their feelings for him are the most complicated of all grandchildren.

Yes. Well, if he does it, he should. I mean, that's all that is left, and she did that. So we will either do ourselves, we are either all in or not. And I don't know what she believes that he will do it. He can just stay tight over everything and that's okay because she will have gone and he can take care of his sister.

Who would you say is the most dangerous family member? Isabella was worried about her brother, but I assume that she is actually.

Well, that's very interesting now. I think she really knows how ruthless you can be. So she is more than ready to meet her. How deep they go, she is ready to go there because this is the only way to stop it. Otherwise she leaves the children – and she left the children vulnerable anyway, which is the sad part. It didn't work quite, but it will move – I don't know. She will live quietly in one place.

What was your favorite scene for the film?

There was a scene in [Stabler’s] Apartment what is so and I don't even know whether – it's funny because I think you have changed one of the lines, which would have been the reason why she was in his apartment. And I thought why did she appear in his apartment at 10 a.m.? This is strange, boys, but I just like to sit on Chris, just share lines, share thoughts and information, and it was just nice. It was quiet.

How much experience did you ride before?

Sometimes I have a dream that I'm still on this damn horse. I don't know why I had to be on a horse. I actually had to drive years ago. I had to charge a horse. I have never been sore in my life. I couldn't go up the steps of my house. I couldn't get up the steps. But then I was fine. Now as an elderly person without hormones, I'm afraid of it. I love her. It is the only animal I ever wanted. But I know better than believing that I know horses. Yes, I should never be on a horse again. [Laughs]

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