The 118 races to rescue a little girl in a runaway hot air balloon and help with a city power outage caused by a hijacked tree-trimmer truck; Athena's investigation into the serial rapist case puts her life in jeopardy.
When a 15-year-old who was part of a group of kids who put a transgender teen in the hospital is tried as an adult, the SVU team wonders whether the punishment fits the crime.
Lydia and Reuben search for a killer who cooked a man's body; John and Lucero have a day filled with strange calls; Ben and Sammy respond to a bank robbery.