Marc Damon Johnson

A young boy is found wandering alone in Central Park and the search for his parents leads to startling evidence of a planned mass casualty event in the city. As the SVU works with the joint terrorism task force to find the suspects and the motive, Lt. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) must also convince Barba (Raúl Esparza) to address allegations of rape and torture the boy's mother discloses.

When a driver for a ridesharing company is intentionally run over by a city cab, Holmes and Watson wonder if it's a case of professional jealousy. Meanwhile, a casual romance Holmes has with one of his longtime "Irregular" consultants (Anastasia Griffith) becomes complicated when the woman makes a shocking request.

The detectives believe that someone is murdering hospital patients and find that tainted medication is leading to the deaths.

When an unknown entity prevents The Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends the team five separate numbers to help them piece together the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Root’s team of hackers arrives in New York.

With deployment around the corner, the families are all struggling in their own ways. Denise and Frank find out the sex of the baby. Joan has a particularly hard time dealing with her recovering and inability to deploy with her unit. Pamela explores the idea of dating again.