Chaos reigns in LA when a city-wide blackout and a record breaking heat wave hits. The 118 are on call until the blackout is fixed. Jeffery escapes again and this time he takes Harry as a hostage as revenge against Athena.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Artistic License – Animal Care: Zoos have better things to spend their funding on than electronic locking systems for their cages and exhibits. A cyberattack against a zoo might scramble its recordkeeping and shut down its veterinary facilities, but would not release animals from cages, which are locked with conventional latches and keys.
- Big Blackout: The city is still dealing with the blackout.
- Big Disaster Plot: The rescue services must deal with the aftermath of a city-wide blackout and a record breaking heatwave.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Athena coming home to find that Jeffrey Hudson has kidnapped her son.
- Delicate and Sickly: May deals with a call from a mother that has a child on a ventilator, her back up battery runs out and with the power out she is unable to keep the ventilator running.
- Immediate Sequel: This episode takes place mere moments after the last episode with the 118 rescuing the pilots of the medivac helicopter and the heart they were transporting.
- Impersonating an Officer: How Jeffrey Hudson gets through a roadblock, having stolen Det. Lou Ransone badge when he dumped his body.
- Internal Reveal: Chimney reveals to Hen that Maddie is suffering from postpartum depression.
- Left for Dead: After having his throat slashed, Lou’s unconscious body is dumped by Jeffrey Hudson and his lawyer, luckily he is found by some passing kids.
- Multipart Episode: Second episode of a three-episode arc.
- Shout-Out: To Jurassic Park
- SWAT Team: Is used with the search for the escaped Jeffery Hudson.
- Talking with Signs: After having his throat slashed and having a stroke, Det. Lou communicates with Athena and the doctors with a pen and paper.
- Trauma Button: Once again, Eddie begins to suffer from the start of a panic attack with Ravi calls Ana his wife.
