A suspicious House fire, an Amber alert during a carjacking and Fatal car crash caused by texting while driving introduce the members of LAPD Downtown, Station 77 and Trauma One.
Stacey's abusive father appears out of nowhere. Sgt Mandell gets involved in an elder abuse situation and station 77 rescue a trapped hiker with a broken leg, attend a multiple vehicle freeway smash and rescue a young boy out of a drain.
A port worker hears banging on a storage container and calls out Rescue 77 and Engine 77 to break in. Immigrants from the far east have been left to die in squalid conditions.