Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Detective Eliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are called to the scene of a crime where an investigative journalist has been found dead in her bed with an X carved into her cheek. Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) recognizes the killer's tactics from a similar case thirty years earlier, when the Bedtime Butcher murdered five women in the Bronx.
