It was a beautiful Friday night in New York City, one where everyone is out at the bars or taking a walk in the park. The air was still, still enough for the sounds of a scream to be heard for miles. So why did no one hear her scream?
"A woman was found in central park, her body was heavily mutilated, and her body was exposed making us believe that she was sexually assaulted." Cragen tells his team.
"Well only one way to find out" Stabler says as he begins to walk out of the squad room. Benson immediately follows as they head down to the crime scene.
As they walk towards the scene they are met by their main medical examiner.
"22 year old female, Her name is Rebecca Smith, she has multiple lacerations on her body many which were lethal, also her fingers were cut off and by the looks of the healing around the wounds it seems like she was still alive when they did this to her. I will give you more information once I perform a full autopsy." She says as she walks towards the medical examiners truck.
"Why cut off the fingers?" Benson asks as they walk closer to the body. The smell of death was fresh in the air around the body.
"Maybe it's the guy's way of making sure they have no way to escape." Stabler says as they reach the body. "Liv check this out." He says as he pushes the woman's brown hair away from her shoulder.
"What is it?" Benson asks as she looks closely.
"It's a stab wound but look at this, it's almost as if they are tally marks." He says as he stares at the wound on her body.
"There are three of them" Benson says quietly.
"He's back." Stabler whispers as he stands up slowly.
"What are you talking about Elliot?" Benson asks cautiously.
"Do you remember the case a few weeks ago where a 22 year old girl was found dead in an alleyway? We never caught the guy who did that. The girl who was found was killed in almost the exact way but this time her eyes were missing. She had two wounds on her shoulder in the exact place this girl does." Stabler says with rage in his voice.
"What does that mean?" Benson asks.
"It means that son of a bitch is going to kill again."
