An amnesiac sentenced to death row for a murder she can't remember committing gets recruited to be part of a secret experimental unit of the FBI's unsolved crimes division.

A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society. While barely seeing his girlfriend Nancy anymore, the work starts changing him.