Despite the good effort of actress Erica Durance in carrying this made-for-television thriller, the overall effect was nearly comical in some of the plot revelations and character developments.
Durance plays an assistant DA whose career was boosted with a guilty verdict of a man accused of murdering his wife. In the sensational murder trial, Meg Washington convinced the jury of the man's guilt despite no murder weapon or body. It was not until eight years later that the woman's body was discovered. At that moment, the case is reopened, and the skeletons begin to emerge out of the closet of the DA's office.
The filmmakers attempt to create tension with multiple murder suspects, but the narrative becomes mind-numbingly unconvincing. There is also the attempt to weave in a romantic intrigue when Meg starts up an affair with a cub reporter, who becomes her lead investigator.
The defining moment of this film occurs in a large freezer in an old restaurant formerly owned by the murder victim and her husband, who is the murder suspect and was convicted of the crime. Meg decides to break into the restaurant at night to search for clues. After discovering a bag of money in the amount of $500,000, Meg is knocked to the ground apparently by an intruder. She then escapes to a small room that turns out to be restaurant's freezer compartment! Meg starts to shiver because the freezer is somehow still operative. When it appears as though she might freeze to death, she is rescued by the young male reporter. She then treats him with contempt until he starts bringing her important clues. At that point, they begin their love affair. The film never bothers to explain who or why the murderer would stash a half million dollars in cash in an old deserted restaurant. Nor does it explain why was paying the electrical bills to keep that freezer running. Wow!
The freezer scene, along with many other semi-comical sequences, leads one to sum up the action of this film in a single word: Preposterous!
Durance plays an assistant DA whose career was boosted with a guilty verdict of a man accused of murdering his wife. In the sensational murder trial, Meg Washington convinced the jury of the man's guilt despite no murder weapon or body. It was not until eight years later that the woman's body was discovered. At that moment, the case is reopened, and the skeletons begin to emerge out of the closet of the DA's office.
The filmmakers attempt to create tension with multiple murder suspects, but the narrative becomes mind-numbingly unconvincing. There is also the attempt to weave in a romantic intrigue when Meg starts up an affair with a cub reporter, who becomes her lead investigator.
The defining moment of this film occurs in a large freezer in an old restaurant formerly owned by the murder victim and her husband, who is the murder suspect and was convicted of the crime. Meg decides to break into the restaurant at night to search for clues. After discovering a bag of money in the amount of $500,000, Meg is knocked to the ground apparently by an intruder. She then escapes to a small room that turns out to be restaurant's freezer compartment! Meg starts to shiver because the freezer is somehow still operative. When it appears as though she might freeze to death, she is rescued by the young male reporter. She then treats him with contempt until he starts bringing her important clues. At that point, they begin their love affair. The film never bothers to explain who or why the murderer would stash a half million dollars in cash in an old deserted restaurant. Nor does it explain why was paying the electrical bills to keep that freezer running. Wow!
The freezer scene, along with many other semi-comical sequences, leads one to sum up the action of this film in a single word: Preposterous!