I enjoyed watching this. The plot was acceptable, the acting was generally good and the characters interesting. There were moments of genuine tension and drama and the story moved at a decent pace.
On the downside, there were elements of the plot that were unbelievable.
Firstly an all-powerful gang of crooks spend several hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment/vehicles/weapons, kill several people and spend 10 years of their lives in prison in the relentless pursuit of a ruby worth maybe a few million bucks?
Secondly, they are able to get video and listening devices into state hospitals and apartment buildings, they can identify and extort multiple sophisticated targets and commit unsolved murders yet they can't find out roughly where a specific John Doe was buried, despite having the exact time and date of death and knowledge that the coffin was uniquely numbered. Presumably they are numbered as part of a records system. Surely an average PI would have been able to cross reference the coroner/city morgue records with the Hart Island records to match the disposal of the 'John Doe', the transfer to the city undertakers and hence to the numbered coffin and the grave site?
Thirdly, given the gang was all locked away in prison, who was it that was harassing and intimidating Elisabeth for all those years and just how did they know that the ruby was still in the doll and that she had put the doll into her father's coffin? They were arrested at the time of killing her father so how did they know that, while they were imprisoned, orphan Elisabeth placed the doll in a coffin on a ferry, witnessed only by two grave diggers, and that the doll still contained the ruby? Sure they may have, for some reason, happened upon the news article of her being found on Hart Island, and then, despite the fact that she was not named, associated that event with the child of the man they killed, but, even if one accepts this unlikely scenario, why would they think that her being found on Hart Island automatically meant that she had somehow put a doll inside his coffin AND that the doll contained the ruby (a fact which even Elisabeth was unaware of).
So unless I missed something, the whole 10 year hunt for a grave/coffin number should have had no logical basis.
On the downside, there were elements of the plot that were unbelievable.
Firstly an all-powerful gang of crooks spend several hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment/vehicles/weapons, kill several people and spend 10 years of their lives in prison in the relentless pursuit of a ruby worth maybe a few million bucks?
Secondly, they are able to get video and listening devices into state hospitals and apartment buildings, they can identify and extort multiple sophisticated targets and commit unsolved murders yet they can't find out roughly where a specific John Doe was buried, despite having the exact time and date of death and knowledge that the coffin was uniquely numbered. Presumably they are numbered as part of a records system. Surely an average PI would have been able to cross reference the coroner/city morgue records with the Hart Island records to match the disposal of the 'John Doe', the transfer to the city undertakers and hence to the numbered coffin and the grave site?
Thirdly, given the gang was all locked away in prison, who was it that was harassing and intimidating Elisabeth for all those years and just how did they know that the ruby was still in the doll and that she had put the doll into her father's coffin? They were arrested at the time of killing her father so how did they know that, while they were imprisoned, orphan Elisabeth placed the doll in a coffin on a ferry, witnessed only by two grave diggers, and that the doll still contained the ruby? Sure they may have, for some reason, happened upon the news article of her being found on Hart Island, and then, despite the fact that she was not named, associated that event with the child of the man they killed, but, even if one accepts this unlikely scenario, why would they think that her being found on Hart Island automatically meant that she had somehow put a doll inside his coffin AND that the doll contained the ruby (a fact which even Elisabeth was unaware of).
So unless I missed something, the whole 10 year hunt for a grave/coffin number should have had no logical basis.