This story could have been a gem: It's not often that we are presented with a big chunk of Jessica's personal life or family history. True, there is intrigue aplenty. Yet the script's underlying moral messages - that A) exposing corruption every step of the way is a sure-fire method for climbing the ladder in public office; and 2) our loved ones must have a 100% unblemished record of past behavior before we can truly love them - ring rather naive and hollow. They also serve to preclude any genuine, let alone sinister, surprises in how the tale disentangles itself. Overall, this is good viewing, which would have been better, had the authors taken a few risks and delved into some real gray zones of right vs. wrong. Especially as that was in many ways the hallmark of good 1990s' television.