D'Onofrio's investigative skills are impressive as usual, but this segment concerning euthanasia is quite dry and mostly quite dull. Given the controversial nature of the subject, the writing here falls into the "like walking on eggshells" school of broadcasting -tame as could be, rather than dramatizing a sensitive subject.
The subdued acting, led off by the characteristically low-key approach of John Savage, which has served him in good stead in so many fine performances in a large number of prominent movies (see for example "The Deer Hunter", where he properly is part of the ensemble, overshadowed by Walken and the superstars), is boring.
The big scene of D'Onofrio "interviewing" the woman in a vegetative state to uncover the guilt of the murderer of a doctor is extremely hokey.
And in hindsight, the script's discussion of fentanyl is the opposite of prescient, it being treated as just another painkiller that was used as the murder weapon via overdose, but with no hint of what we know decades later has become one of the deadliest of all chemicals in wide circulation.