This very mediocre episode ranks towards the lower middle to bottom of the season. After 2 rather good and enjoyable episodes, this one is a strange choice for a finale. As another reviewer points out, the plot is extremely cliché, recycling storylines already used in many other shows and movies, even already used within this series itself. The trope of a young woman reliving a traumatizing death for some reason kept reminding me of one from Fantasy Island with Melissa Sue Anderson. That show is much more campy cheese than MSW but they pulled this off way better.
Sure the plot is lame and too melodramatic, the simplistic mystery even worse, but my biggest issue was the dead eyed, amateurish, generic cast, with a couple obvious exceptions. Perhaps with a different cast and direction, this script could have worked. The women especially were grating and unlikeable, most of all the one playing the lead.
Even the overly beige, generically ugly sets and costumes grated. This is one of many episodes that in no way feel or look like they actually take place in New York. Once again, the poor, cheap setting kept pulling me out of the story and had me again wondering why they bothered. Just set the NY stories someplace like LA and be done with it. That was always such a bad move on behalf of the show.
This season should have ended with Another Killing in Cork. This episode plays like a mid-season filler and is best forgotten.