Dead To Rights

Surprisingly brutal for a network TV presentation, this crime drama is saddled with a central domestic father-daughter dilemma that isn't nearly as engrossing as the ritual murder case that the father and daughter detectives must solve. Dampened by the overrated "sincerity" of star Dana Delany, DEAD TO RIGHTS occasionally transcends its serial killer subgenre.

At loggerheads with her father, Sgt. Donato (Charles Bronson), over the mystery-shrouded death of her brother, Tommy, superior officer Dina Donato (Dana Delany) doesn't leap at the chance to add her dad to her task force to solve a string of nun slayings. Unable to flush the smug killer out, the baffled d...