I didn't know it was a remake, either; I look forward to seeing the original since it's held in such high esteem.
You mean to tell me she let her friend search for a guy that she had trapped in her house for 13 years?
She had no idea that Ray had continued to search for Marzin through the years, she was quite surprised when he told her that he had been looking at roughly a thousand images each and every night. She had no reason to believe he was pursuing the case because he had moved away to work in security for the New York Mets. She was unaware that he was especially invested in the case because he was supposed to meet her daughter that very morning at the bakery but didn't go; his sense of guilt must have been unfathomable.
And then when he found out, he wasn't even upset, he starts to dig her a burial hole for him.
That may not have been my response, but back at the time, he had offered to actually kill Marzin, back in the elevator scene, so it was clear he was willing to work outside of the law to seek justice for his partner and her daughter. At sure at some level he was upset at all the man-hours he'd spent on the case, but understood why Jess didn't volunteer that she was keeping Marzin in a cell at her new home.
On top of that, why wouldn't she say anything when he came back??? Not only did they waste their time and get hurt chasing after a dude, but another cop got killed and she never said let's call this off.
The first thing she told Ray was that she didn't want to pursue this. I guess she figured since it was obviously not Marzin (since she had the real Marzin), she thought it would fizzle out, so she didn't need to let them know she had imprisoned him. She didn't anticipate that Siefert would be killed during the pursuit of the false Marzin. Of course, the story tellers did a great job of making us not miss Siefert by showing his part in protecting Marzin from prosecution, and his heartless comment about not caring about Marzin's "dating habits" in reference to the rape and cold-blooded killing of the daughter of a co-worker.
Regarding Claire and Ray, she may have pined for Ray over the years, so much so that her husband was clearly aware, but sometimes these things just don't work out. She was politically ambitious with a Harvard background, and he was pissing off The Powers That Be in pursuit of Marzin, with a humble background. They just never pursued the relationship.
Overall, I thought it was a decent mystery, with a couple of twists I didn't see coming.
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