After Karen escapes her captors, and she and Foley begin their recollision course, there are moments so good they made me sad that I wasn't more emotionally invested in the story. But in the end, Karen Sisco and Jack Foley are bundles of contradictions impossible to resolve into believable human beings. They seem to be constantly going in and out of character. It would be nice to say that they are pulled out of their personalities by the profound influence of each other, but first you'd have to accept that a career outlaw and a Federal officer would have such tenuous grasps on their own identities. But it's only a possibility, and a slight one at that.
Writers have to make it real.