Here’s ‘The Catch’ — sleek thriller on ABC

Better heads prevailed, including producer Shonda Rhimes and creators Jennifer Schuur and Helen Gregory, who gave Alice Vaughan (Enos) and the script a sassy makeover.

Alice and Ben Jones (Peter Krause) look like a walking magazine cover when they’re together, and she’s trying on wedding dresses.

For a moment, Alice is thrown off her game, but as she gets back on track with her career, she’s determined to track Ben down and get her money back.

The pilot episode is fast-paced and gleaming, a kind of “To Catch a Thief” for the 21st century.

At that point, it may occur to you that if Alice is so great in her job, why would she have had not even the slightest doubt about Ben’s identity before he took her for a ride?

[...] it probably won’t matter.

David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle.