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Without a Trace Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Sep 26, 200241 mins
A young successful marketing executive goes missing. Although her life seems full of happiness and achievement on the outside, the team learns she is actually living a sad and lonely life full of drugs, family issues, and failed relationships. Martin has a serious lapse in judgment on his first day on the job.
Episode 2
Birthday Boy
Thu, Oct 3, 200250 mins
Mr. Freedman gave his doted son Gabe a ticket to meet in the baseball stadium as an eleventh birthday present, but the knave never arrived. The model pupil was atypically distracted, and sold the ticket with profit to a scalper, joined a dubious gang and got into unprecedented trouble raiding a shop where the owner got badly hurt. After Martin Fitzgerald's brilliant work sifting tips from the mostly useless public to help work out Gabe wasn't abducted or running away but going somewhere, actually in search of his biological father, having found out he's adopted, Martin is finally taken along on field mission. Gabe took off to Texas to his 'dad', but the real one, which his parents didn't even know, died years ago, so it's probably a pedophile trap.
Episode 3
He Saw, She Saw
Thu, Oct 10, 200250 mins
Duncan Muller was brutally knocked-down on site, yet is quickly treated as prime suspect by Malone, without proof, for the abduction of his wife Emily in their car from a parking lot, the witnesses being contradictory. Confusion about his clandestine attempt to rise and pay ransom complicates the theory it's about his ailing business, while the couple made up only just after a long crisis due to heir firstborn's demise. Martin however makes sense of the reconstruction, yielding another trail.
Episode 4
Between the Cracks
Thu, Oct 17, 200250 mins
The team is surprised no colleagues reported missing mall sales girl Eve Cleary but 1/3 quits that job within weeks, often like her without collecting the last pay check. She recently stopped volunteering at the parish soup kitchen, where student volunteer Chet Collins recognizes her under another name, Becky, as the team finds out Radowsky. An alleged stalker was a visitor from her Indiana home town, Brady Roberts. Even her nightlife buddy would be-model Rina Sanderson lies about their doing at Kosovar pimp and drug dealer Goran Davits's night club VIP lounge and afterwards, driven by his ex-con limo chauffeur to a 'couch casting'.
Episode 5
Suspect
Thu, Oct 24, 200244 mins
Andy Deaver, a student at the Spaulding Academy boarding school, goes missing after telling his mother he wanted to leave the school for good. Suspiscion instantly falls on head teacher Graham Spaulding, but the team have trouble pinning anything on him. Jack is forced to break the rules in a desperate attempt to save Andy's life.
Episode 6
Silent Partner
Thu, Oct 31, 200241 mins
Patrick Kent, vice-president of a huge New York company owned by his father-in-law, disappears in an airport in San Diego. He is apparently intending to fly home to New York from a business trip he took on a regular basis, but the team uncover a secret life which may suggest that he never intended to return to his old one.
Episode 7
Snatch Back
Thu, Nov 7, 200241 mins
Abby Buckman, the toddler daughter of an assistant district attorney, goes missing while in the park with her nanny. The team investigate every aspect of her parent's lives in a bid to uncover a motive for the disappearance, but they keep hitting a brick wall. After a red herring ransom call, they discover evidence that suggests Abby may not have been the real target of the kidnapper.
Episode 8
Little Big Man
Thu, Nov 14, 200260 mins
Against his better judgment and to no avail, Jack appeals to press contact to publicize, as foster pa Mike Ray demanded, the disappearance of his alleged model foster teen William Hope. He got decent grades and worked in a diner, where he was bullied by white street gang scum. However he left a small fortune in cash with his incorrigible sister, whose home minder 'set it aside'. Martin and Danny work out William was picked up by a car with his criminal brother Aaron and dragged along in a petty robbery, which must have an angle, actually several twists.
Episode 9
In Extremis
Thu, Nov 21, 200241 mins
Dr. Anwar Samir, a third year resident at a New York hospital suddenly goes missing following a disagreement with his superior and the rejection of a proposal by his girlfriend. Given his Saudi Arabian background, almost inevitably suspicions arise of terrorist links. Witnesses and colleagues begin to question past "suspicious" behaviour, and disagreement manifests within the team itself as to the presumption of guilt as the Joint Terrorism Task Force also becomes increasingly involved.
Episode 10
Midnight Sun
Thu, Dec 12, 200242 mins
A father and his young daughter go missing on the way to school. While initially suspecting that the father has been having an affair, when the team digs further into his background, they discover nothing is what it seems with this man. His true identity and the reason behind the disappearance is not revealed until they locate his daughter.
Episode 11
Maple Street
Thu, Jan 9, 200343 mins
The mayor of a New York state countryside small town where people lock cars nor houses had to call the FBI for the disappearance of a teenage school girl last seen at the school bus stop. While the team learns about the close community, the victim's confident friend also goes missing. The MO fits similar cases in other inconspicuous places roughly on a line, so it's feared the work of a traveling serial pedophile.
Episode 12
Underground Railroad
Thu, Jan 16, 200343 mins
Garage owner Paul Dobson's high-pregnant wife Cathy goes missing from hospital before the gynecologist can bring the urgent eclampsia diagnosis, which also threatens the unborn son's life. Paul's staff and junior brother-partner Richie exclude marital troubles, let alone abuse, but the team soon finds evidence. The trail leads from a cloaked hospital video character and her other gynecologist to a shelter and a whole 'underground network', which is infiltrated foolishly at Vivian's peril.
Episode 13
Hang on to Me
Thu, Jan 30, 200344 mins
Chet Collins, the man whose son went missing five years ago, whom Jack took a special interest in, has gone missing. They learn he may have found a new lead on his own and chose to pursue it on own and not tell Jack because the last time they spoke, Jack was not optimistic.
Episode 14
The Friendly Skies
Thu, Feb 6, 200344 mins
Flight attendant Linda Schmidt goes missing after leaving her apartment, supposedly heading to the airport to catch a late flight. Evidence found in her abandoned car suggests she may have fallen victim to a serial killer, but all is not as it seems.
Episode 15
There Goes the Bride
Thu, Feb 20, 200355 mins
Audrey Rose-Beckworth disappears on her wedding day. Evidence suggests that she has been abducted, but the team uncover a past tainted with drug abuse, and a one night stand prior to her wedding day. Somehow, everything relates to the groom's family, which whom she has a close connection, but the secrets run deep and family members are reluctant to reveal them.
Episode 16
Clare de Lune
Thu, Feb 27, 200341 mins
Mentally unstable teen Clare Metcalf goes missing from the institution where her father Lawrence , with whom she lived since her mother's death, had to place his daughter with suicidal tendencies. The team finds the institution desperately covers up as another scandal could see it closed.
Episode 17
Kam Li
Thu, Mar 13, 200343 mins
Bull Carver goes missing after a party held to mark his return to civilian life after retiring from the army. A grudge between Bull and his army buddies that goes back to a time when they were serving together abroad may be the cause of the missing man vanishing. Jack and his team must juggle the concept of military justice with their obligation to uncover the truth.
Episode 18
The Source
Thu, Apr 3, 200342 mins
A TV reporter goes missing shortly after filing a report with damaging information from an anonymous source about a suspected major drug dealer.
Episode 19
Victory for Humanity
Thu, Apr 10, 200343 mins
The FBI investigates the disappearance of Josh Abrams, a young and idealistic science teacher who had a large quantity of heroin in his apartment. As they learn more about him, they find that he was particularly caring and would frequently take a special interest in students in trouble. He took on a drug dealer to get him to distribute his drugs elsewhere and went to a student's home where a violent father gave his daughter a black eye. They also learn that he was extremely rich, which proves to be one of the reasons he has disappeared.
Episode 20
No Mas
Thu, Apr 24, 200344 mins
A boxer vanishes moments before a fight that would've meant a big payout had he won. The team uncover a shady family background and a history of match-fixing involving the boxer's brother. Several people connected with the boxer seem to know more than they are telling.
Episode 21
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
Thu, May 1, 200344 mins
Jack finds himself at the center of an investigation into how missing persons cases have been handled, including such controversial cases as that of Graham Spaulding, the accused pedophile now on trial whose confession Jack may have coerced. As each squad member is interrogated by a representative from the Office of Professional Responsibility, a level of paranoia and distrust is established among them, leaving all of their professional futures in question.
Episode 22
Fallout: Part 1
Thu, May 8, 200343 mins
Jack and his team search for an office worker, Sydney Harrison, who disappeared from her building. Within hours of Sydney going missing, her employers receive a ransom note via e-mail demanding $50,000.
Episode 23
Fallout: Part 2
Thu, May 15, 200344 mins
Jack's squad must determine the best course of action when Samantha is shot and possibly critically injured in a hostage situation. After the ransom drop for a woman who has disappeared goes dreadfully wrong, Samantha becomes trapped in a bookstore by the kidnapper, Barry Mashburn, who has discovered that she is an FBI agent.
