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Without a Trace Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
In the Dark
Thu, Sep 23, 200441 mins
The parents of Kelly Corcoran, who recently went blind, report her and cocky, trusted minder Louisa Cruz, daughter of a blind man, missing since a weekend forest camping trip, where other trails are indeed found. Louisa's macho brother Tito admits being Kelly's secret date, but proves innocent. She was ogled in a diner by shy nerdy waiter Trent Barker, whom her snob gang only noticed before she turned blind to play cruel pranks on, and his rowdy mate. While Marti and Sam keep their carnal relationship secret, Jack must undo his transfer -and Vivian's promotion to his successor- in order to prevent his wife getting sole custody of his daughters, whom he wants to spare moving to Chicago with her.
Episode 2
Thou Shalt Not...
Thu, Oct 7, 200444 mins
A woman disappears from the side of the road and while the team searches for her, they make a startling discovery about her past.
Episode 3
Light Years
Thu, Oct 14, 200460 mins
Hospital x-ray technician Teddy Cota was reported missing by a neighbor who noticed only a strange, apparently welcomed visitor. His doctor worries he may have turned to a quack with brains scans showing a tumor, considering he believed since childhood to have been abducted by aliens. His pregnant girlfriend dumped him after hearing him fear alien abduction of the baby.
Episode 4
Upstairs Downstairs
Thu, Oct 21, 200444 mins
The team investigates the disappearance of a wealthy family's newborn child and their nanny who was recently fired for stealing.
Episode 5
American Goddess
Thu, Oct 28, 200440 mins
Pathologically insecure Irene Shaw disappeared after winning a TV reality show about extreme plastic surgery makeovers. The anonymous voice scolding her a freak at the public award ceremony checks out innocent. The FBI must also look into the fiance who dumped her as well as a playboy who found her disgustingly desperate, an old family trauma and dodgy business behind the plastic surgery screens and in the studio.
Episode 6
Nickel and Dimed
Thu, Nov 4, 200441 mins
A young, single mother who is struggling to make ends meet goes missing after dropping her son off at the babysitter. While the team struggles to find out what they can about the young woman's personal life, Sam feels the case is hitting very close to home. They soon learn of a drug smuggling gang and an ex-con who is connected to other unusually similar cases of missing women. The team plans to bust him on every charge possible, but at a very dangerous price.
Episode 7
Nickel and Dimed: Part 2
Thu, Nov 11, 200444 mins
Sam volunteers to go undercover to bust a ruthless drug smuggling ring, which the team believes is directly connected to the disappearances and murders of different women. Sam's difficult past is revealed, and despite warnings to get out, she becomes dangerously involved in her undercover investigation, which quickly turns into a life-or-death hostage situation.
Episode 8
Doppelgänger: Part 2
Thu, Nov 18, 200441 mins
Greg Knowles lives in twin brother Rick Knowles's apartment and took over 'so long' his job, running a shelter for the homeless, until Greg's upcoming serial killer trial, where he finally got him to plead innocent. Only Jack always maintained the wrong twin is on trial, now the FBI must take that theory serious as a same MO-murder is committed with the accused in jail. Jack goes the extra mile, risking his job, to prove that ex-junkie shelter worker Ned Atkins, is set-up cleverly by the devious murder mastermind, who brainwashed his guilt-consumed brother since their teen days trauma.
Episode 9
Trials
Thu, Nov 25, 200443 mins
Jack and the team search for Peter Dusek, a wealthy, 72-year-old murder trial juror, whose disappearance could cause a mistrial. Although the agents initially suspect that the defendant may have orchestrated Peter's disappearance as a means of forcing a mistrial, they soon wonder if the juror disappeared of his own volition, since he tried to recuse himself with a note from his cardiologist the day after the defendant threatened a witness in the courtroom.
Episode 10
Malone v. Malone
Thu, Dec 9, 200441 mins
As part of the child custody battle, Jack endures a lengthy, brutal deposition by his wife's divorce attorney, during which his wife, Maria, unexpectedly arrives. Maria's cutthroat lawyer uses Jack's childhood traumas, his past affair with Samantha and his dedication to his job against him.
Episode 11
4.0
Thu, Jan 6, 200541 mins
A teenage girl goes missing. The team discovers a secret from her mother - that she is pregnant and nearing her due date.
Episode 12
Penitence
Thu, Jan 13, 200541 mins
A woman contacts the FBI when her brother disappears from prison. Prison authorities claim he escaped, but the sister suspects foul play since he was nearing parole.
Episode 13
Volcano
Thu, Feb 3, 200540 mins
Jack and the team investigate the disappearance of a 12-year-old autistic boy who ran away during a class trip to a museum. His father, Daniel Norville, chaperoned the outing. Jack is suspicious of Daniel, who was seen yelling at the boy before he went missing.
Episode 14
Neither Rain Nor Sleet
Thu, Feb 10, 200541 mins
Jack and the team investigate the disappearance of Rosie Diaz, a postal employee. When her truck is found abandoned and emptied of the $12,000 worth of video games Rosie was delivering, the team wonders whether she is a victim of foul play or a willing participant in the theft.
Episode 15
Party Girl
Thu, Feb 17, 200540 mins
Jack and the team investigate the disappearance of Chelsea Prince, a 23-year-old society girl known for her constant partying and headline-grabbing escapades. Her badly beaten limousine driver recounts how the limo was ambushed and Chelsea was taken.
Episode 16
Manhunt
Thu, Feb 24, 200544 mins
Martin is wracked with guilt when he fails to prevent Mike (MASAM HOLDEN), a 12-year-old boy, from being dragged into a car outside of the boy's school. Encouraged by Martin's description of the kidnapper, Brian Stone (DYLAN BAKER - "The Elizabeth Smart Story," "Kinsey"), and his vehicle, the team tries to ease Martin's anguish over failing to stop the boy's abduction, even though he jogged by Mike and the kidnapper just moments before the crime occurred.
Episode 17
Lone Star
Thu, Mar 10, 200544 mins
Texan star real estate agent Lance Hamilton disappeared after a hastily-door-shut visit from an intimate mystery woman to his office. The team soon finds he was actually involved in a massive white slavery network and leans on the nightclub-owning kingpin. The greater surprise is when the mystery woman turns up and unveils Lance was the alias of an undercover police detective, whose cover her visit may have blown as he recently sent her to an aunt and tried to cover his tracks.
Episode 18
Transitions
Thu, Mar 31, 200542 mins
Jack and the team investigate the disappearance of Stephanie, a singer in a church choir. Stephanie's choir director informs the agents that the missing woman had been unusually emotional at the last choir practice and requested to perform a particular hymn on Sunday but then failed to show up to sing it.
Episode 19
Second Sight
Thu, Apr 14, 200540 mins
Vivian takes time off from work to deal with her health problems and tries to act brave before her family and colleagues. Her deeply concerned team members attempt to focus on their case of a missing psychic, Agnes (ALEXANDRA LYDON - "24").
Episode 20
The Bogie Man
Wed, May 4, 200541 mins
When a 13-year-old girl goes missing after choosing to investigate the age-old murder of a different teenage girl - taking suspicion off of the original suspect and placing it on her own father instead - the team races against the clock to find out what happened to Daisy and if her father, who turns out not to be so innocent, truly plays a part in both his daughter's disappearance and of the murder of Amber Bryce, a years-ago unresolved case.
Episode 21
Off the Tracks
Thu, May 5, 200544 mins
A while after Danny learned that his jailed junkie big half-brother Rafael "Rafi" Alvarez took many beatings to protect him as kid from their abuse lush father, the allegedly recovered ex-con suddenly disappears. Jack reluctantly allows Danny to investigate despite obvious objectivity questions. Rafi not only started a new life as car mechanic, he actually expected to take over a garage But his dodgy investor came trough too ate, so the deal was already snatched up by another, leaving Rafi with a debt without income, desperate enough to relapse into his worst habits.
Episode 22
John Michaels
Thu, May 12, 200541 mins
In a hazy mood, Jack doggedly works on the cry for help from a young man who witnessed from a rooftop how old John Michaels first prepared to jump to his death, then climbed down to be possibly dragged into a black car. The man, a recovered alcoholic, recently made desperate attempts to make up with, and tried to compensate by testament, his ex and their daughters, a bitter lawyer and a self-destructive stripper coming to a bloody end. The FBO colleagues duly doubt all Jack's claims, all comes together but not as what it seemed.
Episode 23
End Game
Thu, May 19, 200560 mins
As Vivian undergoes open-heart surgery, Jack and the team search for a missing woman who may be the innocent victim of an identity theft ring. But further investigation reveals that she is linked to international terrorists plotting the assassination of a foreign dignitary.