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Without a Trace Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Showdown
Thu, Sep 29, 200541 mins
Martin is hospitalized for urgent surgery after he and Danny where shot at with machine guns to get to African terrorist Adisa Teno, who inspired his naive lover Paige Hobson to kill president Gamba, and execute him on the spot. Martin's father, deputy FBI director Victor Fitzgerald, flies in to take charge of the investigation, tempted to accept a deal between US State official Ted Banes and consul general William Nuru to extradite her in exchange for mercenary Emil Dornvald, the failing security chief, who will be found in a trail of corpses.
Episode 2
Safe
Thu, Oct 6, 200542 mins
The team searches for missing 15-year-old Ryan Wallace who was obsessed with the safety of his school after losing a parent and watching the towers on 9/11 fall. Martin and Vivian both return from medical leave. Jack seems to be feeling protective of his staff and loses his temper when Danny puts himself in the way of unnecessary harm.
Episode 3
From the Ashes
Thu, Oct 13, 200541 mins
The team's newest member, FBI rookie Elena Delgado, formerly of the NYPD, encounters a learning curve as she attempts to help search for missing 20-year-old Dina Kingston.
Episode 4
Lost Time
Thu, Oct 20, 200541 mins
The backpack and ID of missing college coed Skye Petersen are suddenly dropped off at a thrift store seven years after Jack--and ultimately the legal system--determined she was murdered by her married professor with whom she'd just ended an affair.
Episode 5
Honor Bound
Thu, Oct 27, 200539 mins
Korea town grocery store keepers couple Kim report their missing daughter Wendy (25), who shocked the family by breaking up (by face-slap) with her semi-arranged fiance Steven Park, at their engagement party, shortly after her college graduation. Park confides to the FBI that it was a set-up covering up him being gay and closeted. She had a short relationship with a lawyer who wanted to punish her for being into BDSM by posting a fake Internet ad attracting 'sadists' for a free ride to her apartment. Those were chased by her brother Jin Kim, who unlike her tried to be the perfect son rather then seeking his own goals in life and snapped .
Episode 6
Viuda Negra
Thu, Nov 3, 200541 mins
Jack and Danny head to Mexico to find wealthy American vacationer James Costin who was abducted, at the request of James' mother-in-law. While Vivian, Sam, Martin and Elena work the case back in New York, Jack encounters resistance from the locals. The team soon becomes suspicious of James's wife Lucy Costin, convinced she knows more about her husband's disappearance than she is saying.
Episode 7
The Innocents
Thu, Nov 10, 200541 mins
When the team investigates the disappearance of a man, they find pictures of child pornography in his home office and on his computer - all of the same little girl. However, the man who initially appears to be a pedophile on the run quickly becomes a helpful aid with the good intent of finding this little girl who has been subjected to a life of human trafficking and child prostitution.
Episode 8
A Day in the Life
Thu, Nov 17, 200542 mins
Larry and Susan Hopkins call around many acquaintances and hospitals before reporting their 15 year old teen son Shawn missing. The team is first told he was a model school boy, but soon finds despite good grades and athletic performances he had a frustrated love life, experimented with drinking, (which his mother kept from his father), and a bookie. Yet those trails lead nowhere, unlike the uneasy tip from a girl who couldn't even tell her mother that she confided in Shawn about having been molested by a school mate, whom Shawn unwisely confronted. Martin proves himself a better diplomat then Jack in handling the exasperated, bitterly bickering parents.
Episode 9
Freefall
Thu, Nov 24, 200540 mins
Jack's friend Max Cassidy vanishes after leaving a message on his wife Anne's voice-mail. While investigating, Jack realizes that Max was having an affair, and that he has got in much deeper into an espionage case than he should have following the murder of his partner, Jimmy, a man Max had felt was too green for undercover work. Both Jack and Ann fear the worst as the team try to find Max.
Episode 10
When Darkness Falls
Thu, Dec 8, 200560 mins
As a favor to a friend, Agent Samantha Spade looks into the case of a young woman who was found walking the street half-clothed and with no memory of who she is is or what may have happened to her. She remembers waking up on the street but little else. She has flashing images of being assaulted by a knife wielding man while a young boy looked on. Just as they manage to identify her as actress Carmen Kuskowski, she runs away from the hospital convinced she may have killed her attacker. Meanwhile, Jack Malone has to deal with his father who is suffering from dementia and is refusing to undergo dialysis for his kidney disease.
Episode 11
Blood Out
Thu, Jan 5, 200641 mins
The FBI investigates the disappearance of Cole Warren, an FDNY paramedic who was last seen at the hospital after delivering a wounded gang banger. Warren is good at his job and is highly respected. He's stayed in his neighborhood and takes dangerous calls. He was a gang banger himself at one point and managed to get out of that life. He's taken an interest in a young man with the potential to make something of himself and not fall into the spiral that leads so many to crime and violence. Warren's past however catches up with him anyway. Meanwhile, Malone has to deal with his father's funeral and his relationship with Anne Cassidy.
Episode 12
Patient X
Thu, Jan 19, 200640 mins
After therapist Gina Hill disappears, the team investigates and initially suspects that one of her patients may be involved. After discussions with Gina's fiancé and her own therapist, the team follows the trail of clues to a bartender named Vince with an unusual ability to get good women to do whatever he wants them to. Martin continues to struggle with his recovery.
Episode 13
Rage
Thu, Jan 26, 200639 mins
The agents investigate the disappearance of Claire Hunter, a prep school teacher who was last seen at her gym the previous evening. She'd had a confrontation with a man at the gym who claims to have seen her subsequently getting into a car. Claire was well respected at her school and always went the extra mile as far as the students went. She had just broken up with her boyfriend Pete a fireman but that proves to be a dead end. When one of her 15 year-old students runs off with her, they can't help but wonder is they're having a relationship. It proves to be far more complicated than that with Claire having to come to terms with the parental abuse she suffered as a child and which her student now faces.
Episode 14
Odds or Evens
Thu, Feb 2, 200640 mins
The FBI investigate the disappearance of Andy Reynolds who vanished after appearing in a police line-up in a rape case. He was released by the police but hasn't been seen since. The FBI learn that Andy had served 5 years in a military prison after confessing to to raping a young woman while stationed in Japan. Andy had a steady job working for another ex-Marine, Nelson Wolpert, but seems to have returned to Japan soon after the line-up. Jack Malone heads to Tokyo while the team in New York City continue the investigation. As they continue to gather evidence, the agents come to believe that Andy was innocent of the rape charge he confessed to.
Episode 15
The Stranger
Thu, Feb 9, 200660 mins
The FBI investigate the disappearance of Leah Robinson who was last seen at an art exhibition in Soho arguing and running away from a man wearing a velvet blue jacket. From everything they can determine, Leah was a normal suburban housewife. She was active in the church and at her son's school. Her husband Ken is certain she hasn't an enemy in the world. A interview with one of her friends reveals that Leah suspected her husband of having an affair. As the evidence grows, the agents realize she is on the run from a serial killer.
Episode 16
The Little Things
Thu, Mar 2, 200641 mins
A young boy, Ethan Heller is reported car-jacked by the nanny. Danny duly worries that Martin's irritable attitude stems from a painkiller problem bound to impact his performance in critical situations. Jack's team focuses on the suspiciously uncooperative father, Jim Heller, a workaholic executive in a pharmaceutical firm whose FDA-licensed single hit drug has side effects which may compromise its exploitation, shortly before the staff-assigned stock is to be vetted.
Episode 17
Check Your Head
Thu, Mar 9, 200640 mins
Agoraphobic advice columnist Rachel Gibson, who was unable to set one foot outside her apartment for two years, goes missing after sending her latest article to the paper. The team initially suspects that Rachel was kidnapped, especially after an eye witness tells them about seeing a man drag her out of her apartment, but she paid deliveryman Wei Fan to do so, as confirmed by a neighbor boy across the street. Attention switches to a man who was believed to be stalking her once they find out that Rachel had recently purchased a handgun. Trails lead to mob boss Sal Marcello, whom she approached, and her recently resigned PA, closet lesbian Bianca Stone, who links everything, with a finale in a bowling alley.
Episode 18
The Road Home
Thu, Mar 30, 200640 mins
Teen bike messenger Brandon (18) is reported missing shortly after bickering with a brute colleague he accused of stealing his bicycle. The team finds he actually used a former school teammate's identity to hide he's actually Matt Jameson, just 15, and working his tail of to support three kid siblings since his useless junkie mother Nadine abandoned them. Everybody likes model teen Matt , who was wounded while dealer Ramsey Gorman searched for what Nadine owed him. Desperate as the landlord refused for rent extension, he became getaway drive for a mate, planning a robbery from his second job in a key-maker's shop, going totally wrong. Meanwhile, Sam urges NA member Danny to help Martin when she discovers his hip injury has left him with a tranquilizer addiction.
Episode 19
Expectations
Thu, Apr 13, 200640 mins
Brian Sullivan reports his high-pregnant wife Megan missing shortly after they enjoyed an ultrasound of their so-far healthy baby. The team finds she found out about his infidelity, confronting his mistress and the cause of the HIV infection, with a whole other family.
Episode 20
More Than This
Thu, Apr 20, 200660 mins
Rich businessman Walter Mulligan's ex-socialite son Breck, whom he had to cut off after one too many junkie party ending in police jail, is reported missing from his job and surprising vocation, a shelter for abused women and children. Breck really committed, even promised to find the money to make up for a subsidy cut. The handsome youth went about it as 'escort' to socialite acquaintances and their lonely friends, but as such rumor would terminate vital donations from religious sources, agreed to stop and even return pending payments in kind. Meanwhile he was 'abducted' back to a party by his former rich friends, found one of them in deep addiction shit and unselfishly tried to help her into sobriety like himself.
Episode 21
Shattered
Thu, Apr 27, 200660 mins
Pete and Joanie McMurphy report their teen daughter, Kelly, whom he coaches intensely aiming at Olympic ice skating, missing. The team finds a peeping Tom a false trail. The team finds the school has a problem with doping, and she's obsessed with the death of her doting, more gifted elder brother and mentor Jason, whose death wasn't an accident but the result of steroids for lack of alternative to meet Pete's unrealistic expectations.
Episode 22
Requiem
Thu, May 4, 200660 mins
Ted Jordano and his kids, son Dylan and Nicole, are reported missing, blood is found in their home. From Dylan's scared schoolmate Todd Chervin the team learns the knaves accidentally witnessed an ally murder by mob lord Sadik Marku's goon Ioannis 'Johnny' Patani, who saw Dylan. The daughter's lover was in trouble with his bookmaker. The family is trailed on the run, but goon-tailed.
Episode 23
White Balance
Thu, May 11, 200660 mins
The team simultaneously looks for two missing school teens. The media make a lot of fuss, generating a flood of spontaneous 'tips', about the white girl, who met the wrong people including a lover boy pimp whose debts landed them with a creepy abusive client. Darnell Williams's mother blames Jack for far less attention going to her son, a jock who recently met and started spending time with his terminally sick biological father Franklin Earl Wilson.
Episode 24
Crossroads
Thu, May 18, 200660 mins
Former ADA Jennifer Nichols, now senior partner in a 'social' law firm, disappears after a visit form her allegedly stalking-prone ex Eric Jensen, but he proves inoffensive. She recently visited in jail Grant Stoker, the only caught member of a violent robber gang, and tricked him into betraying the mastermind. Jack suspects travel agency entrepreneur Allen Davis, who dated her but was bothered in the restaurant by the pregnant Lucy Stoker, adulterous wife of Grant who took the blame for her sake. Smelling a rat in the FBI office, Davis seizes the initiative drastically.