Without a Trace
As any detective can tell you, investigating missing property or deaths is comparatively easy compared to elusive missing people. However in New York City, there is a special unit of the FBI that is designed to find them. Using the vast resources of their bureau, the team, lead by Agent Jack Malone, race against time in the tight 72 hour window after a disappearance while hope for a recovery is still typically possible.
- Metascore75
- 2002-2009
- 7 seasons
- CBS
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
As any detective can tell you, investigating missing property or deaths is comparatively easy compared to elusive missing people. However in New York City, there is a special unit of the FBI that is designed to find them. Using the vast resources of their bureau, the team, lead by Agent Jack Malone, race against time in the tight 72 hour window after a disappearance while hope for a recovery is still typically possible.
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Stolen
Sun, Sep 24, 2006 60 mins
Pre-teen Bryan Parker reports that his kid brother Todd disappeared, presumably abducted by his father Randall as they tried to escape. The FBI soon realizes Bryan is a fake name given by Randall, a serial child abductor, and as traumatized Bryan wrestles with conflicting loyalties, true identities are established to reunite boys with their biological families, only not all survived.
Episode 2
Candy
Sun, Oct 1, 2006 60 mins
Unemployed Jim Peterson reports missing his wife Cindy, who paid their debts as stripper in a nightclub. As Elena goes undercover as new 'dancer', supervised by 'client' Danny, the FBI learns from her besotted admirer Donald Clarence that the club makes fortunes blackmailing married clients with candid sex tapes. Meanwhile Jack is bugged by his boss Alexander Olczyk to take formal blame for the shooting which endangered his lover, FBI attorney Anne Cassidy.
Episode 3
911
Sun, Oct 8, 2006 60 mins
The team searches for a 911 operator.
Episode 4
All for One
Sun, Oct 15, 2006 60 mins
Teen Malia Norton escaped and remains missing from the juvenile reformatory she was placed into from duly strict Mark Norton's adoptive family having rebelled against his refusal to grant a weekend at home with her sister Claire. the team finds the prison a cesspit of fraud, drug trade involving boyfriend Charlie Wilkes , bullying and sexual exploitation, with leaky security. However the car crash under influence Malia was jailed for wasn't what it appeared either, the root cause of accumulating frustrations with dire results.
Episode 5
The Damage Done
Sun, Oct 22, 2006 60 mins
Albanian gang boss and murder mastermind Sadik Marku first can't believe, then is reluctant to cooperate when Jack points out he must help -forced if necessary- to find his missing pre-teen son and doted heir Petros Marku. Sadik's trophy wife Odeta tried to keep Petros unaware of pa's bloody business, but he just got a peek at gunpoint. The FBI team gets more insight in dark gang and family secrets. Ambitious henchman Frankie Lamaj is plotting with a rival to dethrone bully boss Sadik.
Episode 6
The Calm Before
Sun, Oct 29, 2006 60 mins
Louisiana hurricane Katrina survivor Aaron Gibbs, a construction worker he came to new York seeking a new livelihood for his family, goes missing way away from his job site and home. His truck was torched, as turns out by a loan shark -also sighted by his intimidated employer- and henchman. However the money Aaron held on to so grimly, earned in an illegal fight club, wasn't for his own wife and kids, after library researching for fellow storm survivors he .posed as FEMA agent to track down another family he owes a gruesome secret debt to, which money can't quite settle.
Episode 7
All the Sinners, Saints
Sun, Nov 5, 2006 44 mins
A mentally disturbed woman disappears after a priest performs an exorcism on her. Everyone suspects that she was having strange visions, but the investigation reveals that she may have witnessed a real murder.
Episode 8
Win Today
Sun, Nov 12, 2006 40 mins
After Alex Stark, who posed as successful businessman, goes missing, his boss tells the FBI ambitious, curious Alex was just the maintenance manager, and asked uneasy questions about the firm brass's presumed malversations. As he also was a high-roller, Jack decides to infiltrate the illegal poker. But his cover is soon blown, and Alex's all but innocent partner in crime Cynthia Neuwirth tortures him while hesitating whether to trust him as double agent, in the process explaining the racket Alex set up with her to pay off his mob bookie.
Episode 9
Watch Over Me
Sun, Nov 19, 2006 42 mins
The disappearance of a social worker could be related to a bad decision he made that resulted in a young child's death.
Episode 10
The Thing with Feathers
Sun, Dec 3, 2006 40 mins
Terminal cancer patient Audrey West disappears shortly after a row with her employer, architect Brian Gaghan, who scolded her for stealing documents, while she claims he took credit for her designs, which he prefers to keep quiet even if she throws art at him I his gallery. But she also fell prey to a quack promising a miracle cure for prayer and a hefty donation, a systematically organized scam.
Episode 11
Fade-Away
Sun, Dec 10, 2006 41 mins
Basketball scholar star Ted Soros goes missing after rows with a teammate who can't handle the competition, and with his long)standing buddy Zander Marrs. Ted moved out of home due to his domineering father Cosmo's hard hand and attempt to dictate his whole future, but that trail fades. Coach Robert Owens seems an overprotective father figure, but also tries to cover up the troubles arising from a varsity scout luring talented players underage to college parties with girls, where things went out of hand. Jack can't concentrate on the case, supporting his partner with a miscarriage.
Episode 12
Tail Spin
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 39 mins
Air traffic controller Neil Rawlings disappears shortly after failing to prevent the crash of a small private plane. The team finds Neil was bugged at home about it by a drug gang around Ghalib Al-Nayhan, and Martin heads for the crash site, where one pilot died, the other ran. Back home,separated Neil's rebellious teen son Owen hides more then the family trauma.
Episode 13
Eating Away
Sun, Jan 14, 2007 41 mins
The investigation into the disappearance of a competitive eater turns up a reporter holding secrets about his past, a gambler trying to fix matches, and a prostitute and his dead pimp.
Episode 14
Primed
Sun, Jan 21, 2007 41 mins
An artist's disappearance is connected to a traumatic experience from her high school days that still haunts her.
Episode 15
Desert Springs
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 60 mins
A water treatment plant supervisor disappears, and detectives discover that he is running from his old life in Arizona, where he may have been involved in a robbery and the disappearance of one of his friends.
Episode 16
Without You
Sun, Mar 4, 2007 60 mins
A man's wife goes missing while they are celebrating their anniversary in New York, but the team soon learns that the man is having trouble differentiating between the past and present. Elena's daughter, Sofie, is kidnapped. Elena immediately suspects her ex-husband, whom she is battling with for custody of Sofie.
Episode 17
Deep Water
Sun, Mar 11, 2007 41 mins
When a first-year U.S. Senator disappears, Jack and his team must deal with her demanding and powerful father and her less-than-helpful husband while sorting through a list of suspects who may have wanted to influence or eliminate her vote on important environmental legislation.
Episode 18
Connections
Sun, Mar 18, 2007 60 mins
Rebecca Howard (15) goes missing at an Internet cafe from the home of her care-giving paternal grandfather George, who raised her since her mother's death in a car accident. Her school friend proves innocent, a street kid who made advances was knocked unconscious by an adult, and taken home by a man who turns out to be a municipal beat cop, whom she handcuffed. Grandpa however lied that her mentally ill father Darren was dead, she sought contact in secret.
Episode 19
At Rest
Sun, Mar 25, 2007 60 mins
Sam's sister goes missing, so Sam decides to look for her without consulting with the rest of the team. Throughout her investigation, Sam's past unfolds.
Episode 20
Skin Deep
Sun, Apr 8, 2007 60 mins
Security alert installer Jon Pratt struggles to keep the family business afloat, despite his wife Tess's teacher salary. When their son Andrew goes missing, the FBI suspects a link with Jon's employer, who lured him into tipping off robbers and sabotaging alarms, but they're innocent concerning the disappearance. Tess however secretly contacted the other prime suspect, Jon's estranged father Joseph Pratt, who leads a white supremacist group.
Episode 21
Crash and Burn
Sun, Apr 15, 2007 44 mins
The team searches for a stuntman who went missing shortly after completing a dangerous, fiery stunt. They discover that he received a death threat minutes before he vanished from the film set.
Episode 22
One and Only
Sun, Apr 29, 2007 50 mins
Young divorce court judge Chris Manning, if impeccable reputation, goes missing shortly after passing a verdict, where the irate loosing husband threatened him viciously, semi-physically but is found innocent. Chris's private life was less squeaky clean, indulging in dubious sexual relationships. While the FBI looks into it and various cases, his equally brilliant, even younger, doting court clerk Justin Hobart is fatally shot in the courthouse. Yet Chris's youth lover, now a cynical harlot, proves key to his drama.
Episode 23
Two of Us
Sun, May 6, 2007 60 mins
A girl disappears on prom night. Meanwhile, investigators discover that her drug-addicted boyfriend, believed to have been dead for months, may still be alive.
Episode 24
The Beginning
Thu, May 10, 2007 43 mins
Unruly school teen Jen Long is reported missing by her mother Terri, who hides knowing about some serious antics, notably having joined a pseudo-Christian cult, which abuses youngsters to beg for donations and rob the 'sinners' who refuse. Carlos Aguilar goes on trial for 'kidnapping' his own daughter Sofie from Elena, but is acquitted, so Danny reproaches Jack his self-righteousness and refusal in this case to act outside the law leave their colleague in danger, as indeed custody is also reconsidered.