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 6 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 2007 - 2008
Episode 1
Lost Boy
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 43 mins
A Sudanese boy adopted by a high-profile New York couple disappears, and it is connected to a Sudanese man trying to extort the couple, claiming that he is the child's biological father.
Episode 2
Clean Up
Thu, Oct 4, 2007 43 mins
Jay Pastorfield, a professional crime scene cleaner, disappears, so the team must consider various scenes where he worked. Also missing is his pathologically-overweight daughter, whose home-made 'pride enhancement' medals Jay found in the van of a client whom he reported for suspicious objects.
Episode 3
Res Ipsa
Thu, Oct 11, 2007 42 mins
Will Rogan reports missing his wife, TV reporter Christine Woods, who switched from career hunt to human interest after their adult son was arrested and reportedly died in prison in Guatemala. Her PA Paula Solis hides things, mainly being an illegal immigrant. The team learns Woods was approached by Juan in hiding about her apparently live son as former prison mate. Also involved are CIA agent Davis, whom the knave provoked on holiday with his hostile opinions on government activities, and former Guatemalan prison torture Ortega who arrived in town, smirking at cabby Juan and demanding his silence.
Episode 4
Baggage
Thu, Oct 25, 2007 60 mins
A panicking beat cop in the black ghetto shoots a limousine passenger, apparently having a loaded weapon while resisting arrest. Shortly after, the FBI must investigate the disappearance of his girl friend, the estranged sister of a rival gang leader. Motives could be family, romantic or criminal, notably drug-related.
Episode 5
Run
Thu, Nov 1, 2007 41 mins
A woman disappears after an office shooting, but the case is tied to a custody battle and accusations of molestation.
Episode 6
Where and Why
Thu, Nov 8, 2007 43 mins
When the death of a child and woman come up Malone is called to confirm if the boy is a child who was kidnapped and has been missing for 6 years or not. While investigating this they find out much more. Its revealed that the man who took the child had killed him previously. The man has been looking for his son all this time and had been committing murders along the way. The man finds and kidnaps his son and Malone and Grisom work together to find them.
Episode 7
Absalom
Thu, Nov 15, 2007 43 mins
A college student disappears after his racist statements are posted on an Internet video site, but the case reveals a secret about the student's racial identity and his real father.
Episode 8
Fight/Flight
Thu, Nov 22, 2007 42 mins
Detectives investigate the disappearance of an ultimate fighter, and Samantha tracks down her baby's father.
Episode 9
One Wrong Move
Thu, Dec 6, 2007 42 mins
While the team investigates the disappearance of an ex-con who served time for embezzlement, Agent Johnson gets a possible break in her case involving the kidnapping of a young woman.
Episode 10
Claus and Effect
Thu, Dec 13, 2007 43 mins
A young department store Santa is missing as he does not show up for work. It turns out that he is a skilled mathematician/computer programmer who has been working on a special algorithm for a university. Unfortutaely, this algorithm will cost jobs at a factory in his girlfriend's hometown. He has quit the university as well and gets involved in a scheme to win at black jack by counting cards. Sam is still trying to resolve the problem of eliminating her baby's father from the picture.
Episode 11
4G
Thu, Jan 10, 2008 43 mins
The disappearance of a private investigator is connected to a foster child in his building that he was trying to help.
Episode 12
Article 32
Thu, Jan 17, 2008 60 mins
Convicted to community service at the veterans hospital, Laura Richards soon became the crippled soldier patients' favorite, and a regular to the envy of the 'real professionals' when engaged full-time. She disappears after taking a particular interest in an Iraq veteran who can't accept having his amputated leg replaced by a prosthesis. The plot turns ugly as the team stumbles upon a terrorist plan.
Episode 13
Hard Reset
Thu, Apr 3, 2008 43 mins
Jack is shot and left for dead after he goes out on his own and follows a lead in Vivian's human sex slave trafficking case.
Episode 14
A Bend in the Road
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 39 mins
A teen girl goes missing. She turned from model student to erratic after receiving a life-saving heart-transplant which became her obsession. The team finds she posed as school reporter, after blackmailing the real one to get her the address of the donor's family, but ended up coming clean to the mother and elder brother, who never got over being unable to help his kid bro when they were hit by a stray car.
Episode 15
Deja Vu
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 49 mins
A despised businessman who wakes up from a coma after three years disappears, and Jack leaves the hospital to come to the aid of a young girl in danger.
Episode 16
A Dollar and a Dream
Fri, May 2, 2008 50 mins
A gang of penniless young friends is treated on another camping trip to luxuries in celebration of one of them having won a fortune in a lottery she plans to share, but she's suspiciously aloof. After her disappearance is reported, the team works out she was intending to return it to the estranged son of a deceased friend and neighbor she stole the ticket from, despite lack of proof. Samantha sort of resigns to letting Brian Donovan, the father of her expected child enter her life, but just hospital-released ex Jack informally has him checked out.
Episode 17
Driven
Thu, May 8, 2008 43 mins
Tow truck driver Connor Baynes, who recently was press-applauded for saving a small boy from being hit from a bus, goes missing. The team is learns about his extreme moods from his girl friends, tracing back to his frustrating past as Midwest junkie, crushed by guilt over the old house fire that killed two loved-ones, which came to haunt him. Jack's mental health is evaluated by FBI psychiatrist Dr. Clare Bryson. Sam bitterly blames Jack's meddling after her confronts unborn baby's father Brian about his dodgy past, dug up unasked by Jack, wrecks the nuclear family.
Episode 18
Satellites
Thu, May 15, 2008 46 mins
Five patrons simultaneously disappear as if abducted from a local coffee shop. The team identifies first Julian Simonson, then gradually learns they are all linked by an old trauma that involved multiple child molestation by a counselor at a summer camp, where further drama ensues. Meanwhile, as the psychiatric evaluation is disturbing, the department opens a formal inquiry on Jack, talks to his supportive staff and demotes him because they feel he is unfit to lead the department. Sam finally gives birth.